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HomeHeidi Kumao2021-02-11T01:22:43-04:00
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The Farewell
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The Farewell

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

The Farewell

Heidi Kumao2021-02-12T15:23:39-04:00
The Hearing #2
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The Hearing #2

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

The Hearing #2

Heidi Kumao2021-02-12T15:24:13-04:00
Safe and Sound
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Safe and Sound

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Safe and Sound

Heidi Kumao2021-02-12T15:43:12-04:00
Surveillance Hill
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Surveillance Hill

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Surveillance Hill

Heidi Kumao2021-02-12T15:22:18-04:00
Salvage
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Salvage

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Salvage

Heidi Kumao2021-02-12T15:48:20-04:00
Ration
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Ration

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Ration

Heidi Kumao2020-10-13T22:48:08-04:00
Interference
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Interference

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Interference

Heidi Kumao2020-10-13T22:45:56-04:00
Expectations
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Expectations

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Expectations

Heidi Kumao2020-10-08T22:28:18-04:00
Safe and Secure
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Safe and Secure

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Safe and Secure

Heidi Kumao2020-09-18T23:48:37-04:00
Holding Pattern
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Holding Pattern

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Holding Pattern

Heidi Kumao2020-09-18T23:41:51-04:00
Gulf with Shield
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Gulf with Shield

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Gulf with Shield

Heidi Kumao2020-09-18T23:35:45-04:00
3 Hands
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3 Hands

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

3 Hands

Heidi Kumao2020-09-18T23:29:25-04:00
Recollection
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Recollection

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Recollection

Heidi Kumao2020-09-18T23:21:25-04:00
Poised
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Poised

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

Poised

Heidi Kumao2020-09-09T22:50:29-04:00
The Hearing, 2020
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The Hearing, 2020

Featured, Narrative Fabric Works

The Hearing, 2020

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About

Heidi Kumao creates video, machine art, and installations to explore ordinary social interactions and their psychological undercurrents. Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, her work demonstrates how small gestures, even the most private and poetic, can become political acts. Her work has been exhibited at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, San Jose Museum of Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires and numerous other venues worldwide. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital grant and others. She is a Professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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SOUND. The #neverending #task of #selfimprovement SOUND. The #neverending #task of #selfimprovement #stopmotion #animation #puppet #soap 
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#experimental #animation #experimentalanimation #experimentalfilm
#art #exhibition #postcards have all arrived! Show #art #exhibition #postcards have all arrived! Show opens March 30 in NYC. More info soon. DM if you want one mailed to you.
Couldn’t decide on 1, so I made 4 diff ones. 
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#contemporaryart #textilearts #Sewn #stitched #moderntextiles  #fabric #cutouts #soloexhibition
#Obama & #Merkel scaled down for size. Never let y #Obama & #Merkel scaled down for size. Never let your cat help you w art installation.
#exhibition #cards arrived! Show opens March 30. I #exhibition #cards arrived! Show opens March 30. I know it’s way old fashioned to make a card, but I love them! It’s nice to have something tangible!  I will mail some on request. Otherwise, they will be waiting for you at the gallery!
Planning out my #NYC show w/scale model #textilea Planning out my #NYC show w/scale model  #textileart #fabricart #freemotion #moderntextileart #narrativeart #contemporarytextileartist #sewnart #stitchedart
#snowdog #michigan at least someone loves all thi #snowdog #michigan  at least someone loves all this cold and fluff!
The #farewell: a piece for my father who passed in The #farewell: a piece for my father who passed in Sept. The whole piece. #cotton #fabric #cutouts #embroideryfloss on #felt #contemporarytextiles #contemporaryart #improvsewing #moderntextiles #drawingwithfabric #drawingwiththread
The #Farewell. A piece for my father who passed aw The #Farewell. A piece for my father who passed away in Sept. #cotton #cutouts on #felt #drawing #drawingwiththread #fabric #modernsewing #moderntextiles #contemporaryart #textilearts
#2020 in a #nutshell. #drawingwiththread #modernte #2020 in a #nutshell. #drawingwiththread #moderntextiles #chair #stitched #art on #felt #contemporarysewing #improvsewing
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News & Events

  • One minute gallery tour -Stamps Gallery
  • Solo exhibition: Real and Imagined, Sept15-Dec4,2020
  • “Gender, Bodies and Machines”
  • CICA exhibition catalog, South Korea, 2015
  • Films at ArtScape-Baltimore
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