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EDUCATION
MFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
HONORS
2023 The School of Visual Arts Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement in MFA Art Practice
EXHIBITIONS + PERFORMANCES
2024 Every Woman Biennial, juried group exhibition, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2023 Liminal Forms, MFA thesis exhibition, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Vote NO Vote, group exhibition, Bell Projects, Denver, CO (exhibited as the Institute of Sociometry)
2022 Cultivate, group exhibition, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
2022 Public Private, group exhibition, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Collective Nouns: MSU Denver Faculty & Staff Exhibition, group exhibition, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
2022 Grasping Shards, juried group exhibition, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
2022 The Yellow Show, group exhibition, Dateline Gallery, Denver, CO
2022 CCD Faculty Art + Design Show, group exhibition, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
2022 Successful Failures: Thirty Years of Lumpens, Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future, group exhibition, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (exhibited as the Institute of Sociometry)
2021 Technical Surveillance Countermeasures: is Agent’s Footage From the Field, screening, Fort Greene Bar, Denver, CO
2021 is FAIR 20202021, group exhibition, Globeville EPICenter, Denver, CO
2021 Failed State: Restart, virtual group exhibition, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2020 Citizenship: A Practice of Society, group exhibition, MCA Denver, Denver, CO (exhibited as the Institute of Sociometry)
2019 10th Biennial MSU Denver Art Department Exhibition, group exhibition, Center for Visual Art, MSU Denver, Denver, CO
2019 PLACE, performance, Fort Greene Bar, Denver, CO, 2019
2018 Up Like a Sun, Down Like a Pancake, group exhibition, ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
2017 All of the Above, group exhibition, Elephant Room Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Raw Fury #4 Pop Up, group exhibition, The ‘Allery, Denver, CO
2016 Good Neighbor’s Lamentation Society Eulogy Reading, performance, Center for Visual Art, MSU Denver, Denver, CO
2016 Sociometry Fair 2016: is EMANCIPATION, group exhibition, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Good Neighbor’s Lamentation Society, guerrilla installations, West Colfax neighborhood, Denver, CO
2015 Artopia 2015, art festival organized by Denver Westword, City Hall, Denver, CO
2015 Art in Odd Places Festival: Number, juried public art festival, New York, NY
2015 is EMPLOYEE, pop-up exhibition, Deer Pile, Denver, CO
2014 Welcome to SoHi, duo exhibition with Peter Miles Bergman, Blue Dot Studio, Denver, CO
2012 iSFair 2012, group exhibition, Submission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Global Impact: Printmaking by International Artists, Bing-Davis Memorial Gallery, Upper Iowa University, Fayette, IA
2007 Time Sensitive Materials, Impact 5 Conference, KUMA Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
JURIED ART BOOK + ZINE FAIRS
2024 Denver Small Press Fest, Globeville EPICenter, Denver, CO, March 30
2023 Fort Collins Small Press Fest, Wolverine Farm, Fort Collins, CO, September 23
2023 Tropic Bound, Paradise Plaza, Miami Design District, Miami, FL, Feb. 16-19
2022 Fort Collins Small Press Fest, Wolverine Farm, Fort Collins, CO, August 27
2022 Denver Small Press Fest, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO, March 12
2021 Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair, exhibitor as part of EXILE Book’s “Pool Jewels”, virtual, Feb. 25-28
2020 U of I Small Press Fest, virtual, Oct. 23
2020 Vancouver Art Book Fair, virtual, Oct. 17-18
2020 Canzine Zine Fest, virtual, 2020
2020 #QuaranzineFest, virtual, April 4-5
2019 Chicago Art Book Fair, Chicago Athletic Club, Chicago, IL, Nov. 15-17
2019 Pikes Peak Zine Fest, Knights of Columbus Hall, Colorado Springs, CO, Oct. 1
2019 Denver Zine Fest, McNichols Building, Denver, CO, June 26
2019 DINK, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO, April 13-19
2019 Miami Zine Fair, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL, April 6-7
2018 Chicago Art Book Fair, Chicago Athletic Club, Chicago, IL, Nov. 16-18
2018 Vancouver Art Book Fair, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC, Oct. 18-21
2018 Denver Zine Fest, McNichols Building, Denver, CO, June 24
2018 DINK, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO, April 14-15
2017 Chicago Art Book Fair, Chicago Athletic Club, Chicago, IL, Nov. 16-19
2017 ABQ Zine Fest, Harwood Event Center, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 1
2017 Denver Zine Fest, Cervantes Masterpiece & The Other Side, Denver, CO, June 17
2017 DINK, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO, April 8-9
2016 Denver Zine Fest, Christ Church United Methodist, Denver, CO, June 25
2016 DINK, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO, March 25-26
2015 Denver Zine Fest, Denver Art Society, Denver, CO, June 27
2015 Denver Small Press Fest, The Savoy, Denver, CO, Sept. 18
CURATORIAL + COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PROJECTS
2021 is FAIR 20202021, Globeville EPICenter, Denver, CO
2020 #QuarranzineFest, Co-Organizer (with Peter Miles Bergman), virtual zine fest
2016 Sociometry Fair 2016: is EMANCIPATION, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
2012 isFair 2012: inFOcalypse, Submission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Heather Link-Bergman: Crossing The Veil, interview by Brandon Johnson, zing magazine blog, August 2.
