Heather Joy creates art to shine light on environmental and social justice issues, while there’s still time. She invites you to join her on this journey.
Heather Joy teaching her daughter how to use a 35mm digital camera in 2018. Photo by Matthew Olds.
All photos on this site by Heather Joy unless otherwise noted.
Heather received many honors and awards while in high school from 1989-1991 for her art and activism but her true art career launched in 2003 after training in the nationally recognized Commercial Photography Program at Seattle Central College. Since then she has mounted multiple exhibitions in the Puget Sound Region, received several awards including an Earthwatch Community Artist Fellowship, and currently maintains a studio practice in Kitsap County, WA.
But it’s not about awards, it’s about raising awareness in pursuit of justice for the earth and the people of this planet, while there’s still time.
HEATHER JOY’S RESUME
Exhibitions
2014 Member Reunion Show, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2012 Member Group Show, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2012 Plutocracy, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2011 Remnants II, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2011 Flourishing Remnants, Vermillion, Seattle, WA
2011 Abandoned Concentrations - Remnants, Vashon Allied Arts, Blue Heron Gallery, Vashon, WA
2010 December Member Group Show, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2010 Safe Harbor, group exhibition, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, WA, curated by PAFAC Director Jake Seniuk
2010 Land/Structure/Impact, Nord Alley Party during the Pioneer Square Art Walk August 5, 2010 - Seattle, WA
2010 Ecotones: Spilling Over, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2010 May Member Group Show, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2010 Land/Structure/Impact, two-person show with Matthew Olds, Brotman Galleria, William H. Gates Hall, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA
2009 December Member Group Show, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2009 Art Port Townsend/Expressions Northwest, group exhibition, juror Jess Van Nostrand, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2009 Land/Structure/Impact, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2009 Land/Structure/Impact, Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 May Members Group Show, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2009 Carry On, Installation by Elizabeth Conner with VALISE members, VALISE gallery, Vashon, WA
2009 Botanical series, Envy, Seattle, WA
2007 Land/Structure/Impact, in collaboration with Matthew Olds, Window #5, Tacoma Contemporary Woolworth Windows, Tacoma, WA. Jurors: Sarah Traver, Director William Traver Gallery Tacoma & Greg Bell, 4Culture
2005 CoCA Annual, juried exhibit, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, juror Ernesto Pujol
2005 Tragic Beauty, Kent Arts Commission Gallery, Kent, WA
2004 Tragic Beauty, Collins Pub, Seattle, WA
2004 32nd Annual Photo Exhibition, Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA, juror Marita Holdaway
2002-03 Image Makers, annual group show, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001-03 Student Invitational, annual group show, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle, WA
Awards
2009 Special Award, Art Port Townsend/Expressions Northwest, group exhibition, juror Jess Van Nostrand, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2005 Earthwatch Community Artist Fellowship, Ralph Riley's Salmon Expedition, Skagit Valley, Nov. 12-18, 2005. Sponsored by the Ford Motor Co. Fund
2004 Enological Society Prize, 32nd Annual Photo Exhibition, Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA
2002 3rd Prize, Student Invitational, group show, M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 2nd Prize, Cumbres & Toltec Photo Contest, Chama, NM
Education
2003 AAS Commercial Photography, Seattle Central College