SUSANNA COFFEY BIO
E D U C A T I O N
1982 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1977 BFA, Magna Cum Laude, University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2015 (forthcoming) The Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 Elemental Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects NYC (Review, online interview)
2012 Apophenia Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA (Reviews)
Nocturnes Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NYC (Review)
2011 The Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright State University, Dayton, OH
The New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA
2009 Susanna Coffey, Plantings and Cuttings Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2008 Susanna Coffey, since 2001, The New York Studio School, NY
2006 Isabel Ignacio Gallery, Seville, Spain (Catalogue & Reviews)
2004 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA (Review)
Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago, IL (Reviews)
2003 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NY (Catalogue & Review)
2002 The College Of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, Travels to: The Kendall Art Gallery, Grand
Rapids, MI (Reviews)
2001 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY (Catalogue & Reviews)
The Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC (Review)
18 Years, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, (Reviews)
The Marguerite Oestricher Gallery, New Orleans, LA (Review)
1999 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, 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 Alejandor Sales, Barcelona, Spain (Reviews)
1997 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, 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 Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL (Review)
1995 The Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
1994 Gallery Three Zero, NY (Review)
1992 Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL (Review)
1990 The Cultural Center of the City of the Eleusis, Eleusis, Greece
Gallery Engonopoulos, Athens, Greece (Review)
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 (Review)
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
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
Outdoor Disco, The Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago IL
Embodied- The Figure in Paint , Bannister Gallery, RI College, Providence
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, NYC
The Annual: 2013 National Academy Museum NYC
2012 From Life Steven Harvey Projects, NYC
CSV Resident Artist Exhibition, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center NYC
Looking into the Light, Culturefix Gallery, NYC
Self-Portraits Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL
Headshots, Susanna Coffey, Lauren Gregory O’Connor Gallery At Dominican University,
River Forest, IL
Her Own Style National Academy Museum, NYC
Four Seasons Schroeder Romero and Schredder, NYC
Heads, Lori Bookstein Fine Art NYC
2011 Pavers, Schroeder Romero & Shredder, NY (Review)
The Artists Reveale: A Panorama of Greaf Artist Portraits; The National Academy Museum,
NY
Scape The Nicole Villenueve Gallery, Chicago IL
2010 Decameron, NY Studio School, 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 (book)
Pink Paint, Riverside Art Center, Lake Forest, IL
Susanna Coffey, Night Paintings 1995-2010, Peregrine Programs, Chicago, IL (Review)
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 1820-209 National Academy Museum, NY
The 184th Annual Exhibition The National Academy Museum, NY
2191 Days and Counting, for 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 American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
Solitude Luxe Gallery, 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
Daoud 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, Suzanne Walters, Pi 37 Gallery, Athens, Greece (Catalogue & Reviews)
Contemporary Visual Arts in Greece, The National Museum of Contemporary
Arts,Thessaloniki, Greece (Catalogue)
Mirror Image, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
(Catalogue)
Secretive, Wheeler Gallery, Providence RI
Wild Women, 55 Mercer Gallery, NY (Review)
Apres Nous, Les Deluge, Frances M. Nauman Gallery, NY (Catalogue)
Slowness, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL (Catalogue)
13th Anniversary Show, The Painting Center, NY
2005 …Never Done Works by Women Artists from the Puzzouli Miller Collection, The
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington WV (Catalogue, essay by Brice Brown)
About Faces: Portraits Past and Present, Staten Island Museum, NY
Designo, The National Academy Museum, NY (Catalogue)
10th Anniversary Show, Bercier Taylor Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Looking at Herself Lyme Academy Art Gallery, Old Lyme, CT (Catalogue, essay by Eleanor
Heartney)
About Paint, Westport Art Center, 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, NY (Catalogue & Review)
Henry Ward Ranger Prize
Women Of The Academy, The National Academy of Design, NY (Catalogue & Review)
Hothouse, Contemporary Floras, The New York Academy of Science, NY
The Face of Courage, 323 West Gallery, 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, NY (Catalogue)
Les Fables de La Fontaine , Centre pour l'Art et la Culture, Gallery Aix-en-Provence, France
(Catalogue), 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, NY (Review)
Revisiting Modernism, The Painting Center, NY
The Sharp Foundation Show, Ace Gallery, NY (Catalogue)
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, New
Haven, CT (Catalogue)
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, NY
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
(Catalogue)
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
Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL (Catalogue)
Jose Cobo, Susanna Coffey, Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kwangju Bienniel, Kwangju, Korea (Catalogue)
The End, Exit Art, NY
The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, NY (Catalogue)
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 (Catalogue)
