Born 1956 in Peoria, IL.

One Person Exhibitions

2008

2007

Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA

Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Megumi Ogita, Tokyo, Japan

P·P·O·W Gallery, Booty, New York, NY

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

Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

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

P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY

Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008

2007

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, Chicago, IL

PULSE Art Fair, P·P·O·W, Miami, FL

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

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

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

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

White Box Gallery, Woman on Woman, New York, NY

DFN Gallery, The 'Burbs, New York, NY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Littlejohn/Sternau Gallery, Six Painters, New York, NY

Art in General, The Salon Show, New York, NY

The Aspen Art Museum, Pools, Aspen, CO

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

Norton Museum, Pools, West Palm Beach, FL

AM Gallery, Pools, Moscow, USSR

Modus Vivendi Gallery, Pools, Zurich, Switzerland

Helander Gallery, New York, NY

2002

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1996

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1984

1982

American Academy of Arts and Letters: Nominee

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

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

National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship Grant

Pennsylvania State University, College Faculty Research Grant

Pennsylvania State University, Institute Research Grant

Hillwood Art Museum, (NYSCA), Project Residency Grant

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

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

P.S.122, New York, NY

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

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

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

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

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

Bibliography

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*****                 ”Where to Buy,” The Week, October 2003.
*****                 “Julie Heffernan at the Columbia Museum of Art,” ArtDaily.com, June 10, 2006.
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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, RED: “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: "Beauty in Flesh and Fur" The New York Sun. September 27, 2007.
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
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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.
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HEFFERNAN, JULIE, The New Yorker, Reproduction accompanying an A. S. Byatt short story, Oct. 13, 2003.
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HAWKINS, MARGARET, “Heffernan’s Still Lifes are Crawling with Messages,” Chicago Sun Times, Mar. 29, 1996.
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KUSPIT, DONALD: Catalogue, “On Being a Woman: Paintings by Julie Heffernan,” Littlejohn Contemporary, Sept. 1994.
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********  “New Art. New York: Reflections on the Human Condition,” Trierenberg Art. 2006.
********  “An Hour In Chelsea,” New York magazine. February 27, 2006.
******** More is More: Maximalist Tendencies in Recent American Painting, Exhibition Catalog, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, 2007
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REHAK, MELANIE: “Horse’s Mouth,” Bookforum, Fall 1999.
****** Flavor Pill, October 2003.
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