Biography
Mary Heilmann
Born
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1940 |
San Francisco, CA. Currently lives in New York. |
Education
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1962 |
University of California at Santa Barbara, B.A. |
| 1967 | University of California at Berkeley, M.A. |
Select Solo Exhibitions
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2008 |
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY (retrospective) |
| Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH (retrospective) | |
| 2007 | Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX (retrospective) |
| Orange County Museum, Newport Beach CA (retrospective) | |
| 2006 | Hauser & Wirth, 'Saturday Night Kiss', Zurich/CH |
| Crown Point Gallery, 'Mary Heilmann: New Etchings', San Francisco CA | |
| 2005 | 303 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2004 | Hauser & Wirth London, London |
| 2003 | Secession, 'Mary Heilmann, All Tomorrow's Parties', Vienna |
| Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, 'Mary Heilmann, The Architecture of Heaven', Dublin | |
| 2002 | American Fine Arts, New York, NY |
| Kenny Schachter Gallery, 'Mary Heilmann Home', New York, NY | |
| 2001 | Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich |
| Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna | |
| Camden Arts Centre, London | |
| 2000 | Oldenburger Kunstverein, 'Mary Heilmann, Malerei', Oldenburg |
| Galleria Marabini, 'Mary Heilmann', Bologna, Italy | |
| Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 'Mary Heilmann' – Jessica Stockholder', St. Gallen | |
| 1999 | Galerie Hauser & Wirth, 'Mary Heilmann', Zurich |
| 1998 | Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY |
| Johnson County Community, 'Selected Works, 1978-1998', Overland Park, KS | |
| 1997 | Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| "This and That", Stifung fur konstructive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| "Modern Art: Painting and Works on Paper", Wolfgang Hausler, Munich, Germany | |
| Galerie Stadpark, Krems, Austria | |
| 1995 | "Works on Paper", Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY |
| Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium | |
| 1994 | Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA |
| M Galerie, Bochum, Germany | |
| "Greatest Hits", Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY | |
| San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1993 | Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1991 | Green Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL |
| Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1990 | Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne |
| Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA | |
| Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1989 | Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1988 | Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY |
| Hilman Holland Gallery, Atlanta, GA | |
| Gallery Mukai, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1987 | Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1986 | Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1983 | The Clocktower, New York, NY |
| Daniel Weinberg, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1981 | Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY |
| Holly Solomon Editions, New York, NY | |
| 1980 | Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 1979 | Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY |
| Galerie Wallner Fersens, Malmo, Sweden | |
| Daniel Weinberg, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1978 | Galerie Wallner Fersens, Malmo, Sweden |
| Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1976 | Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1974 | Gallery at the State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| 1973 | Henri Gallery, Washington D.C. |
| 1972 | Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1971 | Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1970 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
Select Group Exhibitions
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2008 |
“Present Tense,” Spanierman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2006 | "POPulence", Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina |
| "Infinite Painting - Contemporary Painting and Global Realism", Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy | |
| "High Times, Hard Times: NY Painting 1965-75", Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC; American University Museum at the Katzen Center, Washington, D.C. | |
| "Painting's Edge", Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA | |
| 2005 | "Drunk vs. Stoned", Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York |
| "Loveparade 1", Hausler Contemporary, Munich, Germany | |
| "POPulence", Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX | |
| MOCA, Cleveland, OH | |
| "Post-Modern", Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950-2005", Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Toronto | |
| "Extreme Abstraction", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY | |
| "The Painted World", PS1, Long Island City, New York | |
| "The Early Show", White Columns, New York, Curated by the General Store, Milwaukee | |
| 2004 | "Masters of the Obvious" Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA |
| "North Fork/ South Fork: East End Art Now", Southhampton, NY | |
| Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY | |
| Grenzuberchreitung, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany | |
| 2003 | "ON", Galerie Renos Xippas, Athens |
| "There is no land but the land (up there is just a sea of possibilities)", Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| 2002 | "Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth", Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich |
| "Farbe!" Huasler Contemporary, Munich, Germany | |
| "Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture", 48 Wall Street, New York, NY | |
| "Objects of Desire", Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York, NY | |
| "House of Fiction", Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gall, Switzerland | |
| 2001 | "Mary Heilmann – Joanne Greenbaum", Greengrassi Gallery, London, GB |
| "Shadow Dancing: 1975-79", D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY | |
