Bio
A native of Washington, D.C., award winning lens-based artist Amy Heller has been coming to Provincetown every summer since she was a child, walking and combing the beaches with her mother. Amy earned her BA in fine art at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and her MFA in photography at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has been an exhibit specialist for the Smithsonian Museums and the National Gallery of Art, and a photo editor/researcher/curator for U.S. News & World Report, National Geographic, Microsoft, and the Newseum in Washington, D.C. She lives year-round on Cape Cod with her husband.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in collections both here and abroad. This includes: the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, the Dimock Gallery at The George Washington University, and many private collections.
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BOOK
"Lost and Found: Time, Tide, and Treasures" By Amy Heller & Gail Browne, Schiffer Publishing
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COLLECTIONS
Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA)
Provincetown Art Association and Museum (MA)
Ritz-Carlton (DC)
The George Washington University (DC)
Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery (DC)
AWARDS
22nd & 26th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Award (Spain)
Maine Photographic Workshop Print Competition (ME)
Exposure One Awards "Photographer of the Year" contest (International)
University Fellow, The George Washington University (DC)
David Lloyd Kreeger Award for Photography, The George Washington University (DC)
The Daniel Smith Award Lafayette Art Association (LA)
Teravarna Gallery Finalist Awards “10th Flower” & “Winter Trees” series (CA)
Teravarna Gallery International Art Competition Talent Prize (CA)
Visitors’ Award “she” exhibition, A Smith Gallery (TX)
Analog Sparks International Film Photography Bronze Award (International)
Award of Excellence Dockside Art Review of Tidewater (VA)
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022: "Out of the Blue" Provincetown Art Association and Museum (MA)
2021: "Lost and Found: Time, Tide, and Treasures" Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA)
2014: "Form: Still + Motion" Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA)
2012: Cultural Center of Cape Cod (MA)
2010, 2012 & 2014: Schoolhouse Gallery (MA)
2008: Esmond-Wright Gallery “Brown + Black + Blue” (MA)
2000 - 2001: Passions Gallery (MA)
1997: Kathleen Dwyer Gallery (MA)
1996: Hampshire College (MA)
1993: Mansion Art Gallery (MD)
1993: Wohlfarth Galleries (DC)
1992: 1521 Gallery (PA)
1991 - 1992: Rising Sun (MA)
1989 - 2006: Provincetown (MA)
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025: Chateau Gallery "Lucid - In Dreams" (KY)
2025: SE Center for Photography “Masks” exhibition (SC)
2025: International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum “Vision and Viewpoint” exhibition (MO)
2025: A Smith Gallery “celebrations” 15th anniversary exhibition (TX)
2025: LoosenArt "A Scientific Approach: Visual Documents and Creative Investigation Methods" International Exhibition (Rome, Italy)
2025: Women’s Photo Alliance “Women’s History Month” (NYC)
2025: “Baring It All” Art Fluent (MA)
2025: "Open Call: Hidden Beauty", Lucie Foundation, Finalist in B/W category (CA)
2025: “The Language of Abstraction” exhibition, Conversations With Artists (CA)
2025: “she” exhibition, A Smith Gallery (TX)
2025: “art + science” exhibition, A Smith Gallery (TX)
2025: “Expo 44” exhibition, BJ Spoke Gallery (NY)
2024 & 2025: PAAM Members’ 12 x 12 Exhibition and Silent Auction (MA)
2024: “M Body 2” Movimento Project Dance Company (MA)
2024: “La Femme! – Framing the Feminine” exhibition, Photo Artfolio (MA)
2024: “Representation vs. Abstraction 2024” exhibition finalist, Blue Space Gallery (International)
2024: “New Wave” exhibition, Aedra Fine Arts (GA)
