Heidi Brueckner
Heidi Brueckner is a Professor of Art at West Valley College in Saratoga, CA where she has taught painting, drawing, and design for over 20 years. Brueckner received a BA in Fine Art and a BA in Art History from University of California, Santa Cruz in 1991. She received an MFA in Painting from University of Kansas in 1997.
Brueckner won 12 first place awards among others in 2020-2021, which included the Italian International Prisma Art Prize and the Faber Birren Color Award. During the last few years, she has also participated in over 100 juried group shows and has had 13 solo or small group exhibitions. She was also a finalist for the 2022 7th Edition Boynes Emerging Artist Award. Her work has been written about in publications and online art sources such as Art Seen Magazine, All She Makes Magazine, Visionary Art Collective, Create! Magazine, The Huts Magazine, ILikeYourWorkPodcast.com, GearBoxGallery.com, 48 Hills News, NotRealArt.com, and The Pacific Sun.
Recent 2022 solo shows include Buckham Gallery in Flint, MI; Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, PA; Gearbox Gallery in Oakland, CA; East Central College Art Gallery in Union, MO; O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA (4 person); and Women United Art Movement, Online. Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2023 24 include Crossing Arts Alliance in Brainerd, MN; Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY; Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick, MD; Grants Pass Museum of Art in Grants Pass, OR; Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac, WI; and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, LA.
She currently lives and works in Oakland, California.
