Heidi Kenyon has been awarded the 2012 MF & MH Joyner Scholarship in Fine Arts and is currently undertaking a Masters by Research at the University of South Australia. In 2007 Kenyon graduated with First Class Honours (Bachelor of Visual Arts) from the South Australian School of Art. Her Honours work featured in the premiere edition of the national Art Magazine, Art World, and recently she was selected for a survey publication of emerging contemporary art practice in South Australia, FELTspace GOLD (2011).
She has received a number of commendations for her work, including Highly Commended for Sculpture at Scenic World (2012), the MF & MH Joyner Scholarship (2012), the Ruth Tuck Scholarship (2010), the Wilson HTM National Art Prize Encouragement Award (2009), the Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture and Installation Prize (2008), and the People's Choice Award at the Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition (2008).
Solo exhibitions include Of Things Past, at Seedling Art Space, Adelaide (2010), the air finds it hard to breathe at FELTspace, Adelaide (2009), and After you’ve gone at the Project Space, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (2008). Significant group shows include Los Minutos, Lugar a Dudas, Colombia (2011), Show seventeen, Shift Gallery, London (2010), and the Hatched National Graduate Show, Perth (2008).
Recently Kenyon has pursued a cross-disciplinary approach to her process of ‘making’: internationally in a UK residency and workshops in the USA, and locally in collaborative works with glass artist Kristel Britcher. In 2010 Kenyon worked collaboratively with 17 artists as part of the Supernormal festival (UK), investigating the power of arts practice to reshape and reinvigorate the public sphere through collective action.