About
Claire Heidinger (she/her) is a NYC and Tkaronto-based Chinese-Canadian visual artist with a BFA from OCAD University, and an MFA candidate at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
Investigating a visual fetishism created by the gaze, she creates oil paintings rooted in figuration and experiments with food produce in expanded painting. Claire’s practice is dependent on heavy research, motivated by diasporic sentimentality, identity, and accessibility. She is currently investigating diasporic hybrid cultures with the historical transposition of media in ceramics and painting to depict a loss of culture and history in migrant bodies. Claire has been awarded by the Ontario Council of Arts (2022), Canada Council for the Arts (2023), and is the co-founder of Common Collective Arts.
For more of her work and process, visit Claire Heidinger @notyourclaire on instagram.
Claire is also the co-founder of Common Collective Arts, a IBPOC collective working to assist emerging and up-coming artists. Learn more here
