bio
Susanna Coffey’s portraits are investigations of the iconic human head. The work is driven by questions about what a portrait image can mean. What is a beautiful appearance? Why do conventionally gendered images involve caricature? Can inchoate feeling-states be adequately portrayed? Meticulously observed, most works show her in many guises and locations: under dramatic lighting, highly costumed, inside a studio, within landscapes, foliage, places of fiery devastation, and amidst phantasmagoric patterns. Some portraits seem almost entirely abstract with only the barest suggestion of a human face.
Coffey’s artwork has been exhibited in many museums including The Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Aldrich Museum, The Hood Museum, The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work is in the collections of The Yale University Art Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Minneapolis Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., The Karamay Museum of Art, Xinjiang China and Museum of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain, among others. Among her awards are The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Susanna Coffey lives and works in New York City.
Susanna Coffey’s work is represented by Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects in New York City, Alpha Gallery in Boston and Galeria Isabel Ignacio in Seville, Spain.
EDUCATION
1982 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1977 BFA, Magna Cum Laude, University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, prints and text, The LeRoy Nieman Center Gallery, Columbia University, NYC (also at Expo Chicago, 2023, IFPDA, NYC, 2023)
2019
Night Light, MAB Projects, Milton, PA
Night Painting, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
In Her Studio, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, New York, NY
2018
Crimes of the Gods, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, New York, 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
2015
A Night Painting Project, The Anchorage Art Museum, Anchorage, AK
2014
Elemental, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, New York, NY
2012
Apophenia, Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
Nocturnes, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY
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
2009
Susanna Coffey, Plantings and Cuttings, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2008
Susanna Coffey, since 2001, The New York Studio School, New York, NY
2006
Mirar, Isabel Ignacio Gallery, Seville, Spain
2004
Susanna Coffey, Night Vision, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Susanna Coffey, Conveyance, Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
Susanna Coffey, Blue, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Susanna Coffey, Portraits, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, Travels to: The Kendall Art
Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
2001
Susanna Coffey, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Susanna Coffey, The Weatherspoon Gallery Greensboro, NC
18 Years, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000
Susanna Coffey, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
The Marguerite Oestricher Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999
Susanna Coffey, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Susanna Coffey: Paintings Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth
College, Hanover NH )
Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
1997
Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs, Storrs, CT
1996
Susanna Coffey, Works on Paper, Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago IL
1995
The Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
1994
Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY
1992
Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991
Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
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
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Prints by Susanna Coffey, The Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece
1988
Sazame-Brauer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987
SXC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986
The Cultural Center of the Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
12.21 Solstice, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, NYC
Flora, Zeuxis, NYC
Representations, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, NYC
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
Blooming, Zeuxis, NYC
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
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
2020
Women Artists in the Yale University Art Gallery’s Collection, New Haven, CT
2019
Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective USM Art Galleries
Gorham and Portland Maine Historic: Portraits of Parents Westbeth Gallery New York, NY
The Voracious Eye, The Clemente Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, NY
SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Show, The Betty Rymer Gallery at The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dance with Me, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
The Yard, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, New York, NY
About Face, The Painting Center New York, NY
Incise, Echo and Repeat, Abrazo Interno Gallery at The Clemente, New York, NY
Dreamhouse Vs. Punkhouse, Down the Driveway, 1207 N. LaBrea. Los Angeles, CA
2018
Lake Effect, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, KY
Of Weight and Breath, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN
Mythologies, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, New York, NY
People, Places, Things, Philip Slein Gallery St. Louis, MO
In Her Own Image: Women’s Self Portraiture from 1900-2017, Concord Center for the Visual
Arts, Concord, MA
2017
Right Side Out: The Modern Self-Portrai, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
American Genre: Contemporary Painting, The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of
Art, Portland, ME
May China, Tien Shan Museum of Fine Arts, Urumqi, China
Mirrors and Masks, Reflections and Constructions of the Self, Bryn Mawr College, PA
Blossom as the Self, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn NY
For WLD, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, New York, NY
Outside In, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, New York, NY
2016
The Karamay Museum, Karamay, Xinjian, China
The China National Academy of Painting, Beijing, China
Intimisms James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Painting in the Garden, The Judy Black Memorial Art Center, Washington Depot, CT
Who Me?~ Yes You! Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven CT
Jardin, Number 4 Studio, Bushwick, NY
New Space, Alpha Gallery Boston, MA
2015
Living Threads, The New York Studio School, New York, NY
Self/ Portraits of Artists in Their Absence National Academy Museum, New York, NY
All Together Different, Artists from the LES, The Manny Cantor Center, New York, NY
2014
The Expressive Voice, The Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Nanking International Arts Festival, Nanking, China
Self Portraits, The McIninch Art Gallery at Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester NH
Outdoor Disco, The Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
Embodied- The Figure in Paint, Bannister Gallery, RI College, Providence, RI
Abstracted, Zolla Liebernman 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
Making Faces, The Selena Gallery at LIU, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Session, Steven Harvey Projects, New York, NY
The Annual: 2013, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2012
From Life, Steven Harvey Projects, New York, NY
CSV Resident Artist Exhibition, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center New York, NY
Looking into the Light, Culturefix Gallery, New York, NY
Self-Portraits Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Headshots, Susanna Coffey, Lauren Gregory, The O’Connor Gallery at Dominican University,
River Forest, IL
Her Own Style, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Four Seasons, Schroeder Romero and Schredder, New York, NY
Heads, Lori Bookstein Fine Art New York, NY
2011
Pavers, Schroeder Romero & Shredder Gallery, New York, NY
The Artists Revealed: A Panorama of Artists Portraits, The National Academy Museum, New
York, NY
Scape, The Nicole Villenueve Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
Decameron, NY Studio School, New York, NY
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
Pink Paint, Riverside Art Center, Lake Forest, IL
Painting Here in Chicago, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2009
Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
Partisan, Art Chicago 09, curated by Mary Jane Jacobs, Chicago, IL
Reconfiguring the Body in American Art 1820-2009, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
The 184th Annual Exhibition, The National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2191 Days and Counting IVAW, Brooklyn, 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, The American Academy of Arts and Letters New York, NY
Solitude, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Images of the Figure, The Kalamazoo Museum of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
Unveiled: New Acquisitions from the Museum’s Collection, The Akron Museum of Art, Akron,
OH
An Artist Selects: Portraits from the Collection of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, curated by
Daoud Bey, Greensboro NC
2007
Recent Acquisitions, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Fluid Fields, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Faces, Contemporary Gallery, Hudson, NY
Group Exhibition, Gallery of Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Susanna Coffey, 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 (Catalog)
Secretive, Wheeler Gallery, Providence RI
Wild Women, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
Apres Nous, Les Deluge, Frances M. Nauman Gallery, New York, NY
Slowness, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
13th Anniversary Show, The Painting Center, New York, 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, Staten Island, NY
Designo, The National Academy Museum, New York, NY
10th Anniversary Show, Bercier Taylor Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Looking at Herself, Lyme Academy Art Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
About Paint, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT
2004
Loose Cannon RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Here’s Lookin’ at You! Portraits by Illinois Artists Past and Present, Illinois State Museum,
Chicago, IL
Movin’, Track House Gallery, Oak Park, IL
2003
178th Members Show, The National Academy of Design, New York, NY(Henry Ward Ranger Prize)
Women of The Academy, The National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Hothouse, Contemporary Floras, The New York Academy of Science, New York, NY
The Face of Courage, 323 West Gallery, New York, NY
Sulcada Serves, Track House Gallery, Oak Park, IL
2002
Edwin Dickenson, Imaginative Affinities, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
PA
Prints From VSC, The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
Proximity, The Work Space, New York, NY
Les Fables de La Fontaine, Centre pour l’Art et la Culture, Gallery Aix-en-Provence, France
(Catalog), Travels to: Temple University Gallery, Rome, 11/02, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery,
University of Washington, Seattle 5/03 and The Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 1/04
Response, Exit Art, New York, NY (Review)
Revisiting Modernism, The Painting Center, New York, NY
The Sharp Foundation Show Ace Gallery, New York, NY
To Kiss the Spirits, an Artists Homage to Hollis Sigler, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
25th Anniversary, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001
Yale University School of Art Alumni Exhibition, Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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, New York, NY
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
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 Mayorca, 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
Jose Cobo, Susanna Coffey, Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kwangju Bienniel 2001, Kwangju, Korea
The End, Exit Art, New York, NY
The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
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
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, New York, NY
little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Arts, New York, 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 Mayorca, Spain
