Heidi Zarghami is a mixed-media artist focused on environmental topics. Heidi worked as the Studio Director of the Harrison Studio, managing the Stanford University Archive of the last 45 years of the Helen and Newton Harrison's work and assisting The Force Majeure; a 50 year project that aims to lower the entropy of the planet, and assist the migration of plant species in areas of glacial melt due to global warming. She completed her Master of Environmental Studies program in 2020 in Olympia WA, and now resides in the Pacific Northwest where she continues to creatively engage audiences in conversations about the health of the environment and the processes of the natural world.
"I believe art is a reflection of the common state of consciousness in society, and a way to creatively reimagine our future. The influence that the environment and humanity has on one-another is the place where I derive my creative inspiration. My materials are often adopted material from the earth and upcycled human-made surplus. Present in my work are characteristics of the feminine body, and the natural cycles of the earth."
Curriculum Vitea
Heidi Zarghami (B. 1985 U.S.A.)
heidizarghami@gmail.com
Education
Evergreen State College, Master of Environmental Studies, 2020
University of California Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude) 2013
Mesa Community College (High Distinction), Associate of Arts 2007
East Valley Institute of Technology, Certificate of Completion 2002
Grants/Awards
2016 Recipient of the Ebb and Flow Artist Grant Temporary Public Installation
2015 Recipient of the Ebb and Flow Arts Parade Grant Award
2013 Recipient of the Susan Benteen and William Hyde Irwin Scholarship
2013 Eduardo Carrillo Scholarship
2013 Art + Body/Art + Water Irwin Grant
2012 Deans Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
2012 Deans Honors
2012 Campus Merit Sage Scholarship
2013 Irwin Project Grant
2012 Irwin Project Grant
2011 Irwin Project Grant
2006 Award for Volunteer Excellence, Mesa Arizona Center for the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
MAH Summer Art Works, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2016
single use, disposable. Sesnon Underground, UCSC, CA. March 2013
Processions, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery, UCSC, CA. October 2012
Makers at the MAH, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
First Friday: Heidi Cramer, Santa Cruz Public Library, CA. May 2012
Selected Group Exhibitions
Trash Pacific – Inspiration from The Great Pacific Gyre, Studio Bongiorno, San Jose, CA. 2015
50/50: Fifty Artists, 5 Decades. UCSC Alumni Exhibition, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. Feb. 2015
Santa Cruz Super 8, Sentinel Printers, Santa Cruz, CA, Dec. 2014
Cruzando Fronteras, el Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana, MX, June 2014
The Cradle Project, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 2014
Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA, May 2014
The Cradle Project, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. Feb. 2014
Relational Experiments Around a Dinner Table: Chakra Dinner, bajaINarts, Tijuana, MX. Sep. 2013
Crossing Borders, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA. June. 2013
IRWIN 2013, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Earth Day, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Works in Progress, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Crossing Borders, Emergent Art Spaces, Online Exhibition, CA. November 2012
Trash to Treasure, Museum of Art and History, CA. October 2012
Phantoms, Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. October 2012
Save Our Shores: Monument, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA. September 2012
Such Sweet Sorrow: Phantom Series & Performance, Community Television Center, June 2012
Listening to the Earth II: Temporality, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2012
Spontaneous Nature, Leeds Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2012
Fire and Glow Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, 2012
Pop Up Art Project, Rittenhouse Window front Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. April-May 2012
Book Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, January 2012
Performances
LOVE Long Beach: Long Beach Live Music and Art Festival. 2017
Goodnight Mother: Long Beach Artwalk. Long Beach CA 2017
Artivism: An Activation, Long Beach. June-July, 2017
Here come the Ecosexuals!, Center for Sex and Culture: San Francisco Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, CA. 2015
Ebb and Flow: Kinetic Sculpture Parade, Santa Cruz City Arts Council, Tannery Arts Center, and the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. June 6 2015
Public Art Installations
The Chrysalis Project, Artists on Board, Olympia, WA. 2020
Earthen Robe, Homeless Garden Project, Santa Cruz, CA. 2015
Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA. 2014
A Place of Opening, UCSC Arboretum Aroma Garden, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013-2014
Commissions
Octopus Public Mural, Olympia, WA 2020
Lush Locks and Lash Signage, Olympia, WA 2020
Neon Night Performance, Club Ripples, Long Beach CA 2017
Fire Limbo Structure, Santa Cruz Fire Conclave for Burning Man 2013
Meditation Mural, San Diego, CA 2012
Press
Artists to beautify some of the boarded-up downtown Olympia storefronts with murals
