Born in San Francisco, 1940
Studied literature at University of California at Santa Barbara, B.A., 1959-1962
Studied poetry and ceramics at San Francisco State University, 1963
Studied ceramics and sculpture at University of California at Berkeley,
M.A., 1963-1967
Moved to New York, 1968
Lives and works in New York
Solo Exhibitions
2009
303 Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann’, New York NY
2008
Zwirner & Wirth, ‘Some Pretty Colors’, New York NY
2007
Orange County Museum, ‘Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone’, Newport Beach CA [travelled to Contemporary Art Museum, Houston TX; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY]
2006
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Saturday Night Kiss’, Zurich/CH
Crown Point Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann: New Etchings’, San Francisco CA
2005
303 Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann. Heaven & Hell’, New York NY
2004
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Mary Heilmann’, London/UK
2003
Secession, ‘Mary Heilmann. All Tomorrow’s Parties’, Vienna/AT
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, ‘Mary Heilmann. The Architecture of Heaven’, Dublin/IE
2002
American Fine Arts, ‘Mary Heilmann’, New York NY
Kenny Schachter Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann: Home’, New York NY
2001
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Mary Heilmann’, Zurich/CH
Galerie Meyer Kainer, ‘Mary Heilmann’, Vienna/AT
Camden Arts Centre, ‘Mary Heilmann’, London/UK
2000
Oldenburger Kunstverein, ‘Mary Heilmann. Malerei’, Oldenburg/DE
Galleria Marabini, ‘Mary Heilmann’, Bologna/IT
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, ‘Mary Heilmann – Jessica Stockholder’. St. Gallen/CH
Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg/DE
1999
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Mary Heilmann. The All Night Movie’, Zurich/CH
1998
Pat Hearn Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann. Paintings’, New York NY
Johnson County Community College, ‘Selected Works, 1978-1998’, Overland Park KS
1997
Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, ‘Mary Heilmann. This and That’, Zurich/CH
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Mary Heilmann. Paintings 1973-1997’, Zurich/CH
Wolfgang Häusler, ‘Modern Art: Paintings and Papers’, Munich/DE
Galerie Stadtpark, Krems/AT
1995
Pat Hearn Gallery, ‘New Works on Paper’, New York NY
Zeno X Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann’, Antwerp/BE
1994
Beaver College Art Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann: Paintings, Drawings, Ceramics’, Glenside PA
M Bochum Kunstvermittlung, ‘Works 1971-1994’, Bochum/DE
Pat Hearn Gallery, ‘Greatest Hits’, New York NY
San Francisco Art Institute/ Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco CA
1993
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York NY
1991
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York NY
Green Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands FL
1990
Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, ‘Mary Heilmann und Jessica Stockholder’, Cologne/DE
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Mary Heilmann: A Survey’, Boston MA
Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco CA
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago IL
1989
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York NY
1988
Gallery Mukai, Tokyo/JP
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York NY
Hillman Holland Gallery, Atlanta GA
1986
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York NY
1983
Clocktower, New York NY
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco CA
1981
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York NY
1980
Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf/DE
1979
Galleri Wallner Fersens, Malmö/SE
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York NY
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco CA
1976
Holly Solomon Gallery, ‘The Vent Series’, New York NY
1974
State University of New York, Stony Brook NY
1973
Henri Gallery, Washington D.C.
