Heather Bhandari

Heather Bhandari (she/her) is the program director at the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She is also the cofounder of CreativeStudy, an online business and financial health education platform for creatives, an independent curator and writer, a cofounder of the project-based curatorial team and podcast The Remix a trustee of Art Omi, an adjunct lecturer at Brown University—where she teaches professional practice to artists—and a frequent guest speaker across the country. She'll be a visiting critic at RISD in the fall of 2024. The second edition of her book, ART/WORK, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2017, with updates in progress in 2024 for its 26th printing.

From 2000–16 Bhandari was a director of Mixed Greens gallery, where she curated more than 100 exhibitions while managing a roster of nearly two-dozen emerging to mid-career artists. More recently, she was the director of exhibitions at Smack Mellon. She received a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. Her career began at contemporary galleries Sonnabend and Lehmann Maupin, both in New York City.