Heine doesn’t interpret the world around her so much as she absorbs it, bringing it to life through the fulcrum of her arm, the tip of a wrist or the elegant scrawls that fly off her fingertips – Janet Goleas, Curator
“The investigative qualities of making art are what keeps me coming back. Art, for me, is born of connectivity and reference. My language is created through dialogue with perception as a tool, a physical and intuitive conversation, in which I find freedom and direction."
“Since I was quite young,” Heine says. “I believed that painting is just a recording of that time and that moment. It’s about being very present, following an idea. Following an idea. Following an idea: showing a human being thinking a thought and just following it to the very end.” -- Priscilla Heine in conversation with Amei Wallach
Priscilla Heine is a contemporary abstract painter and sculptor whose work is defined by an emotionally intuitive visual language. Born and raised in New York City, she currently maintains studios in Glover, Vermont, and Punta del Este, Uruguay.
Heine’s work has evolved from early color-field painting to include autobiographical representational elements integrated with a buoyant topography. Her paintings are known for vibrant pigments, tumultuous brushwork, and a blend of internal and external "landscapes". While primarily a painter using oil and charcoal on linen, Heine also creates three-dimensional sculptures from collected artifacts wound within rags shaped with gesso.
In December 2023, a devastating fire destroyed much of her lifetime's artworks in her Vermont studio. Her 2024–2025 solo exhibitions, including The Inexhaustible Present (Maldonado, Uruguay), feature paintings she created immediately after this catastrophic loss.
Priscilla Heine has exhibited her work consistently from 1981 through 2020 at Findlay Galleries, with longtime representation in New York City and Palm Beach, and her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited at the Parrish Art Museum, Islip Art Museum, and the Heckscher Museum of Art, among others.
Priscilla Heine received a formal arts education from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University (BFA and a 5th-year diploma) and additional study at the Arts Students League, Bennington College, the New School and Parsons School of Design.
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PRISCILLA HEINE | The Inexhaustible Present
Museo San Fernando de Maldonado | Casa de la Cultura | Maldonado, Uruguay February 2 - March 6, 2024Priscilla Heine: The Inexhaustible Present takes its title from a 2023 essay by Carter Ratcliff about the work of the painter Priscilla Heine. Although the artist has lost her life's...Read more -
PRISCILLA HEINE: Buoyant Abandon
Southern Vermont Art Center February 11 - May 7, 2023Priscilla Heine: Buoyant Abandon opens Saturday February 11, 2023 at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont and runs through Sunday May 7, 2023. Bending the corners of space...Read more -
ART ON PAPER
Booth A-13 | Pier 36 | New York City September 8 - 11, 2022Cross Contemporary Art Projects curates a pop-up exhibition at Art on Paper - an art fair devoted to works of art on paper. This special show features work by Virginia...Read more
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La Bohème | Opera Vermont
February 13 - 15, 2026Set amidst the backdrop of a future America where AI and technology have taken over, truth in advertising and health advice are completely non-existent, novel...Read more -
PRISCILLA HEINE | Buoyant Abandon
Southern Vermont Art Center | Manchester, VT February 11 - May 7, 2023Priscilla Heine: Buoyant Abandon opens Saturday February 11, 2023 at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont and runs through Sunday May 7, 2023....Read more -
ART ON PAPER NYC
Booth A-13 | Sept 9-11,2022 September 8 - 11, 2022Cross Contemporary Art Projects goes to New York City for the annual Art on Paper Art Fair located in downtown Manhattan's Pier 36, Sept 8...Read more
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PRISCILLA HEINE
A Studio Visit with the Artist March 10, 2022This special visit with Priscilla Heines was produced by Findlay Galleries. Findlay Galleries is a family business founded in 1870 representing over 100 artists and artist estates, with gallery locations in both Palm Beach and New York. Specializing in Impressionism, European Modernism, l’École de Rouen, l’École de Paris, and 20th Century American Art,Read more -
PRISCILLA HEINE
The Artist's View March 10, 2022This interview with painter Priscilla Heine is produced by the Parrish Art Museum as part of their Artist Choosing Artists exhibition program. Artists Choose Artists...Read more -
PRISCILLA HEINE in Conversation with AMEI WALLACH
December 3, 2022Art writer Amei Wallach and artist Priscilla Heine discuss the process and inspiration for Heine's paintings and sculpture.Read more -
PRISCILLA HEINE | Buoyant Abandon | Southern Vermont Art Center | February 11 - May 7, 2023
Priscilla Heine online catalogue and website April 2, 2023Priscilla Heine's abstract paintings and sculptures are exuberant with lush and electric poetry. While unspiraling peace and pleasure, Heine engages in a visual language that...Read more -
PRISCILLA HEINE | Present Tense
· C A T A L O G U E · December 23, 2023Priscilla Heine’s paintings are daring and emotionally intuitive yet playful and buoyant. The artist bends the corners of space with vibrant pigments and tumultuous brushwork...Read more