2024: 30th Annual Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography (MA)
2024: “Becoming: The Feminist Image” Photo SC (SC)
2024: Juried Photography Exhibition, Falmouth Art Center (MA)
2024: Members’ Exhibition Provincetown Art Association and Museum (MA)
2024: "Second Time Around" Jamestown Art Center (RI)
2024: "Animalia" Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA)
2024: "Familial" Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA)
2024: "Sketchy" Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA)
2023: "Pixels" Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA)
2022: "Motion" Art Fluent (MA)
2020 - 2025 World Cyanotype Day, AlternativePhotography.com (International)
2022 - 2025 Cape Cod Museum of Art Annual Gala Silent Auction (MA)
2019: "Bon Appetit" Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA)
2018: "Botanicals Reinterpreted" South Shore Arts Center (MA)
2018: "Sensory Overload" Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA)
2017: "31 Bodhisattvas" Miller White Fine Arts (MA)
2017: "Conversations of Beauty" Highfield Hall (MA)
2017: "Personal Space" Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA)
2017: “Into the Fire” Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA)
2016: "Saving Gaia" Miller White Fine Arts (MA)
2016: Printmakers of Cape Cod, Brewster Ladies' Library (MA)
2016: Printmakers of Cape Cod, Creative Arts Center, Chatham (MA)
2016: "Balancing Act" Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA)
2016: "Holiday Invitational" Miller-White Fine Arts (MA)
2016: "Chairs, Windows, and Doors” Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA)
2015: “Exposure: Beneath the Layers” Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA)
2015: “Piece by Piece II” Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA)
2015: “Opposites Attract” Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA)
2015: Cultural Center of Cape Cod (MA)
2014: “Deck the Walls: Provincetown Currents” Snow Library (MA)
2014: Miller-White Fine Arts (MA)
2014: Tao Water Gallery (MA)
2014: Higgins Gallery, Cape Cod Community College (MA)
2014: "Heavenly Bodies" Cultural Center of Cape Cod (MA)
2014: Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA)
2009 - 2014: The Schoolhouse Gallery (MA)
2008: "Studio Show" Provincetown Art Association and Museum (MA)
2008: Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill (MA)
2007 - 2009: Esmond-Wright Gallery (MA)
2006: South Shore Art Center (MA)
2005 - 2006: Gail Browne Gallery, Provincetown (MA)
2004 - 2011: Schoolhouse Gallery, Spring Competition (MA)
2004: Clem & Ursie’s (MA)
1994: The New Pictorialists (DC)
1992: Society for Photographic Education (PA)
1992: The Atheneum (VA)
1992: Focal Point Gallery (NY)
1992: Dockside Art Review of Tidewater (VA)
1992: Lafayette Art Association (LA)
1992: Lake Worth Art League, Inc. (FL)
1992: Museum Without Walls International (NY)
1992: Photowork '92 (FL)
1992: Photo National 1 (MI)
1992: Women's Diverse Reflections Emporia State University (KS)
1991: The Light Factory (NC)
1991: Montana Institute of The Arts (MT)
1991: The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts (PA)
1991: Tartt Gallery (DC)
1991: Celebrate the Arts '91, Gaithersburg (MD)
1991: M.F.A. Thesis Show, Dimock Gallery, The George Washington University (DC)
1991: The Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis (MD)
1991 - 1992: James Madison University, New Image Gallery (VA)
1991 - 1992: Rockville Arts Place (MD)
1990 - 1992: Perkins Center for the Arts (NJ)
1990 - 1991: Northern Virginia Photography Exhibition (VA)
1990 - 1991: Hill Country Art Federation '90 (TX)
1990: Hampshire College 20th Anniversary Exhibition (MA)
1990: National Exposures '90 (NC)
1990: Artscape '90 Baltimore (MD)
1990: Viridian Gallery (NYC)
1990: Abington Arts Center (PA)
1989 - 1994: Washington Center for Photography (DC)
1989 - 1991: Blatent Image, Silver Eye (PA)