Recent American Portraits, Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA
1997
La Tradicion, Exit Art, New York, NY
HAIRDO, The Work Space, New York, NY
about face, Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery, New York, NY
Eleven Face, The Painting Center, New York, NY
1996
48th Annual American Academy Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New
York, NY
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, Chicago, IL
Group Show, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Figurative Impulses; Nicholas Africano, Susanna Coffey, Art Kleinman, Vera Klement, and Kerry James, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Christmas Show, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1995
47th Annual American Academy Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Image and Eye, The New York Studio School, New York, NY
Inside Out, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
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, New York, NY
Something in Common, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
AIDS Awareness, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY
By Special Request, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Self Portrayal, the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at the University of California, Santa Cruz,
CA
1993
The Family, Cincinnati Arts Consortium, Cincinnati, OH
Issues of Identity, MMC Gallery at Marymount Manhattan, New York, NY
Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, curated by Nancy Spero, New York, NY
A Reinvention of Classicism, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford IL
Bodily, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
The Figure, New York 93, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Show, Sazama Gallery, Chicago IL
Preview Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Open Studios, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York, NY
1992
In Your Face, A/C Project Room, New York, 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, New York, NY
1991
Spirited Visions, The State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990
Christmas Invitational Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, 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
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
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, New York, NY
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Print and Drawing Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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
https://anchor.fm/stipan-wkcr-columbia-mfa/episodes/SUSANNA-COFFEY-AND-STEVEN-HARVEY-
ehljtf
Interview with Erica Hess for the podcast I like Your Work https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com/post/artist-susanna-coffey-painting-identity-teaching-experiences-supporting-artists 2020
Interview with Sangram Majumdar for Two Coats of Paint December 20, 2019
https://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2019/12/susanna-coffey-a-life-in-the-studio.html
Review of In Her Studio New York Art Beat November 2019 https://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2019/6337
Review of Crimes of the Gods by John Yau, Hyperallergic June 24, 2018
http://www.susannacoffey.com/john-yau-reviews-crimes-of-the-gods-on-hyperallergic/
*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
http://www.susannacoffey.com/an-interview-with-rich-fisher-on-tulsa-public-radio/
Review of Outside In by John Yau in Hyperallergic 12/23/16, http://hyperallergic.com/345432/outside-in-steven-harvey-fine-art-projects-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
http://www.gorkysgranddaughter.com/2014/01/susanna-coffey-at-steven-harvey-fine.html
Interview with Jennifer Samet Riffing Off Symmetry Hyperallergic January 26, 2013
https://hyperallergic.com/64173/riffing-off-symmetry-a-conversation-with-susanna-coffey/
Interview with Jennifer Samet, Interview for Playspace September 2012
Review of From Life by John Yau, Hyperallergic November 25, 2012
https://hyperallergic.com/60858/from-life-a-group-exhibition-organized-with-marshall-price-s
teven-harvey-fine-art-projects/
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
https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/tag/Susanna+Coffey
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, September 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
CATALOGS AND BOOKS
Catalog, What is left unspoken: love, High Museum of Art, 2022, essay by Michael Rooks
Book, On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, Yale University Press, 2021
Book, Night Painting, Susanna Coffey, published by MAB Books, editor Brice Brown,
writings by Dr. Carol Becker, Brice Brown, Jane Coffey, Kenyon, Jennifer Samet and Mark
Strand, 2019
Book, 50 Contemporary Women Artists, editors John Goslee and Heather Zises, Schiffer
Publishing, Ltd., 2018
Book, Eye to I: Self Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery Collection, Editor, Brandon Fortune
Published by The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2019
Catalog, Mirrors and Masks, Reflections and Constructions of the Self, editors Steven Z. Levine
and Carrie Robbins, Published by Bryn Mawr College, 2017
Book, In Residence, Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
College, 2014
Catalog, Elemental for exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Project, essay by Jennifer Samet
2013
Book, Re: Things In the Lap Essay on SC’s night paintings by Edmund Chia published by
Pergrine Programs, Chicago IL 2012
Book, Selected Contemporary American Figurative Painters, Editor, Qimin Liu, Tianjin Peoples
Finem Arts Publishing House, China, 2010
Art Publication The Sienese Shredder, edited by Brice Brown and Mark Shortliffe, Sienese
Shredder Editions 2010
Book, The Importance of Being Iceland, Essay by Eileen Myles published by Semiotext(e) /MIT
Press 7/2009
Book, Blind Handshake, Essay by David Humphrey, published by Periscope Press 09
Catalog, Artist’s Response: Portraits and Self-Portraits, from exhibition, Unexpected Reflections:
The Portrait Reconsidered at Meridian Gallery, 2009, San Francisco CA, Curated by
Terri Cohn
Essay, Pilgrimage to My Lai: Social Memory and the Making of Art by Dr.Carol Becker in
Thinking in Place, Paradigm Publishers 2009
Catalog, Since 2001, The New York Studio School, essays by Lisa Wainwright, David Cohen
and poem by Cyrus Cassell
Catalog, The 184th Annual Exhibition, The National Academy Museum,.
