Heidi Cramer (B. 1985 U.S.A.)
heidicramer85@gmail.com
Education
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
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
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
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
Here come the Ecosexuals!, Center for Sex and Culture: San Francisco Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, CA.
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
Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA. Nov. 2014
A Place of Opening, UCSC Arboretum Aroma Garden, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013-2014
Commissions
Fire Limbo Structure, Santa Cruz Fire Conclave for Burning Man, May 2012
Wall Mural, San Diego, CA 2012
Press
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
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
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
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
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
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
heidicramer85@gmail.com
Education
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
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
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
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
Here come the Ecosexuals!, Center for Sex and Culture: San Francisco Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, CA.
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
Sculpture Is, Sierra Azul Nursery, Watsonville, CA. Nov. 2014
A Place of Opening, UCSC Arboretum Aroma Garden, Santa Cruz, CA. 2013-2014
Commissions
Fire Limbo Structure, Santa Cruz Fire Conclave for Burning Man, May 2012
Wall Mural, San Diego, CA 2012
Press
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
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
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
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
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
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
