Valerie Carberry Gallery

SUSANNA COFFEY
   
EDUCATION
1982 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1977 BFA, Magna Cum Laude, University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT
   
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY
2012 Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY
2011 The New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA
2009 Plantings and Cuttings, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2008 The New York Studio School, NY
2006 Isabel Ignacio Gallery, Seville, Spain
2004 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
  Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NY
2002 The College Of Saint Rose, Albany, NY; traveled to The Kendall Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
2001 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
  The Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC
  18 Years, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
  The Marguerite Oestricher Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NY
1998 Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
  Susanna Coffey: Paintings, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  Galeria Alejandor Sales, Barcelona, Spain
1997 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NY
  Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
  Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
  Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs
1996 Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 The Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
  Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
1994 Gallery Three Zero, NY
1992 Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 The Cultural Center of the City of the Eleusis, Eleusis, Greece
  Gallery Engonopoulos, Athens, Greece
  Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Outdoor Disco, Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Embodied- The Figure in Paint, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
  Abstracted, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Painted Faces, The Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education, Tulsa, OK
  Through the Ages: 100 Years of RAM, The Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
  In Residence, The Hood Museum, Hanover, NH
  Red Clay, The Huntsville Museum, Huntsville, AL
2013 The Annual: 2013, National Academy Museum, NY
2012 Observation, Steven Harvey Projects, NY
  Looking into the Light, Culturefix Gallery, NY
  Self-Portraits, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Headshots, Susanna Coffey, Lauren Gregory, O'Conner Gallery at Dominican University, River Forest, IL
  Her Own Style, National Academy Museum,NY
  Four Seasons, Schroeder, Romero, and Schredder, NY
  Heads, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NY
2011 Pavers, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, NY
2010 Carl Plansky and Friends, The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY
  Solemn and Sublime: American Figurative Painting, Akus Gallery at Eastern CT State University, Willimantic, CT
  Susanna Coffey, Night Paintings 1995-2010, Peregrine Programs, Chicago, IL
2009 Partisan, Art Chicago 09, curated by Mary Jane Jacobs, Chicago, IL
  Reconfiguring the Body in American Art 1820-2009, National Academy Museum, NY
  The 184th Annual Exhibition, The National Academy Museum, NY
2008 As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
  Never Has She Ever, The Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
  Contemporary Images of the Figure, Kalamazoo Museum of Art, MI
  Unveiled: New Acquisitions from the Museum's Collection, The Akron Museum of Art
  An Artist Selects: Portraits from the Collection of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, curated by Dawoud Bey, Greensboro, NC
2007 Recent Acquisitions, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
  Fluid Fields, The Painting Center, NY
  Faces, Contemporary Gallery, Hudson NY
  Group Exhibition, Gallery of Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Susanna Coffey and Suzanne Walters, Pi 37 Gallery, Athens, Greece
  Contemporary Visual Arts in Greece, The National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
  Mirror Image, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
  Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
  Apres Nous, Les Deluge, Frances M. Nauman Gallery, NY
2005 Never Done Works by Women Artists from the Puzzouli Miller Collection, The Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington WV
  About Faces: Portraits Past and Present, Staten Island Museum, NY
  Designo, The National Academy Museum, NY
  10th Anniversary Show, Bercier Taylor Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  Looking at Herself, Lyme Academy Art Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
2004 Here's Lookin' at You, Portraits by Illinois Artists Past and Present, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL
2003 Women Of The Academy, The National Academy of Design, NY
  Hothouse, Contemporary Floras, The New York Academy of Science, NY
2002 Edwin Dickenson, Imaginative Affinities, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  Proximity, The Work Space, NY
  Les Fables de La Fontaine, Centre pour l'Art et la Culture, Gallery Aix-en-Provence, France; traveled to Temple University Gallery, Rome; The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; The Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
  The Sharp Foundation Show, Ace Gallery, NY
2001 Yale University School of Art Alumni Exhibition, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
  Celebrating 75 Years - Pulling Prints: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Collection, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
  Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
  Tres Realistas, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mayorca, Spain
2000 Reconfigured, Works by Susanna Coffey, Judy Glantzman, Julia Jacquette, Jim Torok, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY
  Kwangju Bienniel, Kwangju, Korea
  The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, NY
  Women's View, Two Generations of Women Artists From New York, Haverford College, PA
  Go Figure, Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
  Reconfiguring the Heroic, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Self Portraits, The Elaine L Jacobs Gallery, Detroit, MI
  Susanna Coffey and Caroline Thompson, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
  Selections from The Davidson Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1998 Body Double, Winston Wachter Fine Art, NY
  Susanna Coffey and Richard Lewis Portraits, Suzanne Hilbury Gallery, Birmingham, MI
  La Visions de L'esprit, David Armstrong, Susanna Coffey, David Schacter, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
  Group Show, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mayorca, Spain Recent American Portraits, Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 La Tradicion, Exit Art, NY
1996 48th Annual American Academy Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
  Selections from the Permanent Collection (Chuck Close, Susanna Coffey, Willem de Kooning, Alberto Giacommetti, Eva Hesse, John McCracken, Robert Rauschenberg), The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Figurative Impulses; Nicholas Africano, Susanna Coffey, Art Kleinman, Vera Klement, and Kerry James, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1995 Inside Out, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
  Statewide Survey, The Rockford Museum, Rockford, IL
1994 Self Portrayal, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at University of California, Santa Cruz
1993 The Family, Cincinnati Arts Consortium, Cincinnati, OH
  Issues of Identity, MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, NY
  A Reinvention of Classicism, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
  Bodily, Penine Hart Gallery, NY
1992 In Your Face, A/C Project Room, NY
  Susanna Coffey and Susan Lichtman, 55 Mercer Gallery, NY
   
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
  Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
  The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  The Brauer Museum, Valparaiso, IN
  The Catherine T. and John D. McArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
  The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
  Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
  The Joan Flasch Book Collection, Flaxman Library, The Art Institute of Chicago
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
  The Minneapolis Museum of Art
  The National Academy of Art and Design, NY
  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  The Print and Drawing Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago
  The Rockford Museum, Rockford, IL
  Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
  The William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collections at the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
  Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
  Vanderberg Foods, Chicago, IL
   
AWARDS
2009 The John Hultberg Memorial Prize for Painting, The National Academy Museum
2008, '95, '96 The Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Funds Purchase Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
2007 Honorary Doctorate from The Pennsylvania College of the Arts
2006 Residency at The Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy
2003 The National Academy of Art and Design Henry Ward Ranger Prize
1999 Member of The National Academy of Art and Design
1996 The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1994 Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1993 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1993 National Endowment for the Arts
1992 Illinois Arts Council Grant
1992 Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program
   
TEACHING
1982-Present The F. H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (endowed chair 1998)