Heidi Ratanavanich
Heidi Ratanavanich is a Thai/Chinese artist based in Lenapehoking (Philadelphia). They use print-making, food, and space-making to create works that provoke community learning, gathering, and remembering to imagine new collective possibilities. Their practice focuses on finding gaps to plug into in communities, to make art that feels necessary, scrappy, and joyful. They specialize in making physical and ephemeral objects that acknowledge and celebrate the labor and care of community-building.
Awarded Grants
2023
Leeway Transformation Award (LTA)
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Overview
Heidi Ratanavanich is a Thai/Chinese artist based in Lenapehoking (Philadelphia). They use print-making, food, and space-making to create works that provoke community learning, gathering, and remembering to imagine new collective possibilities. Their practice focuses on finding gaps to plug into in communities, to make art that feels necessary, scrappy, and joyful. They specialize in making physical and ephemeral objects that acknowledge and celebrate the labor and care of community-building.
2019
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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FORTUNE is a Philadelphia-based publication project, assembled by and for queer Asian publics, in the Year of the Pig 2019. Each of 12 monthly issues combines letterpress and risograph printing, features multiple contributors, and is released through community gathering.
FORTUNE is tended to by Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, and Connie Yu; we are a collective of queer, Asian writers/artists who call Philadelphia, Home. Heidi is a sculptor, construction worker, and educator interested in the intersection of cultural sovereignty, ecology, and economy. Connie is a writer and performer attending to information— its transmission and precarity. Andrienne is a printmaker inspired by narrative, documentation, ritual, and celebration. Together, we make multiples.
