Heather Lyon (creator and facilitator)

(she/her) is and artist and educaor living off the grid in Blue Hill, Maine. Her work is an embodied inquiry into the sublime. She uses site-responsive performance, video and installation to investigate the interweaving of relationships through gestures of coded communication and embodiment practices. She is a lifelong student of transcendental meditation and indigenous mystical traditions. She holds both a BFA and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Selected exhibitions and performances include deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine; SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine; IMRC Center, University of Maine Orono, Maine; College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine; Art in Odd Places, New York, New York; Zaratan, Lisbon, Portugal; “The Picnic Pavilion” Venice, Italy; The State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia; Lichtenberg Studios in der Museums-Lounge, Berlin, Germany. She has received grants from the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Kindling Fund (Andy Warhol Foundation regranting program distributed by SPACE Gallery).