BIOGRAPHY
1981 Born in Brewster, Massachusetts
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Western Massachusetts
EDUCATION
2007 MFA, Columbia University, New York
2003 BFA, The Cooper Union, New York
2002 Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, Connecticut
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
• Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe. Josephine Halvroson. (1 October 2021 – 28 March 2022)
2020
• Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. On The Ground. (23 January – 29 February)
2017
• Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. As I went walking. (19 October- 22 November)
2016
• Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY. Josephine Halvorson: Outlooks: Josephine Halvorson.
(14 May – 13 November)
2015
• Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC. Josephine Halvorson: Slow Burn,
curated by Cora Fisher. (26 March – 31 May)
2014
• Angle Art Contemporain, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, France. À Moly Sabata
(17 September – 31 October)
• Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY. Facings. (23 January – 1 March)
2012
• Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris. Side By Side. (17 November 2012 – 26 January)
2011
• Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY. What Looks Back. (21 October – 3 February)
2009
• Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY. Clockwise From Window. (7 November 2009 – 16 January)
• The Volta Show, exhibited by Monya Rowe, New York, NY. Josephine Halvorson (5 – 8 March)
2008
• Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY. Josephine Halvorson. (19 November - 10 January)
• Fondation des États Unis, Paris. Peintures de Patience.
2005
• The Cooper Union, Humanities Gallery, New York, NY. Vienna Portraits.
• RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Still Lifes.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
• Peter Blum, New York. Excavation (7 June – 27 July)
• Institut français - Centre Saint-Louis, Rome. Fenêtre jaune cadmium. (24 May – 13 June)
• Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA. The Lure of the Dark Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night. (3 March – January 2019)
2017
• Moly-Sabata, Fondation Albert Gleizes, Sablons, France. Moly-Sabata fête ses 90 ans.
• Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, United States. Gray Matters,
curated by Michael Goodson. (20 May – 30 July)
• Espace St-Claude, Paris. Abstract Room project. Images at Work. Everyday Abstraction – Part 1.
(20 – 21 May)
2015
• Gallery at Industry City, Brooklyn, NY. Social Ecologies. curated by Greg Lindquist for Rail Curatorial Projects.
(12 December – 21 February)
• Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY. Jennie C. Jones, Josephine Halvorson,Leslie Hewitt.
(10 December 2015 – 23 January 2016)
• Mana Contemporary Art, Jersey City, NJ. Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable Sized and Unreasonable
Sized Paintings, curated by Phong Bui. (18 October – 22 December)
• Kansas Gallery, New York, NY. Muscular, curated by John McAllister. (27 June – 25 July)
• Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA. The Guston Effect. (15 May – 15 August)
• LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia Univeristy, New York, NY. Stirring Still, organized by Iona Manolache and Maria Stabio. (3 April – 29 April)
• PLATEAU, Seoul, Korea. Tracing Shadows, curated by Nayoung Cho. (12 March - 7 June)
• Fondazione Memmo-Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy. Conversation Piece – Part 1, curated by Marcello Smarrelli. (10 February – 12 April)
• Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy. Teatro delle Esposizioni #6: Prendere Tempo, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano and Éric de Chassey. (27 February – 12 April)
• Peter Freeman, Inc. New York, NY. Souvenirs de Paris, curated by Camille Morineau. (26 February – 4 April)
2014
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Painter’s Painter: Gifts from Alex Katz. (14 June – 2 November)
• Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY. Please Enter, curated by Beth Rudin de Woody.
(23 October – 20 December)
2013
• Greenlease Art Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO. L’Hourloupe, curated by David Rhoads.
(9 June – 10 December)
• Team Gallery, New York, NY. Black Cake, curated by Alex Gartenfeld. (10 January – 17 February)
2012
• Frith Street Gallery, London, England. Still. (29 June – 15 September)
• Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY. The Big Picture. (8 June – 25 July)
2011
• Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. Artist in Residence Biennial.
(10 November – 9 December)
• ArtBlog, New York, NY. The Death of Affect. Curated by Fran Holstrom and Jeffrey Scott Mathews.
(14 – 28 October)
• Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY. Paper A Z. (16 March – 22 April)
• Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY. Ex Libris. (26 January – 26 February)
2010
• Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY. Painting and Sculpture: Foundation for Contemporary Arts Benefit Exhibition.
(9 December – 9 January)
• Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY. Editions Art Book Fair. (4 – 7 November)
• LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY. Fool’s House.
curated by Nora Griffin. (11 - 29 October)
• CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX. Precarity And the Butter Tower, curated by Jackie Gendel and Tom McGrath.
(8 May – 26 June)
• The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting, curated by Tom Huhn & Isabel Taube. (23 November – 22 December)
• Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Perceiving Place, curated by Stephanie McMahon.
