CV and short Bio
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EDUCATION
2004 San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco - CA
Master in Fine Arts - Major in Sculpture with heavy concentration in New Genres
1998 Massachusetts College of Art Boston - MA
Bachelor in Fine Arts - Major in Photography with a minor in sculpture
COLLABORATIONS
Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden - Smithsonian Institute - Washington DC Rirkrit Tiravanija: "Who’s Afraid Of Red, Yellow, And Green" - Drawing collaboration - 2019
Art Museum Of The Americas - Washington DC - Carolina Mayorga's Pink Ranchos
“Light & The State Of A Homeless Mind” Interactive Performance Art - 2019
New York Photo Festival Collaboration with DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) – Brooklyn, Dumbo
BackPack Gallery collaboration with Project Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica - 2012
Visarts Curatorial Project - Rockville, MD
Experimental Performance Art exhibition Curator of SOLO LAB 5- 2019 - present
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery - DC
Artidote Collaboration with Carolina Maryoca. “Champ It“ performance - 2021
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
Museum Specialist - Hirshhorn Museum - Washington DC - 2014 to present
Preparator/ Special Project Curator - Visarts - Rockville, MD - 2020 to present
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (for a full record contact artist) IN RED MOST RECENT
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ASHE AND NORTON GALLERY "DISCOMFORT BEAUTY" - SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION - WASHINGTON - DC - APRIL - 2026
"DISCOMFORT BEAUTY" - CULTIVATE GALLERY - SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION - KENSINGTON - MD - 2026
"CONSUME TO DESTROY" - SOLO PERFORMANCE ART INSTALLATION AT ATHENEAUM GALLERY - ALEXANDIA - VA - NOV 2025
“Smash” - installation performance art - KAPLAN Gallery - Rockville, MD - February - 2025
“The Lift” - site-specific performance art - Common Ground Gallery - Rockville, MD - July 2024
“Up Lift” - site-specific performance installation - Freight Gallery - Washington DC - July 2024
“DysFUNctional Beauty Immersion” - Next Gen Studio - June 2023 - Rockville - 2023
Artspace Gallery “Dysfunctional Beauty” - Richmond - VA - March 2023
Art Truck Project - Arlington Arts Council - Spring 2023 - “Count Your Joys” - 2023 - 8 Solo Activations
BRonx River aRt center - "Say it Nicely" - NYC - 2022
”Tools for the Mind” - Solo Exhibition - Black Rock Arts Foundation - January 2020
Portals: Governors Island - “Dysfunctional Porch” - September 2019 - NYC
“Interactive Variable” Solo exhibition - Common Ground Gallery at Visarts - RockVille, MD - January 25th, 2019
“integration” Solo exhibition - Otis Street Gallery - Mount Rainer, MD/ DC area - March 30, 2019
“Comfort” interactive performance - DCAC gallery at Woodrow Wilson House - Washington DC - May 2018
Art On The Edge - “Suffocate With Your...” interactive performance art - May 2018
Honorarium Sculpture - “One Star Double Wishes” interactive sculpture - Torpedo Art Factory - Alexandria- VA - September 2018 Bresler Gallery - "Dysfunctional Composition" - Rockville - MD - May 2018
“Let’s Do A Workout” performance art at Museum Of conteporary art Arlington - VA May 2018
Bresler Artist Residency “In Progress” - Visarts, Rockville - MD - February 2018
NOVA College in Manassas, VA - “MEASURE” Solo Exhibition at Colgan Art Gallery - February 2018
King Street Atrium Gallery - Montgomery College - Solo Collaboration w/Student Body and BackPack Gallery - October, 2017 -Silver pring, MD
Governors Island Art Fair - "Joy Count" performance - New york ciy - 2017
"Joy Count" performance - Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival - PA - 2017
Rated art 2017 - BackPack Gallery Performance - Blind Drawing & Joy Count - Arlington - VA - 2017
“Points Of Drawing” - 50/50 Interactive Drawing Project at Capitol Plaza I - Washington - DC - February 2017
“You Are In Control” - Solo Performance and exhibition - January 2017 - NOVA College Contemporary Art - Woodbridge , VA
Hillyer Art Space - Solo Exhibition - “Interactive Lines” - April - 2016 - Washington DC
Solo Exhibition at Industry Lab Gallery “Form Phobia To Drawing” - Cambridge - MA - 2016
“Offobia Shrine” performance- Bennett Park Art Atrium - Rosslyn, VA - 2016
“Special Opportunity Grant 2015-16” recipient - “EVERYONE IS A VIP ” performance Interactive Performance - Alexandria, VA
Art All Night: Nuit Blanche DC - performance with BackPack Gallery project - Fall 2015 - Washington DC City of Alexandria
Arts Commission“Special Opportunity Grant 2015-16 recipient - “EVERYONE IS A VIP ”- Interactive Performance - Alexandria, VA at Torpedo Factory Art Center
Industry Lab - BackPack Gallery Project - Summer 2015 - Cambridge, MA
Rated ART -” Everyone is A VIP” Performance - Arlington Art Center - VA - May 2015
Solo Fall 2014 - "two Realms" Museum of Contemporary art Arlington - Arlington- VA
City of Alexandria “Special Opportunity Grant 2014” for Summer Exhibition Exhibitions for Fall 2014
Governor Island Art Fair - "BAckPack GALLERY PROJECT" - NYC - 2014
Dumbo Arts Festival - "BAckPack GALLERY PROJECT" - NYC - 2014
