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Julie Heffernan



 

Biography


1956
Born in Peoria, Illinois,USA

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

One Person Exhibitions

2008

Catharine 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; and 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, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

2002

Linda Durham Gallery, Galisteo, NM
James David Brooks Gallery, Fairmont State College, School of Fine Arts, The Divine Fruit, curated by Deanna Bland, Fairmount, WV. Catalogue

2001
P・P・O・W Gallery, New York, NY

Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000

Kwangju Biennale, Curated by Tom Finklepearl, Kwangju, Korea.
1999

P・P・O・W Gallery 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

Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1994 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY; Catalogue

Inside Out, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
1993 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
1992 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY
1989 Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY

Doreen Young Gallery, Simon’s Rock, Gt. Barrington, MA
1988 Berlin-New York, Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Mark Moore Gallery, Ultrasonic International II: Transcending Transience, Santa Monica, 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
P・P・O・W Gallery, PULSE Art Fair, Miami, FL

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, Wilkes, 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, Florica 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

P・P・O・W, I Love New York Benefit, New York, NY

First Street Gallery, Invited!, New York, NY

University Galleries, University of Illinois, PixerinaWitcherina, Normal, IL

2000
Contemporary Museum, Snapshot, Baltimore, MD

Samuel P. Harn Museum, The Swamp, On the Edge of Eden, Gainesville, FL

The Art Museum at Florida International University, American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiosities, curated by Dahlia Morgan, Miami, FL

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
Phoenix 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, curated by Carrie Mae Weems, New York, NY.

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 Michael 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;
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, University 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 on 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
Littlejohn/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, 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

1989

Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, Judith Foosaner, Julie Heffernan, Jim Morphesis, New York, NY

Helander Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition, New York, NY

Arkansas Arts Center and State Museum, Works on Paper Annual Exhibition, Little Rock, AR

The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, The Figure Revisited, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

The West Publishing Company Travelling exhibition, Art & The Law, St. Paul, MN

Art in General, Visionary Landscapes, New York, NY
1988

Helander Gallery, East Side/West Side---Artists from Two Coasts, Palm Beach, FL

P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Special Projects Installation, Long Island City, NY

P.S.1, Baro-co-cO, New York, NY

Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, Billboards, New York, NY
1987-88

P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Grantees Exhibition, Long Island City, NY

Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY

DiLaurenti Gallery, Gallery Artists, New York, NY
1987

Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY

DiLaurenti Gallery, Avant Garde, New York, NY

DiLaurenti Gallery, Works on Paper, New York, NY
1986

DiLaurenti Gallery, Fresh, New York, NY
1985

Scaf Art Gallery, Sharon, CT

Alpha Gallery, New Talent, Boston, MA

Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New Talent, New York, NY
1981

Cal State University at Sacramento Art Museum, California State Print Exhibition, Sacramento, CA

Awards and Fellowships
2002

American Academy of Arts and Letters: Nominee

1997
Lila Acheson Wallce Reader’s Digest Artist at Giverny, Giverny, France; Individual Artist's Grant and Residency

1996

New York Foundation for the Arts, Individual Artist's Grant

1995

National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship Grant

Pennsylvania State University, College Faculty Research Grant

1994

Pennsylvania State University, Institute Research Grant

1993

Hillwood Art Museum, (NYSCA), Project Residency Grant

1990

Centre de Rechere et Mediation Valence, Valence, France; Art III

1988

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, Painting Fellowship

1987

P.S.122, New York, NY

1986

P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY, Artist-in-Residence and Studio Grant

1985

Fulbright-Hayes, Grant to West Berlin/Annette Kade Grant for the Creative and Performing Arts

1984

Ely Harwood Schless Memorial, Yale College, New Haven, CT, Prize for Highest Achievement in Painting

1982

City of Santa Cruz, CA, Scope Award for Artistic Achievement

University of California, Santa Cruz, CA; President's Fellowship

 



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