Josephine Halvorson (b. 1981, Brewster, US) lives and works in Western Massachusetts, US. She earned an MFA from Columbia University, New York (2007), and early she studied at the U.S. Fulbright Fellowship, Vienna, Austria and Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk.
She makes paintings on-site, face-to-face with an object in its environment. Often no more than an arm’s length away, she detects variations in texture, light, and temperature, transcribing these perceptions through the medium of paint. 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.
Halvorson has taught at The Cooper Union, Princeton University, the University of Tennessee Knoxville Columbia University, and Yale University. Since 2016, Halvorson has served as a Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University. She lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
