Biography

Heather Olker is a Chicagoland-based interdisciplinary artist and educator driven by feminist, psychological, and political concerns. Her current practice encompasses a variety of media: photography, video, drawing, collage, installation, and performance. The artist exhibited at SCOPE Art Show, Miami, FL, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Culture Lab LIC, Queens, NY, New Apostle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and Frank Juarez Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, and has been published in Kolaj Magazine and The Journal for New and New Media Photography: In the In-Between.

She holds a MFA from the Photography, Video, and Related Media program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, where she was awarded the Alice Beck-Odette scholarship and a full-time assistantship grant. She is an adjunct faculty member at College of DuPage, IL, and Union College, NJ.