1972
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York NY
1971
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York NY
1970
Whitney Museum Art Resource Center, New York NY
Group Exhibitions
2008
Hammer Museum, ‘Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting’, Los Angeles CA
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, ‘Angels in America’, Chicago IL
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, ‘Abstract Vision’, Zurich/CH
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Whitney Biennial 2008’, New York NY
Pace Editions 57th Street, ‘New Editions’, New York NY
Pace Editions Chelsea, ‘Heilmann/Berkenblit’, New York NY
Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, ‘Painting: Now and Forever, Part II’, New York NY
Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, ‘Abstrakt Abstract’, Klagenfurt/AT
The Rose Art Museum, ‘Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries’, Waltham MA
Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, ‘Printing: Now and Forever, Part II’, New York NY
2007
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, ‘Massart Faculty Show’, Provincetown MA
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, ‘Counterparts’, Virginia Beach VA
Greenberg Van Doren, ‘Women’s Work: Large Scale Painting, 1970-1990’, New York NY
Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Udine/IT
Parks Exhibition Center, ‘Painting’s Edge’, Idyllwild Arts CA
Galerie Thomas Flor, ‘Short Distance To Now’, Düsseldorf/DE
Henie Onstad Centre of Art, ‘Nordea’s art collection’, Høvikodden/NO
Kunstraum Innsbruck, ‘Franz West, Soufflé – eine Massenausstellung’, Innsbruck/AT
Honor Fraser, ‘Hovering Over the Universe …’ (cur. by Kristin Calabrese), Venice CA
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ‘Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic’, New York NY
David Zwirner, ‘A Point in Space is a Place for an Argument’, New York NY
303 Gallery, ‘Three for Society’, New York NY
De Pury & Luxembourg, ‘Painting as Fact-Fact as Fiction’, Zurich/CH
Honor Fraser, Venice CA
Galerie Mezzanin, ‘Duque/Heilmann/Korty.. ‘, Vienna/AT
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution’, Los Angeles CA [travelled to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington WA; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island/NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver/CA]
Millenium Galleries, ‘abstraction. extracting from the world’, Sheffield/UK
2006
Kunstbuero/Kunsthalle 8, ‘no))) 2’, Vienna/AT
Museo d`Arte Moderna, Chère Louise: in onore di Louise Bourgeois per il suoi 95 anni’, Ascona/CH
Zeno X Gallery, ’25 years Zeno X’, Antwerp/BE
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, ‘Woman’s work. Large Scale Paintings 1970-1990’, New York NY
Weatherspoon Art Museum, ‘High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975’, Greensboro NC [travelled to: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.; National Academy Museum, New York NY; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City/MX; Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz/AT]
Crown Point Press, ‘Seasons Club July 2006’, San Francisco CA
Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘Infinite Painting. Contemporary Painting and Global Realism’, Codroipo (Udine)/IT
2005
P. S. 1 MoMA, ‘The Painted World’, Long Island NY
White Columns, ‘The Early Show’, New York NY
Gavin Brown, ‘Drunk vs. Stoned 2’, New York NY
Häusler Contemporary, ‘Loveparade 1’, Munich/DE
Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, ‘POPulence’, Houston TX
Art Gallery of Ontario, ‘The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950-2005’, Toronto, Ontario/CA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, ‘Extreme Abstraction’, Buffalo NY
Greene Naftali Gallery, ‘Post-Modern’, New York NY
2004
Galerie m Bochum, ‘Grenzüberschreitung’, Bochum/DE
Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, ‘Mary Heilmann, Jill Moser, Stanley Whitney’, Amherst MA
The Parrish Art Museum, ‘North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now’, Southampton NY
2003
Galerie Renos Xippas, ‘ON’, Athens/GR
Meyer Riegger Galerie, ‘There’s no land but the land (up there is just a sea of possibilities)’, Karlsruhe/DE
2002
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth’, Zurich/CH
Häusler Contemporary, ‘Farbe!’, Munich/DE
48 Wall Street, ‘Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture’, New York NY
Jan Abrams Fine Arts, ‘Objects of Desire’, New York NY
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, ‘House of Fiction. Sammlung (3)’, St. Gallen/CH
Trevi Flash Art Museum, ‘Inaugurazione’, Trevi/IT
2001
