EDUCATION:
MFA Painting University of Houston, 2016
BFA Painting, University of Houston, 1999
School of Visual Arts New York, 2015
AWARDS / GRANTS:
NYSCA/NYFA, Bronx Council on the Arts Grant, New York, 2022
NYFA City Artists Corps Grant, New York, 2021
ArtBridge City Artists Corps Grant, New York, 2021
First Prize, Moravian University, 2021
Artist’s Relief Grant, Americans for the Arts, 2020
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 2019–2023
ArtOMI residency, Hudson, New York
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund for the Arts Grant, 2017
Blain, LaRuth International Endowment Fund for the Arts, 2015
Hohlt-Wich Endowment Fund for the Arts, 2014
American Advertising Award, 2008
National Graphic Design Award,Communication Design, AIGA, 1999
ONE and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
Bel Esprit, with Jane Yang D’Haene, Mindy Solomon Gallery at UNTITLED Houston, September 19-21, 2025
In search of Bel Esprit, Mindy Solomon Gallery, 2025
Flourish+Fade, Barbara Davis Gallery, HTX, October 25 2024-January 2025
High Tide, DVAA, Narrowsburg, New York, May 13-June 25, 2023
The Clockwork: Daily Painting 60 Hudson St, New York, September 2021-December 2021
The Strangeness of Beauty, with Carlos Garaicoa, Parasol Unit, London, 2021
High Violet, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, 2019
Taut Structures: Heather Bause + Carl Suddath, Galveston Historical Foundation, TX. 2016
Hard Tension/Soft Surface: PROJECTS Gallery, Houston, 2016
The Stanford-Binet, Darke Gallery, Houston, 2012
The Birds of Music, Bering & James, Houston, 2010
Antecedents, DW Gallery, Galveston, 2007
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
2025
UFO: unforeseen feelings observed, curated by Luisa Schlotterbeck, Ruttkowski:68 New York, Summer 2025
MARFA INVITATIONAL May 2025
2024
The Plueperfect, 81 Leonard Street Gallery, New York, September 5, 2024
All Tomorrow’s Parties, M. David Gallery New York, June 14-July 7 2024
2023
Schema: World as diagram, Marlborough Gallery New York, May 11, 2023-August 2023
Off the Cloth II, Whitebox Gallery New York, January-February 2023
Entangled State,17th International Triennial of Tapestry, Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz, Poland, October 2022-June 2023
2022
Singing in Unison, curated by Phong Bui, Below Grand, New York, NY
2021
The New Normal, Payne Gallery, Moravian University, Pennsylvania
2020
EFAbstract, curated by Bill Carroll, EFA Project Gallery, New York
Cellophane, M David Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2019
New Member Exhibition, curated by Bill Carroll, EFA, New York
MidasTouch, curated by Preston Douglas, Houston, Texas
2018
Texas Eclectic, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
44 Artists of Texas, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock
2017
ON REPEAT/ Clarke & Associates Gallery, Houston, Texas
Primary to Tertiary, Site:Brooklyn, New York
Guest Star, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, Texas
The BIG Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2016
Painting, Process, Materials, Textures, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
2014
NEW-Onset, galleryHOMELAND, Houston, Texas
Apply Pressure Here, PROJECTS Gallery, University of Houston
Connect Five, 4411 Montrose, Houston, Texas
VSP6, Apama Mackey Gallery, Houston, Texas
Location, Location Location, Blaffer Museum, Houston, Texas
2013
Hullabaloo, galleryHOMELAND, Houston, Texas
Spooky as Hell, PROJECTS gallery, Houston, Texas
VSP5, Apama Mackey Gallery, Houston, Texas
Texas National, Houston, Texas
2012
In Plain Sight, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Group Show, Zoya Tommy Gallery, Houston, Texas
Texas National, Houston, Texas
Bike Art, The Dairy, Boulder, Colorado
Sur Papier, Yvonamor Palix Gallery, Houston, Texas
The BIG Show, Lawndale Art Center Gallery, Houston, Texas
2011
Texas National, Houston, Texas
Group Show, Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas
PUBLIC ART / INSTALLATIONS / CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
Schema: World as diagram, Marlborough Gallery New York, May 11-August 2023
