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Education

1982 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1977 BFA, Magna Cum Laude, University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT

Solo Exhibitions

2022/23
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, prints and text, The LeRoy Nieman Center Gallery, Columbia
University NYC NY (also at Expo Chicago 2023)
2019
Night Light MAB Projects, Milton PA
Night Painting Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
In Her Studio Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, NYC NY
2018
Crimes of the Gods Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, NYC NY
2017
Transit The Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Gallery at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA
2016
Going to Ground the Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education, Tulsa OK catalog
2015
A Night Painting Project the Anchorage Art Museum Anchorage AK
2014
Elemental Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, NYC NY (Review, video interview Gorky’s
Daughter)
2012
Apophenia Alpha Gallery, Boston MA (Reviews)
Nocturnes Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NYC NY (Review)
2011
Susanna Coffey: Paintings and Works on Paper the Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright
State University, Dayton OH
Susanna Coffey in the Vault the New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford MA
2010 Susanna Coffey, Night Paintings 1995-2010, Peregrine Programs, Chicago IL (Review,
catalog)
2009
Susanna Coffey, Plantings and Cuttings Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte NC
2008
Susanna Coffey, since 2001, The New York Studio School, NYC NY
2006
Mirar Isabel Ignacio Gallery, Seville, Spain (Catalog & Reviews)
2004
Susanna Coffey, Night Vision Alpha Gallery, Boston MA (Review)
Susanna Coffey, Conveyance Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago IL (Reviews)
2003
Susanna Coffey, Blue Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NYC NY (Catalog & Review)
2002
Susanna Coffey, Portraits the College of Saint Rose, Albany NY, Travels to: The Kendall Art Gallery, Grand Rapids MI (Reviews)
2001
Susanna Coffey Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC NY (Catalog & Reviews)
Susanna Coffey The Weatherspoon Gallery Greensboro NC (Review)
18 Years Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago IL
2000
Susanna Coffey Alpha Gallery, Boston MA (Reviews)
The Marguerite Oestricher Gallery, New Orleans LA (Review)
1999
Susanna Coffey Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NYC NY (Reviews)
1998
Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston SC
Susanna Coffey: Paintings Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH (Review & Catalogue, essays by Michael Rooks & Eileen Myles)
Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain (Reviews)
1997
Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NYC NY (Review)
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC
Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown MA
Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs
1996
Susanna Coffey, Works on Paper Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago IL (Review)
1995
The Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
1994
Gallery Three Zero, NYC NY (Review by Eileen Myles)
1992
Sazama Gallery, Chicago IL
1991
Sazama Gallery, Chicago IL (Review)
1990
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Paintings and Prints by Susanna Coffey the Cultural Center of
the City of Eleusis, Elefsina, Greece
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Paintings by Susanna Coffey Gallery Engonopoulos, Athens,
Greece (Review)
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Prints by Susanna Coffey the Hellenic-American Union,
Athens, Greece
1988
Sazama-Brauer Gallery, Chicago IL
1987
SXC Gallery, Chicago IL
1986
The Cultural Center of the Chicago Public Library, Chicago IL (Review)

