She studied Fine Art at the Arnhem Academy of Art and Design from 2003 to 2007. With a history in painting and drawing, she graduated

with photography and video related work. As a result of her BFA she published her first book "Places&Persons" with Veenman Publishers (NL).

This publication combines both portrait and landscape photographs. In the summer of 2007 she received a scholarship at ITS#SIX festival in

Trieste (IT) to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She attended ‘Photo Global', a one-year critical photography certificate program.

Her thesis advisor was Eva Respini (MoMA, curator photography) and in 2008 she exhibited her work at the Visual Arts Gallery in New York.

Dear Dave Magazine published the series ‘Slumber' in NR. 4. Her work includes group shows at ‘Nieuw Dakota' and ‘Art Amsterdam'.

Last September she had her solo exhibition ‘Color and Transition Samples' at RC de Ruimte Amsterdam.

May Heek is an artist; working mainly with the medium photography, print and paper based techniques. Her work is based on her interest in

gradations between opposites. In her photographs she integrates the values of a gradient. These images take into consideration the various

colored shades and grey scales of a transition. A fundamental motive for this interest is her fascination with the psychological meanings for

the color grey, the hue between black and white. Heek examines the visualization of the transitions in an everyday setting. For example the

bridge between: day and night, alive and dead, visible and veiled, interior and exterior, personality and appearance. By isolating a segment

of the gradations, it is often obscure where you are looking at. Through installation the viewer faces a swatch of color transitions.