Mary Heilmann: Long Line
Fri, May 30
|Whitney Museum of American Art
Mary Heilmann returns to the Whitney with a bold, immersive installation inviting color, contemplation, and community.
Time & Location
May 30, 2025, 7:00 AM – Jan 19, 2026, 11:00 PM
Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, USA
About the event
April 9, 2025 – January 19, 2026
Whitney Museum of American Art
Floor 5, Outdoor Gallery
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of its new building, the Whitney Museum presents Mary Heilmann: Long Line, a radiant, site-specific installation that blends sculpture, painting, and design into a playful space of visual joy and public engagement.
Anchored by an oversized hand-painted adaptation of Heilmann’s 2020 work Long Line, the exhibition also features a range of her signature sculptural chairs, offering visitors a chance to relax, reflect, and interact with art in unexpected ways. Drawing from the rhythms of the Hudson River and waves crashing along the coasts of Long Island and California, the piece brings together geometric minimalism with a 1960s countercultural flair.
More than just an artwork, Long Line is an environment—a luminous bridge between the urban and natural, the contemplative and the communal. A follow-up to Heilmann’s beloved Sunset (2015) installation, this new piece reactivates the…