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article242364581.html
San Francisco Gate: S.F. Pride Parade Celebrates Marriage Equality
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Pride-Parade-celebrates-marriage-ruling-6354281.php?cmpid=email-desktop#photo-8228434
Hilltromper: Studio Bongiorno Art Show to Address Gyre Harm
http://siliconvalley.hilltromper.com/tag/art-show
Good Times: Bridging Troubled Waters
http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-lifestyles/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-/6615-bridging-troubled-water.html
Good Times: Exhibition review of Cradles of Change:
http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-lifestyles/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-/5450-cradles-of-change.html
Artists on Art
http://www.artistsonart.net/heidi-cramer-dmitri-zurita/
Sentinel: Spotlight Santa Cruz Artists
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_22306275/christa-martin-spotlight-santa-cruz-artists-have-big?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.c
Works in Progress at the Museum of Art and History
http://www.santacruzmah.org/2012/work-in-progress/
GLOW: Fire and Glow Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3rd-friday-march-fire-art/
Natural Selection exhibition assistant webpage:
http://naturalselectionartshow.blogspot.com/
KZSC Artists on Art Podcast
http://www.artistsonart.net/katarinalanfranco/
Rittenhouse Art Installation:
http://www.firstfridaysantacruz.com/2012/03/sesnon-art-gallery-ucsc-pop-up-art-project/
http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2012/04/05/first-friday-art-tour-celebrates-100th-event/
Makers at the MAH:
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3187/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santacruzmah/6722885493/in/photostream/
Museum of Art and History: Radical Craft Night
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3rd-friday-at-mah-2/
Museum of Art and History: School Days Event:
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3rd-friday-may-school-days/
Santa Cruz Public Library 1st Friday Book Sculpture:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150858808149513.431602.299389034512&
Teaching
Walking the Line, Instructor, Long Beach CA. Jun-Aug 2017
Kinetic Sculpture Build Workshop Instructor,
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA. Jun. 5 2015
Cradle Project Workshop Instructor, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA. Feb. 2014
Internal Exhibition Drawing Teacher, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA. Oct. 2013
Plastic Fusion Workshop Instructor, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
The Resource and Research Facilitation Project Co-Lecturer, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
Teachers Assistant for Professor Jennifer Parker, Metal II, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
Residencies/Workshops
LOVE Long Beach, Flow Workshop, Long Beach CA 2017
MAH Art Works Summer Residency: 4-week onsite public residency, Santa Cruz, CA. 2016
Snapshot Day, San Lorenzo River: Santa Cruz CA 2016
Doc/Undoc: Performance Workshop with Guillermo Gomez Pena, UCSC, CA. 2014
Drinking Fire: Performance and ArtBar, The Art Research Office, Santa Cruz, CA, 2014
ProPhoto Alliance Workshop with Lewis Watts, Inverness, CA 2012
Curatorial Activities
Live Art Coordinator: LOVE Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. 2017
Artivism Now: Event Coordinator, Long Beach CA. 2017
1000 New York Street LIVE-and-WORK Co-creator, Long Beach CA. 2017
Exhibition Coordinator: Antinomias, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana, MX. 2014
Exhibition Designer: Trabajos y Perspectivos, Municipal Palace, Tijuana, Mexico. 2014
Curators Assistant: IRWIN 2013 exhibition, Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Curators Assistant: Betsy Anderson, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Intern at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2011-2013
Art Department Chair Interview Committee Member, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Co-Founder of the Sesnon Underground, Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA. 2012-2013
Curator/Research Assistant at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
Leading member of the Student Art Movement, UCSC 2012-2013
Artist Assistant, Katarina LanFranco, Natural Selections, Santa Cruz, CA. 2011
Collaborative Projects
2020 The Chrysalis Project: Olympia Arts Alliance (with Carrie Zeigler)
2016 Bacteria Mural: Museum of Art and History (with Alev Bilgensoy)
2016 Love is Like a River: Museum of Art and History (with Kelly Skye)
2012 Zonkeys: The Documentary, on-going (with TJ Art Collective)
2012 Balance, Museum of Art and History Santa Cruz, CA (with Dmitri Zurita)
2012 Phantoms, Sesnon Underground Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (with Dmitri Zurita)
2012 Porter Public Art Day, University of California Santa Cruz, CA (with Porter College and UCSC Student Art Movement)
Employment
Performer: DragonRising and Artivism Now, Long Beach, CA 2017
Book Publishing and Design Assistant: The Harrison Studio, Santa Cruz, CA. 2016
Artist Assistant: Laurie Palmer, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2016
Archive Manager: Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle Center for Sex and Culture. San Francisco, CA. 2015