Catalog, Mirar, Isabel Ignacio Gallery, Seville, SP, 2006 essay by David Cohen
Catalog, Visual Arts in Greece, The National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki
Greece, 2006
Catalog, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, 2006,
essay by Dave Hickey
Catalog, Apres Nous, Les Deluge Frances M. Nauman Gallery, NY, 2006
Catalog, Slowness, Heaven Gallery, Chicago Il, 2006 essays by Terry Myers and Aaron Walker
Catalog, Susanna Coffey, Suzanne Walters Pi 37 Gallery Athens, Greece, essay by Megakles
Rogakos 2006
Catalog, Looking at Herself Lyme Academy of Art 2005, essay by Eleanor Heartney
Catalog, Desegno, National Academy Museum, 2005
Catalog, …Never Done: Works by Women Artists from the Puzzuoli Miller Collection, The
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV 2005 essay by Brice Brown
Book, Fables of La Fontaine, (selected images from The Fables Exhibition) University of
Washington Press, 2004
Catalog, Susanna Coffey, Recent Work, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, 2003 essay by Mark Strand
Catalog, 178 National Academy of Design 7th Annual Exhibition, 2003
Catalog, Challenging Tradition: The Women of the Academy 1826-2003, By David Derringer
and Isabelle Dervaux, 2003
Catalog, Artists to Artists, A Decade of the Space Foundation, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Arts
Foundation, 2002
Catalog Susanna Coffey, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, essay by Michael Rooks, Poem, Blue by
Susan Wheeler 2001
Catalog, The Figure, Another Side of Modernism, Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Catalog, Reconfiguring the Heroic, 2000
Catalog, Man + Space, Kwanju Biennale, 2000
Catalog, Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago essay by Mark Pascale
Catalog, The Likeness of Being D.C.Moore Gallery, New York,, NY 2000, essay by Judith Stein
Book, Contemporary American Realist Drawings from the Jalane and Richard Davidson
Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago by Ruth Fine, Raymond Hernandez-Duran and Mark
Pascale, 1999
Catalog, Susanna Coffey Studio Art Exhibition Program, Dartmouth College, September, 1998
Essays by Michael Rooks and Eileen Myles
Catalog, Inside Out, 1995
Catalog, Something in Common, essay by Mary Jane Jacob, 1995
Book, Spirited Visions: Artists in Chicago, Patty Carroll, essay by James Yood
Book, Exposures, Women, and Their Art, New Sage Press, 1989, Essays by Betty Ann Brown
and Arlene Raven, Photos by Kenna Love
HONORS AND AWARDS
Hirschhorn Museum, 2020, 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
OTHER PROJECTS Curating , Illustration, Writing
2022 Acoustiguide narration for the National Gallery of Art, on Judith Leyster’s Self Portrait
Curator of MaterPolis, the Moss Art Center at Virginia Tech catalog essay
2021 How Still? catalog essay for Ruth Miller Forge exhibition at the University of Tulsa Art
Gallery
Join Us! catalog Essay for Susan Chen 2021 exhibition I Am Not a Virus at Night
Gallery L.A. CA
Illustrations, (in progress) a set of 9 jigsaw woodcuts, for a new edition of The Homeric
Hymn to Demeter, translated by Apostolos Athenassakis at The Neiman Center for
Print Studies at Columbia University
2020 Downtimes for Deities, catalog essay for Amadeo Morales Favela exhibition at Unit
Gallery, London UK
On Alix Bailey’s Paintings, catalog essay for Alix Bailey’s 2020 exhibition The Painting
Center NYC
Margaret Grimes, Lover of the Wild Places, ArtCritical November 11 th 2020
Essay in Artists Quarantined with Their Art Collections, Hyperallergic June 20th 2020
https://hyperallergic.com/565597/artists-quarantine-with-their-art-collections-2/
Illustrations, (in progress) a set of 9 jigsaw woodcuts for a new edition of The Homeric
Hymn to Demeter at The Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University
2019 Essay about the artist Carl Plansky published in the monograph Carl Plansky, Painter And Printmaker, published by The Larry Elder Gallery 2019
2015 Essay for Painters on Painting blog on Pierre Bonnard’s The Terrace at Vernonnet https://www.painters-table.com/link/painters-paintings/susanna-coffey-pierre-bonnard
2012 Catalog Essay, Fishing for KnickKnacks exhibition of Don Joint, pub. by Pavel Zoubok
Gallery
2011 Catalog essay for the Mass College of Art 2011 Non-Residential MFA Program Thesis
Show
2008 Curator, Still Life, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Curator, Paying Attention, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
