Photo Credit Kent Butler

Heidi Bender b.1982

Heidi Bender’s work encompasses installations, performances, and exhibitions in venues across the United States and abroad such as The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in Pittsburgh, PA, ROY G BIV gallery in Columbus, OH, and the Huembes Folkloric Market in Managua, Nicaragua.   In 2012 Bender and collaborator Marin Abell presented their project, TARP LAKE, at the COOP gallery in Nashville, TN and  the Lowe Mill Art Center in Huntsville, AL.

Bender received an MFA from the Ohio University in 2009, and a BA from Hope College in 2004.  She currently resides in Waverly, OH and is an instructor of Art at Shawnee State University.