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b. 1951, Providence, RI
- Education
- 1977 Tyler School of Art, Graduate Program, Philadelphia, PA
- 1973 Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York, NY
- 1973 BFA, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
- Awards
- 2004 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
- 1997 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
- 1995 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island College
- 1989 Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
- 1989 Paintings Award, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters
- 1987 Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
- 1985 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
- 1984 Harriet and Esteban Vicente Fellowship in Painting
- 1984 Visual Artists Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
- 1982 Special Projects Exhibition, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
- 1980 Visual Artists Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
- 1978 Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
- One Person Exhibitions
- 2008 Recent Work, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- 2008 New Paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
- 2007 Echoes, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 2006 Willy Heeks, New Paintings, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- 2004 Paintings & works on paper, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 2004 Willy Heeks, Poets, Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Hunter Gallery, St. George's School, Newport, RI
- 2004 New Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
- 2004 Recent Work, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- 2001 Paintings and Works on Paper, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
- 2001 Works on Paper, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 2000 Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- 2000 Willy Heeks, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
- 2000 SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA
- 2000 Willy Heeks: Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
- 2000 SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA
- 1999 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1999 Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI
- 1998 Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- 1997 SOMA Gallery, La Jolla, CA
- 1997 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 1997 Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1997 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1996 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
- 1996 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1996 SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA
- 1996 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 1995 Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island college, Providence, RI
- 1995 Barbara Scott Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
- 1994 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1994 University of Montana, Missoula, MT
- 1994 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 1994 Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
- 1993 SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA
- 1992 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
- 1992 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
- 1992 Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
- 1990 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
- 1989 Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
- 1989 Trans Avant Garde Gallery, Austin, TX
- 1989 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1988 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1988 McNeil Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1987 Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
- 1987 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1986 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
- 1986 McNeil Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1985 Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
- 1985 McNeil Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1984 Protech/McNeil gallery, New York, NY
- 1982 P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
- Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2008 Monotypes from the Anderson Collection, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
- 2008 Large Scalle Abstraction, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- 2007 tangible, Benton/Nyce, Greenport, NY
- 2007 Year in Review, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- 2006 Abstract R.I., Charlestown Art Gallery, Charlestown, RI
- 2006 Benton/Nyce, Greenport, NY
- 2006 Webs, Loops, and Skeins in Modern and Contemporary Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
- 2006 Nature Interrupted, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
- 2005 26 Paintings × 26 Painters, Selections from the Raimondi collection, Vitale, Caturano & Company, Chalrestown, MA
- 2005 PAINT, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 2004 Views of Abstraction, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
- 2004 Inaugural Exhibit, Sinclair Gallery,(Studio Upstairs), Washington, D.C
- 2004 Summer Group Exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- 2003 Eleven Painters, Eleven Views of Abstraction, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 2003 Landscapes Seen and Imagined, Sense of Place, Part II, Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
- 2001 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 2000 Layering, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 2000 Büdi Modern Art, Newport, RI
- 2000 Six Painters, Sonoma State University
- 2000 Two Artists: Then, Now, In Between, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
- 1999 Mind's Eye, Booth Contemporary Art, Wakefield, RI
- 1999 Summer Group Exhibition, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1999 Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (catalogue)
- 1998 The Forty-fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907-1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- 1997 Summer Group Show, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1997 Essence, Twenty Abstract Painters, Radix Gallery, New York, NY
- 1996 Abstractions, Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
- 1996 Newance, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1996 (Ap)praising Abstraction, Art Initiatives, New York, NY
- 1995 Optical Consciousness, Gallery Stelling, Leiden, Holland travelled to Tutti Gallerie, Verduno, Piemonte, Italy (catalogue)
- 1995 Extraordinary Experience: Ordinary Object, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
- 1995 New Acquisitions, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- 1994 Paintings from New Jersey Collections, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
- 1994 Creative Collecting: Paintings and Sculptures from the Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Small, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
- 1994 Prints from Experimental Workshop, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1994 Prints from Solo Impression, Inc., New York, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH (catalogue)
- 1993 BOMB Magazine Benefit, Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
- 1993 Fantastic Wanderings, Connecticut College, New London, CT
- 1993 Paintings from New York, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 1992 Marsha Fogel Gallery, East Hampton, NY
- 1992 Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
- 1992 Paper Houses, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1992 In the Spirit of Landscape, Nielsen Gallery, New York, NY
- 1992 Focus, 13th Annual Chicago International Art Exposition, curated by Suzanne Ghez. Renaissance Society
- 1992 New Year - New Work, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
- 1992 Works on Paper, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1991 Art for Your Collection XXVIII, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- 1991 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
- 1991 Five Abstract Painters, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
- 1991 42nd Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- 1991 Vital Forces: Nature in Contemporary Abstractions, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
- 1991 Issues (Drawing), Ruggiero Gallery, New York, NY
- 1990 Organic Abstraction, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
- 1990 30th Anniversary Exhibition of the Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Turmac Tobacco Company, BV, Zevenaar, The Netherlands
- 1990 The Unique Print; the 70's into the 90's, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- 1990 The Ends of Paintings; the Edges of Abstractions, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 1990 Works on Paper, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1989 Passing the Hat, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
- 1989 The Reunion of Distant Cousins, Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
- 1989 Exhibition of Award Recipients, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
- 1989 Artists of the '80s: Selected Works from the Maslow Collection, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, PA
- 1989 Transcendent, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1988 Selections from the Collection of Helen Herrick & Milton Brutten, Philadelphia Art Alliance
- 1988 Ten Americans, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1987 Four Corners of Abstraction, White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Bill Arning
- 1987 Willy Heeks, George Korsmit, James Siena, Jeffrey Neale Gallery, New York, NY
- 1987 Abstract Paintings, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale, NY
- 1986 Painting: Abstraction Rediscovered, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
- 1985 Passionate Abstraction, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
- 1984 Nature, Dramatic Personae Gallery, New York, NY
- 1984 Drawing with Respect to Painting, New York Studio School, New York, NY
- 1982 Making It, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
- 1981 Five Young New York City Artists, Ericson Gallery, New York, NY
- 1979 Accumulation/Arrangement, Eric Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- 1978 Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- 1978 Situations/Scenarios, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
- Corporate and Museum Collections
- BP America, Cleveland, OH
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
- Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
- Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Mass.
- Dow Jones, Inc., New York, NY
- Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Chicago, IL
- Henry Kaufman & Co., New York, NY
- Industrial National Bank, Providence, RI
- Inter-Metro Industries corporation, Wilkes-Barre, PA
- Jefferson Bank, Philadelphia, PA
- Little Caesar's, Inc., Detroit, MI
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
- Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
- NYNEX, White Plains, NY
- Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass
- Piper and Marbury, New York, NY
- Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
- Progressive Corporation, Shaker Heights, OH
- Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
- Quad Graphics, Suffix, WI
- Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, NY
- Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Sherman & Sterling, New York, NY
- Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
- Southeast Banking Corporation, Miami, FL
- Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
- Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
- University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- Williams & Sonoma, Inc., San Francisco, CA
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