Heidi Preuss Grew Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1970 -

Preuss Grew was born in 1970 in Illinois and raised by a German immigrant in the west Chicago suburb of Elmhurst. She earned three degrees from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, including BA and BFA degrees in Art History, Germanic Languages and Literature, and Crafts. In 1991-1992, a pivotal study abroad year in Marburg, Germany enriched her understanding of the culture that deeply informed her early years. She completed her MFA in 1997 at Ohio University in Athens and moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1999.

Heidi Preuss Grew has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Asia, and Europe. She is a recipient of a 2010 Oregon Arts Commission Artist Fellowship (also in 2002) and was honored in 2007 with election into the International Academy of Ceramics. Her work won First Prize in the 2013 International Ceramics Biennial in Aveiro, Portugal. She has participated in international symposia, residencies, and exchanges in the USA, Lithuania, Japan, Denmark, Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic and has presented lectures and workshops widely.