Heidi Cramer (B. 1985 U.S.A.

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heidicramer85@gmail.com
www.heidicramer.com

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Education

University of California Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude) 2013


Mesa Community College, Associate of Arts (High Distinction) 2007
East Valley Institute of Technology, Certificate of Completion 2002

Grants/Awards

2016 Ebb and Flow Artist Grant

2013 Recipient of the Susan Benteen and William Hyde Irwin Scholarship
2013 Eduardo Carrillo Scholarship

2013 Art +Body/Art + Water Irwin Grant

2012 Deans Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
2012 Campus Merit Sage Scholarship
2011-2013 Irwin Project Grant

2006 Award for Volunteer Excellence, Mesa Arizona Center for the Arts

Solo Exhibitions

single use, disposable. Sesnon Underground, UCSC, CA. March 2013

Processions, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery, UCSC, CA. October 2012
Makers at the MAH, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
First Friday: Heidi Cramer, Santa Cruz Public Library, CA. May 2012

Selected Group Exhibitions

Trash Pacific – from The Great Pacific Gyre, Studio Bongiorno, San Jose, CA

50/50: Fifty Artists, 5 Decades. UCSC Alumni Exhibition, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa
Cruz, CA. Feb. 2015

Santa Cruz Super 8, Sentinel Printers, Santa Cruz, CA, Dec. 2014

Cruzando Fronteras, el Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana, MX, June 2014
The Cradle Project, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 2014
Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA, May 2014
The Cradle Project, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. Feb. 2014

Relational Experiments Around a Dinner Table: Chakra Dinner, bajaINarts, Tijuana,

MX. Sep. 2013

Crossing Borders, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA. June. 2013

IRWIN 2013, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013

Earth Day, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013

Works in Progress, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013

Crossing Borders, Emergent Art Spaces, Online Exhibition, CA. November 2012

Trash to Treasure, Museum of Art and History, CA. October 2012

Phantoms, Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. October 2012

Save Our Shores: Monument, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA. September
2012

Such Sweet Sorrow: Phantom Series & Performance, Community Television Center,
June 2012

Listening to the Earth II: Temporality, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA. June
2012

Spontaneous Nature, Leeds Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2012

Fire and Glow Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, 2012

Pop Up Art Project, Rittenhouse Window front Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. April-May
2012

Book Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, January 2012

Performances

• LOVE Long Beach: Long Beach Live Music and Art Festival. 2017
• Arivism: An Activation (ongoing), Long Beach. 2017
• Here come the Ecosexuals!, Center for Sex and Culture: San Francisco Gay Pride
Parade, San Francisco, CA. 2015
• Ebb and Flow: Kinetic Sculpture Parade, Santa Cruz City Arts Council, Tannery
Arts Center, and the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. June 6 2015

Public Art Installations

• Earthen Robe, Homeless Garden Project, Santa Cruz, CA 2016

• Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA. Nov. 2014
• A Place of Opening, UCSC Arboretum Aroma Garden, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013-2014

Commissions

• Fire Limbo Structure, Santa Cruz Fire Conclave for Burning Man, May 2012
• Wall Mural, San Diego, CA 2012

Teaching

• Walking the Line, Instructor, Long Beach CA. Jun-Aug 2017

• Kinetic Sculpture Build Workshop Instructor, Museum of Art and History, Santa
Cruz CA. Jun. 5 2015
• Cradle Project Workshop Instructor, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA.
Feb. 2014
• Internal Exhibition Drawing Teacher, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA.
Oct. 2013
• Plastic Fusion Workshop, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
• The Resource and Research Facilitation Project Co-Lecturer, University of
California Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
• Teachers Assistant, Metal II, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2012

Residencies/Workshops

• LOVE Long Beach, Flow Workshop, Long Beach CA 2017

• MAH Artist in Residence, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA 2016
• Doc/Undoc: Performance Workshop with Guillermo Gomez Pena, UCSC, CA. 2014
• Drinking Fire: Performance and ArtBar, The Art Research Office, Santa Cruz, CA,
2014
• ProPhoto Alliance Workshop with Lewis Watts, Inverness, CA 2012

Curatorial Activities

• Live Art Coordinator: LOVE Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. 2017
• Artivism Now: coordinator, Long Beach CA. 2017
• LIVE-and-WORK co-creator, Long Beach CA. 2017
• Exhibition Coordinator: Antinomias, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana,
MX. 2014
• Exhibition Designer: Trabajos y Perspectivos, Municipal Palace, Tijuana, MX. 2014
• Exhibition Assistant: IRWIN 2013 exhibition, Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA.
2013
• Curators Assistant: Betsy Anderson, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA.
2013
• Intern at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2011-2013
• Art Department Chair Interview Committee Member, University of California Santa
Cruz, CA. 2013
• Co-Founder of the Sesnon Underground, Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA.
2012-2013
• Curator/Research Assistant at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz,
CA. 2012
• Leading member of the Student Art Movement, UCSC 2012-2013
• Artist Assistant, Katarina LanFranco, Natural Selections, Santa Cruz, CA. 2011

Collaborative Projects

• 2017 Live Painting: Death and Beauty, San Diego (with RAMI)
• 2012 Zonkeys: The Documentary, on-going (with TJ Art Collective)
• 2012 Balance, Museum of Art and History Santa Cruz, CA (with Dmitri Zurita)
• 2012 Phantoms, The Sesnon Underground, Santa Cruz, CA (with Dmitri Zurita)
• 2012 Porter Public Art Day, University of California Santa Cruz, CA (with Porter
College and UCSC Student Art Movement)

Employment

• Studio Director: The Harrison Studio, Santa Cruz Mar 2013-Jan. 2015
• Exhibition Coordinator: Emergent Art Space, San Francisco. 2014
• Curators Assistant: Betsy Anderson, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery. 2013
• Artists Assistant: Victoria May, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013

• Director’s Assistant: Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. 2012-2014
• Freelance Photographer: Greg Casey Photography. 2012
• Gallery Host: Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. 2011