1982, Master of Fine Art. Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1977, Bachelor of Fine Art, Magna Cum Laude, University of Connecticut at Storrs CT
Exhibitions
2006
One Person Show, Pi 37 Gallery Pireus, Greece, catalog, reviews
One Person Show, Isabel Ignacio Gallery, Seville, Spain, catalog
Visual Arts in Greece, The National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece, catalog
” Mirror Image” Islap 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, NYC NY (review by David Cohen in The New York Sun,April 27, 2006)
” Apres Nous, Les Deluge” Frances M. Nauman Gallery, NYC, catalog
” Slowness” Heaven Gallery, Chicago Il, catalog
” 13th Anniversary Show” The Painting Center, NYC
2005
” About Faces: Portraits Past and Present”, Staten Island Museum, NY
” Designo”, The National Academy Museum, NYC, NY (catalog)
10th Anniversary Show, Peligro Gallery, New Orleans LA
” Looking at Herself” Lyme Academy Art Gallery, Old Lyme, CT ( catalog, essay by Eleanor Hartney)
” About Paint”,Westport Art Center,CT
” Loose Cannon”, RKL Gallery,Brooklyn NY
2004
One Person Show, Alpha Gallery, Boston MA, review, The Boston Globe by Cate McQuaid.
Loose Cannon RKL Gallery, Brooklyn NY
One Person Show, Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago IL, reviews: The Chicago Tribune, 6/4 by Alan Artner, The Chicago Reader, 6/10 by Fred Camper, F News, 9/4 by Emile Ferris.
Here’s Lookin’ at You! Portraits by Illinois Artists Past and Present, Illinois State Museum, Chicago
The Stray Show, Chicago, IL (with Track House Gallery, Oak Park, IL)
Movin, Track House Gallery, Oak Park, IL
2003
One Person Show, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NYC (catalog), review, The New York Observer, 9/10 by Mario Naves
178th Members Show , The National Academy of Design, NYC (catalog) Henry Ward Ranger Prize, review by Ken Johnson in The New York Times
Women Of The Academy, The National Academy of Design, NYC ( catalog) review by Ken Johnson in the New York Times
Hothouse, Contemporary Floras, The New York Academy of Science, NYC
The Face of Courage, 323 West Gallery, NYC
Sulcada Serves, Track House Gallery, Oak Park, IL
2002
One Person Show, The College Of Saint Rose, Albany NY, travels to The Kendall Art Gallery
Grand Rapids MI
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, NYC, NY (catalog)
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, ‘ U of WA Seattle 5/03; The Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore MA, 1 / 04
Response, Exit Art, NYC (review and mention NY Times March, Ken Johnson)
Revisiting Modernism, The Painting Center, NYC
The Sharp Foundation Show, Ace Gallery NYC –
To Kiss the Spirits, an Artists Homage to Hollis Sigler, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago IL
25th Anniversary, Beacon St. Gallery, Chicago IL
2001
Yale University School of Art Alumni Exhibition, Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT (catalog)
Faculty Sabbatical Exhibition; The Betty Rymer Gallery at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Power of the Seen: Twelve Painters Work from Life, The Painting Center, NY, 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 (catalog)
One Person Show, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, N.Y, N.Y (catalog)
One Person Show, The Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro NC
Art Miami ’01, Sala Pelaires
Tres Realistas, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mayorca, Spain
Beacon Street Gallery, 18 Year retrospective
2000
Reconfigured, Works buy Susanna Coffey, Judy Glantzman, Julia Jacquette, Jirra Torok
Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY
One Person Show, Alpha Gallery, Boston MA (review)
Ecquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago IL (catalog)
Jose Cobo, Susanna Coffey, Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago IL
Kwangju Bienniel, Kwanju, Korea (catalog)
The End, Exit Art, NYC
The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, NYC (catalog)
One Person Show, The Marguerite Oestricher Gallery, New Orleans LA (review, The New Orleans Art Review November/December 2002 by Judith Bonner)
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 (catalog)
Reconfiguring the Heroic, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago (catalog)
Art Miami ’00, Sala Pelaires
1999
One Person Show, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, N.Y., NY (reviews)
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
Art Miami ’99, Sala Pelaires
1998
Body Double, Winston Wachter Fine Art, N.Y. NY
little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Arts, NYC
Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charlston, SC
Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Ctr., Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (review)
Susanna Coffey, and Richard Lezais Portraits, Suzanne Hilbury Gallery, Birmingham, Ml
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
One Person Show, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, N.Y., NY
One Person Show, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
La Tradicion, Exit Art, New York NY
HAIRDO, The Work Space, New York, NY
about face, Rosenbeg & Kaufman Gallery, New York, NY
One Person Show, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Eleven Faces, The Painting Center, N.Y.C., NY
One Person Show, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs
1996
One Person Show, Lyons Weir G’allery, Chicago, IL
48th Annual Attterican Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, N.Y.C. NY
Selections from the Permanent Collection (Chuck Close, Susanna Coffey, Willem de Kooning, Alberto Giacommetti, Eva Hesse, John McCracken, Robert Rauschenberg), The Art Insfitute of Chicago, Chicago, 1L
Group Show, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Figurative Impulses; Nicholas Africano, Susanna Coffey and Kerry Jarnes Marshall,
Evanston Art Center, Evanstan, IL
Christmas Show, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1995
One Person Show, The Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
47th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Image and Eye, The New York Studio School
Inside Out, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalog)
Statewide Survey, The Rockford Museum, Rockford, 1L
Art Expo, Chicago, lL Represented by Alpha Gallery and Gateria Alejandro Sales
Self Portraits, Lyons-Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994
Art Expo, Chicago,IL, Represented by Sazama Gallery
Something in Common, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
AIDS Awareness, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, NY, NY
By Special Request, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters
One Person Show, Gallery Three Zero, N.Y., NY
Self Portrayal, the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gailery at the University of California, Santa Cruz
1993
Art Expo, Chicago, IL
The Family, Cincinnati Arts Consortium, Cincinnati, OH
Issues of Identity, MMC Gallery, Marrymount Manhattan College, A Reinvention of Classicism, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
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
One Person Show, Sazama Gallery, New York, NY
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, Chicago, IL
Susanna Coffey, Susan Lichtman, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1991
One Person Show, Sazatna Gallery, New York, NY
Spirited Visions, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990
Christmas Invitational Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
One Person Show, The Cultural Center of the City of the Eleusis, Eleusis, Greece
One Person Show, Gallery Engonopoulos, Athens, Greece
One Person Show, Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece
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
One Person Show, Sazame-Brauer Gallery, Chicago, IL.
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, Chciago, IL
1987
One Person Show, SXC Gallery, Chicago, 1L
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
One Person Show, The Cultural Center of the Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
Self Portraits, ARC Gallery, Chicago, 1L
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 Gailerv, Chicago, IL
Pilson Artists, Sven Parson Gallery, DeKalb, IL
1982
M.I.A. Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Two Alumni, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs
The Figure Today, The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Public Collections
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Akron Museum of Art, Akron OH
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, 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 City, 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 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, I
