Daniel Heidkamp (b. 1980, Wakefield, Massachusetts) lives and works in New York. Working in the space between realism and abstraction, Heidkamp creates color-saturated paintings that map physical and psychological landscapes. Anchored in direct observation and often developed through en plein air practice, his work distills lived experience, memory, and art-historical inquiry into hypnotic, liminal scenes. Light and color function as transformative forces in his paintings, pushing naturalistic imagery toward heightened chroma and perceptual intensity. Landscapes, interiors, and figures are rendered not as fixed sites, but as mutable environments shaped by time, place, and subjective experience.

Heidkamp frequently travels to locations he describes as possessing “art energy”, that is, sites that have played a formative role in the history of painting, including Cape Ann, Barbizon, the German Romantic landscape, Yosemite, and the French Riviera. By painting these places firsthand and revisiting the movements they inspired, Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, and American landscape traditions, Heidkamp explores how modes of seeing can be reactivated in the present. While rooted in observation, his work allows color to assert its own logic, drawing from both nature and the alchemical material vitality of oil paint itself.

Solo exhibitions include Acquavella Galleries (Palm Beach), Half Gallery (New York and Los Angeles), Loyal (Stockholm), Pace Prints (New York), The Journal Gallery (New York), and White Columns (New York). His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Almine Rech (New York), Blum & Poe (Los Angeles), SPURS Gallery (Beijing), and The Ranch (Montauk), among others. Heidkamp’s work was featured in Talking Pictures at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2017 and is included in the museum’s permanent collection.

Education

2003 BFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2003 BA in English Literature, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2001 International Exchange Program University of Westminster, London, England

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Paint Factory, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden

2023
Tempo, Acquavella Galleries, Palm Beach, FL

2022
Rendezvous, Half Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Esprit de Corps, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden

2021
Here and There, Half Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2020
Amphora, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Senses of Place, Pace Prints, New York, NY

2019
Elevated States, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2018
Wavelength, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden

2017
Paper Cuts, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Coasting, Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY
Boston to Brooklyn, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2016
Jaws Dropping, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY
New York, New Work, Half Gallery, New York, NY
Pump The Peninsula, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Daniel Heidkamp, Pace Prints, New York, NY

2015
Barbizon Beauty School, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2014
Daniel Heidkamp, White Columns, New York, NY

2011
Trapped Under Nice, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA

2009
The Arrangement, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA

Group Exhibitions

2025
Winter Blues, Half Gallery, New York, NY
Upstairs Art Fair Paris, Half Gallery, East Hampton, NY
El Royale III, Loyal at El Royale, Los Angeles, CA

2024
Striking (Lightning) Blue, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Contemporary Discoveries, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2023
A Crack in Overton’s Window, The Ranch, Montauk, NY
VIVID, Acquavella Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
Loyal @ El Royale, El Royale, Los Angeles, CA

2022
Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes, curated by Todd Bradway, Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY

2021
Apostolic Succession, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
I Have an Idea, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Stockholm Sessions, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
Domesticity, Volery Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Innovation, Pace Prints, New York, NY

2020
The Hundredth Exhibition, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Sympathetic Magic, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Under Glass, Half Gallery, New York, NY
Riders Of The Red Horse, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA

2019
Chorus, organized by Bill Powers, Almine Rech, Paris, France

2018
Cliche, Almine Rech, New York, NY

2017
The Secret Life of Plants, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing Island, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Cynthia Daignault, There is Nothing I Could Say That I Haven’t Thought Before, THE FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations Between Artists, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Mira Dancy, Jane Freilicher, Daniel Heidkamp, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Anniversary Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY

2016
Outside, Karma, Amagansett, New York, NY
Imagine, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Ties That Bind, David Achenbach Projects, Wuppertal, Germany
Lost for Words, Murray Guy, New York NY
Imagine, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

2015
FIGURATIVELY: Jane Corrigan, Daniel Heidkamp, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Aliza Nisenbaum, and Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Curated by Matthew Higgs, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
The Guston Effect, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
20 X 16 - Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
SPEARS, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Let’s Talk Postmodernity, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY
Eagles II, Marlborough Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Ticket to Reality: Daniel Heidkamp, Alice Neel, Henry Taylor, Bob Thompson, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY

2014
The Great Figure: Daniel Heidkamp, Lily Ludlow, Keith Mayerson, Dana Schutz, Henry Taylor, and Torey Thornton, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY
Some Thoughts About Marks: Theodora Allen Patrick Berran Daniel Heidkamp Michael Hunter Lui Shtini, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, New York, NY
Don’t Look Now, curated by Jesse Greenberg and MacGregor Harp, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY

2013
Draw Gym, 247365, New York, NY
Suddenness + Certainty, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Woods, Lovely, Dark, And Deep, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Conveniently Located, 247365, New York, NY

2012
Disquietude, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Dna Summer Artists’ Residency Exhibition 2012, DNA Gallery, Provincetown MA
The Double Dirty Dozen (& Friends), Freight + Volume, New York, NY
Epiphanic Glow, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
New York – New Tendencies, Marianne Friis Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mie: A Portrait By 35 Artists, Freight + Volume, New York, NY

2011
Paper A - Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY

2010
Last Thursday, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
A Lettuce Slaughter in the Woods, Real Fine Arts, New York, NY
Small Oil Paintings, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany
Big Picture, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
Behind The Green Door, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
The Irascible Assholes, Gallery poulsen Contemporary Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009
Three Painters, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY

2008
In Your Face, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY
Cusp, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
ambivalent figuration;people, Samson Projects, Boston, MA