NAME: Chehalis Hegner
BIRTH PLACE: Chicago, Illinois
BIOGRAPHY
Chehalis Hegner has had solo and group exhibitions, in a variety of venues including: ICA, Portland Maine: (Photographs for Arthur Ganson: Machines Contemplating Time), The Art Institute of New England (Handmade Cinema), The Photographic Resource Center in Boston (Celebrating New Technologies )the Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake, Illinois (Microcosms), Edwards Art Gallery at the Holderness School; Plymouth, NH (Microcosms), The Art Institute of Boston, Epi Center in Boston, The Galletley Gallery (Silence Unfolding series), New Hampton, NH, Maryland Art Place (Objects of Adoration), Baltimore, MD, and Gallery Imperato (Identified), Baltimore, MD, and in Varigotti, Italy.
In 2006, Chehalis was nominated by Arno Minkkinen for the PRC/POV 30th anniversary Exhibition ~ where photographic luminaries were asked to nominate emerging photographers they believed would make the greatest contributions to photography over the next 30 years.
Ms. Hegner held an Artist in Residence post at Plymouth State University from 2000-2001, and then accepted a position as photography instructor within their art department. Currently she is in the creative stages of collaboratively teaching a new workshop with Jonathan Singer: “Unifying the Creative and the Technical.”
Chehalis Hegner received her MFA in Visual Arts at the Art Institute of Boston in June, 2005. Her mentors include photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen, George Fifield (Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park and founder of the Boston Cyber Arts Festival), Jonathan Singer of Singer Editions, Boston, and Franz C. Nicolay. Hegner received her B.A. at Berklee College of Music and is also a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy at Interlochen, Michigan. In 2006 she completed the Boston Lawyers for the Arts seven month program on Professional Development for Artists.
Chehalis is currently represented by Jordan faye Contemporary in Baltimore, MD. Exhibitions in 2007 include “Objects of Adoration” at Maryland Art Place and. Upcoming in 2008 is a solo exhibition at St. Gaudens in NH. The Feb/Mar. issue of Art New England featured her image, “Trophy” on its cover.
Recent publications include reviews in the Boston Globe, Art New England, and her images have been featured in Shots Magazine.
Works in progress include: A new photographic series on Photgraphy and Healing, and an experimental video piece (The Anatomy of a Kiss), examining that celebrated and evocative topic.
