Josephine Haden

Born in Nashville, Tennessee (French mother/American father, raised bilingual, transatlantic childhood), Josephine Haden came to Washington, DC after living abroad in Paris, France. Since completing studies in art and art history at Georgetown University (BA) and George Washington University (MA), she has been working out of her Northern Virginia studio where she now resides.

Josephine Haden’s paintings are included in private, public, and corporate collections in the United States and France, including the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. Ms. Haden was Grand Prize winner of the 1999 Binney & Smith Liquitex Excellence in Art Purchase Award. In 1989, she was invited to show her paintings at the Grimaldi Château-Musée in Haut-de-Cagnes, France. In 2006, her paintings were selected for publication in the 2006 New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition-in-Print, by Alex Baker, Curator of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

She has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad. These include: Hirschl & Adler MODERN, New York (2006); Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York (2006); the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida (2003); ARTSPACE/Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables (Miami), Florida (2003 and 2002); Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia (2003); and Gallery K, Washington, DC (2001, 1996, and 1993 solos). Ms. Haden's work has also been shown at U.S. Embassies in Bogotá, Colombia, and Yaoundé, Cameroon; in Naples (FL) at Longstreth-Goldberg Gallery (2005); in New Orleans at the Sylvia Schmidt Gallery (2002) and the Marguerite Oestreicher Gallery (1993); in Virginia at Marymount University (1996 solo), Cox Communications (2002), CapitalOne Art Gallery (2003 solo), and the McLean Project for the Arts (2005); in DC at the National Academy of Sciences (1997), the Corcoran Museum of Art (1997), the Washington Project for the Arts (1995 and 1992), Arnold & Porter (1991 solo); George Washington University (1990) and Georgetown University.

She was awarded Juror’s Grand Prize by Judith Zilczer, Curator of Paintings at the Hirshhorn Museum, in the 1992 Fairfax County Council of the Arts Open Exhibition; and Best in Show by Sidney Lawrence, Head of Public Affairs and Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum, in the 1999 Artists Equity Show. In other juried competitions, her paintings were selected by prominent museum curators and art professionals: in 2006 by Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen (DC), and by David C. Levy, former Director, the Corcoran Museum, of Art (DC) and the Parsons School of Design (NY); in 2005 by Jonathan Binstock, Curator of Contemporary Art, the Corcoran Museum of Art (DC), and by J.W. Mahoney, Art in America Corresponding Editor; in 2000 by Virginia Mecklenburg, Senior Curator, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art; in 1999 by Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator, Phillips Collection (DC); in 1998 by Holly Block, Director, Art in General (NY); in 1997 by Susan Sterling, Chief Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC); in 1996 by Howard Fox, Curator of Contemporary Art, LA Museum of Art (CA); in 1995 by David Ross, Director, Whitney Museum (NY); in 1994 by Donald Kuspit, renowned art critic (NY); in 1989 by Helaine Posner, Curator of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC); and in 1987 by Barbara Haskell, Curator of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum (NY).