Whether I work in painting, writing, performance, textiles or film my work explores ways of approaching the space of creativity as a site for productive encounter and as communication. As an artist I use different voices inspired by the liminal spaces between memory, imagination and place. My work paints pictures of creativity, vulnerability and connection in the digital age.
2018 - 2020 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
2017 - 2018 Foundation Year in Fine Art, Frank Bowling Scholarship, Hampstead School of Art
2002 - 2008 BA and MA, University of Helsinki, Craft Science and Educational Sciences
2007 Study exchange in MA Art Education at Aalto University of Art and Design, Helsinki
Exhibitions and Performances
10/2025 One by One performance, Voiced, the Festival for Endangered Languages, Barbican Centre
9/2025 One by One performance, Samsung Showroom KX, London
9/2025 One by One, Instagram performance @heinimariaking
5/2025 Echoes from a Forest, solo exhibition, BOTH Gallery, London
3/2025 One Kilburn Community Fund Projects Exhibition, Kilburn Library & Kiln Theatre, London
11/2024 ING Decerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
5/2024 Drawing as an Expanded Research Method, “Cocoon”, Royal Collage of Art/ White City
5/2024 Documentary film screening: “I Want You To Imagine” Conference Centre Gallery, St Pancras Hospital
11/2023 LIFE ROOM, The Koppel Project Station
10/2022 Summer and Celebration, The Koppel Project Station
8/2022. Open Studios, The Koppel Project Station
7/2022 Jermyn Street Jubilee Fete, Jubilee Pop-up Painting workshop
6/2022 Give Hope! Ukraine Charity Auction, Peggy Jay Gallery, London
3/2022 take me with you - hybrid school, ENSAV La Cambre Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2/2022 Take me with you, Part 2, Koppel Project Hive, London
2/2022 Back to Space @heinimariaking, a performative 7-day exhibition on Instagram
1-2/2022 Back to Space, facilitating a peer support group for artists, Thenga Cafe, London
9/2021 FINALLY, Group exhibition, Ugly Ducks Gallery, London
8/2021 Mayfair Art weekend: “Pop-up painting in the West End”/ Workshop facilitation & exhibition
6/2021 Sketches and anecdotes from the studio 21-25 July @heinimariaking, Instagram exhibition
6/2021 Meet Me By the Tree, Oriel place, London
5/2021 By the window, work by Heini King and Arabee Beveridge, 551-557 Finchley Rd, London
1/2021 Instantaneous exhibition, January 9 -19 2021, @heinimariaking, @arabee.beveridge.artist and @aplpip_arts
12/2020-4/2021 New Futures Digital: CSM Focus Kovet.Art, online exhibition,
https://www.kovet.art/the-art-vault
10/2020 Together alone 51°33'54.8"N 0°10'04.6"W / 51.565226, -0.167940, bern69, Hapmstead
9/2020-10/2020 London Grads Now –Moving Away Moving Closer, Saatchi Gallery
9/2020 Channel Digital performance by Sian Fan X Social Convention
3/2020 Becomings APT Gallery, London
2/2020 The Big Space, The Street, Central Saint Martins Granary Building
1/2020 SALE, Tate Exchange, TATE Modern
12/2019 Conversations in Migration, Health and Art, Leaves of Absence Gallery, London
11/2019-1/2020 Gail’s bakeries window displays, London
11/2019 Colours of Pain, Imperial College London, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication Gallery
10/2019 Postgraduate Art Auction, Lethaby Gallery, London
10/2019 Migrant Health and Art workshop, Rich Mix, London
8/2019 Carnival of Contemplation, Dalston, London
2/2019 We are here we are, Apiary Studios, London
1/2019 Come Together, Tate Exchange, TATE Modern
7/2018 Hampstead Art Festival, London
2009-2010 Intervention Gallery, Kensal Green cemetery, London
Talks
5/2025 Parallel Play at Interdiciplinary Drawing Research group, Chelsea College of Art
4/2024 Panel discussion participation: Other Places/ Future Art School CSM
6/2023 Lecture with Johann Don-Daniel at MA Fine Art Inter-Institutional Symposium, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
6/2023 Hosting artists’ talks, Electro Studios, Hastings
10/2023 Artist’s presentation at Camden Artist and creative’s Networking Event
Curatorial projects
5/2025 Echoes from a Forest, Heini King solo exhibition, BOTH Gallery, London
3/2025 One Kilburn Community Fund Projects Exhibition, Kilburn Library & Kiln Theatre, London
11/2023 LIFE ROOM, The Koppel Project STATION
10/2022 Summer and Celebration, The Koppel Project Station
5/2021 By the window, new work by Heini King and Arabee Beveridge, 551-557 Finchley Rd
12/2018-6/2019 PLAY, Heath St, London
12/2017-6/2018 Everything Must Change, Heath St, London
12/2016-6/2017 My Family and Other Feelings, Heath St, London
2/2016-4/2016 About Love and that Everybody Should Have a Dog, (solo exhibition) Heath St, London
2011-2016 Co-ordinating Kingfisher, a weekly art-based outdoor project with families