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Heather Drayzen (b. 1985, San Antonio, TX) is a painter known for her small-scale depictions of quiet domestic scenes, often featuring herself and her loved ones. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Drayzen earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2007, followed by an MAT from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008. Her debut solo exhibition opened at My Pet Ram, New York, in May 2024. That same year, she participated in a two-person exhibition at The Middle Room Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2023, she was featured in a two-person show at My Pet Ram and had works included on PLATFORM.

Her work has been exhibited in group shows at EDJI Gallery (Brussels, 2025), Noon Projects (Los Angeles, 2024), Myriam Chair Galerie (Paris, 2023), Thierry Goldberg (New York, 2023), and Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, 2023), among others. She is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at Massey Klein Gallery, New York, set to open in 2026.

Drayzen was an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center in 2023 and will attend the Hafnarborg Residency in Iceland in 2025. Her work has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine (Issues 26 and Double Volume Edition 30-31), and her works on paper were included in Trove, presented by Deanna Evans Projects in 2023.

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In 2019 and recently in 2023, I experienced health scares--this, combined with the pandemic in 2020, cultivated an urgency to document my life, memories, and relationships.

My paintings draw upon my lived experiences, interior world, and emotions with a tender and intimate touch. I primarily paint small-scale domestic scenes in oil on canvas often featuring myself and those I cherish in quiet moments. Experiences like sharing a cup of morning coffee, grabbing a bite from the fridge, or taking a nap with the pups take place in an atmosphere of iridescent golden light, highlighting the passage of time while nodding to art historical influences including Bonnard, Vuillard, Morisot, and Munch. Jewel-like fields of day-glo color contrast with subtle neutral tones tapping into a full on sensory experience.

Each painting is a vignette within the larger narrative of my life, and when viewed together they reveal the feeling of a life lived along with a genuine emotional history.