Teaching
Boston University
2016–present
Josephine Halvorson is Professor of Art and Chair of the MFA Program in Painting at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. She teaches seminars and participates in critiques of graduate students’ work through studio visits, group crits, and final reviews. As Chair, she organizes and coordinates the program schedule, leads orientation and admissions, and advises students on their course of study. She serves on a number of committees and, in 2022, delivered the annual University Lecture.
In 2016, Halvorson founded and continues to co-administer the Tuesday Night Lecture Series, a free and public lecture series run by the MFA programs in Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, and Print Media and Photography. It has brought dozens of artists to Boston and into the studios of the graduate students.
Thesis catalogs
2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
NYC Student Exhibitions
2022, Amory Park, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
2021, Characters All, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York
2020, MFA Exhibition, Ortega Y Gasset, Brooklyn
2019, Proximity, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York. Catalog designed by Charles Mason III. Curated by Didier William and Josephine Halvorson.
2018, MAP, 1969 Gallery, Catalog designed by Ika Chang. Curated by Didier William and Josephine Halvorson.
2017, Playbook, On Stellar Rays, Catalog designed by Emmitt Smith. Curated by Didier William and Josephine Halvorson.
Skowhegan
2018
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is a nine-week residency. Halvorson was one of five resident faculty during the summer of 2018.
Paint School
2017–2018
Halvorson was a 2017-2018 faculty mentor at Paint School, a free master class in the theory and practice of painting. This lecture-based program brings twelve fellows together with six individuals widely recognized as among the most exceptional painters in the New York City area.
Inspired by alternative educational initiatives like Black Mountain College, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Core Program, Paint School is unaccredited but extraordinarily rigorous. Presented in the style of a post-graduate fellowship, this program aims to enrich the discourse of contemporary painting through peer exchange. Fellows are expected to possess a significant history of engagement with the field and a desire to participate in a community focused on dialogic interchange.
Princeton University, PPPL
2013
An undergraduate advanced painting course in collaboration with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, 2013.
Course blog
Princeton article about the project by Jeanne Jackson DeVoe
Times of Trenton Article by Kelly Johnson
Yale School of Art
Columbia University
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Princeton University
Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art
The Cooper Union School of Art
2007–2016
Halvorson taught various classes in painting and drawing to undergraduate and graduate students as an Adjunct Instructor, Lecturer, and Artist-In-Residence. From 2010-2016, she taught in then MFA program at the Yale School of Art as a Core-, Visiting-, and Senior Critic.
Visiting Artist Lectures
2009–present
2023 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2023 New York City Crit Club (virtual)
2023 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2023 School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2023 University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2023 Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2023 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2022 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2022 Boston University, University Lecture, Boston, MA
2022 SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY (virtual)
2022 Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT
2021 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2021 Royal College of Art, London (virtual)
2021 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA (virtual)
2021 Pratt Institute, MFA Program, Brooklyn, NY (virtual)
2021 University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (virtual)
2020 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (virtual)
2019 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
2019 Juror, Frances N. Roddy Competition, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA
2019 Mount Gretna School of Art, Mount Gretna, PA
2019 Yale University, New Haven, CT
2019 Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts MFA Program, New Brunswick, NJ
2019 Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
2019 DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
2018 Manchester Community College, Manchester, NH
2018 Williams College, Williamstown, MA
2018 Resident Faculty, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2018 Visiting Critic, Art Culture and Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2018 Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2018 Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2018 MFA Program in Painting, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2018 MFA Program in Painting, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2017 University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2017 MFA Program in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2017 College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
2017 Yale Norfolk Summer Program, Norfolk, CT
2017 Freshman Seminar, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2017 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, MFA Program, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Hunter College, MFA Program, New York, NY
2016 Painting workshop, Moly-Sabata, Sablons, France
2016 Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT
2016 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2016 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
2016 Barnard College, as part of Leslie Hewitt’s course, New York, NY
2016 Bruce High Quality Foundation University, as part of Jarrett Earnest’s Radical Pedagogies course.
2015 SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
2014 MFA Program, Boston University, Boston, MA
2014 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2014 MFA Program, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
2014 MFA Program, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2014 MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2013 BFA Program, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2013 MFA Program, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
2013 MFA Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2013 Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Brooklyn, NY
2013 University of Nebraska Wesleyan, Lincoln, NY
2013 Painting Intensive Summer Program, Columbia University, New York, NY
2013 BFA Program, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2013 MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2013 MFA Program, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
2013 MFA Program, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2013 Post-Baccalaureate Program, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2013 MFA Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2013 MFA Program, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
2011 MFA Program, Boston University, Boston, MA
2011 New York Studio School
2011 Post-Baccalaureate Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010 MFA Program, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2009 BFA Program, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2009 Panel Participant, Edition/Artists’ Book Fair, C Initiative, New York, NY
2009 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
2009 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA