Charline von Heyl was born in Germany and currently divides her time between New York, NY and Marfa, TX. She studied painting in Hamburg and Düsseldorf and participated in the Cologne-based art scene in the 1980s. Recent solo museum exhibitions include the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (2018); the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (2018); the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2018); Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (2015); and the Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom (2012), among many others. Von Heyl’s works are in the collections of the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Tate, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others.

Raphael Rubinstein’s most recent book is Negative Work: The Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). Other publications include The Miraculous (Paper Monument, 2014), A Geniza (Granary Books, 2015) and monographs on Shirley Jaffe (Flammarion, 2014) and Guillermo Kuitca (Lund Humphries, 2020). Curatorial projects include Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s (Cheim & Read, 2013) and Under Erasure (co-curated with Heather Bause Rubinstein, at Pierogi, 2018-19) His poems have appeared in several anthologies including Best American Poetry 2015. A contributing editor of Art in America and an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail, he is also Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston School of Art.