Born 1956 Peoria, IL
Lives and works in New York
Education
1985 M.F.A., Painting; Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1981 B.F.A. with High Honors in Painting and Printmaking; University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Megumi Ogita, Tokyo, Japan
2007 P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY
2006 University Art Museum, University At Albany, Everything That Rises, Albany, NY
Traveled to: Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC;
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
P·P·O·W Gallery, Heaven and Hell, 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
James David Brooks Gallery, Fairmount State College, School Of Fine Arts, The Divine Fruit, curated by Deanna Bland, 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
Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Inside Outside, Kansas City, MO
Peter Miller Gallery, Recent Work, Chicago, IL
1994 Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, Recent Work, New York, NY
Sarah Moody Gallery, University Of Alabama, Inside Out, Tuscaloosa, AL
1993 Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, Recent Work, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Mark Moore Gallery, Ultrasonic International II, Los Angeles, CA
Catharine Clark, Breaking Ground, Ground Breaking, San Francisco, CA
Hauser & Wirth, Old School, London, England
Traveling to: Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
Forum Gallery, The Feminist Figure, Curated By Marcia G. Yerman, New York, NY
P·P·O·W Gallery, Art Chicago Contemporary Art Fair, Chicago, IL
P·P·O·W Gallery, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
The Salmagundi Club Of New York, First Annual Contemporary Art Invitational, curated by Katherine Chapin, New York, NY
Museum Of Fine Arts, Florida State University, More is More: Maximalist Tendencies in
Recent American Painting, curated by Tatiana Flores, Tallahassee, FL
2006 Richard A. And Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Transformative Portraits:
Altered Identities in Contemporary Art, Easton, PA
Contemporary Art Galleries, University Of Connecticut, Figuring the Landscape, Storrs,
CT
Mike Weiss Gallery, Realm Of The Spirit, New York, NY
Trierenberg Art, New Art. New York: Relflections on the Human Condition, curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson, Traun, Austria; Catalogue
National Museum In Gdansk, New Old Masters, curated by Donald Kuspit, Gdansk, Poland Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery- The Art Students League Of New York, Why the Nude?, New York, NY.
Neuberger Museum, Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, curated by Dede Young, Purchase, NY
2005 Mike Weiss Gallery, Entourage, New York, NY
Billy Shire Fine Arts, Visitors from the East, Lost Angeles, CA
Catharine Clark Gallery, Social Insecurity: the future ain't what it used to be, San Francisco, CA
DFN Gallery, DFN Animal Tales, New York, NY
Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Then as Now, PA
Abington Art Center, Trouble in Paradise, curated by Amy Lipton, Jenkintown, PA
Georgia Museum of Art, High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Theater of the Melancholic Sublime, curated by Michael Duncan; Athens, GA
Traveled to: Mcnay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Long Beach Museum Of Art, Long Beach, CA
2004 P·P·O·W, 21, New York, NY
Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Me, Myself and I, Boca Raton, FL
The Tang Teaching Museum And Art Gallery, About Painting, curated by Ian Berry, Skidmore College, Saratoga Sprints, NY
Van Brunt Gallery, Trouble in Paradise, curated by Amy Lipton, New York, NY
National Academy, Museum And School Of Fine Arts, The 179th Annual, New York, NY
New York Academy Of Art, She's Not There, curated by Catherine Howe, New York,
NY
Massachusetts College Of Art, Earthly Delights, curated by Lisa Tung; Boston, MA
2003 Palmer Museum, Penn State University, Women and Self-Representation in Contemporary Art, State College, PA
DFN Gallery, People, Places & Things, New York, NY
White Box Gallery, Woman on Woman, New York, NY
DFN Gallery, The 'Burbs, New York, NY
2002 Kohler Arts Center, Masquerade, Sheboygan, MI
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
P·P·O·W, Social Landscape, New York, NY
Auckland Art Museum, Collecting Contemporary Art: A Community Dialogue, Chapel Hill, NC
The American Academy Of Arts And Letters, American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
Aldrich Museum Of Contemporary Art, Snapshot, Ridgefield, CT
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Pixerina Witcherina, curated
by Bill Congers of Illinois State University, Normal, NC; Winston-Salem, NC; Catalogue
2001 Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Hall, Yale University School of Art Alumni Show, New Haven, CT
Carl Hammer Gallery, Of Dreams and Dreamers, Chicago, IL
First Street Gallery, Invited!, New York, NY
University Galleries, University Of Illinois, Normal, IL: Pixerina Witcherina,
2000 Contemporary Museum, Snapshot, Baltimore, MD
Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL: The Swamp, On the Edge of Eden