| "Part Two (1988-1994)", Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Liquid Properties", Cheim & Read, New York, NY | |
| 2000 | "The Artist as Curator: Helmut Federle, Georgia O'Keefe, Myron Sout, Marcia Hafif, Mary Heilmann, Haken Rehenberg, Robert Mangold, Blinky Palermo, Howard Hodgkin," Galerie Nachst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Veinna |
| "Jessica Stockholder/Mary Heilmann (Gemailde aus der Sammlung Hauser und Wirth)' St. Gall, Switzerland | |
| Das Gedachnis der Maerei", Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau | |
| 1999 | "Cosmogram", Galerie Marabini, Bolgna, Italy |
| 1998 | "Sea Change", The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY |
| "Small Paintings", Cheim & Reed, New York, NY | |
| 1997 | "Drawing and Painting", Wooster Gardens, New York, NY |
| American Women Artists of the Seventies, Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York, NY | |
| "Display", Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| "Systematic", Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY | |
| "After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970", Sung Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY | |
| "Mary Heilmann, Joan Jonas, Jutta Koether, Monique Prieto", Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Kunstlerlnnen: 50 Positionen zeitgenossischer internationaler Kunst', cur. Edelbert Kob, Bregenz | |
| "Abstraction/Abractions", Musee 'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne | |
| 1996 | The Flying Saucer Project, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Leap of Faith: Gregory Amenoff, Mary Heilmann, Gary Stephan, Michael Volanakis", National Arts Club, New York, NY | |
| "Abstraction: Conditional Geometries", Musee d'art Moderne de St. Etienne, St. Etienne, France | |
| "Order/Disorder", David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI | |
| "Abstraits Practiques", Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria | |
| "A Grapefruit in the World of Park", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland | |
| "Malerie II", Monika Purth, Cologne, Germany | |
| "Passage a l'acte", Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France | |
| "Nuevas Abstracciones", Centro d'arte contemporaneo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain | |
| 1995 | "Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado |
| "Mary Heilmann & Elizabeth Cannon", Cristenrose Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Blue", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| "Critiques of Pure Abstraction", traveling exhibition organzied and circulated by Independent Curators Inc., New York, NY | |
| "All About Edges", Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI | |
| "Works on Paper", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium | |
| "Karo Dame. Konstruktive, Konkrete und Radikale Konzepte von Frauen von 1914 bis heute", cur.Beat Wismer, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland | |
| 1994 | "Mary Heilmann/Jene Highstein", Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, D.C. |
| "About Color", Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Abstract Works on Paper", Robert Miller Gallery, NY | |
| Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Embraceable You: Current Abstractions", Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL | |
| "Reveillon '94", Stux Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York | |
| 1993 | "Supervision", Raume fur neue Kunst, Wuppertal, Germany |
| "New American Abstraction: The Conscious Gesture", Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| "The Broken Mirror", Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany. Curated by Kaspar Konig and Hans-Ulrich Obrist | |
| "Future Perfect", University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria | |
| "Italia-America: L'Astrazione Fidefinita", Museo di Stato, San Marino, Italy | |
| "The Return of the Exquisite Cadavre", Travelled to; The Drawing Center, New York; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; The American Center, Paris, France. | |
| "Future Perfect. Lili Dujourie, Ann Hamilton, Mary Heilmann, Pello Irazu, Vladimir kokolia, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Brigitte Kowanz, Langlads & Bell, Walter Obholzer, Elamr Trenkwalder, Gunter Umberg", cur. Dan Cameron, Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst/Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna | |
| 1992 | "A-Geometry", Michael Kline Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Not Men", TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Bedroom Pictures", Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Organized by Terry Myers | |
| "On Condition - Painting Between Abstraction and Representation", Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL | |
| Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY (with Jack Pierson and Jessica Stockholder) | |
| "Martha Diamond, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman and Bernard Piffaretti: Painting", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Slow Art - Painting in NY Now", P.S. 1 Museum, Brooklyn, NY | |
| "Shades of Difference (The Feminine in Abstract Painting)", Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1991 | "J.F.K.: In Memorium, Mythology, and Denial", Renee Fotouhi Fine Art East, East Hampton, New York |
| "Stubborn Painting, Now and Then", Max Protech, New York, NY | |
| "The New Abstractions", Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "New Editions", Pace Prints, New York, NY | |
| 1990 | "Geometric Abstractions", Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| "The Ends of Painting, The Edges of Abstraction", Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| "Mary Boocheever, David Diao, Stephen Ellis, Mary Heilmann, Ika Huber, Stephen Westfall", Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Ohio University School of Art, Athens, OH | |
| 1989 | "Expressive Abstractions", Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston Gallery 1709, St. Louis, Missouri |
| "Restructure/Subverting the Grid", New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ | |
| "The Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| "Diagrams and Surrogates", Shea & Beker Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Abstract Options", University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| 1988 | "A Debate on Abstraction", Hunter College Art Gallery, City University of New York, NY |