2021 Ep. 103 Heather Link-Bergman & Peter Miles Bergman – is Fair 20202021, Institute of Sociometry, Interview by Todd Pierson and Wes Brown, Tenet Podcast, tenetpodcast.com, November 4.
2020 The High Cost of Free Media: SE2 leader raises provocative questions in museum exhibition, interview by Bazi Kanai, SE2changeforgood.com, February 11.
2018 Displacement, Episode 14, performance produced by Josh Mattison, Low Orbit Podcast, January 18.
2017 Denver’s demolished homes get their own memorials from local artist, interview by Megan Arellano, Denverite.com, June 4.
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Acquired Tastes, Denver, CO: is PRESS.
2022 LLiLL #3, Denver, CO: is PRESS.
2020 Citizenship: A Practice of Society, Zoe Larkins, ed., Denver, CO: MCA Denver and Denver, CO: is PRESS.
2020 MisMerch’d V2, Denver, CO: is PRESS.
2019 PASSAGE, Denver, CO: is PRESS.
2018 MisMerch’d V1, Denver, CO: is PRESS.
2017 Raw Fury #5, Volume 5, Denver, CO: is PRESS and Chicago, IL: Flatlands Press, p 54-55.
2016 “The Good Neighbor’s Lamentation Society”, Raw Fury #4, Volume 4, Denver, CO: is PRESS and Chicago, IL: Flatlands Press, p 8-13.
2016 “The Good Neighbor’s Lamentation Society”, is EMANCIPATION, Peter Bergman and Zoe Larkins, eds., Denver, CO: is PRESS, p 114-117.
2016 The Good Neighbor’s Lamentation Society, Denver, CO: is PRESS.
2016 Raw Fury #3, Volume 3, Denver, CO: is PRESS and Chicago, IL: Flatlands Press, p 46-47.
2015 Raw Fury #2, Volume 2, Denver, CO: is PRESS and Chicago, IL: Flatlands Press, p 46-47.
2014 “Welcome To SoHi”, Raw Fury #1, Volume 2, Denver, CO: is PRESS and Chicago, IL: Flatlands Press, p 47-52.
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS + READINGS
2022 “Vote NO Vote,” Artist Talk, Bell Projects, Denver, CO, November 11.
2022 “Leadership Council Reception for Cultivate,” Artist Presentation, Center for Visual Art, MSU Denver, Denver, CO, October 19.
2022 “Cultivating Food Justice through Art”, Artist Panel, Center for Visual Art, MSU Denver, Denver, CO, October 13.
2020 “Agents and ‘Artners,” Artist Talk, MCA Denver, Denver, CO, January 27
2020 “Artists Interviewing Artists: is PRESS and Liz Mason,” interview, U of I Small Press Fest, November 13.
2019 “MisMerch’d V2”, Reading for Independent Bookstore Day, Shop at MATTER, Denver, CO, April 27.
COLLECTIONS
Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
Denver Zine Library, Denver, CO
Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore Library, Baltimore, MD
Joan M. Flasch Artists Books Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ron Burnett Library Special Collections, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
University of Connecticut Special Collections, Hartford, CT
University of Denver Fine Press and Artists Books Collection, Denver, CO
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
University of Miami Library Special Collections, Miami, FL
W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
Private Collections
STOCKISTS
Atomic Books, Baltimore, MD
Kilgore Books & Comics, Denver, CO
Mutiny Information Cafe, Denver, CO
Printed Matter, New York, NY
Shop at MATTER, Denver, CO
Quimby’s Bookstore, Chicago, IL and New York, NY
Wasted Ink, Phoenix, AZ
COLLECTIVES + PARTNERSHIPS
2015 - present is PRESS, Denver, CO, Partner
is PRESS is a Denver publishing press and studio space founded by Peter Miles Bergman and Heather Link-Bergman. isPRESS publishes short run art books and zines documenting conceptual art projects that explore the nexus of art and everyday life.
2011 - present Institute of Sociometry (artist collective), Denver, CO, Director of Intelligence
The Institute of Sociometry is an international culture jamming artist collective with over 600 registered participants, i.e., ‘agents’ in 23 countries. The Institute of Sociometry or is practices and promotes guerrilla sociometry. As the term implies, guerrilla sociometry is similar in focus to textbook sociometry, yet in no way conforms to the rigorous demands of science or mathematics. Instead is deploys strategies from Pataphysics, Fluxus, Situationism, Neoism, Immediatism, Ontological Anarchy, and Dada Epistemology.
SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 - present Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO, Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, Communication Design Program
2022 Community College of Denver, Denver, CO, Part-Time Faculty, Graphic Design and Arts Program
2018 - 2019 Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, Teaching Artist - Teen POV Program
SELECT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 - present Communications Manager, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO
2020 - 2021 Account Director, SE2, Denver, CO
2018 - 2020 Communications Manager, Center for Visual Art MSU Denver, Denver, CO
2014 - 2018 Communications Specialist, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO