Background
Von Heyl was born to a German lawyer and French-born psychologist in Mainz. She grew up in Bonn and later studied with Jörg Immendorff at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and with Fritz Schwegler at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Von Heyl was born to a German lawyer and French-born psychologist in Mainz. She grew up in Bonn and later studied with Jörg Immendorff at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and with Fritz Schwegler at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
She also works with drawing, printmaking, and collage. Immendorff later asked her to work for him as his assistant in Düsseldorf. She moved to New York in late 1995.
In 2011-2012, von Heyl had two major traveling retrospectives.
Charline von Heyl, Now or Else started at the Tate Liverpool in Liverpool, England and subsequently traveled to the Kunsthalle Nürnberg in Nuremberg, Germany and the Bonner Kunstverein in Bonn, Germany. A second show, Charline von Heyl, was exhibited within the United States of America at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
Von Heyl was one of six finalists for the 2014 Hugo Boss Prize. In 2010, she was a recipient of the Wex Artist Residency, in association with the Wexner Center for the Arts of Columbus, Ohio.
Von Heyl is represented by the Petzel Gallery in New York City, the Galerie Gisela Capitain in Cologne, and 1301PE in Los Los Angeles
She began exhibiting her work in 1990, at Christian Nagel Galerie in Cologne. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
FRAC Champagne Ardennes, Reims
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Justice of the Peace Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York
Kemper Museum, Saint Louis
Musée d"Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate, United Kingdom.