NYC King Art Fair honorarium stipend to perform with BackPack Gallery
Dumbo Arts Festival - "BAckPack GALLERY PROJECT" - Brooklyn - NY - September, 2013
Uppsala Art Museum - Kulternatten 2009 - Video projection of 9 short videos - Uppsala , Sweden - 2009
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (for a full record contact artist)
confluence - Common Ground gAllery - Rockville - MD -2026
Pod Space - "Garden Follies" - 2025/26 - Rockville - MD
Otis Street Studio Gallery - 10th year anniversary exhibition - Washington DC - 2025
PArC Gallery - ARt AT the ParC - FairFAx - VA - 2024
Lights Out 2023 - Brentwood Arts Exchange - Mount Rainer - MD
George Mason University Exhibitions Gallery - Arlington - VA - 2022 - Solo LED Videos in the courtyard - Cast\ Recast Exhibiton October, 2022
Nueva Vida - Mexican Cultural Center - Washington DC, - October 2022
“Perspectivas Latinas” / “Latin Perspectives”, Martino and Chaney Gallery - Annapolis, MD - September 2022
DADA Exhibition - Rhizome DC - 2021
Washington Sculptor Group - McLean Project for the Arts - 2020
Art Museum of The Americas - “Joy Count” performance - Washington, DC - 2019 DADA Exhibition - Rizhone Gallery -
Washington, DC - 2019
H Space Gallery - By The People - Washington, DC- 2019
Mexican Cultural Institute - Latinas4lLatinas - Washington - DC - 2017
ThinkSmall9 - Artspace - Richmound, VA - 2017
Home + Discordance = US - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - Washington DC - 2017
Talk Show - Olly Olly - Fairfax, VA - 2017
Alchemical Vessels exhibition - Joan Hisaoka Gallery - Washington DC - March & April 2017
“Ipseity” Exhibition - Target Gallery at Torpedo Factory - Alexandria - February 2017
Bennett Park Art Atrium “In One Night” performance - Rosslyn, VA - November 2016
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery - Life Soundtrack - October 2016
Hillyer Art Space - Flesh and Bone Drawing Exhibition - Washington DC - October 2015
Phillips Collection & Hillyer Art Space performance at FTF event - 2014
Cuisine des Artistes 2014/DCArts center at Meridian House - Performance “You Are Live Art”
SOMArts Main Gallery - “Everyone Is A VIP” performance - San Francisco, CA - 2014
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PUBLICATIONS
Harvard University Archive - Scientific Photograph in “Single molecule studies of enzymatic dynamic fluctuations” , Hollis Number 010999526 – 2007
Wall street journal - http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/17/new-york-photo-festival-2012-brings-curators-into-focus/
Resource Magazine - http://resourcemagonline.com/new-york-photo-festival-2012-2/
Marin Pang Journal - http://marionpang.com/category/art/
New Yorker magazine - http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/above-and-beyond/dumbo-arts-festival
Prince William Living Magazine - http://princewilliamliving.com/2017/01/artist-heloisa-escudero-interactive-works-on-display-at-nova-woodbridge/
New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/arts/design/an-art-fair-for-the-99-percent.html
Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/in-the- galleries-interact--integrate-requires-audience-participation/2018/05/03/3093634a-4cb2-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bfd29138e0bd
RECENT GRANTS - HONORARIUM STIPENDS - ARTIST RESIDENCIES & LECTURE
"FUN"Exhibition - Otis street ARt Gallery - Mount Renoir - Md - 2024
Visarts Curatorial Project - Rockville, MD - 2019 -present
City Of Alexandria Art in Odd Places - Honorarium Stipend for Sculpture - April 2018 Visarts Bresler Artist Residency - Visarts, Rockville - MD
Artist in Residency at Montgomery College - Fall 2017
“Rated ART” 2017 - Commissions from MUSEUM OF CONTEPORARY ART ARLINGTON - VA
NoMA BID - Lobby Gallery - Artist Commission - 2017 -19
Artist Lecture Exhibition Stipend - Nova College Woodbridge - January 2017
Special Opportunity Grant 2015-16 from the City of Alexandria Arts Commission, VA Special Opportunity Grant 2014 from the City of Alexandria Arts Commission, VA “Rated ART” 2016 - Commissions from Arlington Art Center - VA
Kings Arts Fair honorarium stipend to perform with BackPack Gallery 2014 Honorarium Stipend from Dumbo Arts Festival from 2011 - 2014
SOMarts Gallery stipend to perform at “100 Performances” - 2014
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SHORT BIO
Heloisa Escudero was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and relocated to the United States in 1987, where she developed a strong interest in the visual arts. She holds triple citizenship—American, Italian, and Brazilian.
Escudero is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers on conceptually driven, tactile, and interactive work. Her projects emphasize audience participation, inviting viewers to actively engage and become integral to the artistic experience.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in Sweden and Spain, and nationally throughout the United States, including extensive exhibitions in the Washington, D.C. area, as well as in New York City and Boston.
Escudero’s work has been featured in prominent publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Resource Magazine, the Harvard University Archives, and The Washington Post.