Heather Bhandari (she/her) is known for her work as a curator, writer, educator, and artist advocate. Prior to joining Foundation for Contemporary Arts as Program Director, she co-founded CreativeStudy, a business and financial health education platform for creatives. She is a trustee of Art Omi, a visiting critic at RISD, and an adjunct lecturer at Brown University. She is co-author of ART/WORK (Simon & Schuster, 2017), which will appear in its 26th printing this fall.
From 2000 to 2016 Heather was a director of Mixed Greens gallery where she curated over 100 exhibitions and managed a roster of two-dozen emerging to mid-career artists. Subsequently, she was the Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn and a lead organizer of Forward Union. Her career began at Sonnabend and Lehmann Maupin galleries. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University.
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