Willy Heeks

BIO

Willy Heeks, born in 1951, has gained a national reputation, exhibiting in New York, Los Angeles, and throughout the United States. He received his BFA from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston in 1973, attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program that same year and in 1977 he received his MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. His work has been acquired by the Peabody-in-Essex Museum (Salem, MA), Museum of Contemporary Art, (Detroit, MI), and the Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH). His work is also in the collections of the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York, NY), Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA).


EXHIBITIONS

ARCHIVED:

Willy Heeks | New Philosophies
October 1 - 31, 2015

Willy Heeks | My Findings
June 28 - July 28, 2012

Willy Heeks | Ocean House
November 5, 2009 - January 2, 2010

Willy Heeks
February 1 - 24, 2007

Willy Heeks & Jessyca Burke
December 2 - 22, 2004 

Willy Heeks & A Sense of Place | a group exhibition
July 7 - 30, 1994