Heather Day

Heather Day grew up in Hawaii and along the East Coast of the United States.[3][4] She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting.[5] Following graduation, she moved to San Francisco to expand her studio practice.[6][7] Early in her career and after her graduation, she was outspoken about her use of social media for the promotion of the arts which was not common at that time.[5]

Day considers her work a form of visual storytelling, where each painting acts as a page to a larger story about “risk and comfort.”[8] Citing the lines and textures of nature, travel, music and the depth of the color blue as her main sources of inspiration, Day works primarily with paint and non-traditional materials on canvas. She also works in both interior and exterior murals[9] and experimental sculpture. Day painted a commissioned mural at the Dropbox office in Seattle, conveying movement and creating her own canvas by painting over existing design elements such as a moose head sculpture.[10]

Aside from working with traditional painting materials, Day used her process to create the world's first augmented reality art for Facebook Camera in collaboration with Facebook's Applied Machine Learning group.[11]

Using her social media platform as a vehicle for community discussion, Day addresses feminism, current political events and their impacts on the community, and entrepreneurship.[12]

Together with product manager Michelle Wei, Day co-founded a culinary-art startup company called Studio Table.[13][14] Studio Table started in Day’s studio space in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.[14]

Her work is included in the collection of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

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