Biography

Kylie Heidenheimer (b. Gainesville, Florida) alternates density and atmosphere across surfaces and depths in her abstract paintings. She has a BFA from Washington University, St. Louis and an MFA from CUNY Hunter College. Her work has been the subject of solo shows at Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY; Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY; Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York, NY; Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH; The Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York, NY and J.C. Flowers, New York, NY. She has participated in group exhibitions at Icebox4, Brooklyn, NY; Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY; 56 Henry, New York, NY; Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, New York, NY; O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY; Furnace Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT; UT Knoxville, Knoxville, TN and the Irwin J. Miller School of Architecture, Columbus, IN. Heidenheimer was a printmaking resident and visiting artist at St. Mary's College of Maryland in 2025 and 2024. She was also a Janet Sloane Yaddo guest in early 2020 as well as a guest in 2016. She has attended earlier residencies at Blue Mountain Center, The Millay Colony and five times at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Heidenheimer won a New York Studio School Mercedes Matter Award in 2021 and a Jason McCoy Gallery Drawing Challenge in 2020. She co-curated the exhibition Incise, Echo and Repeat at The Abrazo Gallery, New York, NY in 2019 and has written for Two Coats of Paint. Heidenheimer’s work has been cited in The New York Times and is in collections in the United States and Australia. She lives and works in New York.