CICA Museum
July 21 – 25, 2021
In her solo exhibit “Out of Place,” Heidi Hogden looks towards the natural world to examine specific places of habitation through drawing and painting. Hogden’s depictions examine how the landscape has been altered through human-induced environmental changes and hunting practices as they relate to location. While some of the images picture the journey of the artist in different and rather challenging terrains, others look at how animals are extracted from their natural environments and stilled in taxidermy. The images are as physically palpable as they are psychologically charged, taking both from her personal experience with the land as well as sampling historical artworks, techniques, and subjects through a contemporary lens. They are a new kind of realism that look not just at how we encounter the world around us, but which depict the struggles that circumscribe the idea of habitation for this generation as well as our future.
Heidi Hogden received a BFA in painting from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, MN (2008) and a MFA in studio art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University in Boston, MA (2012). Hogden received an artist’s grant to attend the Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency in Johnson, VT (2014 and 2018) and an Windgate Artist-In-Residence from the Windgate Center of Art + Design in Little Rock, AR (from 2015 to 2017). Hogden’s work has been published in the Boston Globe (2012), Studio Visit Magazine (2018), and Manifest’s International Drawing Annual (2016 and 2020). She has had the opportunity to show and present her work in numerous solo exhibitions including the McGladrey Art Gallery at Bentley University in Waltham, MA (2013), the Fine Arts Center Gallery at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, AR (2019), and the CICA Museum in Seoul, Korea (2021). Her work has also been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, including the Courtyard Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2012), the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings, SD (2014), and the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, AR (2016), among others.
