Heather Sincavage

Heather Sincavage is an artist, curator, and educator.  Her practice utilizes performance art where her expertise centers on building a sustainable performance practice around social justice causes.  She uses her own experiences with intimate partner violence as a case study analyzing what it is to live after trauma. 

Her work has been screened in the Tate Modern and projected onto the historic Daniels and Fisher bell tower in downtown Denver, CO, amongst other locations across Europe. She has performed at the Queens Museum and Grace Exhibition Space in NYC; Tempting Failure Festival of Performance Art & Noise in London, Alive at Satellite during Miami Art Basel; Latvian Center for Performance Art in Riga; and galleries across the United States. She has exhibited in over 40 solo and group exhibitions across the United States and in Germany, Sweden, Spain, Finland, and Iceland. 

Originally from Southeastern Pennsylvania, she received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and her MFA from School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She is an alumna of The Vermont Studio Center as well as numerous other residencies and fellowships in the United States and throughout Europe. Her work has been published in Surface Design Journal and the 2022 publication “An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art: SELF/S” by Dr. T.J. Bacon for the University of Chicago Press.