Julie Heffernan, 1956 | Magic Realism painter

Painter and graphic novelist Julie Heffernan is an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as "a new kind of history painting" and by The New Yorker as "ironic rococo surrealism with a social-satirical twist".

Heffernan has been a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey since 1997.

She received a B.F.A., at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art.

Heffernan is a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

She is represented by PPOW Gallery in New York City, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, CA; and Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.

She is married to Jonathan Kalb, chair of the Theater Department at Hunter College and theater critic, author of "Great Lengths".

Heffernan has received a number of grants and fellowships over the years including a Thomas R. Proctor Prize from the National Academy Museum in New York City, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (NYFA), a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and a Fulbright-Hayes Grant to West Berlin.

Heffernan has had 46 solo exhibitions since 1999 and was a nominee for the "Anonymous Was A Woman" award in 2016".

Some of her paintings go for the upper tens of thousands of dollars when they are being sold.

Heffernan’s work has been published and reviewed in major newspapers and periodicals including: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Observer, The New York Sun, Artforum, Art in America, Art News, Flash Art, Harpers, The Chicago Tribune and Art and Auction.

Heffernan è cresciuta nella California settentrionale, ha conseguito la laurea triennale in Belle Arti in incisione e pittura presso l'Università della California a Santa Cruz ed un master in Belle Arti presso la Yale School of Art.

È professoressa di Belle Arti alla Montclair State University e co-fondatrice della rivista Painters on Paintings.

Vive e lavora a Brooklyn, New York.

Nel 2011, Heffernan è stata eletta Accademica Nazionale presso la National Academy of Design di New York e nel 2014 membro del Consiglio di Amministrazione.