Reconfiguring the Heroic, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL (Catalogue)
1999 Self Portraits, The Elaine L Jacobs Gallery, Detroit, MI (Reviews)
Susanna Coffey, 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
little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Arts, 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
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, NY
HAIRDO, The Work Space, NY
about face, Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery, NY
Eleven Faces, The Painting Center, 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
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,
NY
Image and Eye, The New York Studio School, NY
Inside Out, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (Catalogue)
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, NY
Something in Common, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
AIDS Awareness, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, 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 Manhattan College, NY
A Reinvention of Classicism, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Bodily, Penine Hart Gallery, NY
The Figure, New York 93, 55 Mercer Gallery, NY
Summer Show, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
Preview Show, The Painting Center, NY
Open Studios, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, NY
1992 In Your Face, A/C Project Room, NY
Courtland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Faculty Sabbatical Show, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
Susanna Coffey, Susan Lichtman, 55 Mercer Gallery, NY (Review)
1991 Spirited Visions, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Christmas Invitational Show, Bowery Gallery, 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
2x2, 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, 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
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, Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pilson Artists, Sven Parson Gallery, DeKalb, IL
1982 M.F.A. Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Two Alumni, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
The Figure Today, The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT (Catalogue)
P U B L I C C O L L E C T I O N S
Yale University Art Gallery
The Danforth Art Museum, Framingham MA
The Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Museum of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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 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
The Joan Flasch Book Collection, Flaxman Library, The Art Institute of Chicago
Vanderberg Foods, Chicago, IL
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
P R E S S
Review of Elemental by Hearne Pardee The Brooklyn Rail February 2014
Online video, by Gorky’s Daughter also on The Painter’s Table.
Interview with Jennifer Samet Riffing Off Symmetry Hyperallergenic ,January 26, 2013
Interview with Jennifer Samet, Interview for Playspace September 2012
Review of From Life by John Yau, Hyperallergenic 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 ‘12
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
C A T A L O G U E S A N D B O O K S
Book, In Residence, Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
College, 2014
Re: Things In the Lap Essay on the night paintings by Edmund Chia published by Pergrine
Programs, Chicago, IL 2012
Book, Selected Contemporary American Figurative Painters, Editor, Qimin Liu, Tianjin
Peoples
Fine 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 7/09
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 Fransisco CA, by Terri Cohn
Essay, “Pilgrimage to My Lai: Social Memory and the Making of Art “ by Carol Becker in
Thinking in Place, Paradigm Publishers 09
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, 2001 essay by Michael Rooks, Poem,
"Blue" by Susan Wheeler
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, NYC 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
H O N O R S A N D A W A R D S
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
Chicago Artists Abroad, 1990
Illinois Arts Council Grant, 1985
Ragdale Foundation Residency, Lake Forest, IL, 1984
Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 1980
P R O J E C T S
2013 Oyu Oro: Dos Aguas de Cuba, Research trip for study in Eight Cuban organizations that
preserve cultural traditions of the African Diaspora; dance, song, instrumentation and
costuming.
2012 Catalog Essay, Fishing for KnickKnacks exhibition of Doon Joint, pub. by Pavel Zoubok
Gallery, NYC
2011 Catalog essay for the Mass College of Art Non-Residential MFA thesis show
2008 Curator, Still Life, Bowery Gallery, 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 (Review)
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
T E A C H I N G
1982 - Present The F. H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago (endowed chair 1998), with tenure, (1989)
P A N E L S , S P E A K I N G E N G A G E M E N T S
“Portraiture”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 21, 2013
Radio Interview, on “Cloudknitters” with Leo Reijnders, Radio Central,106.7FM September
‘12
Panel, The Serious and the Sublime, Eastern Ct Stae University, Nov. 2010
Panel, Portraiture The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010
Panel, CAA 2010, Painting Here in Chicago, Chicago IL
Panel, Closed and Open Form: Clarity/Ambiguity 2009Artists Equity Association, NY
Panel, WNYC Community Advisory Board Art Coverage Symposium, 2009
The Wier Farm Lecture 2008, Western CT State College
Commencement Speaker 2008, Philadelphia College of Art and Design, Phil. PA
Panel chair, "Color and Paint" College Art Association Conference 2005, Atlanta, GA
Symposium participant, Thomas Eakins, Scholars /Artists Day, 2002 The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Panel, Religious Paradox/Ambiguity and Materiality, Harvard University
Department of Religious Studies, December 2002
Panel, "Identities: Contemporary Portraiture" New Jersey Center for Visual Arts
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
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