Kylie Heidenheimer was born in Gainesville, Florida to an Australian mother and German father. She grew up in St. Louis and moved to New York City where she attended Hunter College, earning her MFA. Her work has been the subject of solo shows at Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, J.C. Flowers and Co. and The Italian Academy at Columbia University in New York City. Regionally and nationally, Heidenheimer has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Gris in Hudson, New York and Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. She won a Mercedes Matter New York Studio School Alumni Award in 2021 and a Jason McCoy Gallery Drawing Challenge in 2020.

Heidenheimer’s work has been in group exhibitions in New York at Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, O’Flaherty’s, 56 Henry Gallery, Kianga Ellis Projects, Station Independent, The Hewitt Gallery at Marymount Manhattan College, Equity Gallery and Storefront Bushwick. Group shows outside of the city include Private Public Gallery in Hudson, NY (December 2023), Furnace Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village, CT, Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham, NY, Indiana University’s J. Irwin Miller School of Architecture in Columbus, IN, The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY, UT Knoxville’s Downtown Gallery and The Kleinert James Center, Woodstock.

Heidenheimer was a Janet Sloane Resident at Yaddo in 2020. She also attended Yaddo in 2016 along with prior residencies at Blue Mountain Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Anderson Center and The Millay Colony. Heidenheimer has a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. She lives and works in New York.