Heather Kapplow
Allston, Massachusetts
Conceptual artist
Heather Kapplow is a self-trained conceptual artist based in the United States. Kapplow creates engagement experiences that elicit unexpected intimacies using objects, alternative interpretations of existing environments, installation, performance, writing, audio and video. Kapplow’s work has received government and private grants and has been included in galleries and film and performance festivals in the United States and internationally. In 2019, Kapplow spent the year exploring ideas of luxury around the world: asking what it is, why we need it, and how to get the emotional satisfaction it provides with minimal human or environmental impact. Though this project still needs some finishing touches, it is currently on hold. Under pandemic conditions, Kapplow is doing some small experiments that use the urge towards creative communal engagement to drag somatic experience and amorphousness into a resistant digisphere, and is developing relationships and gathering resources for a public art project about living on the street.
This bio/description was originally published in 2019 and updated in 2020. For more current information, please refer to the award recipient's website (if provided).