Josephine Halvorson
(Opens in a modal)
Josephine Halvorson, “Disconnect Box” (2022), acrylic gouache on panel, 32 x 26 inches. (Photo: Julia Featheringill, courtesy of the artist)
Josephine Halvorson | Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture
Josephine Halvorson will deliver the 2024 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
Halvorson makes art that foregrounds firsthand experience and observation. She works primarily in painting, and also in sculpture and printmaking.
Her 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 Biennial (2019). In 2021 she presented a solo exhibition of site responsive work at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she was the museum’s first artist in residence. This fall Halvorson presented her work in a solo exhibition in Los Angeles, California at James Fuentes Gallery.
Halvorson’s work and practice have been written about widely and she is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up.
About Josephine Halvorson
Born in Brewster, Massachusetts, she 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.
Since 2016, Halvorson is professor of art and chair of graduate studies in painting at Boston University. She lives in western Massachusetts.
I Help You, 2024
Acrylic gouache on panel, 36 x 31 inches. Photo: Julia Featheringill.
Mass, 2023-2024
Acrylic gouache on panel, 60 x 34 inches. Photo: Julia Featheringill.
Recording
More Upcoming Lectures
Apr 15 at 5:30pm • Museum Lobby
Being and Becoming in Contemporary Chinese Art
This talk by Peggy Wang, associate professor of art history and Asian studies at Bowdoin College, addresses the conflicting pressures that artists in China confronted during the 1990s and early 2000s, including rapid urbanization and cultural globalization. Even as they navigated political constraints and deficits in resources, contemporary artists enacted productive strategies for making and exhibiting their art. This lecture foregrounds artists’ assertions of being and becoming, both as critical tactics for configuring identity and generative topics unto themselves. Wang will particularly examine how artists studied the vibrant dynamics of change through temporal, historical, and material dimensions in their art.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China, on view at the Kemper Art Museum from February 27 to July 27, 2026.
Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series