Happiness is the
byproduct of fulfillment.
- Briget
BIO
Briget Heidmous [1989] is an artist, creative entrepreneur, freelance brand manager, strategist, curator, and educator in Washington, DC. With a BA in Studio Art from Hastings College, she has participated in visiting artist programs at Tyler School of Art and Burren College of Art, Ireland. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and through ad-hoc performances in Washington DC, Ireland, Philadelphia, France, and throughout her home-state, Colorado. She is the Brand Manager and Strategist at Femme Fatale DC and co-founder of ARTARIANICA, a visual poetry collaboration. As assistant curator for experimental programs at Colorado College (January 2013- November 2017), she administered programming and budgets, working closely with organizations, academics, and artists, including Senga Nengudi, Raven Chacon, Basim Magdy, Ruben Aguirre, Ryan Banagale, and MASS Design Group. As a creative entrepreneur, Heidmous organizes experience-centric activations that leverage the power of collaboration between creatives and entrepreneurs to transform space to place.
Heidmous is known for developing concept-driven proposals to achieve high-level collaborative outcomes. www.briget-heidmous.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a zero-waste, non-disciplinary artist, my work manifests in hybrid forms involving performance, installation, drawing, painting, and street art. I interrogate and connect Theoretical Physics, Neuroscience, and Psychology through creative praxis. To uncover the convergence of these categorically separate subjects, I generate art objects and experiences that reveal their interconnectivity. In what ways do categorically separate disciplines converge? What are the impacts of human energy? How can we conduct profitable experimentation in dynamic, non-disciplinary, spaces? In what ways are all things mutable? In response to such mega-quandaries, I work to describe and disrupt systems and patterns on the singular, personal, level and on the collective, communal, level. I make physical and visual the acts, examinations, and outcomes of patterning by creating objects and moments that explore the tensions of desire, frustration, and change.
ART AWARDS
2018
Burren College of Art: Artist in Residence, 2018
www.burrencollege.ie
2017
Tyler School of Art at Temple University: Summer Painting/Sculpture Intensive, Funded
2014
The Machine Shop: Artist in Residence, 2014, Funded
www.jointhemachine.com
2010
Hastings College Irish Fellowship, Funded
EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS
2022
Transmutation: Mural, Bump N’ Grind, Siver Spring MD.
Walls We Build: Installation, FABSCRAP at BOK Building, Philladelphia
Transmutation: Mural, Femme Fatale DC, Washington DC
2021
Walls We Build: Public Art Installation, Femme Fatale DC, Washington DC
Absurd Resilience; Acts of Resistance, RHIZOME, Washington DC
2019
Transmutations, BSY, Washington DC
Tiny Show, Hen House, Washington DC
Tipping Points, PAKKE Social, Washington DC
SKY LINES, GEORGIA, Denver, CO
Net-Roche, Fontainebleau, France
2018
Transmutation, Colorado AVE., Think Tank, Colorado Springs, CO
BY-PRODUCT, Colorado Ave., Think Tank, Colorado Springs, CO
Transmutation, Tari Dr., Colorado Springs, CO
2017
Perturbations, 802, Colorado Springs, CO
Faculty and Staff Group Show, 802, Colorado Springs, CO
ETC…, New Boone, Philadelphia, PA
Topological Defects: Examined, Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2016
Topological Defects, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2015
Microcosm Macrocosm, The Manitou Art Center, Manitou, CO
Small Works Show, The Modbo, Colorado Springs, CO
2014
Intergalactic Micro Ecosystems, The Machine Shop, Colorado Springs, CO
Art of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Arts and Crafts, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2013
Uninhibited: Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition, Hastings College, NE
PUBLICATIONS
2021
The Offing
2020
Abstract Magazine, Contemporary Expressions
Coffee People
2019
Hysterical
Ohio Edit
Jellyfish Review
Coffee People
2018
Atlas + Alice
Faultline
DisClosure
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