About
Claire Heidinger (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian visual artist born in Toronto, now living and working in Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from OCAD University (2021), and is an MFA candidate at Pratt Institute (2025). Claire’s practice is motivated by familial and cultural sentimentality, history, and memory. She uses the transposition of media in ceramics and expanded painting to understand the loss of culture and history in migrant bodies.
Claire has exhibited in Toronto, New York and Florence, Italy, and has held residencies with the Doris McCarthy Gallery and University Arts London/OCADU. She has been awarded by the Ontario Council of Arts (2022), Canada Council for the Arts (2023), Leslie T. and Francis Posey Scholarship (2024), Pratt Graduate Student Engagement Fund (2024), and published in UCLA’s Gidra Magazine (2020) and with the Doris McCarthy Gallery (2023). Claire is a co-founder of Common Collective Arts, Weaponeyesasian, and With Friends Like These.
For more of her work and process, visit Claire Heidinger @notyourclaire on instagram.
Claire is also the co-founder of Common Collective Arts, a IBPOC collective working to assist emerging and up-coming artists. Learn more here
