Born 1956, Peoria, IL
Lives and works in New York, NY
Education
1985 MFA, Painting; Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1981 BFA with High Honors in Painting and Printmaking; University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Solo Exhibitions:
2010
Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
2009
What Holds Up, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Luxe Art Institute, Encinitas, CA
Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Megumi Ogita, Tokyo, Japan
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2007
P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Everything That Rises, University Art Museum, University At Albany, Albany, NY
Traveled to: Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Heaven and Hell, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Mint Museum Of Art, Charlotte, NC
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY
Herter Art Gallery, U. Mass, Amherst, MA
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
2002
Linda Durham Gallery, Galisteo, NM
The Divine Fruit, curated by Deanna Bland James David Brooks Gallery, Fairmount State College, School Of Fine Arts, Fairmount, WV (catalogue)
2001
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
P·P·O·W and Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY (catalogue)
1999
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Alcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center, University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
P·P·O·W and Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
1998
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
Allegheny College Gallery, Meadville, PA
1996
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
Inside Outside, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Recent Works, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994
Recent Work, Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
Inside Out, Sarah Moody Gallery, University Of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
1993
Recent Work, Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010
Private(dis)play, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2009
The Conundrum of Abundance, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord between Nature and Society, The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
The Garden at 2am, Gana Art, New York, NY
Imaginary Menagerie, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
private (dis)play, Center of Creative Arts, St. Louis, MO
Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
A Dog's Life, Main Gallery, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Giving Face: Portraits for a New Generation, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
Tales from an Imaginary Menagerie, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2008
183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy, New York, NY
The Figure Revealed, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
ART Chicago, P·P·O·W gallery booth, Chicago, IL
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, P·P·O·W Gallery booth, Miami, FL
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery booth, New York, NY
2007
Girly Show, Wignall Museum, Cucamonga, CA
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery booth, London, UK
Ultrasonic International II: Translating Transience, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Breaking Ground, Ground Breaking, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Old School, Hauser & Wirth, London, England, UK, traveling to: Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
The Feminist Figure, Forum Gallery, curated by Marcia G. Yerman, New York, NY
First Annual Contemporary Art Invitational, curated by Katherine Chapin, The Salmagundi Club Of New York, New York, NY
More is More: Maximalist Tendencies in
Recent American Painting, curated by Tatiana Flores, Museum Of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2006
Transformative Portraits: Altered Identities in Contemporary Art Richard A. And Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Realm Of The Spirit, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Why the Nude?, The Art Students League Of New York, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY.
Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, curated by Dede Young, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
2005
Entourage, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
Visitors from the East, Billy Shire Fine Arts, Lost Angeles, CA
Social Insecurity: the future ain't what it used to be, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Then as Now, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, PA
High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Theater of the Melancholic Sublime, curated by Michael Duncan, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, traveled to: Mcnay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Long Beach Museum Of Art, Long Beach, CA
2004
21, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Me, Myself and I, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
