Biography

Kylie Heidenheimer (b. Gainesville, Florida) interweaves density and atmosphere in her abstract paintings. Infinities and immediacies come into being, each bringing out qualities and facets of the other. Heidenheimer earned a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Gallery 532 Thomas Jaeckel, NYC, Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY, Ohio Northern University, The Italian Academy at Columbia University, NYC and J.C. Flowers, NYC. She has participated in group exhibitions at Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY, Zürcher Gallery, NYC, 56 Henry, NYC (organized by Joanne Greenbaum), Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, NYC, O’Flaherty’s, NYC, UT Knoxville, TN and the Irwin J. Miller School of Architecture, Columbus, IN.

Heidenheimer attended Yaddo as a Janet Sloane Resident in February 2020. She was also a Yaddo resident in 2016 and prior, a resident at Blue Mountain Center, The Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts as well as elsewhere. Heidenheimer won a Mercedes Matter New York Studio School Alumni Award in 2021 and a Jason McCoy Gallery Drawing Challenge in 2020. Her work has been cited and mentioned in the New York Times. She lives and works in New York.