Heidi Lender is a fine art photographer whose images are often based in personal inquiry that stem from personal experiences, relationships and identity. Lender’s whimsical self-portraits explore combinations of wardrobes and surrounding spaces as reflections of her personal self. Standing on various surfaces, she exhibits how different wardrobes and environments can quickly alter the way a person is perceived by the outside world. Lender is a founding member of the online collective Six Shooters, has twice been a Critical Mass finalist, received recognition from the likes of WPGA Pollux Awards and the Julia Margaret Cameron Award. Her work has been featured in PDN and Rangefinder magazines and in online photo blogs including CNN, NPR and the New Yorker’s Photo Booth. Editorial credits include WSJ Magazine, Disegno and Grey Magazine. In 2014, Kehrer Verlag published the photography book Grassland under Lender’s pseudonym H. Lee. She currently lives and works in Pueblo Garzon, Uruguay, where she has founded CAMPO, a nonprofit creative community supporting international artists.
b. 1966, New Haven CT
EDUCATION
1988
Cornell University, BA in apparel & textile management
2002-2010
Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, Mysore, India
SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Shift, Dimmitt Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
2020
In Stillness You Shall Find, Black Gallery, Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay
2018-2019
Campo, Black Gallery, Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay
2017-2018
Fabini-Lender, El Cubo, Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay
2014-2015
5 Room/5 Photographers, Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2014
Fotografische Selbstinszenierungen von Frauen, Kunst:raum Sylt Quelle, Sylt, Germany
2013-2014
5 Room/5 Photographers, Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2013
Anonymous, Wallspace Gallery
Instagram, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO
Talking Eye, The Adobe Art Gallery, Castro Valley, CA
5 Rooms/5 Photographers, Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2012
Self-Timed, pop-up show at Neighborhood Cut-and Shave, NYC
Self-Timed, Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Heidi Lender & Brooke Shaden, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO
Heidi Lender & Sabine Dehnel, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
ID-The Object of Self, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct, VT. Juror: Cig Harvey (honorable mention)
Six Shooters, Seaver Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Looking East: The McCurry Group Show, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO
2011
Dreams, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Seeing Myself, Seeing Others, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
TPS 20: The International Competition, Texas Jurors: Ted Orland, Karen Sinsheimer, Huntington Witherill
Food, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2010
Holiday Showcase, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO
TPS 19: The International Competition, Texas
Self-Searching: The Art of Self Portraiture, Photoplace Gallery,Middlebury, VT
PUBLICATIONS
2013
Plates to Pixels, June feature and interview
CNN photo blog, feature on Loaded
2012
Il Post, feature on She Can Leap Tall Buildings
Photo+ (Korea), May issue
Open to Interpretation: “Intimate Landscapes”; Cover photograph
2011
Shots Magazine #113, self-portrait theme
Photo District News, August issue, PDN Faces
Lamono Magazine, #73 Never Hide. Feature on Once Upon
F-Stop Magazine, #46 All About Me, group show
2010
F-Stop Magazine, #42 Portfolio Issue
Namarupa Magazine, issue #11 volumes 3 & 4