About Painting, curated by Ian Berry, The Tang Teaching Museum And Art Trouble in Paradise, curated by Amy Lipton, Skidmore College, Saratoga Sprints, NY
She's Not There, curated by Catherine Howe, New York Academy Of Art, New York, NY
2003
Women and Self-Representation in Contemporary Art, Palmer Museum, Penn State University, State College, PA
People, Places & Things, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Woman on Woman, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
The 'Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Masquerade, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, MI
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
Social Landscape, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Snapshot, Aldrich Museum Of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Pixerina Witcherina, Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, curated by Bill Congers of Illinois State University, Normal, NC; Winston-Salem, NC; Catalogue
2001
Yale University School of Art Alumni Show, Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Hall, New Haven, CT
Of Dreams and Dreamers, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Invited!, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Pixerina Witcherina,University Galleries, University Of Illinois, Normal, IL
2000
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
The Swamp, On the Edge of Eden, Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL
American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiosities, The Art Museum At Florida International University, Miami, FL, curated by Dahlia Morgan
Nude + Narrative, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center For Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Art Center, curated by Lily Wei, Staten Island, NY
Private Worlds, Art In General, curated by Joan Semmel, New York, NY
Re-configuring the Heroic, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, NY
Animal Artifice, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1999
Beyond the Millennium, Brattleboro Museum And Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
Food for Thought, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
And Everything Nice, Rockford Art Museum, curated by Phyllis Bramson, Rockford, IL
Distilled Life, Bard College, The Fisher Arts Center, curated by Medrie MacPhee, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Food for Thought, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Montclair State University Faculty Exhibition, Mi Qui Modern Art Workshop, Shanghai University, Shangai, China
1998
Heroic Painting, Pheonix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, and Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Annual Art Auction and Exhibition, New Museum, New York, NY
Animal as Muse, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach FL
David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
May Day, P·P·O·W, New York, NY. Curated by Carrie Mae Weems
Group Exhibition, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Art Miami, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1997
Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, and Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
The Press of my Foot to the Earth Springs a Hundred Affections, The Rotunda Gallery, curated by Byron Kim, New York, NY
American Art Today: The Garden,The Art Museum, Florida International University, curated by Dahlia Morgan, Miami, FL
1996
Collectors Choice, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
The Mythic Narrative, Palo Alto Cultural Center, curated by Signe Mayfield, Palo Alto, CA
Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
The Classics Revisited, Winston-Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Heroic Painting: Bo Barlett, Vincent Desiderio, Walton Ford, Lawrence Gipe, Julie Heffernan, Komar and Melamid, Mark Tansey, SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art), curated by Susan Lubowski, Winston-Salem, NC
1995
Art in Embassies Program, Prague, Czech Republic
Virtual Reality at the Armory, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
10th Annual Summer Invitational, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Inside Out, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1994
Animals, California Center for the Arts, curated by Ressey Shaw (with Nauman, Butterfield, Koons, Roller-Wilson, and others), Escondido, CA
Miniatures, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Opening Pandora, Littlejohn/Sternau, New York, NY
1993
Urgent Nostalgia, Center of Contemporary Art, curated by Prudence F. Roberts (with Desiderio, Gipe, Innerst, Joan Nelson), Seattle, WA
Interior Outlook, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Littlejohn/Sternau, Timothy Hawkesworth and Julie Heffernan, New York, NY
1992
Six Painters, Llittlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
The Salon Show, Art in General, New York, NY
Pools, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
1991
Science and Art, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
Helander Gallery, New York, NY
Pools, Stuart Levy Gallery and Helander Gallery, (exhibition included Barlett, Clemente, Hockney, Fischl, others), New York, NY
1990
Pools, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
Pools, AM Gallery, Moscow, USSR
Pools, Modus Vivendi Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Selected Collections:
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
The Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
The Progressive Corporation, OH
Wake Forest University Collection of Contemporary Art, NC
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Persis Corporation/Twigg-Smith Collection Twin Farms, VT
Columbia Museum of Art, SC
Knoxville Museum of Art, TN
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, NC
Awards and Fellowships:
2008 Thomas Bennett Clarke Prize, National Academy Museum
2004 Thomas R. Proctor Prize, National Academy Museum
2002 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Nominee
1996 New York Foundation for the Arts, Individual Artists Grant
1995 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship Grant
Pennsylvania State University, Fund for Research
1994 Pennsylvania State University, College Faculty Research Grant
Hillwood Art Museum (NYSCA), Project Residency Grant
1990 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, Painting fellowship
1987 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, New York, NY, Artist-in-Residence and Studio Grant
1986 Fulbright-Hayes Grant to West Berlin/Annette Kade Grant for the Creative and Performing Arts
1985 Ely Harwood Schless Memorial, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Prize for Highest Achievement
of Painting
Selected Bibliography:
Laster, Paul. "Review: Julie Heffernan's Painted World of Make-Believe", flavorwire, June 30, 2009, http://flavorwire.com/27397/review-julie-heffernans-painted-world-of-make-believe
Laster, Paul, "Julie Heffernan's Earthly Delights", The Daily Beast. June 26, 2009, http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-25/julie-heffernans-earthly-delights/
Villafañe, Andie. "artspotting: gallery (p)reviews", Citizen LA, Volume 4 Issue 6, June 2009, p. 8
Stacy, Greg. "Julie Heffernan at Mark Moore Gallery", ARTslant, June 8, 2009, http://www.artslant.com/ew/articles/show/7806
Kilston, Lyra Liberty. "Julie Heffernan: P.P.O.W.", Modern Painters, December 2007 - January 2008, p.91
Rosenberg, Karen. "Where Have All the Paintings Gone? To the National Academy", New York Times, May 30, 2008
Schwendener, Martha. "Old School: Zwirner & Wirth", New York Times, August 10, 2007
Day, Jeffrey, "Everything That Rises' lifts art and the viewer," The State Newspaper, July 2, 2006. p. E4
Artner, Alan G., "Julie Heffernan at the Columbia Museum of Art," ArtDaily.com, June 10, 2006
Rosen, Rachel S., "Julie Heffernan, Everything That Rises: The Art of the Political Self," San Francisco Art Magazine. Nov. 22, 2006
Streitfeld, Lisa Paul, "Landscapes With a Difference," Hartford Courant, Arts, Sept. 24, 2006
Artner, Alan G., "Julie Heffernan," Review, Chicago Tribune, November 5, 2004. p. 27
Gomez, Edward M., "Drawn to the Body," Art and Antiques, January 2004, p. 56
Artner, Alan G., "Where to Buy," The Week, October 2003
Cline, Lynn, "Not Perfect in Paradise," The New Mexican–Pasatiempo, Aug. 2-8, 2002
Heffernan, Julie, The New Yorker, Reproduction accompanying an A.S. Byatt short story, June 3, 2002, p. 81
Landi, Ann, "The Real Thing? (Contemporary Realism Today)," ARTnews, Jun. 2002, p. 88-91; reproduction p. 89
Wiens, Ann, "Critical Eye," W Magazine, Mar. 2001
Worth, Alexi, "Julie Heffernan," Artforum, May 2001
Yood, James, "Julie Heffernan," Artforum, Jan. 2000
Finkelpearl, Tom, "Kwangju Biennial, The Curator's Gossip: Julie Heffernan," Flash Art, Summer 2000, p. 99
Glueck, Grace, "A Rich Mix of Styles and Stimulations Under One Roof," The New York Times, Feb. 25, 2000
James, Jamie, "Julie Heffernan," The New Yorker, Apr. 12, 1999
Grau, Jane, "So Ripe...," The Charlotte Observer, Aug. 1999
Johnson, Ken, Art Guide: "Julie Heffernan," The New York Times, Apr. 9, 16, 1999
Korotkin, Joyce, "Julie Heffernan," The New York Art World, Apr. 1999
Hawkins, Margaret, "Under the Influence," Chicago Sun Times, Apr. 3, 1998, p. 28
Schrader, Stacey, "Nothing Still About Life," On the Issues, Winter, 1997
Melrod, George, "Openings," Arts and Antiques, May 1996
Grimes, Nancy, "Julie Heffernan at Littlejohn," Art in America, May 1995, p. 116
Hagen, Charles, "In Connecticut...Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art: 'Inside Out,'" The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1995
Herfield, Phyllis, "Heffernan at Littlejohn," The New York Review of Art, Jan./Feb. 1995, p. 16
Kuspit, Donald, Catalogue, "On Being a Woman: Paintings by Julie Heffernan," Littlejohn
Contemporary, Sept. 1994
Kuspit, Donald, Exhibition Essay, "Julie Heffernan's Lost Paradise of Female Selfhood,"
Littlejohn Contemporary, Feb. 1992
Morgan, Robert, "Billboards," Littlejohn-Smith, Artscribe International, Nov./Dec. 1988
McGivern, Shawn, "Disovering New Talent," Boston Globe, June 1985