Biography

Sally Heller is a nationally recognized artist who explores nontraditional mediums. She has shown in galleries and museums throughout the United States. Her major sculptural works have been site-specific installations. Each has a signature poetic interconnection between the material, the landscape and the cultural setting, which is often expressed in the title of the work.

Over the years Heller has acquired an uncanny ability to prevision each new site, foreseeing the logistics of material handling, estimating time requirements for installing wherever the installation might be this time. Since on-site work is developed with the assistance of art student installers, she has become proficient in choreographing time and space for in-situ happenings. Each material ingeniously transforming each place into a unique venue.

Heller’s work has been exhibited at the Lawndale Art Center, Houston, the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Depauw University, Indiana, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Montserrat College of Art, Massachusetts, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Ohio State University, Athens, Ohio, Kemper Fine Art, New York city, Louisiana Museum of Science and Art, Baton Rouge, Scope, Miami, Moore College of Art, Memphis University Art Gallery, the Ohr Museum of Art, Biloxi, the University of Memphis Art Gallery and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.  Heller has been awarded residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Civitella Ranieri, Umbria, Italy, the Vermont Studio School, Johnson, Vermont and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. She holds a BS from University of Wisconsin and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.