Lu Heintz

Through a transdisciplinary practice integrating sculpture, performance and video, Lu Heintz engages feminist ethics of care, labor and technology. The work is preoccupied with material histories and artifacts such as clothing, furniture, equipment and tools—observing and reflecting the co-constitution of bodies and objects. Heintz has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, International Sculpture Center and the Sustainable Arts Foundation and has been a resident at Vermont Studio Center, MASS MoCA, Arts Letters & Numbers (NY) and Baer Art Center (Iceland). Heintz has exhibited at the RISD Museum; Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX; Strano Film Fest, Capestrano, Italy; and Wedding Cake House, Providence, RI.

Heintz balances her artistic endeavors with feminist scholarship and pedagogy. Areas of focus include gender justice, queer theory, affect, performance studies and feminist economic perspectives. Heintz has contributed essays to Book Marks (Pressing Concern Books: NY, 2020), Repair: Sustainable Design Futures (Routledge: London, 2023) and Event Scores by Artist-Parents (Rooftop Ins.: Hong Kong, 2023). Heintz’s artistic practice has grown from DIY spaces, collectives, community organizing and care webs. Social practices include collaborative zines, educational workshops, mutual aid, feminist Wikipedia editing and intersectional reading groups. She is a founding member of WARP, a mixed-media studio collective in Providence.