Solo Exhibitions
2023 DEEP/CLEAN, HOMME Gallery, Washington DC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Forthcoming: Rat Gallery, Washington, DC.
Forthcoming: DC Arts Center, Washington, DC.
Translation Through Art, Strathmore, Rockville, MD.
Adams Morgan Art Walk, DC Arts Center, Washington DC.
Flowers, ArtHouse, Richmond, VA.
Woman | Artist, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC.
SHEDC, Shop Made in DC, Washington, DC.
Strange Oasis, The Material Room, Richmond, VA
2023 UMBRELLA Art Fair, Washington DC.
Bubble Bath, Magma Maria, Offenbach, Germany.
WiP!, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington DC.
Love is destructive. I need you. Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
People and the Planet, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC.
Adams Morgan Art Walk, DC Arts Center, Washington DC.
2022 Fall Salon, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
See Support Collect, Latela Curatorial, Washington DC
Art-N-Stuff V, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
COLLAB: A Conversation in Art, Falls Church Arts Gallery, Falls Church, VA. Juror: Glen Kessler
Emerging Artists Exhibition, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD. Juror: Lee Nowell Wilson
35th Annual McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition, Grand Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA. Juror:
Jennifer Dasal
SHE DC, Shop Made in DC, Washington DC
40UNDER40, Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Waynesboro VA
What Now?, Heath Gallery and Fable Jones Studios, Virtual Exhibition
2021 still/life, Monochrome Collective, UMBRELLA Art Fair, Washington DC
NOTACATBUTALLAMA, Ivy League Gallery, Virtual Exhibition
HINDSIGHT, Marginal Art Projects, Virtual Exhibition
2020 UMW Studio Art Senior Exhibition, DuPont Gallery, Fredericksburg VA
By Yourself with Everyone, Good Mother Gallery, Virtual Exhibition
Juried Exhibition in Social______Distance, New American Paintings, Virtual Exhibition
Annual Student Art Exhibition, DuPont Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA. Juror: Ken Little
Ekphrasis, Gallery VC, Fredericksburg, VA
2019 Invisible Self, Gallery VC
2019-2020 Studio Art Scholarship Recipients, Gallery VC
Annual Student Art Exhibition, DuPont Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA. Juror: Nate Larson
Nature, Gallery VC
Display Case, Simpson Library, Fredericksburg, VA
2018 Monochrome, Gallery VC
Figures, Gallery VC
Plein Air, LibertyTown Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
Annual Student Art Exhibition, DuPont Gallery. Juror: Carolyn Henne
2017 Annual Student Art Exhibition , DuPont Gallery. Juror: Hasan Elahi
Residencies & Collectives
2024 Torpedo Factory Post-Graduate Residency, Alexandria, VA
Sparkplug Collective Member, DC Arts Center, Washington DC
Grants & Awards
2024 Peters Valley School of Craft Lenore G. Tawney Fiber Scholarship
2022 Arrowmont School of Art & Craft Dr. Judith Temple Scholarship
North House Folk School Full Scholarship
2020 Undergraduate Research Grant
2019 Alfred Levitt Memorial Scholarship in Art
Emil R. Schnellock Award for Excellence in Painting
2018 Rosalie Chauncey Memorial Scholarship
Collections
“Meet the Queen”. ACE Oslo. Oslo, Norway. Acquired 2021.
Publications
Forthcoming: “Felted Memories: The Kyrgyz Art of Building Ancestral Relationships Beyond Utilitarian Necessity,” American Art sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fall 2024.
Ottawa Design Club: Renaissance, Zine 006, November 2023
Space on Space Magazine: COLLECT, August 2023
Ottowa Design Club: Collab, Zine 005, December 2022
Ottowa Design Club: Origins, Zine 004, June 2022
New American Paintings #148 South, April 2021
Curatorial Projects
2019 Exquisite Corpse, gallery202, Fredericksburg, VA
Interviews
2023 Featured Artist of February 2023, with Marchutz School of Drawing & Painting.
2022 Art Files: Samantha Van Heest, with Space on Space.
Samantha Van Heest: Artist & Art Educator, with Phosphene Studio.
Episode 1: Samantha Van Heest, with The Creatives Podcast.
Education
2016 - 2020 B.A. in Studio Art, Summa Cum Laude, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
2018 Marchutz School of Fine Arts, Study Abroad, Institut Américain Universitaire, Aix-en-Provence, France