Her work integrates painting and writing with comedic performance. These creative practices inform and make tangible the artist’s ongoing interest into the construction and development of the self. Within these language-based structures of storytelling and stand- up, she invents characters who are in the process of transformation and discovery. Combining these investigations, her paintings similarly explore self-realization through development of forms. While searching for the underlying humor that accompanies the artistic process, these emotions are performed through comedy and become self-awareness.

Heather Guertin (Worcester, 1981) earned a MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has performed in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, most recently at White Columns in New York and in conjunction with the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. Recent exhibitions include Development at Brennan & Griffin, New York; Aluminum Linoleum, at Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City and Heand at Interstate, Brooklyn; as well as group exhibitions at Hussenot, Paris, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles; Hagiwara Projects, Tokyo and Jack Hanley Gallery, New York. A monograph of her paintings and writing was recently published by Hassla on the occasion of her solo exhibition at Brennan & Griffin and her novella Model Turned Comedian was published by Social Malpractice and Publication Studio in 2013. Guertin is currently working on her second book Not Yet Titled, Cambodia, to be published later this year. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.