EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Heather Renée Russ
Heather Renée Russ (she/they) works across experimental photography, installation and bio-art. Her multidisciplinary practice incorporates queer femme signifiers and organic materials into works that engage with queer geographies, femme labor and climate grief. Russ comes from a rich history of organizing in underground art scenes. She co-directed Lair Fera, a queer collaborative space in Brooklyn. In San Francisco she co-produced Club Feral, a raucous mutual aid queer nightclub. Stewarding spaces for queer artists in ever-shifting environments directly informs her work.
Russ has exhibited at Field Projects in NYC, SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC, NADA Miami with Paradice Palase, IMT Gallery in London, SoMos in Berlin, and Satellite Art Fair in Miami. She has also exhibited at apexart, Flux Factory, ChaShaMa, and Ethan Cohen’s Kube in New York. Russ has completed residencies at NARS Foundation, MASS MoCA, Wassaic Project, ChaShaMa North, TransBorder Art on Governors Island, and Vermont Studio Center. Russ has upcoming solo shows at NARS Foundation and SUNY Old Westbury, and will be included in an exhibition on climate grief at the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach. Russ lives in New York City and holds an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from SVA and a BA in Women and Gender Studies from San Francisco State University.
