Biography

Heidi Mortensen is a mixed media sculptor originally from Honolulu, Hawai’i. She investigates themes of loss, connection to place, and memory through work combining materials as varied as glass, metal, plaster, resin, fabric, thread, found and personal objects. 

Mortensen received an MFA in the Sculpture Dimensional Studies Program at Alfred University, New York and BFA in Sculpture from the University of Hawai’i. In between these two degrees she pursued atelier training in figure sculpting at the Barcelona Academy of Art to deepen her understanding of the architecture of the human body.  

Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions, was awarded first place at Slice, A Juried Cross-Section of Regional Art by Pence Gallery (Davis CA), and in 2025 will be shown in a solo exhibition at Urban Glass (Brooklyn, NY). In 2024 she recieved a fellowship to the Cite Inernational des Arts residency in Paris, France. Mortensen currently resides in New Orleans and has work in private collections in San Francisco, New York, and Honolulu.