Greengrassi Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann – Joanne Greenbaum’, London/UK
D’Amelio Terras, ‘Shadow Dancing: 1975-79’, New York NY
Kunstverein St.Gallen Kunstmuseum, ‘Künstlerräume/Sammlerräume’, St.Gallen/CH
Pat Hearn Gallery, ‘Part Two (1988-1994)’, New York NY
Cheim & Read, ‘Liquid Properties’, New York NY
M Bochum, ‘Shelter’, Bochum/DE
2000
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, ‘The Artist as Curator: Helmut Federle, Georgia O’Keefe, Myron Stout, Marcia Hafif, Mary Heilmann, Haken Rehenberg, Robert Mangold, Blinky Palermo, Howard Hodgkin’, Vienna/AT
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, ‘Jessica Stockholder – Mary Heilmann (Gemälde aus der Sammlung Hauser und Wirth)’, St. Gallen/CH
Aargauer Kunsthaus, ‘Das Gedächtnis der Malerei’, Aarau/CH
1999
Galleria Marabini, ‘Cosmogram’, Bologna/IT
Greene Naftali Gallery, ‘Free Coke’, New York NY
1998
Cheim & Read, ‘Small Paintings’, New York NY
Zeno X Gallery, ‘Shopping the stars’, Antwerp/BE
1997
Kunsthaus Bregenz, ‘KünstlerInnen: 50 Positionen zeitgenössischer internationaler Kunst’, (cur. Edelbert Köb), Bregenz/AT
Musée d‘Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, ‘Abstraction/Abstractions. Géométries Provisoires’, Saint-Etienne/FR
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, ‘Display’, cur. Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen/DK
Wooster Gardens, ‘Drawing and Painting’, New York NY
Jan Abrams Fine Art, ‘American Women Artists of the Seventies’, New York NY
Parrish Art Museum ‘Sea Change’, Southampton NY
Karen McCready Fine Art, ‘Systematic’, New York NY
The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbour Cultural Center, ‘After the Fall. Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970’, Staten Island NY
Pat Hearn Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann, Joan Jonas, Jutta Koether, Monique Prieto’, New York NY
1996
Pat Hearn Gallery, ‘The Flying Saucer Project’, New York NY
Thaddaeus Ropac, ‘Abstract Practice’, Salzburg/AT
Transmission Gallery, ‘A Grapefruit in the World of Park’, Glasgow/UK
Monika Sprüth, ‘Malerei II’, Cologne/DE
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, ‘nuevas abstracciones’, Madrid/ES
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, ‘Abstrakte Malerie heute. nuevas abstracciones’, Bielefeld/DE
National Arts Club, ‘Leap of Faith. Gregory Amenoff, Mary Heilmann, Gary Stephan, Michael Volanakis’, New York NY
Thaddaeus Ropac, ‘Passage de l’acte’, Paris/FR
1995
Cristinerose Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann and Elizabeth Cannon’, New York NY
Aargauer Kunsthaus, ‘Karo Dame. Konstruktive, Konkrete und Radikale Konzepte von Frauen von 1914 bis heute’, cur. Beat Wismer, Aarau/CH
Independant Curators Inc., ‘Critiques of Pure Abstraction’, (cur. Mark Rosenthal)
Zeno X Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, Antwerp/BE
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, ‘Critiques of Pure Abstraction’, Houston TX
1994
Charles Cowles Gallery, ‘About Color’, New York NY
Selby Gallery, ‘Embraceable You: Current Abstractions’, Sarasota FL
Robert Miller Gallery, ‘Abstract Works on Paper’, New York NY
Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York NY
Stux Gallery, ‘Reveillon `94’, New York NY
1993
Räume für neue Kunst, ‘Supervision’, (cur. Günther Umberg and Rolf Hengesbach), Wuppertal/DE
The Drawing Center, ‘The Return of the Exquisite Cadavre’, New York NY
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, ‘The Return of the Exquisite Cadavre’, Washington D.C.
Santa Monica Museum of Art, ‘The Return of the Exquisite Cadavre’, Santa Monica CA
Forum for Contemporary Art, ‘The Return of the Exquisite Cadavre’, St. Louis MO
American Center, ‘The Return of the Exquisite’, Paris/FR
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Der zerbrochene Spiegel’, (cur. Kaspar Koenig and Hans–Ulrich Obrist), Vienna/AT
Deichtorhallen, ‘Der zerbrochene Spiegel’, (cur. Kaspar Koenig and Hans–Ulrich Obrist), Hamburg/DE
Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst/Heiligenkreuzerhof, ‘Future Perfect. Lili Dujourie, Ann Hamilton, Mary Heilmann, Pello Irazu, Vladimir Kokolia, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Brigitte Kowanz, Langlads & Bell, Walter Obholzer, Elmar Trenkwalder, Günter Umberg’, (cur. Dan Cameron), Vienna/AT
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Logge dei Balestrieri, ‘Italia-America: L‘Astrazione Ridefinita’, (cur. Demetrio Paparoni), San Marino/IT
Locks Gallery, ‘New American Abstraction’, Philadelphia PA
1992
Asher/Faure Gallery, ‘Bedroom Pictures’, (cur. Terry Myers), Los Angeles CA
Pat Hearn Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann, Jack Pierson, Jessica Stockholder’, New York NY
