Biography

Kylie Heidenheimer (b. Gainesville, Florida) alternates density with atmosphere in her narrative abstract paintings and works on paper. She has a BFA from Washington University, St. Louis and an MFA from Hunter College, New York City. Heidenheimer's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Private Public Gallery, Hudson (upcoming); Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY; Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, NYC; Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH; The Italian Academy at Columbia University, NYC and J.C. Flowers, NYC. She has participated in group exhibitions at Private Public Gallery; Gallery Gris; Icebox4, Brooklyn; Zürcher Gallery, NYC; 56 Henry, NYC; Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, NYC; O’Flaherty’s, NYC; UT Knoxville, TN and the Irwin J. Miller School of Architecture, Columbus, IN. Heidenheimer was an Artist House 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 February 2020 as well as a Yaddo resident in 2016. She has also attended 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 in 2019 and Two Coats of Paint published her interview with the Upper East Side gallerist John Molloy in 2023. Heidenheimer’s work has been cited in The New York Times. It is in collections throughout the United States as well as in Australia. She lives and works in New York. Heidenheimer has a studio on the Lower East Side.