Josephine Halvorson (she/her) will present a lecture on her practice which foregrounds firsthand experience and observation. Halvorson works primarily in painting, but also in sculpture and printmaking, and is known for her sensitive representations of objects that bear traces of time and liveliness.
Born in Brewster, Massachusetts, Josephine Halvorson studied at The Cooper Union (BFA, 2003), Yale Norfolk (2002), and Columbia University (MFA, 2007). Halvorson is the recipient of major international residencies and fellowships: The US Fulbright to Vienna, Austria (2003-4), the Harriet Hale Woolley at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France (2007-8), and was the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici (2014-15). In 2021, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Halvorson’s work has been exhibited internationally and is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris. Selected exhibitions include SECCA (2015), Storm King Art Center (2016), the ICA Boston Foster Prize Exhibition (2019-20), and Ríos Intermitentes, a group exhibition curated by Magdalena Campos-Pons as part of the Havana Bienale (2019). In 2021 she presented a solo exhibition of site responsive work at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM, where she was the Museum’s first artist-in-residence.
Halvorson’s work and practice have been written about widely and she is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up.
Since 2016, Halvorson is Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University. She lives in western Massachusetts.