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Bio
Heather Drayzen (b. 1985, San Antonio, TX) is a painter whose intimate, small-scale works mine the complexities of her interior and exterior life, capturing the people and places closest to her across the passage of time. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After health scares and the pandemic, Drayzen felt a renewed urgency to mine her own life for subject matter. Her portraits and still lifes capture quiet domestic moments and the seasonal textures of her daily life, including time spent with those she cherishes and in her travels. In layered, atmospheric paintings with rich color and flickering light, she chronicles the everyday and commonplace with an emotional intensity drawn from art historical references including Bonnard and Vuillard to Munch and O'Keeffe. Each painting is a vignette within the larger narrative of her life. In a moment of relentless speed and noise, her deeply personal work finds the spiritual in the ordinary, insisting on the devotional call to create, to love, to pay attention, and to look toward the light.
Drayzen received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her MAT from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her second solo exhibition, Towards the Sun, opened at My Pet Ram, New York, in October 2025. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Auxier Kline Gallery, New York, in 2027. Her work has been shown in two-person and group exhibitions at Massey Klein Gallery (New York), EDJI Gallery (Brussels), The Middle Room Gallery (Los Angeles), Myriam Chair Galerie (Paris), and Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia), among others. She was awarded First Prize in the Prisma Art Prize, Rome, and has completed residencies at Hafnarborg, Iceland and the Vermont Studio Center. She will attend the Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming in July 2026. Her work is held in the Beth Rudin DeWoody Public Collection.
