Heather Rowe's constructions and work lie at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, and installation. Her work engages with space, memory, and how our bodies experience the built world, both physically and psychologically. Rowe is interested in mining space and architecture through familiar building materials, mirrors, ideas of modernism and the history of decoration, often conflated with narrative or filmic references. Her work expresses a notion of fragility—one that presents a personal negotiation with implied danger or a heightened sense of theatrical threat.
Rowe received her MFA from Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, including MoMA PS1, Socrates Sculpture Park, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery, White Columns, and Artists Space, all in New York; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa Oklahoma; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Galerie Zink, Berlin; Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles; and Ballroom Marfa, Texas. In 2008 she was featured in the Whitney Biennial.