Josephine Halvorson holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and a MFA from Columbia University. She also attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art. Halvorson is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Vienna, Austria, The Tiffany Foundation Award, a NYFA Fellowship in painting, and has enjoyed yearlong residencies at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program in Brooklyn. Recent solo exhibitions include Side By Side at Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, 2012; What Looks Back at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 2011; and Clockwise From Window at Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, 2010. Group exhibitions include Still at Frith Street Gallery, London, 2012; and Americanana at Hunter College, New York, 2010.
 
Halvorson teaches painting at The Cooper Union and at Princeton University. She also serves as a Core Critic in the MFA program at Yale University. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.