Heather Renée Russ works across experimental photography, installation and bio-art. Her multidisciplinary practice incorporates queer femme signifiers and organic marine materials into works that engage with queer geographies, femme labor and displacement.
Heather Renée 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 art and dance space. She also served on the Board for MIX NYC, a queer experimental film festival. Stewarding spaces for queer artists in ever-shifting environments directly informs her work.
In 2023, Russ showed at NADA Miami with Paradice Palase. She participated in SPRING/BREAK Art Show in NYC during Armory Week. She has also shown at Field Projects in NYC, SomoS in Berlin, IMT Gallery in London, Satellite Art Fair in Miami as well as apexart, Flux Factory, ChaShaMa and Ethan Cohen’s Kube in New York. She 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 exhibitions at NARS Foundation and State University New York (SUNY) Old Wesbbury at the Amanda Wallace Gallery Art Lab Institute for Social and Environmental Justice.
Heather Renée Russ lives and works in New York City.
Studio shot of Heather Renée Russ at MASS MoCA residency 2022