Biography Mary Heilmann

Born 1940 in San Francisco Lives and works in New York and Bridgehampton

Education

1967 MA, ceramics and sculpture, University of California, Berkeley 1963 Studies in poetry and ceramics, San Francisco State University 1962 BA, literature, University of California, Santa Barbara

Selected Awards and Grants

2012 Biennial Award for Contemporary Art, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT 2009 College Art Association, Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work Artist of the Year, Rob Pruitt’s The First Annual Art Awards 2006 The Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award 1997 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant recipient

Solo Exhibition (selection)

2015 Mary Heilmann & David Reed. Two By Two, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin 2013 Mary, Blinky, Yay! Mary Heilmann and Blinky Palermo in a Dialogue, Kunstmuseum Bonn Mary Heilmann, Another Green World, Häusler Contemporary, Munich 2012 BACA 2012: Mary Heilmann: Good Vibrations, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands; Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany (traveling exhibition) Visions, Waves and Roads, Hauser & Wirth, London 2010 Home Sweet Home, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin Weather Report: Drawings and Prints, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2009 Two-Lane Blacktop, 303 Gallery, New York 2008 Some Pretty Colors, Zwirner & Wirth, New York 2007 Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone, organized by Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; New Museum, New York (traveling exhibition) 2006 Saturday Night Kiss, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich Mary Heilmann: New Etchings, Crown Point Gallery, San Francisco 2005 Heaven & Hell, 303 Gallery, New York 2004 Hauser & Wirth, London 2003 Mary Heilmann: All Tomorrow’s Parties, Secession, Vienna Mary Heilmann: The Architecture of Heaven, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 2002 American Fine Arts, New York Mary Heilmann: Home, Kenny Schachter Gallery, New York 2001 Hauser & Wirth, Zürich Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna Camden Arts Centre, London 2000 Mary Heilmann: Malerei, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany Galerie Vera Munroe, Hamburg

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1999 The All Night Movie, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich 1998 Mary Heilmann: Paintings, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York Mary Heilmann: Selected Works, 1978–1998, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas 1997 Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles Mary Heilmann, This and That, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zürich Mary Heilmann: Paintings, 1973–1997, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich Modern Art: Paintings and Papers, Wolfgang Häusler, Münich Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria 1995 Works on Paper, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2014 10th Annual Thanksgiving Collective: Attitudes, Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, NY New Additions to the Guild Hall Museum Permanent Collection 2010-2014, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Paintings on Paper, David Zwirner, New York The Shaped Canvas, Revisited, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York Starting Here: A Selection of Distinguished Artists from UCSB, AD&A Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara Eight Books Two Weeks, t.a.t. new talents powered by DEG, Cologne Painting and Canvas in Conversation, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey, curated by Mina Totino; Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hoffmann’s Legacy Today, curated by Stacey Gershon and Deborah Goodman Davis; Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York Reliable Tension or: How to Win a Conversation About Jasper Johns, curated by John Pilson; Yale School of Art, 32 Edgewood Gallery, New Haven, CT Capture the Rapture, curated by Rory Devine; CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles The Age of Small Things, curated by Chuck Webster; Dodge Gallery, New York Hooray for Hollywood!, Pavel Zoubak Gallery in collaboration with Mixed Greens, New York 2013 40 Years at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles Paint On, Paint Off, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY My Crippled Friend, Columbus College of Art and Design, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus, OH Water, Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, NY LAT. 41° 7’ N., LONG. 72° 19’ W, Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s, curated by Raphael Rubinstein; Cheim & Read, New York ambient, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Mapping the Contemporary Print: Selections from the Anderson Collection, de Young Museum, San Francisco 2012 Smile American Art – Kienbaum Collection, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne Seating Arrangements, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY Creature from the Blue Lagoon, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY It’s Always Summer on the Inside, Anton Kern Gallery, New York Braman, Buren, Falls, Heilmann, Louis and Thurman, Eleven Rivington, New York Inside Outsiders: Mary Heilmann and Friends, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY Jacci Den Hartog + Mary Heilmann, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL

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Architectural Dispositions, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Mind Head, JiM Contemporani, Barcelona This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, organized by Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (traveling exhibition) Sidetracks: Painting in the Paramodern Continuum, Stavanger Art Museum, Norway 2011 Aufbruch: Malerei und realer Raum, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr- Universität Bochum, Germany; mpk, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany; Akademie der Künste Berlin; Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Germany; Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany (traveling exhibition) The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK; Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK (traveling exhibition) The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, New York A Painting Show, Harris Liebermann, New York Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio The Parallax View, Lehmann Maupin, New York 112 Greene Street: A Nexus of Ideas in the Early 70s, Salomon Contemporary, New York 2010 The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco A Two Gallery Teacup Show: Drawings, Paintings, Collage, Sculpture and Poetry, Rose Burlingham, and Turtle Point Press, New York The Big Show 5, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Swell: Art 1950-2010, Metro Pictures, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, and Nyehaus, New York At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art/Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Contemporary Collecting: The Donna and Howard Stone Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago High Ideals & Crazy Dreams, Vera Munro, Hamburg Ambigu: Malerei im Zwischenbereich/Painting between Abstraction and Narration, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gall, Switzerland \(LEAN), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York Make Yourself at Home, 7Eleven Gallery, New York For Your Eyes Only, De Markten, Brussels On the Road, Artpace, San Antonio, TX Devotion, Zurcher Studio, New York Think Pink!, Four Seasons Resort, Palm Beach, FL Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha 2009 Mixed Greens: Artists Choose Artists on the East End, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY Objects, Furniture, and Patterns, Art Since the Summer of ‘69, New York Your Gold Teeth II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Spectrum, Ross School Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Social Sculpture, Whitechapel Gallery, London The Ballad That Becomes an Anthem, Acme, Los Angeles Mary’s Choice, 303 Gallery, New York 2008 Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Angels in America, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago How to Cook a Wolf: Part One, Dinter Fine Art, New York Abstract Mash-Up, Crown Point Press, San Francisco Emerson vs Nietzsche, China Art Objects at Cottage Home, Los Angeles The Art of the Real, Oud Vliegveld, Ostend, Belgium

