Victoria Heilweil

Victoria Mara Heilweil is a nationally exhibited photographic artist, curator and educator. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts in 1995. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Intersection for the Arts, Southern Exposure, RayKo Photo Center and Root Division in San Francisco, BC Space Gallery and the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum in Southern California, the Minneapolis Photo Center, Perspective Fine Art in Evanston, IL, the Visual Arts Center in Portsmouth, VA and the Washington Square Art Galleries in New York City.  In October 2013 Victoria had two solo exhibitions at the California State University Chico Art Gallery, and wall space gallery in Santa Barbara, CA. Â

Victoria is a founding member of MicroClimate Collective, an artist created curatorial project, which has produced ten exhibitions over the past five years. She is also an independent curator, whose recent exhibition, Edible Ephemera, examined the fleeting temporal nature of food through artworks utilizing transmutation to create a more permanent state. The exhibition was held at Root Division in San Francisco during the month of April, 2013.

In addition to her exhibition and curatorial history, Victoria has taught kids and adults for the past 18 years at colleges and community centers.