Heather McLeod received her MFA from The New York Academy of Art in 2021 and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. In addition to her full-time painting practice, Heather has completed The Hale Artist Residency in Nantucket and The Kylemore Residency in New York. Her curriculum vitae includes a solo exhibition in New York City’s Trotter & Sholer Gallery as well as group exhibitions at NYC’s Sugarlift Gallery and Berlin’s BBA Gallery among others. In addition, she has received the prestigious Fulbright Research Grant in 2017 to study art in Italy and two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants. She was an AXA Art Prize finalist and received both The Leslie T. and Francis Posey Scholarship Fund and The Academic Service Scholar Award in 2020.