Greg Heins
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I
Greg Heins began photography in New York City after graduating from Cornell University with a degree in English literature. Since 1973, he has lived in Boston.
He has held one-person exhibitions at Gallery Kayafas in Boston in 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2023, and is currently represented by Robert Klein Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston.
His work has been included in significant group exhibitions, including A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley at the Davis Museum of Wellesley College and Contemplating the View: American Landscape Photography at the Addison Gallery of American Art.
His photographs are held in the collections of the Smith College Museum of Art, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Colby College Museum of Art, the Davis Museum of Wellesley College, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
He is interested in the look of things. His photographs arise from an attentiveness to formal qualities and visual relationships, and from a desire to transform those perceptions into works of art. The realization of these perceptions in print form remains central to his fascination with photography.
Each photograph responds to the successes or failures of those that came before. The process is inherently visual. While the artistic impulse may be shaped by age and loss, anger and regret, or by a need for play and freedom, the statement ultimately resides in the photographs themselves.