Heidi Barkun is a chronically ill and disabled transdisciplinary artist living in the Laurentians, Québec. She has a Master of Arts in Visual & Media Arts and Feminist Studies (UQAM, 2020), a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Concordia, 1999) and a Bachelor of Science (McGill, 1995). Her artworks have been shown in Canada, the United States, Europe and South America, and are included in the National Bank Collection and the Senvest Collection of Contemporary Canadian Art. Her projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Réseau québécois en études feminists (RéQEF). She has presented her research at academic conferences in Paris, New York, Aalborg, Vienna and Montreal. She is the 2020 laureate of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art.

Heidi's Bronfman fellowship exhibition and site-specific project, פרו ורבו (P’ru Ur’vu / Be Fruitful and Multiply), was presented at Projet Casa, Montreal in 2022. From 2020-2024, she was an artist-in-residence at the McConnell-Université de Montréal Research-Creation Chair on the Reappropriation of Maternity. The final exhibition, Les engendrements, was shown at Galerie de l’Université de Montréal from January to April 2024. The third presentation of her exhibition, LET’S GET YOU PREGNANT!, as well as the textile work Unnamed are currently at Centre d’art Jacques-et-Michel-Auger, Victoriaville until August 31, 2024, as part of the 11th Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporain (https://www.bnsc.ca).