BIOGRAPHY

Heather Marie Scholl (b.1985, Portland, OR) is a Philadelphia-based artist addressing issues of race, gender, and trauma. She holds a BA in Race, Gender, and Sexuality and an MFA in Fashion and Knitwear Design. Scholl has received several awards including a Fellowship at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, a Linda Lee Alter Fellowship at DaVinci Art Alliance, residency at Stove Works, Yvonne M. Kelly Mixed Media Art Prize and Brooklyn Arts Council Grant, CERF+ grant, and the Illuminate the Arts Grant. In 2015, Scholl began work on her series “Whitework,” an exploration into white women’s roles in white supremacy. This led her to co-founding and directing Confront White Womanhood, an anti-racism education initiative for white women (2016-2020) where she held workshops for the Women’s March, Columbia University, National Society for Genetic Counselors and others. Since 2020 she has been addressing issues of LGBTQ+ Domestic Violence through the art series “Resurrection of a Victim” and related public programing. In 2024 she was the lead instructor for Grant BLVD’s inaugural class, “Fashioning the Future Forward,” a sewing job training program for formerly incarcerated women. Scholl’s art work has been exhibited at Pen + Brush, Woodmere Art Museum, Fuller Craft Museum, Rokeby Museum, and DaVinci Art Alliance, among others. Her work has been written about in Slate, Cosmopolitan, i-D magazine, and BUST.