b. Mission Viejo, CA 1984
| CJ Heyliger lives and works in San Diego, California. He is a graduate of UCLA's MFA program in photography after having completed his BFA at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2006, where he was taught by fellow gallery artist Frank Gohlke. Heyliger's work is attentive to the legacy of the landscape, both painted and photographed, in art history as well as to the deeply technical and trial-based aspects of producing work via analog film. Sustained interest in New Topographics artists serves as a point of departure for Heyliger's practice as he re-negotiates the degree of inter-subjectivity between himself and the landscape. Some of his photographs, as he states, are "highly descriptive," while his multiple-exposure photographs of mountain ridges, valleys and desert environments foreground the problems of any single image's veracity. |
Education
| 2015 | MFA in Fine Art at University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | BFA in Photography at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston MA |
Exhibitions
| 2022 | VVVVVVVVVVVVV, Gallery Luisotti, LosAngeles, CA |
| Under the Sun and the Moon. Humble Arts Foundation. New York, NY | |
| Golden Hour: California Photography from LACMA. Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2021 | VVVVVVVVVVVV Viewing Room, Gallery Luisotti, LosAngeles, CA |
| Golden Hour: California Photography from LACMA. Museum of Art and History. Lancaster, CA | |
| Golden Hour: California Photography from LACMA. Riverside Art Museum. Riverside, CA | |
| Ansel Adams in Our Time. Portland Museum of Art. Portland, OR | |
| 2020 | Ansel Adams In Our Time, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Bentonville, AR (forthcoming) |
| Four Artists, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA | |
| reCONNECTION, Lunder Arts Center, Cambridge, MA | |
| 2018 | Ansel Adams In Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| In Case You Missed It, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Binary / Non-Binary, GESTE, Paris, France | |
| SWAMP THING, Space Gallery, Portland, ME | |
| 2016 | Boundless: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA |
| The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH | |
| Lux: the Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2015 | Dead West, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA |
| Other Stars, Norton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| INTRODUCING!, Paris Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Hell Mirage, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2014 | MFA Preview Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2013 | All Visual Boston, Spectacle, Boston, MA |
| 2012 | 30 under 30, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA |
| SWAMP THING, Bodega, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2011 | Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA |
Publications
| 2022 | VVVVVVVVVVVVV V.2 – Sun System Press |
| 2021 | VVVVVVVVVVVVV – Sun System Press |
| 2018 | 27 L.A. Photographers – LACMA Collator |
| 2016 | The Sun Placed in the Abyss – Columbus Museum of Art |
| 2016 | Boundless: A California Invitational |
| 2016 | The Sun Placed in the Abyss |
| 2015 | Esquire Magazine (Russian Edition) |
| 2015 | Self Publish, Be Happy |
| 2014 | Unless You Will – Issue 30 |
| 2013 | Phases Magazine |
| 2013 | Ain't Bad Magazine |
| 2013 | CANOPY: Sun System Press |
| 2012 | Pyramid Geometry: Sun System Press |
| 2011 | Dream of Pines: Sun System Press |
Collections
Capital Group Corporate Collection
JP Morgan Collection, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston