Euan Heng was born in Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland in 1945 and has lived in Australia since 1977. Between 1960 and 1970 the artist was employed in various occupations, including four years as a merchant seaman travelling worldwide. He completed undergraduate and post graduate studies at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee in 1975 and was awarded a research MA from RMIT University in 1995. Heng has exhibited extensively in Australia and abroad and his work is represented in major public and university museum collections in all states of Australia and in Scotland. He recently retired from his role as Associate Professor in Graduate Research at Monash University, Melbourne. He held many prestigious and senior appointments during his academic career. Heng has participated in visiting artist/lectureships and residencies in Australia and overseas, including the Australia Council Residency at the British School at Rome in 1999, a Royal Scottish Academy Residency in Scotland in 2010 and most recently at Deakin University to participate in the 2018 Drawing Room Project. In 2004 he received the Australian Council for University Art and Design Schools Distinguished Research Award and is the current recipient of the 2018 APW George Collie Memorial Award.
Represented by Niagara GalleriesWatercolours and Drawings, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
Graffiti, Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne
Another Riddle, Greenhill Galleries and Perth International Arts Festival, Perth
Paintings and Prints, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Studio Notes, McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarren, Victoria
Paintings and Watercolours, Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney
Paintings and Watercolours, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
Survey of Selected Work (1977 to 1987), Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
Drawings, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Churchill, Victoria
In Black and White: Works from the Collection, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
Who Let the Dogs Out, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery; Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, New South Wales
How I entered there I cannot say, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Strange Geography, Kingsgate Gallery, London
Let Them Roam, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
The Big Small Tapestry Show, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Victoria
Contrasts, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Academici, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne; The British School at Rome, Italy
Dwelling, The Hanover Print Collection, Chrysalis, Melbourne
Paper Animals, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne
Pelt, RMIT (Project Space), Melbourne
Place Made, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Ubiquitous Beauty, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
Odd, RMIT School of Art and Culture, Melbourne wall \ paper, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
Wildlife, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
Edition + Artist Book Survey, The Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
Workings of The Mind, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Liberty, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Small Tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
Australian Identities in Printmaking, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Cutting Comments – Contemporary Linocuts: 1995-1998, NETS Victoria and touring
Proof Positive, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne
Orientations, New Parliament House, Canberra
From The Block, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Decalogue, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, Korea
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Blake Prize for Religious Art, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Call of the Wild, New Parliament House, Canberra
Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Mixed Impressions, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of NSW, Sydney
The October Show, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
100 x 100, Print Council of Australia bicentennial touring exhibition
Contemporary Australian Printmakers, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto; Pratt Graphic Centre, New York
Australian Printmakers, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Ogisu Memorial Museum of Inazawa City, Japan
Seven Painters Different Viewpoint, The University of Melbourne Art Gallery, Victoria
International Print Exhibit, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan