Julie Heffernan is represented by PPOW Gallery (New York) and Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco). She has had solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Japan and Europe, and a travelling museum show entitled “When the Water Rises” originating at the LSU Museum of Art in 2016 in Baton Rouge and travelling to museums in red states throughout the country through 2019. She has participated in numerous group shows–at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, in Bremen, Me Museum, Olbricht Collection in Berlin and the Palazzo Reale in Milan, among others.
Heffernan has received numerous awards, including the NEA, NYFA and Fullbright, as well as a PS1 Artist-in-Residence, a Fellowship of the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; a Milton And Sally Avery Fellowship from MacDowell; and she was invited to be the Commencement Speaker for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the featured artist at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her work has been reviewed by The New York Times, Art in America, ArtForum and The New Yorker, among others; and is in numerous museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Me Museum in Berlin and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond, VA. She is a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University in New Jersey.