Mary Heilmann
1940
American artist (born 1940)
Mary Heilmann is an American painter based in Manhattan and Bridgehampton in Long Island, New York. She has had solo shows and traveling exhibitions at galleries including 303 Gallery (Manhattan) and Hauser & Wirth in Zurich, Switzerland and at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio and the New Museum on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. She has been cited by many younger artists, particularly women, as being an influential figure.