Born in San Francisco, 1940
Lives & works in New York
Education
1959 – 1962 BA Literature at University of California at Santa Barbara
1963 Poetry and ceramics at San Francisco State University
1963 – 1967 MA ceramics and sculpture at University of California at Berkeley
Current/Forthcoming Exhibitions
2017
Curve of a green hill like the the curve of a green shoulder, Mary Mary, Glasgow (G)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2015
Sunset, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
303 Gallery, New York
Mary Heilmann & David Reed: Two by Two, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
2013
Mary Blinky Yay, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Mary Heilmann: Good Vibrations, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Mary Heilmann: Another Green World, Häusler Contemporary, Munich
2012
Mary Heilmann: Good Vibrations, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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, New York
Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
2007
Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone, Orange County Museum, Newport Beach
Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone, CAMH – Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston
2006
Saturday Night Kiss, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich
Mary Heilmann: New Etchings, Crown Point Gallery, San Francisco
2005
Heaven & Hell, 303 Gallery, New York
2004
Hauser & Wirth London, 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, Zurich
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Camden Arts Centre, London
2000
Mary Heilmann: Malerei, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
Mary Heilmann – Jessica Stockholder, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
1999
The All Night Movie, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich
1998
Mary Heilmann: Paintings, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Mary Heilmann: Selected Works, 1978-1998, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, USA
1997
Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles
Mary Heilmann: This and That, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich
Mary Heilmann: Paintings 1973-1997, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich
Modern Art: Paintings and Papers, Wolfgang Häusler, Munich
Galerie Stadtpark, Krems
1995
Works on Paper, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
1994
Mary Heilmann: Paintings, Drawings, Ceramics, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, USA
Works 1971-1994, M Gallery Bochum Kunstvermittlung, Bochum
Greatest Hits, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
San Francisco Art Institute, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco
1993
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
1991
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Green Gallery, Bay Harbour Islands, USA
1990
Mary Heilmann und Jessica Stockholder, Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne
Mary Heilmann: A Survey, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
1989
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
1988
Gallery Mukai, Tokyo
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Hillman Holland Gallery, Atlanta
1986
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
1983
Clocktower, New York
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
1981
Mary Heilmann: Recent Works, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Mary Heilmann: Ceramics, Holly Solomon Editions, New York
1980
Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf
1979
Galleri Wallner Fersens, Malmö, Sweden
Paintings, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
1978
New Paintings, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1976
The Vent Series, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1974
State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
1973
Henri Gallery, Washington
1972
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York
1971
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York
1970
Whitney Museum Art Resource Center, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Splotch, Sperone Westwater, New York
TRI(…ed): Revisiting TRI Gallery, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles
Henkel — The Art Collection, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
John Zurier and Friends, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Summer Choices: A Group Exhibition, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Winter Group Show, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
2015
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Work on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York
Gargle/Spit, TBD, New York
The Permanent Collection: Connections and Context, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, USA
Oceans Eleven, Ille Arts, Amagansett, USA
Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas
Don’t Shoot the Painter – UBS Art Collection, Villa Reale’s Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan
The Crayon Miscellany, OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, USA
2014
Beating around the bush. Episode #2, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Reliable Tension – In Re:, Edgewood Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann’s Legacy Today, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
2013
My Crippled Friend, Columbus Collage of Art and Design, Columbus
Lat. 41 7’ N. Long 72 19’ W., Martos Gallery, East Marion, USA
Reinventing Abstraction, Cheim&Read, New York
2012
Aufbruch – Malerei und realer Raum, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Wurzburg, Germany
Aufbruch – Malerei und realer Raum, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
We had to destroy it in order to save it. Painting in New York in the 1970’s, Christie’s, New York
Seating Arrangements, Ille Arts, Amagansett USA
Creature from the Blue Lagoon, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton
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, USA
Jacci Den Hartog + Mary Heilmann, The Suburban, Oak Park, USA
Architechtural Dispositions, Thomas Soloman 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, and Politics in the 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Indiscipline of Painting, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
Sidetracks – Painting in the Paramodern Continuum, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
2011
Aufbruch: Malerei und realer Raum, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Aufbruch: Malerei und realer Raum, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), mpk, Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Aufbruch: Malerei und realer Raum, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Akademie der Künste Berlin, Berlin
Aufbruch: Malerei und realer Raum, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany
Aufbruch: Malerei und realer Raum, Situation Kunst (für Max Imdahl), Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now, Tate St.Ives, St Ives, England
The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton USA
A Painting Show, Harris Liebermann, New York
112 Greene Street: A Nexus of Ideas in the Early 70s, Salomon Contemporary, New York
The Parallax View, Lehmann Maupin, New York
Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, New York
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton USA
2010
At home / Not at home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art & CCS Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson USA