Studio Director: Newton & Helen Harrison, The Center for the Study of the Force Majeure. Santa Cruz, CA. 2013-2015
Exhibition Coordinator: Emergent Art Space, Tijuana, MX. 2014
Curators Assistant: Betsy Anderson, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery. 2012-2013
Artists Assistant: Victoria May, Victoria May Studio. 2013
Directors Assistant: Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. 2011-2012
Photographer/Photographer Assistant: Greg Casey Photography. 2011
Gallery Host: Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. 2011
heidizarghami@gmail.com
Education
Evergreen State College, Master of Environmental Studies, 2020
University of California Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude) 2013
Mesa Community College (High Distinction), Associate of Arts 2007
East Valley Institute of Technology, Certificate of Completion 2002
Grants/Awards
2016 Recipient of the Ebb and Flow Artist Grant Temporary Public Installation
2015 Recipient of the Ebb and Flow Arts Parade Grant Award
2013 Recipient of the Susan Benteen and William Hyde Irwin Scholarship
2013 Eduardo Carrillo Scholarship
2013 Art + Body/Art + Water Irwin Grant
2012 Deans Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
2012 Deans Honors
2012 Campus Merit Sage Scholarship
2013 Irwin Project Grant
2012 Irwin Project Grant
2011 Irwin Project Grant
2006 Award for Volunteer Excellence, Mesa Arizona Center for the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
MAH Summer Art Works, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2016
single use, disposable. Sesnon Underground, UCSC, CA. March 2013
Processions, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery, UCSC, CA. October 2012
Makers at the MAH, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
First Friday: Heidi Cramer, Santa Cruz Public Library, CA. May 2012
Selected Group Exhibitions
Trash Pacific – Inspiration from The Great Pacific Gyre, Studio Bongiorno, San Jose, CA. 2015
50/50: Fifty Artists, 5 Decades. UCSC Alumni Exhibition, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. Feb. 2015
Santa Cruz Super 8, Sentinel Printers, Santa Cruz, CA, Dec. 2014
Cruzando Fronteras, el Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana, MX, June 2014
The Cradle Project, Alter Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 2014
Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA, May 2014
The Cradle Project, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. Feb. 2014
Relational Experiments Around a Dinner Table: Chakra Dinner, bajaINarts, Tijuana, MX. Sep. 2013
Crossing Borders, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA. June. 2013
IRWIN 2013, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Earth Day, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Works in Progress, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Crossing Borders, Emergent Art Spaces, Online Exhibition, CA. November 2012
Trash to Treasure, Museum of Art and History, CA. October 2012
Phantoms, Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. October 2012
Save Our Shores: Monument, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA. September 2012
Such Sweet Sorrow: Phantom Series & Performance, Community Television Center, June 2012
Listening to the Earth II: Temporality, Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2012
Spontaneous Nature, Leeds Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. June 2012
Fire and Glow Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, 2012
Pop Up Art Project, Rittenhouse Window front Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. April-May 2012
Book Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, January 2012
Performances
LOVE Long Beach: Long Beach Live Music and Art Festival. 2017
Goodnight Mother: Long Beach Artwalk. Long Beach CA 2017
Artivism: An Activation, Long Beach. June-July, 2017
Here come the Ecosexuals!, Center for Sex and Culture: San Francisco Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, CA. 2015
Ebb and Flow: Kinetic Sculpture Parade, Santa Cruz City Arts Council, Tannery Arts Center, and the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. June 6 2015
Public Art Installations
The Chrysalis Project, Artists on Board, Olympia, WA. 2020
Earthen Robe, Homeless Garden Project, Santa Cruz, CA. 2015
Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA. 2014
A Place of Opening, UCSC Arboretum Aroma Garden, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013-2014
Commissions
Octopus Public Mural, Olympia, WA 2020
Lush Locks and Lash Signage, Olympia, WA 2020
Neon Night Performance, Club Ripples, Long Beach CA 2017
Fire Limbo Structure, Santa Cruz Fire Conclave for Burning Man 2013
Meditation Mural, San Diego, CA 2012
Press
Artists to beautify some of the boarded-up downtown Olympia storefronts with murals
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article242364581.html
San Francisco Gate: S.F. Pride Parade Celebrates Marriage Equality
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Pride-Parade-celebrates-marriage-ruling-6354281.php?cmpid=email-desktop#photo-8228434
Hilltromper: Studio Bongiorno Art Show to Address Gyre Harm
http://siliconvalley.hilltromper.com/tag/art-show
Good Times: Bridging Troubled Waters
http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-lifestyles/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-/6615-bridging-troubled-water.html