The Art Museum At Florida International University, Miami, FL: American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiosities, curated by Dahlia Morgan
P·P·O·W, Nude + Narrative, New York, NY
Newhouse Center For Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Art Center, The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, curated by Lily Wei, Staten Island, NY
Art In General, Private Worlds, curated by Joan Semmel, New York, NY
Artemesia Gallery, Re-configuring the Heroic, Chicago, NY
Kwangju Biennale 2000, Self-Portraiture, curated by Tom Finkelpearl, Kwangju, South Korea
Bard College, Center For Curatorial Studies Museum, Looking Back, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Katonah Museum, What Goes Around Comes Around, curated by Barbara Bloemink, Katonah, NY
Adam Baumgold Fine Art, Quirky, New York, NY
Susquehana Art Museum, curated by Sean Mellyn, Harrisburg, PA
The Hudson River Museum, Animal Artifice, Yonkers, NY
1999 Brattleboro Museum And Art Center, Beyond the Millennium, Brattleboro, VT
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Food for Thought, Charlotte, NC
Rockford Art Museum, And Everything Nice, curated by Phyllis Bramson, Rockford, IL
Bard College, The Fisher Arts Center, Distilled Life, curated by Medrie MacPhee, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Food for Thought, Summit, NJ
Painting Center, Figuratively Speaking, New York, NY
DFN Gallery, Road Show, New York, NY
Mi Qui Modern Art Workshop, Shanghai University, Montclair State University Faculty Exhibition, Shangai, China
1998 Pheonix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, and Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, Heroic Painting
New Museum, Annual Art Auction and Exhibition, New York, NY
Norton Museum, Animal as Muse, West Palm Beach FL
David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
Tory Folliard Gallery, Mysterious Presences, Milwaukee, WI
Elise Goodheart Gallery, Flora, Sag Harbor, NY
P·P·O·W, May Day, New York, NY. Curated by Carrie Mae Weems
P·P·O·W, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
Art Miami, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1997 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, and Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century
The Rotunda Gallery, The Press of my Foot to the Earth Springs a Hundred Affections, curated by Byron Kim, New York, NY
John Michaek Kohler Arts Center, In Memory of Pleasure, curated by Andrea Inselmann, Sheboygan, WI
California Center for the Arts Museum, Tabletops: Morandi to Mapplethorpe, curated by Reesey Shaw, Escondido, CA
The Art Museum, Florida International University, American Art Today: The Garden, curated by Dahlia Morgan, Miami, FL
1996 Orlando Museum of Art, Collectors Choice, Orlando, FL
Palo Alto Cultural Center, The Mythic Narrative, curated by Signe Mayfield, Palo Alto, CA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Works on Paper, Greensboro, NC
Winston-Wachter Fine Art, The Classics Revisited, New York, NY
University of New Hampshire, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Durham, NH
SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art), Heroic Painting: Bo Barlett, Vincent Desiderio, Walton Ford, Lawrence Gipe, Julie Heffernan, Komar and Melamid, Mark Tansey, curated by Susan Lubowski, Winston-Salem, NC
Exhibition traveled to:
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
University Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1995 Art in Embassies Program, Prague, Czech Republic
Littlejohn Contemporary, Virtual Reality at the Armory, New York, NY
Leedy Voulkos Gallery,10th Annual Summer Invitational, Kansas City, MO
David Beitzel Gallery, Insight, New York, NY
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Inside Out, Ridgefield, CT
1994 California Center for the Arts, Animals, curated by Ressey Shaw (with Nauman, Butterfield, Koons, Roller-Wilson, and others), Escondido, CA
Olga Dollar Gallery, Miniatures, San Francisco, CA
Peter Miller Gallery, Paper, Chicago, IL
Littlejohn/Sternau, Opening Pandora, New York, NY
1993 Center of Contemporary Art, Urgent Nostalgia, curated by Prudence F. Roberts (with Desiderio, Gipe, Innerst, Joan Nelson), Seattle, WA
University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Interior Outlook, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Littlejohn/Sternau, Timothy Hawkesworth and Julie Heffernan, New York, NY
1992 Llittlejohn/Sternau Gallery, Six Painters, New York, NY
Art in General, The Salon Show, New York, NY
The Aspen Art Museum, Pools, Aspen, CO
1991 Indiana University Art Museum, Science and Art, Bloomington, IN
Helander Gallery, New York, NY
Stuart Levy Gallery and Helander Gallery, Pools, (exhibition included Barlett, Clemente, Hockney, Fischl, others), New York, NY
1990 Norton Museum, Pools, West Palm Beach, FL
AM Gallery, Pools, Moscow, USSR
Modus Vivendi Gallery, Pools, Zurich, Switzerland
Helander Gallery, New York, NY
Awards and Fellowships
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 in Painting
Selected Bibliography
Artner, Alan G., "Julie Heffernan," Review, Chicago Tribune, November 5, 2004. p. 27.
