Heather Lyon
Heather Lyon is an artist and educator living off the grid in rural Maine. Her work is a visual and movement-based inquiry into the sublime. She uses site-responsive performance, video and installation work to investigate the inter-weaving of relationships through gestures of coded communication and embodiment practices. She is a lifelong student of transcendental mediation and indigenous mystical traditions. She holds both a BFA and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Selected exhibitions and performances include deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland; SPACE Gallery, Portland; IMRC Center, University of Maine Orono; Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill; Zaratan, Lisbon, Portugal; “The Picnic Pavilion” Venice, Italy; The State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia and Lichtenberg Studios in der Museums-Lounge, Berlin, Germany. She has received grants from the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Kindling Fund (Andy Warhol Foundation regranting program distributed by SPACE Gallery).
Image: Milk Feed, 2023, 1/2 hr live performance (with Sam Jones), milk, wool felt, glass bowls, 'Song of a Humpback Whale' quilt on wall behind performers, CMCA Biennial
List image: Berlin Blau, 2023, performative photograph from live performance during Lichtenberg Studios Residency, Berlin, Germany