Good Times: Exhibition review of Cradles of Change:
http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-lifestyles/santa-cruz-arts-entertainment-/5450-cradles-of-change.html
Artists on Art
http://www.artistsonart.net/heidi-cramer-dmitri-zurita/
Sentinel: Spotlight Santa Cruz Artists
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_22306275/christa-martin-spotlight-santa-cruz-artists-have-big?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.c
Works in Progress at the Museum of Art and History
http://www.santacruzmah.org/2012/work-in-progress/
GLOW: Fire and Glow Arts Event, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3rd-friday-march-fire-art/
Natural Selection exhibition assistant webpage:
http://naturalselectionartshow.blogspot.com/
KZSC Artists on Art Podcast
http://www.artistsonart.net/katarinalanfranco/
Rittenhouse Art Installation:
http://www.firstfridaysantacruz.com/2012/03/sesnon-art-gallery-ucsc-pop-up-art-project/
http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2012/04/05/first-friday-art-tour-celebrates-100th-event/
Makers at the MAH:
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3187/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santacruzmah/6722885493/in/photostream/
Museum of Art and History: Radical Craft Night
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3rd-friday-at-mah-2/
Museum of Art and History: School Days Event:
http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/3rd-friday-may-school-days/
Santa Cruz Public Library 1st Friday Book Sculpture:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150858808149513.431602.299389034512&
Teaching
Walking the Line, Instructor, Long Beach CA. Jun-Aug 2017
Kinetic Sculpture Build Workshop Instructor,
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA. Jun. 5 2015
Cradle Project Workshop Instructor, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA. Feb. 2014
Internal Exhibition Drawing Teacher, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz CA. Oct. 2013
Plastic Fusion Workshop Instructor, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
The Resource and Research Facilitation Project Co-Lecturer, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
Teachers Assistant for Professor Jennifer Parker, Metal II, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
Residencies/Workshops
LOVE Long Beach, Flow Workshop, Long Beach CA 2017
MAH Art Works Summer Residency: 4-week onsite public residency, Santa Cruz, CA. 2016
Snapshot Day, San Lorenzo River: Santa Cruz CA 2016
Doc/Undoc: Performance Workshop with Guillermo Gomez Pena, UCSC, CA. 2014
Drinking Fire: Performance and ArtBar, The Art Research Office, Santa Cruz, CA, 2014
ProPhoto Alliance Workshop with Lewis Watts, Inverness, CA 2012
Curatorial Activities
Live Art Coordinator: LOVE Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. 2017
Artivism Now: Event Coordinator, Long Beach CA. 2017
1000 New York Street LIVE-and-WORK Co-creator, Long Beach CA. 2017
Exhibition Coordinator: Antinomias, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura, Tijuana, MX. 2014
Exhibition Designer: Trabajos y Perspectivos, Municipal Palace, Tijuana, Mexico. 2014
Curators Assistant: IRWIN 2013 exhibition, Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Curators Assistant: Betsy Anderson, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Intern at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA. 2011-2013
Art Department Chair Interview Committee Member, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2013
Co-Founder of the Sesnon Underground, Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA. 2012-2013
Curator/Research Assistant at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. 2012
Leading member of the Student Art Movement, UCSC 2012-2013
Artist Assistant, Katarina LanFranco, Natural Selections, Santa Cruz, CA. 2011
Collaborative Projects
2020 The Chrysalis Project: Olympia Arts Alliance (with Carrie Zeigler)
2016 Bacteria Mural: Museum of Art and History (with Alev Bilgensoy)
2016 Love is Like a River: Museum of Art and History (with Kelly Skye)
2012 Zonkeys: The Documentary, on-going (with TJ Art Collective)
2012 Balance, Museum of Art and History Santa Cruz, CA (with Dmitri Zurita)
2012 Phantoms, Sesnon Underground Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (with Dmitri Zurita)
2012 Porter Public Art Day, University of California Santa Cruz, CA (with Porter College and UCSC Student Art Movement)
Employment
Performer: DragonRising and Artivism Now, Long Beach, CA 2017
Book Publishing and Design Assistant: The Harrison Studio, Santa Cruz, CA. 2016
Artist Assistant: Laurie Palmer, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. 2016
Archive Manager: Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle Center for Sex and Culture. San Francisco, CA. 2015
Studio Director: Newton & Helen Harrison, The Center for the Study of the Force Majeure. Santa Cruz, CA. 2013-2015
Exhibition Coordinator: Emergent Art Space, Tijuana, MX. 2014
Curators Assistant: Betsy Anderson, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery. 2012-2013
Artists Assistant: Victoria May, Victoria May Studio. 2013
Directors Assistant: Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. 2011-2012
Photographer/Photographer Assistant: Greg Casey Photography. 2011
Gallery Host: Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. 2011
