Heather Cox works across sculpture, installation, collage, and photography to explore memory, loss, and the afterlife of images. She trained in book arts and photography at Mills College, studied sculpture at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and earned her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work is shaped by her interest in the ways photographs fade, distort, and degrade over time—and how these fragments can take on new life. In her ongoing Roundels series, discarded pictures are cut, stapled, and arranged into net-like compositions that feel both delicate and resilient. Cox’s perspective is informed by her role as Executive Coordinator at the Whitney Museum’s Conservation Department, where she collaborates with artists and conservators on questions of care and preservation.  

Cox has had solo exhibitions across the U.S., including at Nohra Haime Gallery and Knoedler Project Space (New York), Garrison Art Center (Garrison, NY), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, as well as shows in Chicago, Boston, and Buffalo. She lives and works in New York City.