Heather Bhandari

Heather BhandariHeather BhandariHeather Bhandari

Co-Founder of CreativeStudy

Co-Author of Art/Work

Curator, Advocate, Collaborator 


Heather Bhandari

Heather BhandariHeather BhandariHeather Bhandari

Co-Founder of CreativeStudy

Co-Author of Art/Work

Curator, Advocate, Collaborator 


Heather Bhandari (she/her) is the Co-Founder of CreativeStudy (formerly  named Art World Learning): a subscription-based, online education platform to help those in the creative sector thrive by making intelligent business and financial decisions. It grew from a business and financial health conference for visual artists, named Art World Conference (AWC), which debuted in NYC in April of 2019, Los Angeles in February of 2020, and online in October of 2020 and the summer of 2021. 

Bhandari is also an independent curator; a co-founder of the project-based curatorial team and podcast, The Remix; and an adjunct lecturer at Brown University where she teaches professional practice to visual arts majors. The second edition of her book, ART/WORK, was published by Simon and Schuster in October of 2017.  Now in its fourteenth printing, the text is used by colleges and universities across the country and has translations in Korean and Russian.


Bhandari is on the board of trustees of  Art Omi (an artist residency in Ghent, NY) and the School of Visual Arts Alumni Board at Penn State. She was on the board of NURTUREart and the advisory council of Trestle Gallery for nearly a decade.

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From 2000 to 2016 she was a director of Mixed Greens, a commercial gallery in Chelsea where she curated well over one hundred exhibitions while managing a roster of nearly two-dozen emerging to mid-career artists. Most recently, she was the Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon, a nonprofit in Brooklyn. 


Recent curatorial projects include a solo exhibition of Keith Lemley’s work at Urban Glass in Brooklyn (pictured left) and the group exhibition, Fertile Ground (pictured above), at the David Winton Bell Gallery in Providence, RI, that included work by Maria Berrio, Zoë Charlton, and Joiri Minaya. 

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She and her AWC co-organizer, Dexter Wimberly, were listed in the Observer's "Arts Power 50: Changemakers Shaping the Art World in 2019." 


Bhandari received a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University where she recently received  their College of Arts and Architecture Distinguished Alumni Award. Her career began at contemporary galleries Sonnabend and Lehmann Maupin, both in New York City. 

Reading & Listening

Recent Interviews

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The Art Elevator w/ Larissa Wild (summer 2022)


Flatfile  with Spark Box Studios (summer 2022)

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Most Recent AWL Press

Juxtapoz

LA Times


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Artnet News

Hyperallergic Interview

Beyond The Studio Interview

Forbes

Art Forum

NYFA Current

Other Podcasts

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Revolution for the Family: Heather Bhandari and Nikki Columbus on Pandemic Parenting, art, and Activism

Movers. Shakers. Designers. Makers. Episode 12 

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What They Don't Teach You in Art School In A Book

In A New Book, 140 Experts Weigh In on What It Takes to Succeed As an Artist


What's Driving Artists To Become More Professional?

Other Things To Read

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Other Things To Read

Frank Talk: Heather Darcy Bhandari


When The Art Gallery Closes, A Conversation With Heather Darcy Bhandari, Curator at Mixed Greens

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(Image: Summer Wheat's "Inside The Garden" at Smack Mellon)

Contact

You can get in touch through social below or email: 

heather (at) creativestudy.com


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