Heidi Howard (b.1986, New York, NY) paints portraits of close friends. The structure of each painting is based on the color feelings, style, and images inherent to her sitter. Through this approach, each sitter is reflected not only in an outward likeness, but also via the paint application. Howard has exhibited her work at Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY (2017, 2016, 2015), Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA and Cologne, Germany (2018, 2017), The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ (2017), James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (2016) and many more. She has been an artist in residence at Palazzo Monti (2018), Byrdcliffe (2014) and the Vermont Studio Center (2011). She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from Columbia University. She lives and works in Queens, New York. Her collaborative installation with her mother the interactive sound sculptor Liz Phillips, “Relative Fields in a Garden”, will be on view at the Queens Museum until August, 2019.