Halvorson received her MFA from Columbia University in 2007, her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2003, and attended Yale Norfolk in 2002. She is the recipient of several international residencies and fellowships, including a US Fulbright to Vienna, Austria; the Harriet Hale Woolley Award at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France; the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici; and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Halvorson’s work is represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris.

Josephine Halvorson makes art from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. The result is an intimate portrait of the object, capturing both a natural likeness as well as the often unseen or overlooked character of her chosen subject. She works primarily in painting, but also in sculpture and printmaking.

Sponsored by the Agnes Rindge Claflin Fund, a gift of the Friends of the Lehman Loeb Art Center, and administered by the Department of Art at Vassar College. 

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