HELOISA POMFRET 
 
Born: Sao Paulo, Brazil 
Artist lives and works in Detroit Michigan and New York City.

EDUCATION
2002  M.F.A. Painting/Drawing Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
1996  M.A. Painting/Drawing Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 

SOLO / GROUP SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Solo Exhibition, Glimpse, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
2023 Group Exhibition, The Shokado Garden and Art Museum, Kyoto Japan
2023  Group Exhibition, Curiosities, Annex Gallery at 333 Midland, Highland Park, MI
2022  Group Exhibition, Into the Open, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit MI
2021  Group Residency Exhibition (Pop Up), Mass POP, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2021  Group Exhibition, The District Detroit, Art Walk Series, N’Namdi Center for
Contemporary Art, Detroit MI
2020  Group Exhibition, Hello World, Virtual Travelogue of Art, Trans Cultural Exchange,
Boston MA
2019  Solo Exhibition, Language of Emotion, Glogauer Street Display Showcase, Berlin
Germany
2019  Group Exhibition, Spark, Annex Gallery at 333 Midland, Highland Park, MI
2019  Group Exhibition, I, too, am Detroit, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit MI
2019  Group Exhibition, High Fructose Corn Syrup, CalArts Gallery, Valencia CA
2018  Group Exhibition, Known: Unknown, New York Studio School, New York NY
2018  Solo Exhibition, Threshold, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit MI
2017  Group Exhibition, Art & Science, Taubman Medical Research Institute, Museum of
Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit MI
2017  Group Exhibition, Art Palm Beach, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Palm Beach FL
2016  Group Exhibition, Three Women in Abstract, Frederick Holmes and Company Gallery,
Seattle WA
2016  Group Exhibition, Four/Three, Frederick Holmes and Company Gallery, Seattle WA
2016  Group Exhibition, Art Palm Beach, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Palm Beach FL
2015  Group Exhibition, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami FL (in connection with Art
Basel--Miami Beach)
2015  Body and Mind, Group Exhibition, Sulfur Studios Gallery, Savannah GA
2015  Group Exhibition, Conversations, Associazione Culturale Civilta’del Mediteraneo,
Pallazo Bacile di Castiglione, Spongano Italy
2015  Solo Exhibition, The Body as a Reliquary, Port Washington Public Library, Port
Washington NY
2014  Group Exhibition, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami FL (in connection with Art
Basel--Miami Beach)
2014  Solo Exhibition, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami FL
2014  BAU Institute Group Show at the Castle, Otranto, Italy
2014  Exhibition at the Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey MI
2013  Constructions, Textural Collages by Nanette Carter, Addie Langford and
          Heloisa Pomfret, at the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit MI
2013  Exhibition, A.I.R VALLAURIS, Galerie Le Cabanon, Vallauris, France
2012  Inaugural Exhibition at the N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami FL
2012  CAMAC Group Exhibition, Marney-sur-Seine, France
2011  Gallery of the Arts, Madonna University, Livonia MI
2010  Kulturdag Schaftelokken Art Festival, Oslo, Norway
2009  ART Chicago Art Fair, G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago IL
2009  Visual Stimulus Exhibition, Technology Innovation Center, East Lansing MI
2008  Witness Group Exhibition, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York NY
2008  G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Summer Art Series Group Exhibition, The Hamptons NY
2008  The Last Book Exhibition curated by Luis Camnitzer, Madrid, Spain;  Zurich,
Switzerland;  Buenos Aires, Argentina;  New York NY
2008  ArtsModerne Exhibition, Le Petit Museum, Housatonic MA
2008  Violence Transformed, Massachusetts State Exhibit, Boston MA
2008  Gender Politics, WGS Biennial, Loranger Gallery, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit MI
2007  “More than 450 Women Have Been Murdered in Ciudad Juarez”, SAC Gallery Group
Exhibition,  Stony Brook University, NY
2007  Affordable Art Fair, New York NY
2007  Solo Exhibition, Witness of the Unconscious, APM Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007  Seven Voices, Seven Views, Group Exhibition, G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York NY
2007  Seven Voices, Seven Views, Group Exhibition, G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago IL
2006  Affordable Art Fair, New York NY
2006  Whitney Biennial, collaborative work at the Peace Tower, New York NY
2005  SOFA Show, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago IL
2005  Chelsea Pier Show, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York NY
2005  Sculp’t Something, Group Exhibition, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit MI

ARTIST LECTURES AND TALKS
2022 Anderson Ranch Artist Talks, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village CO
2019 GlogauAIR Artist Talks, GlogauAIR Gallery, Berlin Germany
2019 Spark, Annex Gallery at 333 Midland, Highland Park, MI
2018 Threshold, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit MI
2016  Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
2015 Group Exhibition, Conversations, Spongano Italy
2015 The Body as a Reliquary, Port Washington NY
2014  BAU Institute Talk at the Castle, Otranto, Italy
2013  Constructions, Textural Collages at the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art,
Detroit MI

RESIDENCIES
2023  Virginia Center for Creative Studies, Le Moulin a Nef, Auvillar, France
2022  Virginia Center for Creative Studies, Amherst VA
2022  Anderson Ranch Artist-in-Residence, Snowmass Village CO
2021  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) Artist-in-Residence,
North Adams MA
2019  GlogauAIR Art Residency, Berlin Germany
2019  CalArts Summer Art Residency, Valencia CA
2018  Cortex Frontal, Arraiolos Portugal
2017  Draw International, Caylus France
2016  Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
2015  American Academy of Rome, Rome Italy
2015  Associazione Culturale Civilta’del Mediteraneo, Spongano Italy
2014  BAU Institute, Otranto, Italy
2013  A.I.R. VALLAURIS, Vallauris, France
2012  CAMAC Residency Program, Marney-sur-Seine, France

PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGUES
2019  Catalogue for Open Studios, GlogauAIR Art Residency, Berlin Germany
2018  Detroit Art Review.com, Threshold Exhibition Review
2015  Pinacoteca of the Sao Paulo Association of Medicine
2015  Port Washington News article on “The Body as a Reliquary”
2012  Pinacoteca of the Sao Paulo Association of Medicine
2007  The Brasilians
2005  The Detroiter.com

COLLECTIONS
A.I.R. VALLAURIS Collection, Vallauris, France
APM Gallery Collection, Sao Paulo, Brazil
CAMAC Collection, Marney-sur-Seine, France

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
2018  The Body as a Reliquary, Experimental Printmaking Workshop with Clay,
Arraiolos Portugal