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Heather Bursch

Heather Bursch lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2008. In 2009, she attended Skowhegan and was awarded a MacDowell fellowship. She was a Whitney Independent Study Program fellow in 2011.

Her video/installation work explores specific cultural narratives in contemporary American media.

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"Heather Bursch." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/heather-bursch.

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Heather Bursch is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York; she received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2008. In 2009 she attended Skowhegan and was awarded a MacDowell fellowship; she was a Whitney Independent Study Program fellow in 2011; her video and installation work explores specific cultural narratives in contemporary American media.

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