Timeline

1967–1969
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
1971
BA (Hons), University of California, Berkeley, CA
1973
Certificate in Film Production, New York University of Continuing Education, New York, NY
1974
Certificate in Film Production, Anthropology Film Center, Santa Fe NM
1980
Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
1983
Clarissa Bartlett Travelling Scholarship for Alumni, awarded by Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
1982–1984
1% for Art Committee, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge MA
2006–2008
Public art commission, Jill Brown-RhonePark, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge MA
2009
Residency, Can Serrat International Art Centre, El Bruc, Spain
2009
Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
1983–2013
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, Painting Faculty

Exhibitions

2014
London Art Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Islington, London
2013
Are We Where Yet?, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2012
London Art Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Islington, London
2012
The Map as Art, co-curated by Barbara O’Brien and Katharine Harmon, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City MO
2012
The House of Fairy Tales Cartographic Portfolio, TAG Fine Arts, Hall Place Bexley, and Sutton House, Hackney, London
2012
Terrain, Spoke Gallery@ Medicine Wheel Productions, Boston MA
2011
The Art of Mapping, TAG Fine Arts, London, UK
2011
You Aren’t Here: Artists’ Maps of Personal Spaces, Paper Hammer, Seattle WA
2011
Ground Truth: Mapping the Senses / Charting Experience, Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport CT
2011
Shadowland, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York NY
2011
‘The Art of Mapping’ curated by TAG Fine Arts, Dover Street, London
2010
Invisible Cities: Paper Constructions by Heidi Whitman, Gallery Benoit, Boston, MA
2010
The Map As Art, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York NY
2009
Black, White, Color, Shape, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton MA
2009
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Boston Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons, Boston MA
2008
Mind Matters, Laconia Gallery, Boston MA
2008
New England/New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museums, Fitchburg MA
2008
Lost in Place, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston MA
2007
Brain Terrain: An Exhibition of Painting and Drawing by Heidi Whitman, Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge MA
2007
Mapping the Terrain: New Directions in Abstract Painting, Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond LA
2006
One of a Kind, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI
2006
Size Matters, RHYS Gallery, Boston MA (juried by Barbara Lee and William Stover)
2006
JUJU, bf Annex, Boston MA
2005
The Cartographic Impulse: Selections from the Pierogi Flatfile, Pierogi, Brooklyn NY
2005
Mapping, Clark University, Worcester MA
2004–2005
Radical Corpus Cartographies: Sculpture by Miriam Bloom and Paintings by Heidi Whitman, Beard Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton MA
2004
State of Mind: Drawings by Heidi Whitman, Manther House, Havard College, Cambridge, MA
2004
NewWork,NewFaces, Boston DrawingProject,BernardToale Gallery,BostonMA
2004
Refigured, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA
2003
Heidi Whitman: Brain Terrain, Paintings and Drawings, NAO Project Gallery, Boston MA
2002
South Enders 2, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA (juried by Ambreen Butt and James Hull)
2001
2001 The Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA (juried by Bill Arning, Curator of the List Visual Arts Center, MIT)
2001
Heidi Whitman, Brainstorm: An Installation of Drawings, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton MA
2001
Heidi Whitman, Brainstorm: New Works on Paper, South End Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston MA
2000
Sum + Substance: Drawings by 6 Artists, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford CT
2000
10 x 10: 10 Artists, 10 Years, 100 Portraits, New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Boston MA
2000
Vital Signs: Drawing As Inquiry, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven CT (juried by Robert Reed, Professor of Art at Yale University)
1999
What Jack Built: Work by Jack Clift and Eight of his Former Students, New Art Center, Newton MA
1999
Heidi Whitman, Heads: Works on Paper, Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston MA
1998
Heidi Whitman, Acacia Gallery, Gloucester MA
1998
A Salute to Boston, Wiggins Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
1997
The Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA (juried by Carl Belz, Director of the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)
1997
The “Dainty” Hand, Tisch Gallery, Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, Medford MA
1997
Alone Together, New Art Center, Newton MA
1995
Is This Postmodernism? Copley Society, Boston MA
1994
Museum School and Tufts University: 50 Years of Collaboration, Tisch Gallery, Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, Medford MA
1994
Heidi Whitman: New Paintings – Eye of the Beholder Series, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston MA
1992
Boston Master Drawings, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston MA
1991
Heidi Whitman: Paintings and Drawings 1980–1990, St. Botolph Club, Boston MA
1989
Faculty Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
1988
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton MA
1988
Heidi Whitman: Paintings on Paper, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston MA
1987
Fifth Brockton Triennial, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton MA
1987
Six Realities, University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH
1986
Miniatures, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston MA
1986
Inaugural, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston MA
1985
Heidi Whitman: Imagined Landscapes, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston MA
1983
Heidi Whitman: Recent Watercolours, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston MA
1983
Traveling Scholars (Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship Recipients), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
1983
Lofty Views and Heightened Perspectives, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge MA
1983
Watercolour: New Approaches, Montserrat School of Art, Beverly MA
1983
Landscapes Reinterpreted, First National Bank of Boston, Boston MA
1981
New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
1981
City, Land, Sea, Impressions Gallery, Boston MA
1981
Scapism, Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA
1981
Watercolour, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton MA

Literature

2010
E. Ashley Rooney, 100 Artists of New England, Schiffer Publishing, Atglen PA
2006
New American Paintings, Volume 62, Open Studios Press, Boston MA (juried by Bill Arning, Curator of the List Visual Arts Center, MIT)