Partial Exhibition and Awards History

Galleries and Exhibitions
Plein Air Easton, Easton, MD, 2019
Coastal Virginia Plein Air Event, Norfolk, VA, 2019
McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MD, 2018 - Present
The Little Gallery, Roanoke, VA, 2018 - Present
Oil Painters of America, Eastern Regional Exhibition, Annapolis, MD, 2018
Liberty University Art Gallery, Solo Exhibition, An American Vision, 2018
Gloucester Arts Festival, Juried Art Exhibition, Gloucester, VA, 2018
Plein Air Easton, Easton, MD, 2018
East Beach Plein Air Art Escape, Norfolk, VA, 2018
Stewart Gallery, Gloucester Plein Air Festival, Gloucester, VA, 2017, 2018, 2019
Lynchburg Art Club, Paint Out Lynchburg Exhibition, Lynchburg, VA, 2017
Williamsburg Art Gallery, Williamsburg, VA, 2017 - 2018
Warm Springs Gallery, Bath County Plein Air Festival, Warm Springs, VA, 2016
Academy Center of the Arts, On Finding Beauty, Lynchburg, VA, 2016
Lynchburg Art Club, Inaugural Plein Air Exhibition, Lynchburg, VA, 2016
Gallery On Madison, Middleburg, VA, 2015 - 2017
Salmagundi Club Masters Exhibition, New York, NY, 2014
Salmagundi Club 130th Annual Members Exhibition, New York, NY, 2014
Academy of Fine Arts, Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest Plein Air Art Exhibition, Lynchburg, VA, 2012
Liberty University Art Gallery, BRPAP Group Exhibition, 2010
The Bower Center for the Arts, National Juried Exhibition, Bedford, VA. 2010
Liberty University Art Gallery, Solo Exhibition, This Peaceful Land, 2009
Artifacts Gallery, Lynchburg, VA, 2009
Bev's Fine Art, Raleigh, NC, 2009 - 2016
E. J. Victor, Furniture Market, High Point, NC, 2009
Oil Painters of America, Eastern Juried Exhibition, Nashville, TN, 2008
Academy of Fine Arts, National Juried Exhibition, Lynchburg, VA, 2008
Gallery On the Green, Woodstock, VT, 2003 - 2007
Tree's Place Gallery, Orleans, MA, 2003 - 2007
Gallery on Merchants Square, Williamsburg, Va, 2003 - 2015
Marin - Price Galleries, Chevy Chase, MD, 2002 - 2004
Art on a Mission, Roanoke, VA, 1999 - 2002
Twinhouse Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1999 - 2000
Gallery Revel, New York, NY, 1996 - 2004
The Gallery at Shanaz!, Lynchburg, Va, 1993 - 1995
Tresor 1994 Art Festival, Singapore, 1994
The Little Gallery at Smith Mountain Lake, Moneta, VA, 1993 - 2018
Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA, 1992 - 1999
Fisher Galleries, Tokyo, Japan, 1992
Buckingham Art Center, Buckingham, VA, 1992
Gallery Madison 90, Inc., New York, NY, 1991 - 1993
Lynchburg Art Club, Lynchburg, VA, 1991
Tryon Fine Art Center, Tryon, NC, 1991
Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA, 1990, 1992, 1994
Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA, 1989
Fisher Galleries, Washington, DC, 1986 - 2000
Side Porch Gallery, Fairfax, VA, 1983 - 1985
Professional Impressions Gallery, Richmond, VA, 1983 - 1984
Roanoke Museum of Fine Art, Roanoke, VA, 1976
Stonehouse Gallery, Winchester, VA, 1976 - 1978
Lynchburg Art Festival, Lynchburg, VA, 1974 - c.1984

Awards and Honors
2019 Artist in Residence, Cook Foundation Artists in Residency Program, Gloucester, VA
2017 Honorable Mention, Paint Out Lynchburg, Lynchburg, VA
2017 Honorable Mention, Gloucester Art Festival, Gloucester, VA
2016 Best of Show and Peoples' Choice Awards, Paint Out Lynchburg, Lynchburg Art Club
2015 Member, Liberty University Distinguished Council of Advisors, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Lynchburg, VA
2014 The Mary Fitch Memorial Award, 130th Annual Salmagundi Club Members Exhibition, New York, NY
2014 Peoples' Choice Award, River District Arts, En Plein Air Exhibition, Sperryville, VA
2013 Lifetime Achievement Award nominee, James River Council for the Arts & Humanities
2009 Painting, Entering the Valley, was the first work to enter the Liberty University Permanent Art Collection
2003 Peoples' Choice Award, Little Gallery at Smith Mountain Lake, Moneta, VA
1999 Bronze Medal, 16th Annual Almost Miniatures Exhibition, Lexington. MA
1995 United States Art in Embassies Program, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
1994 First Place Award, The Little Gallery at Smith Mountain Lake, Moneta, VA
1993 Best in Show, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA
1991 United States Art in Embassies Program, Dakar, Senegal
1990 Award of Merit, Springfest Art Festival, Charlotte, NC
1985 Commissioned to paint the official bicentennial painting for the City of Lynchburg, The City of Lynchburg, The Lynchburg Museum, Lynchburg, VA
1984 Best in Show, Lynchburg Art Festival, Lynchburg, VA
1983 Best Oil Painting, Lynchburg Art Festival, Lynchburg, VA
1982 Best Realistic Painting, Lynchburg Art Festival, Lynchburg, VA
1977 First Place Award, Central Virginia Chapter of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1976 Best Oil Painting, Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA

Publications
An American Vision, Paintings by David G. Heath , Liberty University, 2018
Featured Artist, Article by Bob Bahr, Plein Air Magazine, Nov., 2016
Pendleton, Gary, 100 Plein Air painters of the Mid-Atlantic (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2014)
SML Discover Magazine, Cover Painting, Spring 2014
Lynchburg Living Magazine, Artist Profile, May / June 2012
PleinAir Magazine, BRPAP article, Summer 2011
Blue Ridge Plein Air Painters: Different Perspectives, exhibition brochure, Liberty University Art Gallery, 2010
This Peaceful Land: Contemporary American Landscapes by David Heath, exhibition brochure, Liberty University Art Gallery, 2009
Smith Mountain Laker Magazine, May / June 2008
Central Virginia HOME Magazine, Summer 2007
Mountainview Magazine, April / May 2005
Marine and Costal Art, exhibition catalogs, Tree's Place Gallery, Orleans, MA, 2004 and 2005
Where Washington Magazine, June 1995
Scene Magazine, March 1994
American Artist Magazine, Featured Artist, June 1991
Fundamentalist Journal, Cover Painting, March 1989

Public and Corporate Collections
The Cook Foundation Collection, Gloucester, VA
Liberty University Permanent Collection, Lynchburg, VA
Permanent Collection of the Alan B. Pearson Cancer Center, Lynchburg, VA
The Lynchburg Museum, Lynchburg, VA
The Babcock & Wilcox Corporation
Bank of Japan
Centra Health Foundation
Central Fidelity Bank (Wachovia)
Crestar Bank (Suntrust)
Mitsubishi Bank & Trust
PleinAir Magazine Collection
Shenandoah Memorial Hospital
Sovran Bank (Bank of America)
Sumitomo Corporation of America
United Virginia Bank (Suntrust)
Westvaco Corporation

Associations
Member, Adirondack Mountain School Painters
Signature Member, The American Society of Marine Artists
Founding Member, Blue Ridge Plein Air Painters
Founding Member, Distinguished Council of Advisors, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Liberty University
Member, Oil Painters of America
Member, Salmagundi Club