P.S.1 Museum, ‘Slow Art: Painting in NY Now’, Long Island City NY
Michael Klein Gallery, ‘A-Geometry’, New York NY
TRI Gallery, ‘Not Men’, Los Angeles CA
Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, ‘On Condition. Painting Between Abstraction and Representation’, Chicago IL
Robert Miller Gallery, ‘Martha Diamond, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman and bernard Piffaretti: Paintings’, New York NY
Sandra Gering Gallery, ‘Shades of Difference (The Feminine in Abstract Painting)’, New York NY
1991
Max Protech Gallery, ‘Stubborn Painting, Now and Then’, (cur. Ruth Kaufmann and Mike Metz), New York NY
Sidney Janis Gallery, ‘The New Abstraction’, New York NY
Pace Prints, ‘New Editions’, New York NY
Renee Fotouhi Fine Art, ‘J.F.K. In Memorium, Mythology and Denial’, East Hampton NY
1990
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, ‘The Ends of Painting. The Edges of Abstraction’, Santa Monica CA
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, ‘Mary Boocheever, David Diao, Stephen Ellis, Mary Heilmann, Ika Huber, Stephen Westfall’, Philadelphia PA
Marc Richards Gallery, ‘Geometric Abstractions’, Santa Monica CA
Ohio University School of Art, Athens OH
1989
The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘The Whitney Biennial’, New York NY
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, ‘Restructure. Subverting the Grid’, Summit NJ
Shea & Beker Gallery, ‘Diagrams and Surrogates’, New York NY
University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, ‘Abstract Options’, Santa Barbara CA
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York City University, ‘A Debate on Abstraction’, New York NY
Thomas Segal Gallery, ‘Expressive Abstractions’, Boston MA
Gallery 1709, St. Louis MO
1988
Instituto de Estudios Nordamericanos, ‘Sightings. Drawing with Color’, Barcelona/ES
Pratt Institute, ‘Sightings. Drawing with Color’, New York NY
Saxon Lee Gallery, ‘Among Them, But Not Of Them’, Los Angeles CA
Robin Lockett Gallery, Chicago IL
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York NY
M-13 Gallery, ‘The Spirit of Logic’, New York NY
1987
Pat Hearn Gallery, ‘Sculpture’, New York NY
Seattle Art Museum, ‘Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup and Vase’, Seattle WA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, ‘40th Biennial of American Contemporary Painting’, Washington D.C.
1986
Wright State University Art Gallery, ‘The Use of Geometry in the 80s’, Dayton OH
Fred Hoffmann Gallery, Venice CA
Pat Hearn Gallery, ‘Drawing Show’, New York NY
1985
Blum Helman Gallery, ‘Mary Heilmann, Janice Tchalenko, Betty Woodman’, New York NY
Holly Solomon Gallery, ‘Anniversary Show’, New York NY
1984
Baskerville and Watson Gallery, ‘Brilliant Color’, New York NY
Katonah Gallery, ‘Forms that Function’, Katonah NY
1983
Douglas College Gallery, Rutgers University, ‘Women Artists Retrospective’, New Brunswick NJ
University Art Gallery, University of South Florida, ‘Precious Objects’, Tampa FL
Central Washington University Gallery, ‘National Drawing Invitational’, Ellensberg WA
1980
Holly Solomon Gallery, ‘Three More’, New York NY
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis MO
1979
Freedmann Gallery, Albright College, ‘Small Is Beautiful’, Reading PA
1978
Holly Solomon Gallery, ‘Gold/Silver’, New York NY
Bronx Museum of the Arts, ‘Personal Vision: Places/Spaces’, Bronx NY
1977
P.S.1 Museum, ‘The Painting Show’, Long Island City NY
Sarah Lawrence College, ‘Painting: 75, 76, 77’, Bronxville NY
Museum of Modern Art (Members Gallery), ‘Maps’, New York NY
Holly Solomon Gallery, ‘The First Two Years’, New York NY
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco CA
Galerie Alexandra Monett, ‘Patterning and Decoration’, Brussels/BE
1976
Yale School of Art, ‘Choices’, New Haven CT
Sarah Lawrence College, ‘Non-Collectible Art from the Collection of Horace and Holly Solomon’, Bronxville NY
1975
112 Greene Street, ‘Suzanne Harris, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman’, New York NY
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York NY
1973
Contemporary Arts Center, ‘Options’, Cincinnati OH
Museum of Modern Art (Members Gallery), ‘Landscape’, New York NY
Kenan Center, ‘Ten Artists Who Happen To Be Women’, Fredonia NY
1972
The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Whitney Annual’, New York NY
Kunsthaus Hamburg, ‘American Women Artists’, Hamburg/DE
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Grids’, Boston MA
Newark Museum, ‘Painting and/or Sculpture’, Newark NJ
1971
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Women Artists’, Ridgefield CT
The New Gallery, Cleveland OH
Grants and Prizes
2006
The Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award
