MAKENZIE HEINEMANN
CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

2022           MFA Studio Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2019          BFA Painting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2024- Present   Adjunct Faculty, Dallas College, Dallas, TX

2022–2024         Visual Arts Faculty, The Episcopal School of Dallas, Dallas, TX 

2020–2022         Graduate Instructor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS, TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024             Malleable Forms, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2023             Turn me into a river, with Danny Joe Rose III, Umbrella Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022             Visions in the trees, Blue Heron Nature Preserve, Atlanta, GA
2021             water; partner, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024             nature is what we see, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
2023             Relative Density; Material Processes (curator), The Episcopal School of Dallas, TX
2023             This Land, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2023             7 From 707, Tin District Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022             Bodies of Meaning, MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2021             The Shape of Care, Florida State University, department of Art History, Tallahassee, FL          
2020                A smoother pebble, an arts-science collaboration with CERN in Geneva, Switzerland and Florida State University (postponed due to Covid)
2020            New Beginnings, ISU Print Society, Iowa State University College of Design, Ames, IA  
2019            Arizona On Display, Greater Phoenix Economic Council, Phoenix, AZ
2019            Emerging Artists, Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance, Phoenix, AZ
2019            El Portal, BFA Thesis Exhibition, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2018            Otherworldly, curated by Kenosha Drucker. Megaphone Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
2020            Vanguard Showcase, curated by Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ (best in category: Painting)
2017            Choice Cuts, Annual Invitational Show, The Lodge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2024            Research Travel Grant to Mexico City, The Episcopal School of Dallas, Dallas, TX
2022            Research Travel Grant to Rome and Venice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2021            Research Travel Grant to Dallas, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

2019-22      Academic Scholarship, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2020            Ada Belle Winthrop-King Visual Arts Endowment
2019            Adelaide D. Wilson Graduate Student Success Fund
2019            Dean’s Scholarship. Florida State University. Tallahassee, FL

2017            Eric Fischl Vanguard Award. Phoenix College, nominated by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Phoenix, AZ 

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
2023              Artist Panel, Reading Art Writing Graduate Conference, University of Texas at Dallas
2021              Artist Talk, The Shape of Care, Art History Department, Florida State University

ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2022              Artist-in-Residence, 33oc Toffia, Italy