“I am a multidisciplinary artist from and based in Boston MA, but working internationally. I have been making (and curating/producing) playful, participatory artwork in multiple mediums and contexts for almost two decades now. I work individually, in small and large collaborative groups, and often directly with the general public. My work happens in public spaces, museums, galleries and festivals. The shape of my projects range from installations to conversations. The strategies use I use to make my work include research, writing, performance, sculpture, sound, and emerging technologies. I developed my practice organically, without any kind of formal training in art, though I did work as a printmaker’s apprentice for several years and have high-level media production experience gained through other parts of my professional life.

Using prompts, conversations, objects, sound, installation, walks and any other kind of circumstance that I can wrangle, I invite people to pause their usual ways of operating, and to participate in embodied, anti-capitalist discovery processes with me. Together, we experiment with alternative ways of being and understanding, in an effort to reduce/undo/resist harm bred by the social and economic structures we’ve all been born into participating in.

At the moment I am especially interested in subtle things that we feel in our bodies but have difficulty locating very precisely (like intuition, memory and proprioceptive awareness) and how they can help us navigate towards solutions to problems that seem unresolvable.

As a part of ensemble projects, I have performed at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (DK), Guggenheim Museum (US), Institute of Contemporary Art (US), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (US), Museo Arte Moderno (MX), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (US), and the Queens Museum (US); and within works by Linda Montano, La Pocha Nostra/Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Paul Ramirez Jonas, and On Kawara.

I am proud to be an active member of two artist collectives that I produce artwork with in an ongoing way: Flux Factory (NYC) and Mobius Artist Group (Boston). I am also an alumni artistic affiliate of MetaLAB at Harvard University/FU Berlin, and took on leadership responsibilities in Boston’s LGBTQIA+ artists association BLAA and The Berwick Research Institute in the deeper past.”

Heather Kapplow’s three-year BCA Studio Residency is supported by Wagner Foundation.