Group Exhibitions

2023
Flora Zeuxis NYC NY
Representations Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects
collective selection / selective collection, curated by Camilø Álvårez, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY
What Is Left Unspoken, Love. Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC
(T-ides) Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects NYC NY
Blooming Zeuxis NYC NY
2022
Artists Select: Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith Celebrate 25 Years of Nieman Center Prints
Nieman Gallery, The Leroy Nieman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University NYC NY
That Which is Left Unspoken the High Museum, Atlanta GA (and others), (catalog)
Nocturne Brackett Creek gallery, NYC
MaterPolis The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA
Ucello’s St Jerome Milton Art Bank, Milton PA
2021
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale Yale University Art Gallery New Haven CT
Paradise Island Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects NYC NY
It’s a Small World, Hofheimer Gallery Chicago IL
2019
Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective USM Art Galleries
Gorham and Portland Maine
Historic: Portraits of Parents Westbeth Gallery NYC NY
The Voracious Eye The Clemente Abrazo Interno Gallery NYC NY
SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Exhibition The Betty Rymer Gallery at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Power of the Seen: Twelve Painters Work from Life, The Painting Center NYC
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Paintings and Prints by Susanna Coffey, The Cultural Center of the City of Eleusis, Elefsina, Greece
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Paintings by Susanna Coffey, Gallery Engonopoulos, Athens, Greece (Review)
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Prints by Susanna Coffey, The Hellenic-American Union, Athens Greece
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 (Catalog)
Tres Realistas, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2000
Reconfigured, Works by Susanna Coffey, Judy Glantzman, Julia Jacquett, and Jim Torok, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville NY
Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery Chicago, IL (Catalog)
Jose Cobo, Susanna Coffey, Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago IL
Kwangju Biennial 2001, Kwangju, Korea (Catalog)
The End, Exit Art, NYC NY
The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, NYC, NY (Catalog)
Women’s View, Two Generations of Women Artists From New York, Haverford College, PA
Go Figure, Another Side of Modernism: The Human Figure in Painting from 1950 to the Present, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island NY (Catalog)
Reconfiguring the Heroic, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago IL (Catalog)
1999
Self Portraits, The Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery, Detroit, MI (Reviews)
Susanna Coffey and Caroline Thompson, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Selections from The Davidson Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago (Book)
1998
Body Double, Winston Wachter Fine Art NY
Little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Arts NY
Susanna Coffey and Richard Lewis Portraits, Suzanne Hilbury Gallery, Birmingham MI
Les Visions de L’esprit, David Armstrong, Susanna Coffey, and David Schacter, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown MA
Eyes Mind, Kendell Art and Design, Hudson NY
Group Show, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Recent American Portraits, Boston University Gallery, Boston MA
1997
La Tradicion, Exit Art, NYC NY
Hairdo, The Work Space, NYC NY
About Face, Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery, NYC NY
Eleven Face, The Painting Center, NYC NY
1996
48th Annual American Academy Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
Selections from the Permanent Collection (Chuck Close, Susanna Coffey, Willem de Kooning, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, John McCracken, Robert Rauschenberg), The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Group Show, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Figurative Impulses: Nicholas Africano, Susanna Coffey, Art Kleinman, Vera Klement, and Kerry James Marshall, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Christmas Show, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1995
47th Annual American Academy Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
Image and Eye, The New York Studio School, NYC
Inside Out, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT (Catalog)
Statewide Survey, The Rockford Museum, Rockford IL
Self Portraits, Lyons-Weir Gallery, Chicago IL
1994
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC NY
Something in Common, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago IL
AIDS Awareness, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, NYC NY
By Special Request, Hera Gallery, Wakefield RI
Self-Portrayal, The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at the University of California, Santa Cruz
1993
The Family Cincinnati Arts Consortium, Cincinnati OH
Issues of Identity MMC Gallery, Marymount NYC College, NYC NY
Songs of Retribution Richard Anderson Gallery, NYC NY curated by Nancy Spero
A Reinvention of Classicism Rockford Art Museum, Rockford IL
Bodily Penine Hart Gallery, NYC NY
The Figure, New York 93 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC NY
Summer Show Sazama Gallery, Chicago IL
Preview Show The Painting Center, NYC NY
Open Studios the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, NYC NY
1992
In Your Face A/C Project Room, NYC NY
Courtland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown MA
Faculty Sabbatical Show Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Susanna Coffey, Susan Lichtman, 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC NY (Review)
1991
Spirited Visions the State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago IL
1990
Christmas Invitational Show Bowery Gallery, NYC NY
Midwest Drawing Invitational University of Indiana Gallery, Bloomington IN
Soul Survivors Beacon Street Gallery at Uptown Hull House, Chicago IL
3 Artists from Chicago Art Gallery of Kent State, Kent OH
Chicago Artists Abroad, the Cultural Center of the Chicago Public Library, Chicago IL
1989
Portraits, Landscapes Beacon Street Gallery at Uptown Hull House, Chicago IL
Drawings Central Washington State College, Ellensbury WA
Yale/Chicago Gallery Vienna, Chicago IL
Gallery Artists, Sazama Gallery, Chicago IL
1988
Six Painters Sazama-Brauer Gallery, Chicago IL
Self Portraits School of the Art Institute Gallery, Chicago IL
2×2, School of the Art Institute Gallery, Chicago IL
1987
Susanna Coffey, Dan Gustin University of Indiana Fine Arts Center, Bloomington IN
Big People University of Indiana, Gary IN
Three Artists J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago IL
1986
Self Portraits ARC Gallery, Chicago IL
Showing Off the State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago IL
Black & White Contemporary Arts Workshop, Chicago IL
1985
Aspects of the Figure J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago IL
The Shadow Show N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago IL
Nocturne The Payne Art Center, Oshkosh WI
Chicago Artists, the Burpee Museum Rockford IL
S.A.I.C. Faculty Show, The School of the Art Institute Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984
Unseen ARC Gallery, Chicago IL
Artists Call Marianne Deson Gallery Chicago IL
Pilson Artists Sven Parson Gallery, DeKalb IL
1982
M.F.A. Thesis Show Yale School of Art A &A Gallery, New Haven CT
Two Alumni Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT
The Figure Today the Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich CT (Catalog)

Public Collections

The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
The Karamay Museum of Art, Xinjiang China
The Uhho Municipal Museum, Xinjiang China
Yale University Art Gallery New Haven CT
The Danforth Art Museum, Framingham MA
The Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Seville Spain
The Center for Figurative Painting NYC NY
Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
The Brauer Museum, Valparaiso IN
The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
The National Academy of Art and Design, NY
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
The Print and Drawing Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Rockford Museum, Rockford IL
The Holderness School, Holderness NH
The William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collections at the Mariam Coffin Canaday
Library, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA
The Catherine T. and John D. McArthur Foundation, Chicago IL
The Minneapolis Museum of Art Minneapolis MN
The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, The John Flaxman Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Vanderberg Foods, Chicago IL
Northwestern University, Evanston IL

Press
Interview with Stipan Tajic WKCR radio
Interview with Erica Hess for the podcast I like Your Work, 2020
Interview with Sangram Majumdar for Two Coats of Paint December 20, 2019
Review of In Her Studio New York Art Beat November 2019
Review of Crimes of the Gods by John Yau, Hyperallergic June 24, 2018
*Interview with John Mitchell for The Studio Visit, May 21, 2018
Radio Interview with Brainard Carey for WYBC Yale Radio June 27, 2017
Radio Interview with Rich Fisher for Tulsa Public Radio November 6, 2016
Review of Outside In by John Yau in Hyperallergic December 23, 2016
Review of Elemental by Hearne Pardee The Brooklyn Rail February 2014
Online video, by Gorky’s Daughter also on The Painter’s Table January 2014
Interview with Jennifer Samet Riffing Off Symmetry Hyperallergic January 26, 2013
Interview with Jennifer Samet, Interview for Playspace September 2012
Review of From Life by John Yau, Hyperallergic November 25, 2012
Review of Apophenia by Cate McQuaid , The Boston Globe September 25, 2012
Review of Apophenia by Steve Locke in art and everything after September 29, 2012
Review of Apophenia by Nate Risteen Boston Art Review September 23, 2012
Radio Interview, on “Cloudknitters” with Leo Reijnders, Radio Central (Belgium),106.7FM
September 2012
Review of Nocturne by John Goodrich, City Arts April 3, 2012
Review of Pavers, City Arts, John Goodrich, January 12, 2011
Project, 7 Days The Huffington Post, Sept. 2010
Review of Night Paintings 1995-2010, Jeremy Bliss, New City, Chicago, April 22, 2010
Review of Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009, The New York Times,
Ken Johnson, July 22, 2009
Article and images, The Sienese Shredder 4, Sienese Shredder, Edition 09
Article, “Pilgrimage to My Lai: Social Memory and the Making of Art “ by Carol Becker in
Thinking in Place, Art Journal, February, 2007
Review of Mirar, ABC, by Laura Farjado, November 2006
Article, “Looking at Herself” Kathleen Edgecomb, The New London Day, December 8, 05
Lecture, Thinking in Place, Dr. Carol Becker at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
Review of Alpha Gallery show, Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, November 19, 2004
Article, Emile Ferris, F News, Chicago, IL, September, 2004
Review of Maya Polsky show, Alan G. Artner, The Chicago Tribune, June 4, 2004
Review of Maya Polsky show, Fred Camper, The Chicago Reader, June 10, 2004
Review of Tibor De Nagy Show, Mario Naves, The New York Observer, November 10, 2003
Review of 178th Members Show, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, May 2003
Review of Women of the Academy, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, Summer 2003
Review, Metroland, David Brickman, November 7, 2002
