Heidi Whitman’s installations, constructions, paintings, and drawings are invented terrains or mental maps. Whitman has exhibited internationally, most recently in The Art of Mapping at TAG Fine Arts in London.

Whitman’s work was featured in Katharine Harmon’s book The Map as Art, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. In 2007 Whitman completed a commission for the City of Cambridge (Jill Brown-Rhone Park). Her collections include the Addison Gallery of American Art, the McMullen Museum of Art, Tufts University, the Boston Public Library, IBM, Simmons College, Bank of America, Boston University, the Federal Reserve, JPMorgan Chase, and Fidelity Investments.

She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Whitman is a 2021 recipient of the Mass Cultural Council fellowship in Sculpture/Installation/New Genres. She is also a recipient of the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship awarded by the Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts. She was a faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University from 1983 to 2019.