Tessa Heck received her MFA in Visual Studies from PNCA - Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. and holds a BFA in Painting from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She has shown regionally at Museum of Contemporary Craft, Hap Gallery, Worksound International, Stumptown Gallery, CEI Works, DISJECTA, Wildfang, and COCA Seattle among others. Heck is also a proud co-founder of Killjoy Collective, an alternative gallery based in SE Portland.