| "Sightings: Drawing with Color", Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona/Pratt Institute, New York, NY | |
| "Among Then, But Not of Them:, Saxon Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "The Spirit of Logic", M-13 Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1987 | "Sculpture", Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Clay Revisions - Plate, Cup and Vase", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington | |
| "40th Biennial of American Contemporary Painting", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. | |
| 1986 | "The Use of Geometry in the 80's", Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH |
| Fred Hoffman Gallery, Venice, CA | |
| "Drawing Show", Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1985 | "Mary Heilmann, Janice Tchalenko, Betty Woodman", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Anniversary Show", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York | |
| 1984 | "Brilliant Color", Baskerville and Watson, New York, NY |
| "Forms That Function", Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY | |
| 1983 | "Precious Objects", University Art Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL |
| "Anniversary Show", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "National Drawing Invitational", Gallery, Central Washington | |
| "Women Artists' Retrospective", Douglas Collage Gallery, Rutgers, NJ | |
| 1980 | Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri |
| "Three More", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York | |
| 1979 | "Small is Beautiful", Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Lewisberg, PA |
| 1978 | "Gold/Silver", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Personal Visions: Places/Spaces", Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY | |
| 1977 | Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| "The Painting Show", P.S. 1 Museum, Brooklyn, NY | |
| "Painting: 75, 76, 77", Sarah Lawrence Collage, Bronxville, NY | |
| "Patterning and Decoration", Gallery Alexandra Monett, Brussels | |
| "Maps", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| 1976 | "Non-Collectible Art from the Collection of Horace and Holly Solomon", Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY |
| "Choice", Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT | |
| 1975 | "Suzanne Harris, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman", 112 Greene Street, New York, NY |
| Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1973 | "Landscape", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| "Option, 1973", Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH | |
| "Ten Artists Who Happen To Be Women", Kenan Center, Fredonia, NY | |
| 1972 | Henri 2 Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
| "Painting and/or Sculpture", Newark Museum, Newark, NJ | |
| "Whitney Annual", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| "American Women Artists", Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany | |
| "Grids", Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA | |
| "Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI | |
| 1971 | "Women Artists", Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
| The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
Select Catalogs
| The Return of the Cadavre Exquis. | |
| 1993 | The Drawing Center, New York, NY |
| 1994 | The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
| Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO | |
| 1995 | American Center, Paris, France |
| 1993-1994 | Der Zerbrochene Spiegel. Museumsquartier, Messepalast and Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria, and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germanny. Curated by Kaspar Koning and Hans-Ulrich Christ |
| 1993 | Itlalia-America: L'Astrazione Ridefinita. Logge dei Balestrien, San Marino, Italy, Repubblica di San Marino, Dicastero Cultura-Galleria Nazionale d' Arte Moderns. Curated by Demetrio Paparoni. |
| 1993 | Future Perfect. Heilingenkreuzerhof, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dan Cameron; text by Dan Cameron. |
| 1992 | Bedroom Pictures. Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1993 | Rubin Spangle, New York, NY. Curated by Terry Myers |
| 1991-1992 | Stubborn Painting, Now and Then. Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Ruth Kaufman and Mike Metz |
| 1991 | Conceptual Abstraction. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY |
| The Ends of Paintings, The Edges of Abstractions. Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Text by David Pagel | |
| 1990 | Mary Heilmann: A Survey. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Text by David Joselit |
| Mary Boocheever, David Diao, Stephan Ellis, Mary Heilmann, Ika Huber, Stephan Westfall. Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philidelphia. Text by Barry Schwabsky | |
| 1989 | Restructure/Subverting The Grid. New Jersey Center for The Visual Arts, Summit, NJ |
| Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| Diagrams & Surrogates. Shea & Beker Gallery, New York | |
| Abstract Options. University Art Museum, Santa Barbara | |
| 1988 | A Debate On Abstraction. The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter Collage, New York, NY |
| Mary Heilmann. Gallery Mukai, Tokyo | |
| 1987 | Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, & Vase. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle |
| 40th Biennial American Contemporary Painting. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. | |
| 1986 | Mary Heilmann. Pat Hearn Gallery, New York. Text by Roberta Smith |
| 1985 | The 10th Anniversary. Holly Solomon Gallery, New York |
| 1980 | Three More. Holly Solomon Gallery, New York |
| The Norman Fisher Collection. Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL | |
| 1977 | 75 76 77 Painting. Sarah Lawrence Gallery, Bronxville, NY |
| The First Two Years. Holly Solomon Gallery, New York | |
| 1973 | Options. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati |
| Ten Artists Who Happen To Be. Kennan Center, Fredonia, NY | |
| 1972 | Painting and/or Sculpture. Newark Museum, Newark, NJ |
| Whitney Annual. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| American Women Artists. Kunsthaus Hamburg |