Heidi Barkun is a transdisciplinary artist and master’s candidate in Visual and Media Arts, with a concentration in Feminist Studies (UQAM). She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Anatomy and Cell Biology (McGill University, 1995) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction (Concordia University, 1999).

She is the recipient of numerous grants and scholarships from organizations including Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Réseau québécois en études féministes, and Fondation UQAM. Her artworks has been shown in Canada, United States, Europe and South America and are included in the National Bank of Canada Collection and the Senvest Collection. Barkun has presented her artistic and academic research at conferences in Paris, Vienna, New York, Aalborg (Denmark), and Montreal.

Barkun is one of the artists in residence at the « Chaire McConnell-UdeM en recherche-création sur la réappropriation de la maternité : libérer la parole et le corps des femmes (2020-2024). » 

As a member of the collective La CORPS féministe, she is co-editing a French adaptation of the classic book on women’s health, “Our Bodies, Ourselves”, for a Québec audience; the second volume, about the prenatal period, is due in 2021.