(22 October – 1 December)
• Hunter College, New York, NY. Americana, curated by Katy Siegel.
• The Cooper Union, New York, NY. Rites Of Passage, curated by Thomas Micchelli.
• Golden Gallery, Chicago, IL. New York From New York, curated by Patricia Treib.
• Samson projects, Mexico City. ZonaMACO 2010, curated by Nicole Cherubini and Camilo Alvarez.
2009
• Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Party at Chris's House, curated by Phong Bui.
(20 November – 20 December)
• Gallery 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY. What’s Bin Did and What’s Bin Hid, curated by Ryan Steadman.
(18 October – 15 November)
• Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY. Subverted Genres, curated by Gabriela Galati and Rebecca Mirsky.
(5 May – 16 June)
• Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY. Perception as Object. (8 January – 14 February)
• Deitch Projects, Long Island City, NY. The Open.
• The Cooper Union, New York, NY. Breaking Into The Human Race.
• Non Objectif Sud, Tulette, France. Hand-In-Hand, curated by Michael Zahn.
• Cuchifritos, New York, NY. Close to Home, curated by Melissa Levin & Mike Quinn.
2008
• LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY. Lost In Your Eyes.
• Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, D.C. A Friend Indeed:Contemporary Art and the Academy.
• Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY. Union Square.
2007
• Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY. The Show's So Nice. (6 September – 20 October)
• Rockefeller Center, New York, NY. Columbia University MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Daniel Bozhkov.
2006
• The Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY. Dead Serious, curated by Yola Monakhov.
2005
• The New York Public Library, Bronx, NY. Special Collection, curated by Laura Napier.
GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2021
• Guggenheim Fellow, Painting, New York, NY
2016
• Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Florida.
2014-2015
• French Academy at Villa Medici, Rome, Italy.
2012
• Steep Rock Arts, Washington, CT.
• Artist in Residence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
2010
• New York Foundation for the Arts (Painting), New York, NY.
2009-2010
• Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY.
2009
• Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY.
2007-2008
• Harriet Hale Woolley Artist Residency, Fondation des États Unis, Paris.
2006
• D'Arcy Hayman Trust Scholarship, Columbia University, New York, NY.
2005
• Artist in Residence, Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton, CT.
2003-2004
• U.S. Fulbright Fellowship in Painting, Vienna, Austria.
LECTURES AND PANELS
2015
• Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy.
• Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
• Rome, Italy. Panel Participant, Conversation Piece - Part 1, moderated by
Francesco Garutti, with Corin Hewitt and Thomas Hutton.
2014
• Stony Brook, University, NY. Keynote Speaker, Facades, Annual Philosophy and Art Conference.
2012
• Orlando Museum of Art, FL.
• Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY. In Dialogue: Gregory
Amenoff, Francesca DiMattio & Josephine Halvorson.
2011
• New York Studio School, New York, NY. Josephine Halvorson on Her Work.
2010
• School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. Between Picture And Viewer: The Image In Contemporary Painting, with James Hyde and Dana Schutz. moderated by Katy Siegel.
2009
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Josephine Halvorson.
• X Initiative, New York, NY. Editions/ Artists’ Book Fair.
TEACHING
2017-present
• Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA.
2012-2016
• Senior Critic, MFA Program, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT.
2011-2012
• Visiting Critic, Columbia University, New York, NY.
2015-2016
• Visiting Critic, Boston University, Boston, MA.
2012-2014
• Full-Year Critic, MFA Program, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT.
2010-2012
• Core Critic, MFA Program, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT.
2011-2013
• Lecturer, Introduction to Painting, Advanced Painting, Art Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
2012
• Artist-in-Residence, Junior and Senior Painting, Graduate Painting. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
2010-2011
• Visiting Artist (adjunct), Advanced Painting, The Cooper Union, New York, NY.
2010-present
• Visiting Faculty, Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT.
2007-2009
• Adjunct Instructor, Painting II, Basic Drawing, Introduction to Painting, Figure Painting, Columbia University, New York, NY.
VISITING ARTIST
2016
• Sarah Lawrence, Bronxville, NY.
• Boston University, Boston, MA.
2015
• SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY.
• Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy.
2014
• Boston University, Boston, MA.
• University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.
• Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
2013
• California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
• University of California at Davis, Davis, CA.
• MFA Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
• Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Brooklyn, NY.
• Painting Intensive Summer Program, Columbia University, New York, NY.
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
• MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
• MFA Program, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.
• MFA Program, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
• Post-Baccalaureate Program, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
• MFA Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
• MFA Program, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY.
2011
• MFA Program, Boston University, Boston, MA.
• Post-Baccalaureate Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
2010
• MFA Program, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
2009
• Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
• Panel Participant, Edition/Artists’ Book Fair, C Initiative, New York, NY.
• Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ.
• School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.