Review of The College Of Saint Rose show, Kathryn Wheeler, The Grand Rapids Press,
December 15, 2002
Review of Response, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, March 2002
Review of Tibor DeNagy show, Ann Landi, Art News, October 2001
Review of Tibor DeNagy show, Mario Naves, The New York Observer, June 4, 2001
Review, Dan Bischoff, The Sunday Star-Ledger, April 8, 2001
Review of Weatherspoon Art Gallery show, Tom Patterson, The Winston -Salem Journal, February 15, 2001
Review of Marguerite Ostreicher Fine Arts Gallery show, Judith H. Bonner, The New Orleans Art Review, November/December 2000
Review of Self-Portrait, 2000, Diane Thodos , The New Art Examiner, March 2001
Review of Alpha Gallery show, Joshua Meyer, Art New England, April/May 2000
Review of Alpha Gallery show, Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, January 20, 2000
Review of Tibor De Nagy show, Art In America, Nicole Krauss, September, 1999
Review of Tibor De Nagy show, The New York Times, Ken Johnson ,January 22, 1999
Review of Tibor De Nagy show, The New Yorker, February 8, 1999
Review of Tibor De Nagy show, NY Arts, Deborah Everett, January 1999
Review of Tibor De Nagy show, New York Magazine, Edith Newhall, January 1, 1999
Review of Dartmouth show, Art New England, Miles Unger February 1999
Review of Self Portraits, Detroit Free Press, Keri Guten Cohen, 1999
Article, “Work in Progress”, The Village Voice, Kim Levin, April 22, 1997
Article, Art Review, Dominique Nahas, 1997
Review of Tibor De Nagy show, David Humphrey, Art Issues, Summer, 1997
Interview, Jeffrey Whittle, A Journal of Art, Cornell University, 1997
Article, “Deceptive Mirrors, Contemporary Self Portraits”, Miles Unger, Art New England,
December/January 1997
Review of Lyons Weir Gallery show,The Chicago Reader, Fred Camper, May 10, 1996
Article, Alan Artner, The Chicago Tribune, February 1996
Review of Inside Out, Charles Hagan, The New York Times July 14, 1995
Review of Inside Out, Vivien Raynor, The New York Times, June 11, 1995
Review of Gallery Three Zero Solo Show, Art in America, Eileen Myles, July 1994
Review, Arlene Raven, The Village Voice, March 1, 1994
Review, David McCracken, Chicago Tribune, December, 1992
Review of 55 Mercer Gallery show, New Art Examiner, Elisabeth Condon, December 1992
Article, Abigail Forstner, Chicago Tribune, February 1, 1991
Review of Sazama Gallery show, Chicago Tribune, David McCracken, May 1991
Review of Gallery Engonopoulos show, Mesimvrini, Peter Kypreotelis, 1990
Review, Tom Gross, New Art Examiner, March, 1990
Review of Cultural Center of Chicago Public Library show, Art News, Sue Taylor, September 1986

Honors & Awards

Hirschhorn Museum, 2021, Artist x Artist award honoring twenty pairs of artists who inspire each other
The University of Connecticut’s School of Fine Arts, Distinguished Alumni Award 2016
Honorary Degree from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts 2015
The John Hultberg Memorial Prize for Painting, The National Academy Museum 2009
The Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Funds Purchase Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2008,1995 and 1996
Honorary Doctorate from The Pennsylvania College of the Arts
Residency at The Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy May 2006
Henry Ward Ranger Prize, 2003
Member of The National Academy of Art and Design, since 1999
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1996
Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1994
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, 1993
National Endowment for the Arts, 1993
Illinois Arts Council Grant, 1992
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program, 1992
S.A.I.C. Faculty Enrichment Grant, 1991 and 1990, and 1987
The Aeschylus Medal awarded by the city of Eleusis, Greece. 1990
Chicago Artists Abroad, 1990
Illinois Arts Council Grant, 1985
Ragdale Foundation Residency, Lake Forest, IL, 1984
Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 1980