1989 - 1990: Illuminance, Lubbock Fine Arts Center (TX)
1989 - l992: Montgomery College Annual Faculty Exhibition (MD)
1988 - 1992: Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival (PA)
1988 - 1989: LaGrange College, LaMar Dodd Arts Center (GA)
1988 &1990: Three Rivers Art Festival (PA)
1988: Kathleen Ewing Gallery (DC)
1986 - 2014: Provincetown Art Association and Museum (MA)
1986 - 1990: The George Washington University Annual Show, Dimock Gallery (DC)
1985 - 1993: Strathmore Hall (MD)
PUBLICATIONS
2025: Darkrooms Magazine's Spotlight #2 Issue
2025: F-Stop Magazine “Open Theme” 2025 Issue
2025: Dodho Magazine “See the Unseen: Amy Heller’s Time/Motion Study Multiples Explained” (Spain)
2025: Artdoc Photography Magazine, Meditative Lens, “Monochrome Silence” exhibition
2025: "The 27," a limited edition hardbound art book of the exhibition “art + science” A Smith Gallery (TX)
2025: "The 27," a limited edition hardbound art book of the exhibition “she” A Smith Gallery (TX)
2025: Tribute to Sir John Herschel Journal, AlternativePhotography.com (International)
2025: Alternative Photography.com’s 25th anniversary book “Art and Artists, Edition 2” (International)
2025: Gelatin Magazine, Issue #10 (FL)
2025: Dek Unu Magazine January solo featured artist for Time/Motion Study Multiples (FL)
2025: All About Photo feature of “Winter Trees”series (CA)
2024: All About Photo Magazine “Rising Photographers” article (CA)
2024: All About Photo Featured Artist (CA)
2024: All About Photo Magazine, Women Issue (CA)
2024: “Pure Inspiration #1” by Malin Fabbri, Alternative Photography book (International)
2024: Canvas Rebel Magazine Feature (CA)
2024: Featured in Turboélice Photografia Experimental Magazine (Brazil)
2024: AlternativePhotography.com (International)
2024: Bold Journey (CA)
2024: The Hand Magazine (KS)
2024: Cape Cod Chronicle Newspaper (MA)
2024: LensCulture (International)
2023: Photo Trouvee Magazine (International)
2023: Arts Barnstable Creative Spotlight (MA)
2023: Cape Cod Art (MA)
2023: The Hand Magazine (KS)
2023: Canvas Rebel (CA)
2022: Washington Post (DC)
2022: Boston Globe (MA)
2022: What Will You Remember? (MA)
2021 & 2023: Provincetown Arts (MA)
2021 & 2022: Provincetown Independent (MA)
2020 - 2025: World Cyanotype Day (International)
2014: “Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: People and Places” by Deborah Forman (MA)
2014: Provincetown Banner newspaper interview (MA)
2008: Provincetown Arts Magazine Article on Provincetown Art Association and Museum
“Studio Show” (MA)
2008: The Cape Cod View Magazine Article on Provincetown Art Association and
Museum “Studio Show” (MA)
2008: Boston Globe Article on Provincetown Art Association and Museum “Studio Show”
(MA)
2005 - 2025: Provincetown Jazz Festival Logo (MA)
2005: “Incredible Eyes” Café Andre publications (CA)
2004: Hewlett-Packard Photo Online Competition (TX)
1997: ZAVTONE Magazine (Japan)
1993: Book of Days, Calendar (TX)
1992: Viewfinder, Focal Point Press (NY)
1990: Photographer's Forum Magazine May & September Issues (USA)
1989: The Photo Review (PA)
1988 - 1990: Photographer's Forum Magazine "The Best of College Photography” (USA)
1988: Artists' Liaison (International)
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2010: Provincetown Art Association and Museum Gala Centerpiece (MA)
1994: Washington Center for Photography, Fine Print Program (DC)
MEMBERSHIPS
American Society of Picture Professionals
Orleans Cultural Council
Orleans Community Partnership
Snow Library, Craine Gallery Exhibition Committee
Art Synergies
EXHIBITION JUROR
2016: Arts Foundation of Cape Cod (AFCC) “Balancing Act” (MA)
2015: Arts Foundation of Cape Cod (AFCC) “Opposites Attract” (MA)
2008: C-scape Dune Shack (Provincetown, MA)
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TEACHING
The George Washington University (DC)
Montgomery College (MD)
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill (MA)