Born in Charlotte, NC, Wendy Heldmann lived in nine different houses before she was 11 years old. Her family then moved to Grand Rapids, MI, where she dutifully stayed through high school. After studying civil engineering for two and a half years at Cornell University and the Technical University of Harburg/Hamburg, Germany, Heldmann transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute. During her time there, she spent four months living alone and off the grid in Petrolia, CA, teaching herself to paint before receiving a BFA in interdisciplinary studies. A year later, following the thefts of her Yamaha Jog scooter and two bicycles and a brief stint on a friend’s family ranch in Big Sur, Heldmann moved to London, where she received an MA in visual arts with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London. Wendy Heldmann currently lives and works in Los Angeles with her husband, Christopher Michlig, and their daughter, Clella Seaberry.
Heldmann’s work has been included in online and print publications such as New York Magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Lemonade Magazine, Black Warrior Review and New American Paintings.
Some of her exhibitions include Enantiomorphic Chamber at NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY; ˜Time Writers from the Mirror Horizon at David Patton Los Angeles; ˜The Atrocity Exhibition at Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York; and The Middle Distance, a solo show of paintings and video at sixspace in Los Angeles.
