Heffernan, Julie

yer: Peoria

Doğmuş: 1956

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Julie Heffernan is an American painter born in Peoria, Illinois in 1956. She is known for her work described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as 'a new kind of history painting' and by The New Yorker as 'ironic rococo surrealism with a social-satirical twist'. Heffernan has been a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey since 1997. She currently lives in New York, New York. Heffernan has received a Master of Fine Arts at Yale School of Art and has been awarded several fellowships and residencies, including the Milton And Sally Avery Fellowship at MacDowell in 2013 and the Lee Ellen Fleming Artist-In-Residence at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 2012. In 2011, she was elected a National Academician to the National Academy of Design in New York and in 2014, to the Board of Governors. She is a 2017 Fellow of the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; was awarded the Meridian Scholar Artist-In-Residence Fellowship from the University of Tampa in Florida and was the featured artist for the 2017 MacDowell Colony.