The More Things Change, SFMoMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
AMBIGU – Malerei im Zwischenbereich/Painting between Abstraction and Narration, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
On The Road, Artpace, San Antonio, USA
For Your Eyes Only, De Markten, Brussels
Devotion, Zurcher Studio, New York
Lean, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha USA
The Big Show 5, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton USA
Swell: Art 1950-2010, Metro Pictures, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, and Nyehaus, New York
Contemporary Collecting: The Donna and Howard Stone Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
High Ideals & Crazy Dreams, Vera Munro, Hamburg,
Make Yourself at Home, 7Eleven Gallery, New York
For Your Eyes Only, De Markten, Brussels
Think Pink!, Four Seasons Resort, Palm Beach
A Two Gallery Teacup Show: Drawings, Paintings, Collage, Sculpture and Poetry, Rose Burlingham and Turtle Point Press, New York
2009
Mixed Greens: Artists Choose Artists on the East End, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton USA
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 USA
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
Abstract Vision, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich
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
Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Abstrakt Abstract, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, Waltham USA
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
How to Cook a Wolf, Dinter Fine Art, New York
Abstract Mash-Up, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Emerson vs Nietzsche, China Art Objects at Cottage Home, Los Angeles
Royal Academy Illustrated 2008, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Out of the Blue, Gallery m Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Present Tense, Spanierman Modern, New York
The Annual Hampton Show, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton USA
The Big Show 3, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, USA
Zuordnungsprobleme, Johann König, Berlin
The Art of the Real, Oud Vliegveld, Oostende, Belgium
2007
Massart Faculty Show, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown USA
Counterparts, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach USA
Painting’s Edge, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts USA
Short Distance To Now, Galerie Thomas Flor, Dusseldorf
Nordea’s art collection, Henie Onstad Centre of Art, Hovikodden, Norway
Franz West, Soufflé – eine Massenausstellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Hovering Over the Universe …, Honor Fraser, Venice USA
Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic, 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
Painting as Fact-Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich
Group Show, Honor Fraser, Venice USA
Humberto Duque, Mary Heilmann, David Korty, Marzena Nowak, Isa Schmidlehner, Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Abstraction: Extracting from the World, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield
High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975, National Academy Museum, New York
High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
2006
Chère Louise: in onore di Louise Bourgeois per il suoi 95 anni, Museo d`Arte Moderna, Ascona, Switzerland
25 years Zeno X, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Woman’s work. Large Scale Paintings 1970-1990, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro USA
High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington
Seasons Club July 2006, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Infinite Painting. Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo (Udine), Italy
2005
The Painted World, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA
The Early Show, White Columns, New York
Drunk vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Loveparade 1, Häusler Contemporary, Munich
POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston
The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950-2005, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Post-Modern, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2004
Grenzüberschreitung, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Masters of the Obvious, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA
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, Tampa, USA
2002
Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich
Farbe!, Häusler Contemporary, Munich
Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture, 48 Wall Street, New York
Objects of Desire, Jan Abrams Fine Arts, New York
House of Fiction. Sammlung (3), Hauser & Wirth Collection, St.Gallen, 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
Künstlerräume/Sammlerräume, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Part Two (1988-1994), Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Liquid Properties, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York
Art for Shelter, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2000
Jessica Stockholder – Mary Heilmann (Gemälde aus der Sammlung Hauser und Wirth), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Das Gedächtnis der Malerei, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Master Art Workshop Exhibition, Avram Gallery, Southampton USA
Contemporary Art, Embassy Suites Hotel, New York
1999
Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Abstrakt, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Special Offer, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
1998
Small Paintings, Cheim & Read, New York
Shopping the stars, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Painting: Now and Forever, Matthew Marks Gallery and Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Sea Change, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA
1997
KünstlerInnen: 50 Positionen zeitgenössischer internationaler Kunst, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Abstraction/Abstractions. Géométries Provisoires, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Display, 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
Reconditioned Abstraction, Forum for Contemporary Art, Saint Louis
Leap of Faith: Gregory Amenoff, Mary Heilmann, Gary Stephan, Michael Volanakis, National Arts Club, New York
1996
The 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
Abstrakte Malerie heute, Kunsthalle Bielefeld,, Bielefeld, Germany
Passage de l’acte, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Order/Disorder, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA
A Labor of Love, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Critiques of Pure Abstraction, UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles
1995
Mary Heilmann and Elizabeth Cannon, Cristine Rose Gallery, New York
Karo Dame. Konstruktive, Konkrete und Radikale Konzepte von Frauen von 1914 bis heute, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Works on Paper, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Critiques of Pure Abstraction, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston
All about Edges, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA
Twenty-five Americans: Paintings in the Nineties, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
Transatlantica: The America-Europa Non-Representiva, Museo Alejandro Oter, Caracas, Venezuela
Blue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
1994
About Color, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Embraceable You: Current Abstractions, Selby Gallery, Sarasota, USA
Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York
Reveillon `94, Stux Gallery, New York
Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting in Miami, Center for Fine Art, Miami
Mary Heilmann, Jene Highstein, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington
1993
Supervision, Räume für neue Kunst, Wuppertal, Germany
The Return of the Exquisite Cadavre, The Drawing Center, New York
The Return of the Exquisite Cadavre, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
The Return of the Exquisite Cadavre, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
The Return of the Exquisite Cadavre, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis
The Return of the Exquisite, American Center, Paris, France
Der zerbrochene Spiegel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Der zerbrochene Spiegel, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Future Perfect. Lili Dujourie, Ann Hamilton, Mary Heilmann, Pello Irazu, Vladimir Kokolia, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Brigitte Kowanz, Langlads & Bell, Walter Obholzer, Elmar Trenkwalder, Günter Umberg, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst / Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
Italia-America: L’Astrazione Ridefinita, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Logge dei Balestrieri, San Marino, Italy
New American Abstraction, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Watercolors, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Ageometry, Michael Klein, New York
1992
Bedroom Pictures, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Mary Heilmann, Jack Pierson, Jessica Stockholder, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Slow Art: Painting in NY Now, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City
A-Geometry, Michael Klein Gallery, New York
Not Men, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles
On Condition. Painting Between Abstraction and Representation, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
Martha Diamond, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman and Bernard Piffaretti: Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Shades of Difference (The Feminine in Abstract Painting), Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
1991
Stubborn Painting, Now and Then, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
New Editions, Pace Prints, New York
J.F.K. In Memoriam, Mythology and Denial, Renee Fotouhi Fine Art, East Hampton, USA
1990
The Ends of Painting. The Edges of Abstraction, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Mary Boocheever, David Diao, Stephen Ellis, Mary Heilmann, Ika Huber, Stephen Westfall, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia
Geometric Abstractions, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica
Ohio University School of Art, Athens, USA
Fluid Geometry, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, Connecticut
1989
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Restructure. Subverting the Grid, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit USA
Diagrams and Surrogates, Shea & Becker Gallery, New York
Abstract Options, University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
A Debate on Abstraction, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York NY University, New York
Expressive Abstractions, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
___, Gallery 1709, St. Louis, USA
1988
Sightings. Drawing with Color, Instituto de Estudios Nordamericanos, Barcelona
Sightings. Drawing with Color, Pratt Institute, New York
Among Them, But Not Of Them, Saxon Lee Gallery, Los Angeles
___, Robin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
___, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
Spirited Logic, M-13 Gallery, New York
Contemporary Art Auction 2, La Galeria en El Bohio, New York
1987
Sculpture, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup and Vase, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
40th Biennial of American Contemporary Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
1986
The Use of Geometry in the 80s, Wright State University Art Gallery, Dayton, USA
___, Fred Hoffmann Gallery, Venice, USA
Drawing Show, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
1985
Mary Heilmann, Janice Tchalenko, Betty Woodman, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Anniversary Show, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1984
Brilliant Color, Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York
Forms that Function, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, USA
Drawings: New Dimensions, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Bomb Magazine Benefit, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York
1983
Women Artists Retrospective, Douglas College Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Precious Objects, University Art Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
National Drawing Invitational, Central Washington University Gallery, Ellensberg, USA
Thirty-ninth Scripps College Ceramic Annual, Lang Art Gallery, Claremont, USA
1981
A Painting Show: Painting for the Eighties, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
Selections from Holly Solomon Editions, Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, USA
More Portraits: Anne Doran, Joan Logue, Mark Magill/Mary Heilmann, The Kitchen, New York
1980
Three More, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
___, Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, USA
The Norman Fisher Collection, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, USA
1979
Small Is Beautiful, Freedmann Gallery, Albright College, Reading, USA
1978
Gold / Silver, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Personal Vision: Places / Spaces, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, USA
1977
The Painting Show, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City
Painting: 75, 76, 77, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, USA
Maps, Museum of Modern Art (Members Gallery), New York
The First Two Years, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
___, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Patterning and Decoration, Galerie Alexandra Monett, Brussels
1976
Choices, Yale School of Art, New Haven
Non-Collectible Art from the Collection of Horace and Holly Solomon, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, USA
1975
Suzanne Harris, Mary Heilmann, Harriet Korman, 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York
Group Show, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1973
Options 73/30: Recent Works of Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Landscape, Museum of Modern Art (Members Gallery), New York
Ten Artists (Who Happen To Be Women), Kenan Center, Lockport, USA
1972
Whitney Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
American Women Artists, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
Grids, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Painting and / or Sculpture, Newark Museum, Newark
Painting and Sculpture Today, 1972, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA
Three painters: Mary Heilmann, Pat Steir, and Joan Snyder, Fine Art Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA
Henri 2 Gallery, Washington
1971
Women Artists, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
New Gallery, Cleveland
1970
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York
Selected Awards and Grants
2012
Biennial Award for Contemporary Art, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Hartford, Hartford CT
2006
The Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award