1994 Curator, Prodigal Daughter, Rockford College Art Gallery, (Catalog with essay by Dr.
Carol Becker) Catalog editor Susanna Coffey, Pub. by Rockford College, Rockford IL
March, 1995
1993 Curator, Home Girls, Beacon Street Gallery at Uptown Hull House, Chicago IL
1988 Author of the article, Durer’s Rabbit Chicago Art/Write, March, 1988
1989 Book Publisher and Illustrator, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, translation by Apostolos Athanassakis, Kallichoron Press 1989, a hand-printed book with woodcut illustrations
1979 Illustrator for Monovassia, by Eleni Fourtouni, Thelphini Press, 1979
SELECTED PANELS, SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Lecture Night Painting the Moss Art Center at Virginia Tech
Lecture On Resilience for the Columbia Undergraduate Scholars Program October 2021
Interview with Stipan Tadic for WKCR radio
Panel, In Her Studio with Daphne Arthur, Heidi Howard, Marthe Keller, Laura Mosquera, and
Kyle Staver at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY, November 2019
Panel on Mythologies exhibition, Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects 2018
Panel with editors and artists of 50 Contemporary Women Artists at Nancy Hoffman Gallery,
November 17th 2018
NY Studio School, public lecture, Valentines , February 13, 2018
Public Lecture, Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA lecture, October, 19th 2017
Panel discussion with artists of the Beijing Academy with Charles Ahearn, Gregory Amenoff,
Jane Dickson, Roberto Juarez and Kara Rooney, at The National Academy of Painting,
Beijing China, 2016
Commencement speaker at The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, June, 2015
Public Lecture and workshop, Painting in the Dark and the Landscape of Night at Anchorage Art
Museum, November 2015
Public Lecture at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, October 22, 2015
Gallery talk on Portraiture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 21, 2013
Radio Interview, on “Cloudknitters” with Leo Reijnders, Radio Central Belgium 106.7FM
September ‘12
Panel, The Serious and the Sublime, Eastern Ct State University, November, 2010
Panel, Portraiture The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010
Panel, CAA 2010, Painting Here in Chicago, Chicago IL, 2010
Panel, Closed and Open Form: Clarity/Ambiguity Artists Equity Association, NY, 2009
Panel, WNew York,, NY Community Advisory Board Art Coverage Symposium, 2009
The Wier Farm Lecture 2008, Western CT State College, 2008
Commencement speaker, Philadelphia College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, 2008
Panel chair, Color and Paint The College Art Association Conference 2005, Atlanta, GA, 2005
Symposium participant, Thomas Eakins, Scholars /Artists Day, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2002
Panel, Religious Paradox/Ambiguity and Materiality, Harvard University Department of Religious
Studies, December, 2002
Panel, Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Panel, Figuration in Contemporary, Art College Art Association, Chicago, IL, 2001
Panel, The Role of a Liberal Arts Curriculum in the Education of Visual Artists, The School of
Visual Arts, New York, NY, 1989
TEACHING (Please see academic resume)
2019 – Present
Visiting Professor in The School of Arts and Letters, Columbia University
1982 – Present
The F. H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (endowed chair 1998), with tenure, (1989). Emeritus (2019)
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects
208 Forsyth St
New York, NY 10002
917 861 7312
info@shfap.com
Alpha Gallery
14 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
617/536-4465 Fax: 617/536-5695
Directors: Alan and Joanna Fink
Galeria Isabel Ignacio
Velarde 9
Seville, Spain 41001
34 954 562 555
email, isabelignacio@telefonica.net
Director: Isabel Ignacio