The Clockwork (installation), Western Union Building, 160 W Broadway, New York, September-December 2021
Under Erasure, Pierogi Gallery, New York, November 2018-February 2019
A time before we were born: Visions of Arcadia in Contemporary Painting, Wald Kim Foundation, New York (Artists: Susan Bee, Katherine Bradford, JooYoung Choi, Rafael Ferrer, Roy de Forest, Paul Georges, Chris Johanson, Po Kim, Fay Lansner, Judith Linhares, Donna Moylan, Jan Müller, Archie Rand, and Purvis Young). June 2018
OCCUPY MANA: Friends in Solidarity (Year 1), curated by Phong Bui, Rail Curatorial Staff, MANA Contemporary, Summer 2017
The Miraculous: Houston: text-based public art installation at the University of Houston, in coordination with CounterCurrent 17, Mitchell Foundation for the Arts, April 2017-December 2017
Painting installation at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX, September 2014
Wallpaper as Art (installation), Art League Houston, TX, 2011
Portable On Demand Art: BOX of Curiosities, in association with The American Association of Museums Cultural PODs Program, Houston Arts Alliance and Discovery Green Houston, 2011
REVIEWS/PRESS/PUBLICATIONS/BOOKS/BLOGS:
Yao, John, “Painting Between the Machine and the Hand (Lydia Dona),” Hyperallergic, August 10, 2023
Schwendener, Martha, “Schema: World as Diagram,” The New York Times, August 3, 2023
Stephens, Paul, “Schema, World as Diagram,” e-flux, July 11, 2023
Carrier, David, “The art of the diagram,” Two Coats of Paint, July 6, 2023
Packard, Cassie, “Schema:World as Diagram,” The Brooklyn Rail, July/August, 2023
Smith, Amanda, “Schema: World as Diagram,” Musée Magazine, June 13, 2023
Heinrich, Will, “Portraits of Elvis and Dreamlike Visions at the 31st Outsider Art Fair,” The New York Times, March 3, 2023
Cascone, Sarah, “How the Silo, a New Gallery Run by a Writer and a Painter, Sees Advocating for Artists as ‘Practicing Art Criticism by Other Means’,” Artnet, March 11, 2022
“The Strangeness of Beauty,” Parasol Unit, Mousse Publications, London, 2021
Pacifico, Francesco, “American Dream, Writing Books is so much creepier than people know,” N+1 Magazine, Issue 37, Spring 2020, nplusonemag.com
Dames, Nicholas, “Departures and Returns, It’s at once 1933 and 1968 and 2020” N+1 Magazine, nplusonemag.com, June 5, 2020
Yaniv, Etty, “Artists on Coping: Heather and Raphael Rubinstein,” During the Coronavirus pandemic, Art Spiel is reaching out to artists to learn how they are coping.” Artspiel.org, June 23, 2020.
Heinrich, Will and Lily Wei, “_end_notes,” EFA Project Space, Bill Carroll, March 7, 2020.
Rubinstein, Raphael, “Textility, a woven Essay,” The Silo, July 2019
Heinrich, Will, “Under Erasure,” New York Times, January 2019.
Corwin, William, “Under Erasure”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 5, 2019.
DeCagna, Gina, “Erasure as aesthetic principle at Pierogi,” Two Coats of Paint, January 2019.
Rubinstein, Raphael, “Stranger Tools,” Art in America, March 2018
New American Paintings, January 2018
Kinney, Morgan, “Behold ‘On Repeat,’ Over and Over and Over Again,” Houstonia, October 2017
Fletcher, Abner, “Patterns ‘On Repeat’,” Houston Public Media, October 5, 2017
de la Garza, Nathalie, “On Repeat,” Houston Press, 2017
Zastudil, Nancy, “Hiding in Plain Sight” Arts + Culture TX, April, 2017
Tubbs, Sara. “Obscure and Exposed” uh.edu, April 2017
Caceres, Flo. “A Look Into ‘The Miraculous’ In Houston,’ The Odyssey Online, April 18, 2017
Glentzer, Molly. “Op to it: art that tricks the eyes,” Houston Chronicle, October 3, 2012
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “In Plain Sight,” Houston Press, October 3, 2012
Caplinger, Hesse. “In Plain Sight at McClain Gallery,” Glasstire.com, September 30, 2012
Martin, Elliot Zooey. “Taking a Bow and Sharing the Stage,” Arts + Culture Magazine, Sept 24, 2012
Wetmore, Evan. “This Weekend in Art” Modern Luxury, January 12, 2012
Camplin, Todd. “Heather Bause,” Modern Houston, February 2012
Boyd, Robert. “Heather Bause tests your IQ,” The Great God Pan is Dead, February 20, 2012
Liscum, Dean. “Heather Bause does bathrooms,” The Great God Pan is Dead, September 15, 2011
Sweeten, Valerie. “Time with son…” Houston Chronicle, March 2010