ABOUT

Heike Dempster is an art writer, curator, and artist advocate.

For over a decade, she has worked in interdisiplinary arts administration at organizations such as YoungArts and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. She also works in international artist management with Amir Shariat, representing artists such as Damon Davis, Alexandre Diop, Basil Kincaid, Ardeshir Tabrizi, and Kennedy Yanko.

Her most recent curatorial projects include “Sound, Stories” at Locust Projects featuring artists Helina Metaferia, Ambrose Murray and Ania Freer; “Priscilla Aleman: The Ocean Within”; “Cornelius Tulloch: Rhythmic Landscape; Patterns of Identity”; and “Malaika Temba: Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues” at Soho Beach House.

Her articles and essays have been published in Aesthetica, ArtDistricts, Art Pulse, Rooms: Art Uncovered, Whitewall Magazine, and The OG Magazine, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues such as “The New African Portraiture: Shariat Collections” at Kunsthalle Krems in Krems, Austria.

Prior to landing in Miami, Dempster lived and worked as a writer, TV and radio host, and producer in Jamaica and the Bahamas. Originally from Munich, she is a graduate of London Metropolitan University in London, UK, and the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.

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