Josephine Halvorson

Josephine Halvorson
Period: 2014-2015
Profession: Painter Josephine Halvorson, born in 1981 in the United States, lives and works in New York. She is a graduate of The Cooper Union and Columbia University, and teaches painting at Yale University. Her work, represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York and Peter Freeman Inc. in Paris, has been published in ArtForum, Frieze, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Yorker,Art In America, among others. She writes about art, including the  article ” Shame : The One That Got Away ” in ArtJournal, and participated in the documentary series New York Close Up produced by Art21. She received the United States Fulbright scholarship in Vienna and the Harriet Hale Wooley scholarship from the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, as well as the Tiffany Foundation Award . She took part in the Moly Sabata residency in collaboration with Angle Art Contemporain, and exhibited her work there in September 2014, curated by Dorothée Deyries-Henry. At Villa Medici, Josephine Halvorson will carry out a long-term project in line with the specificity of the premises. The realization of her artistic practice takes place directly on site, according to her perception. Through painting, she depicts objects and surfaces that bear the marks of human activity, industrial processes and the effects of nature. It is through observation and confrontation with places that she understands and transcribes the physical aspects of the world : the effects of time, history and imagination.