Skip to content
Heather Gwen Martin - Artists - Miles McEnery Gallery

Heather Gwen Martin Studio, 2022, Los Angeles, CA

HEATHER GWEN MARTIN (b. 1977, Saskatoon, Canada) studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, and the University of California, San Diego, CA.

Recent solo exhibitions include “Verse,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Nerve Lines and Fever Dreams,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Currents,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; “Landing,” Murals of La Jolla, La Jolla, CA; “Rogue Wave Projects: Heather Gwen Martin,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; “Pattern Math,” Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Culver City, CA; and “Recreational Systems,” Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA.

Recent group exhibitions include "The Flower Show,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; “Abstraction Not Abstraction,” PRJCTLA, Los Angeles, CA; “The Lyrical Moment: Modern and Contemporary Abstraction by Helen Frankenthaler and Heather Gwen Martin” (curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné), University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; “Flying Colors,” Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH; “By Way of Laughter and Trembling,” Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA; “45 at 45: L.A. Louver Celebrates 45 Years with 45 Artists,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; “Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century” (curated by Mark Scala), Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; “The Agency of Art,” University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA; “Intersecting at the Edge,” Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA; “Evolver,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; “Shaping Color,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; “On the Road: American Abstraction,” David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI; “California Connections: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego” (curated by Anthony Graham), California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA; “How Many Miles to Babylon: Recent Paintings from Los Angeles and New York,” C24 Gallery, New York, NY; “Atmospheric Abstraction,” Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA; “Touch,” El Segundo Museum of Art, El Segundo, CA; “Younger Than George,” George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA; “View from the Edge of the Soul,” Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA; and “NOW-ISM: Abstraction Today,” Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH.

Her work is included in the Equinor Art Collection, Houston, TX; Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, MO; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, and the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH.

Martin lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Download PDF