Exhibition: Homecoming: TSPS Alumni Show 2/7/25 – 3/9/25 Opening Party Friday, February 7th 6-9pm Homecoming: TSPS Alumni Show features Clare Burson, Allie Rex, Ellen Sayers, Rachel Wren, Heidi Neilson, Joelle Dietrick, Melissa Capasso, Ava Paterson Werner, Allison Kaufman, Elsie Kagan, Colleen Ho, Sonjie Feliciano Solomon, Sarah Shirley May. My video ROY G. BIV Dailies from Here GOES and SUVI, 2024 […]
Exhibition: Past Visions of the Future Now – Longitudes Installation by Heidi Neilson presented with the support of Flux Factory December 15 – 22, 2024 Opening: December 15, 5-8pm Exhibition Hours: Saturday, December 20, 1-5 pm and by appointment RSVP for location, [email protected] Past Visions of the Future Now (longitudes) is an installation of photographs of the sky from the sites of utopias. The photographs all […]
Public Art Commission – Troy, NY Two lightbox graphic installations in downtown Troy, installed December 2024: Corner of Congress and 3rd Streets and Corner of River and Fulton Streets. Commissioned by The Arts Center of the Capital Region’s Troy Public Art Program. 
Carnegie Mellon University – Artist Talk The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Positioning Exercises Heidi Neilson November 18, 2024 5:30 PM–7:00 PM 4919 Frew Street College of Fine Arts Room 111 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Join us in the STUDIO on Monday November 18th at 5:30 PM in the STUDIO for an artist talk by Heidi Neilson! In this artist talk, […]
Cal Poly University Art Gallery – Strange Birds Cal Poly is pleased to present Strange Birds, a multi-faceted show by interdisciplinary artist Heidi Neilson. The show is open from November 7 to December 6, 2024 in the University Art Gallery in Dexter, blg. 34. An opening reception and talk are set to take place on Nov. 7 from 5-7 pm, with the talk commencing […]
Book included in Book on Books My book Atlas of Punctuation is in great company in Janelle Rebel’s new book, Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings, I’m honored to have it included! Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings delves into the imaginative realm of books and libraries and the interpretive structures of subject bibliographies. It is the first monograph of its kind to historicize, […]
Flux Factory – Saturn Return Flux Factory is celebrating its big thirtieth anniversary by exhibiting 37 alumni of our Artists-in-Residence program. This grassroots community spans decades and continents and features work across all media. This year we mark Flux Factory’s Saturn Return — born 1994, when Saturn was in Pisces. In astrology, the “Saturn Return” refers to a roughly thirty-year […]
cckpt • sound art • datasonification en — Mushrooms, auroras or bacteria – in the sound art exhibition cckpt (aka cockpit), the inaudible becomes audible. In installations and performances with specially developed instruments for the sonification of data, usually developed over years of collaboration with scientists, electromagnetic radiation is transformed into „bioelectrical sounds and music“. Data from weather satellites, data from […]
NYSCA 2024 Individual Artist Grant I’m so excited to be a New York State Council on the Arts FY 2024 Grantee! The award will help fund an upcoming project in 2024.
Radio Art Zone Book I’m excited to have images and short texts included in Radio Art Zone the book! Radio Art Zone by Sarah Washington radioart.zone Instagram / Facebook / Twitter An anthology of works by over 100 radio artists, edited and designed by Sarah Washington. Radio Art Zone explores the central themes and techniques of artist-made radio, emerging […]
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts I am incredibly honored to say I’m a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts! I’m so happy to be among this amazing group and to be part of a program that has supported artists of all disciplines across New York State for 38 years. Thank you New York Foundation for the Arts! Full details at […]
Wave Farm Board Appointment I’m honored to be serving on Wave Farm’s board beginning on July 1, 2023! Wave Farm’s mission: Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. We cultivate creative practices in radio and support artists and nonprofits in their cultural endeavors. Based in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave […]
Far Sighted at The Shirley Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, June 15 – Sept 10, 2023 Far Sighted is an exhibition by interdisciplinary artist and science enthusiast, Heidi Neilson. Neilson has a nuanced way of investigating our relationship with satellites through her art practice. The conceptually-driven artworks pull the viewer into the world of satellites with intelligence, beauty and understated humor. Far Sighted shows us satellites as compelling machines and sculptural objects whilst acknowledging and revealing their functions and purposes. Viewers will leave Far Sighted with new insights into our orbiting robots.
