SEAN LATIF HEISER: Time is a Hearer

November 7, 2025 – January 9, 2026

Using abstraction as a framework, Sean Heiser’s paintings shift between imagined landscapes and architectures, often using symbolism and abstracted imagery collected from life as a way to insert his own lived-experience and memories into broader compositions.

Sean Latif Heiser (b.1990) is a Malaysian-born artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2017 and his MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2023. In 2023, he was invited to hotelpupik, an international artist residency program in Schiefling, Austria. He was an MFA Live/Work residency fellow at Loghaven Residency in Knoxville, TN, in 2022, and in 2019 was a resident at Anderson Center in Redwing, Minnesota. He has exhibited work internationally, with recent exhibitions at Arcade Arts, Nashville, TN, Ortega Y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY, hotelpupik in Schiefling, Austria, and The Alice Wilds in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His work was published in New American Paintings in 2022.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I approach painting as a place to mix form and color with thought, memory, fantasy, and reality. I’m interested in the idea of world-building, and how non-objective painting can be used in ways that are resonant of, and shift between, landscapes, architectures, and the subjective. I continue to be concerned with the act of looking and its relationship to perception and imagination. and dreaming. I see painting as a mediary between myself and less certain things.
Katelyn approaches each project with curiosity, experimentation, and a strong sense of purpose.
She is especially interested in creating work that stands out, tells stories, and challenges visual
norms. Her goal is to work within a creative agency environment where she can continue to
grow, refine her voice, and build impactful visual experiences through real-world collaboration