Artner, Alan G., "Where to Buy," The Week, October 2003.
Artner, Alan G., "Julie Heffernan at the Columbia Museum of Art," ArtDaily.com, June 10, 2006.
(http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2∂«_new=16093)
Artner, Alan G., "Julie Heffernan's Dept Self-Fictions," Chicago Tribune, Sept. 28, 2001.
Artner, Alan G., "Open and Shut," Chicago Tribune, Apr. 12, 1996.
Barandiaran, Maria Jose, "Julie Heffernan at Peter Miller Gallery," The New Art Examiner, May
1996.
Bischoff, Dan, "A Matter of Taste," Sunday Star Ledger, Apr. 4, 1999.
Bowyer, Bell J., "Julie Heffernan," Review, Dec. 1, 1997.
Braff, Phyllis, "Flora," New York Times, Aug. 9, 1998.
Buchholz, Barbara, "Julie Heffernan's Masterly Still Lifes," Chicago Tribune, Jan. 3, 1997.
Camper, Fred, "Look Back in Irony," Chicago Reader, Feb. 27, 1998, p. 30.
Camper, Fred, "Strange Fruit (Paintings by Julie Heffernan)," The Chicago Reader, Apr. 12, 1996.
Cline, Lynn, "Not Perfect in Paradise," The New Mexican–Pasatiempo, Aug. 2-8, 2002.
Cohen, David, "Gallery Going," The New York Sun and artcritical.com, Oct. 23, 2003.
Conely, Kevin, "Julie Heffernan," The New Yorker, Dec. 8, 1997.
Day, Jeffrey, "Fantastic Voyage," The State.com, May 19, 2006, p. E18.
Day, Jeffrey, "Everything That Rises' lifts art and the viewer," The State Newspaper, July 2, 2006.
p. E4.
Elkins, James, Exhibition essay: "Strange Stories and the Balm," PPOW and Littlejohn
Contemporary, Mar. 2001
Estep, Jan, "Julie Heffernan," New Art Examiner, May 1998, p. 48.
Finkelpearl, Tom, "Kwangju Biennial, The Curator's Gossip: Julie Heffernan," Flash Art, Summer
2000, p. 99.
Glueck, Grace, "Art in Review: Private Worlds," The New York Times, Jun. 30, 2000, p. E37.
Glueck, Grace, "A Rich Mix of Styles and Stimulations Under One Roof," The New York Times,
Feb. 25, 2000.
Gomez, Edward M., "Drawn to the Body," Art and Antiques, January 2004, p. 56.
Gomez, Edward M., "Florida: Where Exuberant Dreams Often Sink Out of Sight," nytimes.com,
Apr. 8, 2001.
Grau, Jane, "So Ripe...," The Charlotte Observer, Aug. 1999.
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.
Heffernan, Julie, Harper's Magazine, Reproduction, Summer 2000, p. 31.
Heffernan, Julie, Harper's Magazine, Reproduction, June 2001, p. 15.
Heffernan, Julie, The New Yorker, Reproduction accompanying an A.S. Byatt short story, June
3, 2002, p. 81.
Heffernan, Julie, The New Yorker, Reproduction accompanying an A. S. Byatt short story, Oct.
13, 2003.
Hawkins, Margaret, "Under the Influence," Chicago Sun Times, Apr. 3, 1998, p. 28.
Hawkins, Margaret, Heffernan's Still Lifes are Crawling with Messages," Chicago Sun Times,
Mar. 29, 1996.
Herfield, Phyllis, "Heffernan at Littlejohn," The New York Review of Art, Jan./Feb. 1995, p. 16.
Hogin, Laurie, "Heroic Measures," New Art Examiner, May, 1998, p. 18-23.
James, Jamie, "Julie Heffernan," The New Yorker, Apr. 12, 1999.
Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review: Julie Heffernan," The New York Times, Apr. 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.
Krauss, Nicole, "Julie Heffernan at Littlejohn Contemporary and PPOW," Art in America, Jan.
2000. p. 119
Kuspit, Donald, "Going, Going, Gone," artnet.com, http://www.artnet.com/magazine/
features/kuspit/kuspit9-15-99.html
Kuspit, Donald, Exhibition Essay, "Julie Heffernan's Lost Paradise of Female Selfhood,"
Littlejohn Contemporary, Feb. 1992.
Kuspit, Donald, Catalogue, "On Being a Woman: Paintings by Julie Heffernan," Littlejohn
Contemporary, Sept. 1994.
Landi, Ann, "The Real Thing? (Contemporary Realism Today)," ARTnews, Jun. 2002, p. 88-91;
reproduction p. 89.
Levin, Kim, "Voice Choices; Short List: Julie Heffernan," Village Voice, Apr. 13, 1999.
Levin, Kim, "Voice Choices–Art: Galleries," Village Voice, July 11, 2000, p. 96.
Levin, Kim, "Galleries," Village Voice, Apr. 3, 2001 .
Lipton, Amy, "Trouble in Paradise", Orion, September/October, 2004. p. 49-55.
McGee, Celia, "Art Smart," Daily News, Mar. 3, 2001.
Kimmelmann, Michael, "History Painting: Yes, Those Enormous Canvases," The New York
Times, Aug. 30, 1995.
Maniaci, Cara, "Julie Heffernan," NY Arts, Apr. 1999.
Maschal, Richard, "Feminine Imagery Seen Anew," The Charlotte Observer, March 4, 2004.
Maxwell, Douglas F., "Julie Heffernan," Review, Dec. 1, 1997.
McGivern, Shawn, "Disovering New Talent," Boston Globe, June 1985.
Melrod, George, "Openings," Arts and Antiques, May 1996.
Morgan, Robert, "Billboards," Littlejohn-Smith, Artscribe International, Nov./Dec. 1988.
Murphy, Mary, "Subversive Pleasures, Painting's New Feminine Narrative," New Art Examiner,
March 1997.
Murphy, Mary, "New Art. New York: Reflections on the Human Condition," Trierenberg Art. 2006.
Murphy, Mary, "An Hour In Chelsea," New York magazine. February 27, 2006.
Murphy, Mary, More is More: Maximalist Tendencies in Recent American Painting, Exhibition Catalog, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, 2007
Murphy, Mary, "Julie Heffernan," The New Yorker. March 19, 2001. p. 24, 26-27.
Nahas, Dominique, "Julie Heffernan at Littlejohn Contemporary," Review, June 1996.
Natale, Michele, "Perfectly Flawed," spectatoronline.com, Sept. 22, 1999.
Patterson, Tom, "Then Becomes Now; Artists Bring Trappings of Old Masters into the Passionate
Present," Winston-Salem Journal, April 18, 2004.
Polanski, G. Jurek, "Reviews–Julie Heffernan: New Paintings," artscope.net,
http://artscope.net/VAREVIEWS/heffernan1099.htm
Raven, Arlene, Catalogue, "Julie Heffernan," Littlejohn Contemporary, March 1996.
Rehak, Melanie, "Horse's Mouth," Bookforum, Fall 1999.
Rosen, Rachel S., "Julie Heffernan, Everything That Rises: The Art of the Political Self," San
Francisco Art Magazine. Nov. 22, 2006.
http://www.sanfranciscoartmagazine.com/reviews/nov06/heffernan/heffernan.html
Rosen, Rachel S., Flavor Pill, October 2003.
Schjeldahl, Peter, "Heroism Addiction," Village Voice, Aug. 6, 1996
Schrader, Stacey, "Nothing Still About Life," On the Issues, Winter, 1997.
Silverstein, Joel, "Julie Heffernan," Reviewny.com, www.reviewny.com, Apr. 12, 2001.
Streitfeld, Lisa Paul, "Landscapes With a Difference," Hartford Courant, Arts, Sept. 24, 2006.
Thorson, Alice, "Still Lifes Comment on the Status of Women," Kansas City Star, Feb. 9-15, 1996.
Turner, Brook, "Kwangju Biennial, Korea: Calm after the Storm," The Art Newspaper, no. 103, May 2000 (Reproduction).
Valdez, Sarah, Curve: The Female Nude Now, Universe Publishing. p. 112-113.
Vincent, Steven, "Julie Heffernan at P·P·O·W", Art in America, Feb. 2004, p.123.
White, Kit, "Julie Heffernan at Littlejohn Contemporary and PPOW," ARTnews magazine, Oct. 2001, p. 172-3, reproduction
Wiens, Ann, "Tip of the Week: Julie Heffernan," New City Times, vol. 13, Apr. 1998.
Wiens, Ann, "Critical Eye," W Magazine, Mar. 2001.
Worth, Alexi, "Julie Heffernan," Artforum, May 2001.
Yood, James, "Julie Heffernan," Artforum, Jan. 2000.
Young, Dede, Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, exhibition catalogue, Neuberger
Museum, p. 7.
Zimmerman, David, "Heroism Reconsidered," Arts and Antiques, Feb. 1997.
Selected Collections
The Mint Museums, 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