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Julie Heffernan    (American, 1956)

 Julie Heffernan - Study for Self Portrait as Bush (Paintings) h: 16 x w: 12 in / h: 40.6 x w: 30.5 cm
Julie Heffernan
Study for Self Portrait as Bush 2007
 
  

Biography
1956 Born: Peoria, IL
1981 BFA with High Honors in Painting & Printmaking, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
1982 President's Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
1984 SCOPE Award for Artistic Achievement, City of Santa Cruz, CA
1985 MFA in Painting, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
E. H. Schless Prize for Highest Achievement in Painting, Yale College, New Haven, CT
1986 Fulbright-Hayes, Grant to West Berlin, Germany
Annette Kade Grant for the Creative and Performing Arts
1987 Artist-in-Residence and Studio Grant, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
1990 Painting Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1993 Art III Award, Centre de Recherche et Mediation Valence, France
1994 College Faculty Research Grant, Pennsylvania State University, PA
Project Residency Grant, Hillwood Art Museum, NY
1995 Individual Artist's Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
Institute Research Grant, Pennsylvania State University, PA
1996 Artist’s Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY
1997 Artist in Residence, Lila Acheson Wallace Reader’s Digest Artist at Giverny, Giverny, France

Exhibitions
2009 Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2008 "Broken Homes", Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA (solo)
Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
"183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art", National Academy, New York, NY
"The Figure Revealed", Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
2007 "Booty", P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Ultrasonic International II: Translating Transience", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"New Old Masters, Hauser & Wirth", London, UK. Exhibition traveled to Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
"Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life", Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2006 "Julie Heffernan: Everything That Rises", Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo)
"Heaven and Hell", PPOW Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2005 "New Art/New York: Reflections on the Human Condition", curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson, Trierenberg Art, Traun, Austria (solo)
2004 Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Kohler art Center, Sheboygan, WI (solo)
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (solo)
"High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Theater of the Melancholic Sublimes", curated by Michael Duncan, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, CA
“Earthly Delights”, Massachussetts College of Art, Boston, MA
“People, Places, Things”, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY (solo)
“Through the Looking Glass: Women and Self-Representation in Contemporary Art”, The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State, PA
“The Burbs”, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
“Woman on Woman”, curated by Claire Jervert, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (solo)
“New Paintings”, PPOW, New York, NY (solo)
2002 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM (solo)
"The Divine Fruit", curated by Deanna Bland, James David Brooks Gallery, Fairmount State College, School of Fine Arts, Fairmount, WV
2001 Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
LittleJohn Contemporary and PPOW, New York, NY (solo)
1999 "Food For Thought", New Jersey Center for Visual Arts Summit, NJ
"And Everything Nice", Rockford Art Museum Rockford, IL
P.P.O.W. and Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY(solo)
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Alcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (solo)
1998 "Animals as Muse", The Norton Museum West Palm Beach, FL
"Benefit Auction and Exhibition", The New Museum New York, NY
Peter Miller Gallery Chicago, IL(solo)
1997 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY(solo)
Allegheny College Gallery Meadville, PA (solo)
1996 Little John Contemporary, New York, NY(solo)
"Inside Outside", Leedy Voulkos Gallery Kansas City, MO (solo)
"Recent Work", Peter Miller Gallery Chicago, IL (solo)
1995 "Insight", David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
"Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture", curated by Marc, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, CT
"10th Annual Summer Invitational", Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Camino Real Boca Raton, FL
1994 "New Paintings", Little John Contemporary, New York, NY
"Inside Out", Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Univ. of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL(solo)
"Opening Pandora", Kathleen Anderso, Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
"Wild Life", curated by Reese, California Center for the Arts Museum Escondido, CA
"Works on Paper", Peter Miller Gallery Chicago, IL
"Imaginary Landscapes", Olga Dollar Gallery San Francisco, CA
1993 "Paintings", Little John Contemporary, New York, NY
"Timothy Hawkesworth and Julie Heffernan, Timothy Hawkeswo", Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery New York, NY
"Urgent Nostalgia", curated by Prude, Center on Contemporary Art Seattle, WA
"Swann's Way", curated by Steph, Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
"Interior Outlook", curated by Leste, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
"Beauty", University Art G, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
1992 "Recent Work", Little John/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
"Six Painters", Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, New York, NY
"The Salon Show", Art in General New York, NY
"Pools", The Aspen Art Museum Aspen, CO;Stuart Levy Gallery & Helander Gallery New York, NY
1990 "Pools", Norton Museum West Palm Beach, FL; AM Gallery Moscow, USSR;Pools, Modus Vivendi Gallery Zurich, Switzerland
1989 "Judith Foosaner, Julie Heffernan, Jim Morphesis, Judith Foosaner", Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY
"Recent Work", Little John-Smith Gallery, New York, NY
Doreen Young Gallery, Simon's Rock, Great Barrington, MA
"Inaugural Exhibition", Helander Gallery New York, NY
"Works on Paper Exhibition", Arkansas Art Center and State Museum, Little Rock, AR
"The Figure Revisited", curated by Leste, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
"Art and the Law", The West Publishing Traveling Exhibition, St. Paul, MN
"Visionary Landscapes", Art in General, New York, NY
1988 "Berlin-New York", Little John-Smith Gallery, New York, NY
"Baro-co-cO, Melissa Chaney", P.S.1, New York, NY
"East Side/West Side-Artists from Two Coasts", Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
"Special Projects Installation", Institute for Art and Urban Resources/P.S. 1 Long Island City, NY
"Billboards", Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY
"1987-88 Grantees Exhibition", Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
"Group Exhibition", Clock Tower Gallery, New York, NY
"Gallery Artists", DiLaurenti Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY
"Avante Garde", DiLaurenti Gallery New York, NY
"Works on Paper", DiLaurenti Gallery, New York, NY
1986 "Fresh", DiLaurenti Gallery, New York, NY
1985 "Group Exhibition", SCAF Art Gallery, Sharon, CT
"New Talent", Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
"New Talent", Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
1981 "California State Print Exhibition", Cal State University at Sacramento Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

Selected Public Collections:
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
The Contemporary Museum Honlulu, Hawaii
The Mint Museums, Charlotte, North Carolina
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania
Persis Corporation/Twigg-Smith Collection, Honlulu, Hawaii
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Twin Farms, Barnard, Vermont
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia
Wake Forest University Collection of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
Zabludowicz Art Trust, London, United Kingdom

Literature
2008 Prose, Francine. Julie Heffernan: Booty. New York: PPOW Gallery, 2008
2006 Byatt, A. S. and David Humphrey. Julie Heffernan: Everything that Rises. Albany, New York: University Art Museum, University at Albany and P. P. O. W. Gallery, 2006
Murphy, Mary. New Art. New York: Reflections of the Human Condition.Trierenberg Art, 2006
1996 Arlene. Julie Heffernan. New York: Littlejohn Contemporary, March 1996.
1994 Kuspit, Donald. On Being a Woman: Paintings by Julie Heffernan. New York: Littlejohn Contemporary, February 1994
1992 Kuspit, Donald. Julie Heffernan’s Lost Paradise of Female Selfhood. New York: Littlejohn Contemporary, September 1992
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