Heather Parrish employs printmaking, experimental photography, collage and installation to unsettle simple binaries and consider complex embodiments of boundaries. Rather than firm and fixed, she explores the dynamic potentialities of boundaries as porous sites of exchange. A native of Austin, Texas, she spent formative years of her childhood in Indonesia and Malaysia. This experience underlies a heightened sensitivity to negotiations of belonging, identity, and connection to land.  Collaboration is also central to her art practice including projects with scientists, filmmakers, poets, and activists, bees, microbes, canals, creeks and other flowways. Her long-term collaborations include Scope investigating potentialities of collaborative survival in microbiome-human partnerships; and Border Work, exploring ways collaborations can disrupt disciplinary and political boundaries to engender emancipatory futures. Parrish received an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a BA in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin. She has exhibited work in the United States and internationally and is currently an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.