I am a multi-diciplinary artist working in painting, writing, performance, textiles and film. My work centres around questions of ecology, creativity and connection in the digital age. As an artist I use different voices inspired by the liminal spaces between memory, imagination and place.
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2/2026 Drawing Days, solo exhibition in a residency, The Crypt Gallery, London
2/2026 Poetry performance, Writing Ecologies, the Concervatory at the Barbican
10/2025 Poetry performance, Voiced, the Festival for Endangered Languages, Barbican Centre
9/2025 Poetry 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
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
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
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, group exhibition, The Koppel Project STATION
10/2022 Summer and Celebration, group exhibition, The Koppel Project Station
5/2021 By the window, Heini King and Arabee Beveridge, 551-557 Finchley Rd
12/2018-6/2019 PLAY, group exhibition, Heath St, London
12/2017-6/2018 Everything Must Change, group exhibition, Heath St, London
12/2016-6/2017 My Family and Other Feelings, group exhibition, 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
Education
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