Heather Rowe

Heather Rowe is a New York–based artist who received her MFA from Columbia University. She has exhibited in numerous institutions including MoMA PS1, Artists Space, and White Columns in New York, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, as well as in galleries such as D’Amelio Terras and James Cohan Gallery in New York, Galerie Zink in Berlin, and Ballroom Marfa in Texas. In 2008, her work was featured in the Whitney Biennial.

Other projects include Beyond the Hedges (Slivered Gazebo) at Socrates Sculpture Park (2013), Only in Your Way at DiverseWorks (2017), and Construction House at the Providence College Galleries (2020). Rowe presented work in conversation with Christina Ramberg at Heroes Gallery in New York (2022), and she was included in the MassArt Art Museum’s exhibition The Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expression (2023–24). In 2025 she had a solo exhibition, An Other Presence, at VERY Gallery, Boston, MA and in June 2026, she presented a two-person show with Iris Bernblum at Springs Projects, Brooklyn, NY.

Her work has been featured and/or reviewed in Artforum, Modern Painters, The New York Times, Art in America, The New Yorker, Flash Art, and Art Review, among others. Prior to joining the sculpture faculty at RISD, Rowe taught at Harvard University, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cooper Union, Rutgers University, and Brooklyn College. Rowe’s work is in the collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, and the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK.

Rowe was awarded an FST StudioProject Fund grant (2024), was an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2025), and won a NYSCA grant, sponsored by Protocinema (2026).