SUVI SUNS Pratt Institute Foundation Lab Art+Science Visiting Artist Exhibition HEIDI NEILSON: SUVI SUNS Foundation Lab Art+Science Visiting Artist Exhibition March 9 – May 9, 2023 Heidi Neilson’s window installation and new riso edition SUVI SUNS launches in the Foundations Lab, 401 Main Building. This exhibition is the culmination of Heidi’s workshop and talk as Lab visiting artist in Fall 2022. Join us to celebrate, […]
Fake Snow Collection featured in Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s new video “In this episode of Artist’s Books Unshelved, we look at two books that play with the lines between natural and man-made. “Los Angeles Palm Trees,” by Franticham and “Fake Snow Collection,” by Heidi Neilson”. Now in season two, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s “Artist’s Books Unshelved” is a video series exploring selected pieces from the […]
Sound Art in Chile: Here GOES Radiotelescope | Wave Farm – Festival Tsonami 2022 Here GOES Radiotelescope data sonification has been selected by Wave Farm for Festival Tsonami 2022, to be aired on December 8th. More information here. 
Fall 2022 Art+Science Visiting Artist at Pratt Institute Foundations Lab TALK: DIY Art-based Earth Observations, 18 October 2022, 1 – 2:00 PM hybrid event, zoom registration here. WORKSHOP: Seeing through a satellite’s eyes: creating color images of our Earth and Sun, 1 November 2022, 1 – 2:00 PM, Foundations Lab, Main 401 PRATT INSTITUTE 
Conflict/Resolution – sound art and new media works-in-progress An event focusing on sound art and new media works-in-progress from the Flux Factory community. We will consider how being part of a group of socially engaged artists working as a collective contributes to the development of creative technology practices. Harvestworks Art and Technology Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island, NY Sunday October 16, 2022, […]
Wave Farm Property Tour Here GOES Radiotelescope featured in new Wave Farm installation tour map. → Wave Farm property tour
Electropixel #12 Irrational: Cities and Nature. electropixel.org Organized by the Irrational Collective, Electropixel is part of an international network of electronic arts festivals. The festival opens a singular space allowing the meeting of artists (audiovisual, musicians, visual artists, intermedia, performers, etc.), theoreticians, programmers, hackers, and inventors of all stripes and factories of everyday life. For this new […]
Orbits – 22-hour program for Radio Art Zone New commissioned program for Radio Art Zone, a 100-day radio art station for Esch2022, which is broadcasting in the south of Luxembourg by Radio ARA on 87.8 FM, and is live-streamed for a worldwide audience and transmitted by a network of international partners. On 6 September 2022, my 22-hour radio piece is titled ‘Orbits’ and […]
Radiotopia – a rehearsal of spectrum takeover RADIOTOPIA – a rehearsal of spectrum takeover , camp radio with STADTWERKSTATT at MS. STUBNITZ, Hamburg, Germany, July, 2022 It was an honor and a blast to participate in the radio-art summer camp aboard MS Stubnitz. Thanks to Shu Lea Cheng, Adriana Knouf and Franz Xavier for initiating and organizing! See RADIOTOPIA more info and documentation, including our 6-hour […]
Facilitator, ‘Field Guide: Interpreting Weather Station Data / Data as Art Material Workshop’ Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC, Saturday 4 June 2022. 
Open mic for REVEIL, 30 April 2022 REVEIL, a live stream of the sounds of dawn around the world for a day on 30 April, 2022. My open mic will be on NYC’s East River shoreline at Socrates Sculpture Park.
Open Rehearsal – Spring Equinox Open Rehearsal – Spring Equinox Space Weather Instrument Ensemble Socrates Sculpture Park 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11106 20 March 2022, 11:00 am to dusk You’re invited to meet Heidi Neilson’s new sound-sculpture work, Space Weather Instrument Ensemble, and celebrate the energy of the Sun on the first day of spring. Instruments on […]
Awarded FY2022 Individual Artists Support, Film, Media & New Technology, New York State Council on the Arts with Wave Farm Fiscal Sponsor, Acra NY
Speaker, ‘Global Perspective from Local Standpoint: DIY Art-based Earth Observations,‘ Fredrickson Family Innovation Lab in partnership with the Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT (virtual), 22 September 2021.
MAKE ME A SIGNAL: Prelude for a RADIOTOPIA, live stream radio program broadcast on air and on internet via ∏Node organized by Shu Lea Cheang, Adriana Knouf, Franz Xaver. 2pm – 6pm Sunday 12 September 2021.
2021 New Work Grant, Individual Artist Support, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Greater New York Arts Development Fund, in partnership with the City Council, Queens Council on the Arts, New York, NY
The Nature of Cities Festival 2021 – ‘Art Happening’ virtual festival artist, 22-26 February, 2021
Atlas of Punctuation included in VIS / BIB, an exhibition which theorizes and recognizes experimental subject bibliography as an artistic and poetic practice. At The Brizdle-Schoenberg Special Collections Center at Ringling College of Art + Design, 25 January – 30 April, 2021
Visiting artist in the Center for Integrated Media speaker series, “Conversations on Technology, Media and Practice” at CalArts (virtual), 7 December 2020
Arctic Art Book Fair participant with Yukon School of the Arts, 13-15 November 2020
Science of the Living City / NYC Urban Field Station, virtual Brown Bag presentation series speaker, ‘From Moon Arrow to Here GOES Radiotelescope’, 14 October 2020