Julie Heffernan (American, born )

Timeline

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

2013
P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2012
Julie Heffernan: Infinite Work in Progress, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma, OK (solo)
Sky’s Falling, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA (solo)
The Calendar’s Tales: Fantasy, Figuration and Representation, Boston University, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
Perfect Storm, Julie Saul Gallery, NY
2011
Boy, O Boy II, Catherine Clark Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Broken Homes, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Holding Up, University Art Gallery, California State University, Stanislaus, CA (solo)
Pulse LA Art Fair, P·P·O·W Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Put Up or Shut Up, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Land of Magic: Artist Explore Make-Believe, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Memoires du future, la collection Olbrict, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Open, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
2010
Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL (solo)
Boy, Oh Boy, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2009
What Holds Up, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
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
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

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