Mary Heilmann
Artist
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Mary Heilmann, fearless colourist and singular abstract painter, has died, aged 86
A Californian through and through, but based in New York for most of her life, she took lessons from ceramics, design, Post-Minimalism, hard-edged abstraction and more, synthesising them into something wholly her own
Frieze New York 2025preview
Whitney Museum of American Art invites visitors to take in the river view
Mary Heilmann’s fifth-floor installation creates a calm space of refuge amidst the frenetic pace of Frieze week
Exhibitionsinterview
Mary Heilmann: My work follows 'no linear time. It's all a chunk'
As her Hauser & Wirth exhibition launches online, the 81-year-old artist tells us about her early influences, being taught by David Hockney, and why pink is punk