Born 1956 in Peoria, Illinois; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

B.F.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

Julie Heffernan: Everything That Rises, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, New York; traveling to: Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, and Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia,
South Carolina
Heaven and Hell, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham , Michigan

John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina

Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles

P · P · O · W Gallery, New York

New Paintings, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York

Linda Durham Gallery, Galisteo, New Mexico

P·P·O·W Gallery and Littlejohn Contemporary, New York

Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

Alcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Social Insecurity , Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Theater of the Melancholic Sublime, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia; traveling to: McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, and Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

Me, Myself and I , Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida

About Painting, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, New York

Trouble in Paradise, Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, New York

Earthly Delights, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

179th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York

Enchantment , Wave Hill, Bronx, New York

Exquisite Corpse: Rules for an Unruly Project , Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

Women and Self-Representation in Contemporary Art , Palmer Museum, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania

Woman on Woman, White Box Gallery, New York

The New V.M.F.A.: Collecting for the Future, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Masquerade , John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado

Social Landscape, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York

Collecting Contemporary Art: A Community Dialogue, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

Pixerina Witcherina, University Galleries, University of Illinois, Normal, Illinois and Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Of Dreams and Dreamers , Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

Yale University School of Art Alumni Show , Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Snapshot , Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland; traveling to: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

The Swamp on the Edge of Eden, Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainesville, Florida

American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida

What Goes Around Comes Around, Katonah Museum, Katonah, New York

Quirky, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York

Animal Artifice, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

And Everything Nice, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois

Distilled Life, Fisher Arts Building, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Art Center, Staten Island, New York

Self-Portraiture , 2000 Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea

Looking Back, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

National Academy Museum, Thomas R. Proctor Prize for Painting, National Academy Museum 179th Annual Exhibition, New York

New York Foundation for the Arts: individual artists’ grant

National Endowment for the Arts: individual fellowship grant

1986