Yolande Heijnen
Lives and works in NYC. Born in Luxembourg, Europe. Dutch National.
AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES
2023 Frederieke Sanders Taylor (FST) Studio Project Fund Grant, New York, NY.
2021 Golden Foundation Residency, New Berlin, NY.
2019 Frederieke Sanders Taylor (FST) Studio Project Fund Grant, New York, NY.
2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency – August 2019, Johnson, Vermont.
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2018 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2016 Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant, New York, NY.
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Certificate of Excellence, 18th Annual International Portrait Competition, Washington DC.
2015 John R. Grabach Memorial Award, American Artists Professional League. New York, NY.
Gregory Lysun Grant, New York, NY.
2014 Audubon Artist Award, 86th Grand National Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY.
2013 Adolf H. and Ada Aldrich Scholarship, New York, NY.
PRESS
2022 Inspirational Art Magazine, Issue 66: October 2022. Please click here.
2021 WestView News, The Voice of the West Village. Someone, Someplace, Else: Paintings by
Yolande Heijnen. 10/02/21, by Anne Olshansky. Please click here.
2021 Dart, Design Arts Daily: The Dart Board: 10.06.2021, by Peggy Roalf. Please click here.
2020 ArtSpiel.org, Artists on Coping: Yolande Heijnen, May 31, 2020, by Catherine Kirpatrick.
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2020 Trans-cen-der Art Group (TAG) Artist Talk, Temporary Storage, Bushwick, NY, coordinated by
Jeffrey Morabito.
2019 ArtSpiel.org, BOS Studio Spotlight: Yolande Heijnen, Nov. 12, 2019, by Catherine Kirkpatrick, NYC.
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2019 Manifest International Painting Annual: INPA 8.
2018 Platformme Magazine Launch issue. The Royals: Selected portrait artists recreate a fashion
editorial.
2018 Gallery 35”s page in April 2018 issue of Murray Hill’s Community Connections following a two-
person show, People Places & Things.
2016 Lines from the League: The Artist and the Artists’s Model.
SHOWS
2023 Solo show at Almayer Art & Heritage Hotel, Zadar, Croatia
First Street Gallery, 2023 National Juried Exhibition, curated by Susanna Coffey, NYC
LCU fund 2023 scholar leadership awards and online auction, NYC
New York Studio School, Anonymous was a Masterpiece 2023, NYC
New York Studio School, 2023 Alumni Exhibition, Online Artsy.net
2022 Said to be Dreaming. Group show, Olympia Gallery, 41 Orchard St, NYC
New York Studio School Alumni Show, NYC
Seduction. Group Show, Incubator Gallery, 56 Bogart St., Brooklyn, NY
Made in Paint. Group show, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
Searchlight, curated by Samuel Rowlett, Group show, Exhibition partnership of The Art Students League
and Chashama. One Brooklyn Park, NY
2021 Someone, Someplace, Else. Curated by Chantal Soong-Lee. Solo show at Revelation Gallery, 224
Waverly Place, NYC
New York Studio School Alumni Show. Online Artsy.net
As If Eternity Cared. Group show, Incubator Gallery 56 Bogart St., Brooklyn, NY
States of America. Two-person show at Village Work, 90 E 3rd, NYC
Truth to Power. Collaboration between Soho Renaissance Factory, Margalit Jerusalem Venture
Partners, and the New York Studio School Alumni Association, NYC
Primavera. Exhibition partnership of The Art Students League and Chashama. One Brooklyn Park, NY
WHAM. Goddard Riverside and Artspeak Collective collaboration. Online exhibition. NYC
2020 Adieu 2020. Incubator Gallery, 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY
Fantasia. Curated by artists Naomi Campbell, Marshall Jones, and Haksul Lee. Group show, Exhibition
partnership of The Art Students League and Chashama. One Brooklyn Park, NY
New York Studio School Alumni Show. Online Artsy.net. Juried by Hollis Taggart, Berry Campbell, Miles McEnery,
Public Swim, and Zurcher Gallery, NYC
Overall There Is No Wall. Curated by Maria Paz Contreras in collaboration with Ironic Art Nation,
Chinatown, NYC
Soup Canvas. Instagram fundraiser for Urban School Food Alliance, NYC
Artists Give 2020. Women History Artist Month, Goddard Riverside Bernie Wohl Center, NYC
March of Time. Curated by John A. Holt. Friday Studio Gallery, 56 Bogart St. Brooklyn, NY
2019 Tom & Jerry’s Bar, Solo show, Noho, NYC
Bowery Gallery 28th Annual Juried Show. Juror: Ro Lohin, NYC
Where We Are. Three-person show, New York Studio School, NYC
Art She Says. Group Show, Space Gallery St Barth, Soho, NYC
Small Works Exhibition. group show, Manhattan Borough President’s Office, NYC
Interiors. group show, Gallery 35, NYC
2018 Grant Winners Exhibition. Harriman Mason Gallery, NYC
Waterfront. group show, Manhattan Borough President’s office, NYC
Faces. group show, Site: Brooklyn, NYC
[STartUP] Silent Auction and Exhibition, Harriman Mason Gallery, NYC
People, Places & Things. Two-person show, Gallery 35, NYC
Seventh Annual Art Benefit for the Homeless. Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services, NYC
Six Artists in New York. New York Studio School, NYC
Red. group show, Gallery 35, NYC
2017 Suspended. Multimedia group show, White Space, NYC
From Summer. Group show, New York Studio School, NYC
All Art +. Group show, Van der Plas Gallery, NYC
Grant Winners Show. Harriman Mason Gallery, NYC
Single Fare. NY Metro Card Show, New York Academy, NYC
Sixth Annual Art Benefit for the Homeless. Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services, NYC
Windows. group show, Gallery 35, NYC
The 8th Annual Small Works Exhibition. group show, Manhattan Borough President’s office, NYC
2016 A Somatic Fall. figurative group show, Ess Ef Eff, Brooklyn, NYC
Work. 3-artists show. Miller Misc. 17 Essex St, NYC
Fifth Annual Art Benefit for the Homeless. Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services, NYC
2015 The Seventh Annual Small Works Exhibition. Manhattan Borough President’s Office, NYC
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Arts Club Annual Exhibition. The National Arts Club, NYC
The New New People. group show, Big Irv’s Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
22”x30”. Group show, Manhattan Borough President’s Office, NYC
ARTIST ASSISTANT
2020 - present Firelei Baez LLC, New York, NY. Assist in painting. Please click here.
2020 - 2023 Kon Trubkovich, New York, NY. Studio Manager.
2017 – 2021 En-Viu LLC, New York, NY. Please click here.
Assist in execution of hand painted murals for luxury properties: Edition’s Paradise Club, an Ian Shrager Hotel; The Fulton, a Jean-Georges restaurant, NYC; The Rosewood Guangzhou, China; The Londoner Hotel, Leicester Square, London.
2015 – 2016 Jeff Koons LLC, New york, NY.
TEACHING
1/2020 - ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Adelphi University, Department of Art and Art History.
12/2020 Classes taught: Drawing Workshop, Colors and Materials (graduate level), Watercolor,
Painting Studio (graduate level)
2020 - Jan Portrait Workshop at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.
2009 – 2010 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Fashion Institute of Technology, Department of Fashion Art.
Classes taught:Design Development, Model Drawing for Fashion, and t one-year Fashion
Art program.
ART EDUCATION
2017 – 2019 MFA, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, NYC
2013 – 2017 Art Students League, NYC
2013 – 2015 Marshall Jones Studio, NYC
1998 – 2010 Spring Drawing Studio, NYC