Heather Huston

Associate Professor, Print Media

Heather Huston's print-based work explores the body in dialogue with chronic illness. She has had several solo exhibitions within Canada and internationally including Dream City, Dreams in Belgrade, and Shift at SNAP Gallery in Edmonton.

She has exhibited widely in international group exhibitions that include the upcoming Border-line(s) at Atelier Ghostbirds in Portugal, Transfigure at Fifteenfourteen Gallery in New Mexico, and Disability Visibility at the 2024 SGCI conference at RISD. She recently won Best in Show at the Five Points Arts 2026 Printmaking Exhibition. Her work is in the collection of over fifteen major institutions including the Fogg Art Museum, Purdue University Galleries, and the City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection.

Portrait of mixed-media artist Heather Huston wearing glasses and a black-and-gold patterned jacket.

Time Collapse by Heather Huston, an abstract woven-paper artwork with pale blue overlapping figures and layered white strips.

While much of our knowledge of illness is framed through the biomedical context, my work centers affect and the performance of daily life as significant sites of meaning for understanding chronic illness. My own experiences with autoimmune disorders have served as a catalyst for creating works that explore and deepen our understanding of life lived with illness.