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Royal Academy Illustrated 2008, Royal Academy of Arts, London Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Neftali, New York Out of the Blue, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany Present Tense, Spanierman Modern, New York The Annual Hamptons Show, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY The Big Show 3, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Zuordnungsprobleme, Johann Koenig, Berlin Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York New Editions, Pace Editions 57th Street, New York Heilmann/Berkenblit, Pace Editions Chelsea, New York Abstrakt Abstract, Museum Moderner Kunst Karnten, Klagenfurt, Austria Abstract Vision, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, Waltham, MA 2007 Franz West Soufflé: a mass exhibition, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Highlights from DnB Nor’s Art Collection 1846-2006, Henie Onstad Centre of Art, Hovikodden, Norway Massart Faculty Show, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA Hovering Over the Universe…, curated by Kristin Calabrese; Honor Fraser, Venice, CA Makers and Modelers, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York A Point in Space Is a Place for an Argument, David Zwirner, New York Three for Society, 303 Gallery, New York Short Distance to Now, Galerie Thomas Flor, Dusseldorf Group Show, Honor Fraser, Venice, CA Counterparts, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA Painting as Fact – Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich Abstraction: Extracting from the World, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, England Humberto Duque, Mary Heilmann, David Korty, Marzena Nowak, Isa Schmidlehner, Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, organized by Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY (traveling exhibition) High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975, organized by Independent Curators International, New York; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; American University, Washington, D.C.; National Academy Museum, New York; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (traveling exhibition) Painting’s Edge, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, CA 2006 Women’s Work: Large Scale Painting, 1970–1990, Greenberg Van Doren, New York Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Udine, Italy 25 Years Zeno X, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Chère Louise: in onore di Louise Bourgeois per il suoi 95 anni, Museo d`Arte Moderna, Ascona, Switzerland 2005 The Early Show, curated by the General Store, Milwaukee; White Columns, New York Drunk vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (traveling exhibition) Post Modern, Greene Naftali, New York The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950–2005, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

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The Painted World, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY 2004 North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now, curated by Klaus Kertess; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY Masters of the Obvious, curated by Roger Boyce; Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Grenzüberschreitung, Galerie m Bochum, Germany 2003 ON, Galerie Renos Xippas, Athens There’s No Land but the Land (Up There Is Just a Sea of Possibilities), Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany Crosscurrents at Century’s End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Florida 2002 Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich Farbe! Häusler Contemporary, Münich Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture, 48th Wall Street, New York Objects of Desire, Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York House of Fiction: Sammlung (3), Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gall, Switzerland Inaugurazione, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy 2001 Mary Heilmann—Joanne Greenbaum, Greengrassi Gallery, London Shadow Dancing: 1975–79, D'Amelio Terras, New York Part Two (1988–1994), Pat Hearn Gallery, New York Liquid Properties, Cheim & Read, New York Art for Shelter, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany Künstlerräume/Sammlerräume, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland 2000 Jessica Stockholder—Mary Heilmann (Gemälde aus der Sammlung Hauser & Wirth), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gall, Switzerland Das Gedächtnis der Malerei, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland Master Art Workshop Exhibition, Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Southampton, NY Contemporary Art, Embassy Suites Hotel, New York 1999 Cosmogram, Galleria Marabini, Bologna Free Coke, Green Naftali, New York Abstrakt, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg Special Offer, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany 1998 Painting: Now and Forever, Matthew Marks Gallery and Pat Hearn Gallery, New York Small Paintings, Cheim & Read, New York Sea Change, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY Shopping the Stars, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium 1997 KünstlerInnen: 50 Positionen zeitgenössischer internationaler Kunst, curated by Edelbert Köb; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria Abstraction/Abstractions, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne, France Display, curated by Mikael Andersen; Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen Drawing and Painting, Wooster Gardens, New York American Women Artists of the Seventies, Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York Systematic, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbour Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York Mary Heilmann, Joan Jonas, Jutta Koether, Monique Prieto, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York Susret-Encounter: Artists and Refugees, School of Interior Design, New York Leap of Faith: Gregory Amenoff, Mary Heilmann, Gary Stephan, Michael Volanakis, National Arts Club, New York Reconditioned Abstraction, Forum for Contemporary Art, Saint Louis

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1996 Flying Saucer Project: Steven Baines, Mary Heilmann, Steve Keister, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York Abstract Practice, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg A Grapefruit in the World of Park, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Malerei II, Monika Sprüth, Cologne Nuevas abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museu d’Art Contemporanide, Barcelona; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (traveling exhibition) Order/Disorder, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Passage de l'acte, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Critiques of Pure Abstraction, UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles A Labor of Love, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 1995 Mary Heilmann and Elizabeth Cannon, Christine Rose Gallery, New York Karo Dame, curated by Beat Wismer; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland Critiques of Pure Abstraction, curated by Mark Rosenthal; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston Works on Paper, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp All about Edges, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Twenty-five Americans: Painting in the Nineties, Milwaukee Art Museum Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Transatlantica: The America-Europa Non Representiva, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela Blue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco

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