School of the Arts, Yale University, New Haven, CT, MFA, 1982
University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT, BFA, 1977
Member of the National Academy of Art and Design, since 1999
The John SImon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1996
Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1996
Academy Award in Art, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1994
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, 1993
National Endowmen for the Arts, 1993
Illinois Art Council Grant, 1992
Marie Walsh Sharp Foundation Studio Program, 1992
S.A.I.C. Faculty Enrichment Grant, 1991, 1990, 1987
Chicago Artists Abroad, 1990
Illinois Arts Council Grant, 1985
Ragdale Foundation Residency, Lake Forest, IL, 1984
Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Individual Artist Grant, 1980
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2004
Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2004
Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, 2003
College of St. Rose Gallery, Albany, NY, travels for Kendall Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, 2002
Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, 2001
The Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC, 2001
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2000
Marguerite Oestricher Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2000
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, 1999
Galerie Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain, 1998
Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, 1997
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1997
Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 1997
Bangs Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1997
Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1996
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1995
Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY, 1994
Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1992, 1991
The Cultural Center of the City of Eleusis, Eleusis, Greece, 1988
Gallery Engonopoulos, Athens, Greece, 1988
Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece, 1988
Sazama-Brauer Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1988
SXC Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1987
The Cultural Center of Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL, 1986

"Here's Looking at You! Portraits by Illinois Artists Past and Present," Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL, 2004
"The Stray Show," Chicago, IL, 2004
"Looking at Herself," Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Lyme, CT, 2004
"Movin'," Track House, Oak Park, IL, 2004
178th Members Show, The National Academy of Art & Design, New York, NY, 2003
"Women of the Academy," The National Academy of Art & Design, New York, NY, 2003
"Hothouse: Contemporary Floras," The New York Academy of Science, New York, NY, 2003
"The Face of Courage," 323 West Gallery, New York, NY, 2003
"Sulcada Serves," Track House, Oak Park, IL, 2003
"Edwin Dickenson, Imaginative Affinities," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2002
"Prints from the VSC," The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT, 2002
"Proximity," The Work Space, New York, NY, 2002
"Les Fables de La Fontaine," Centre Pour l'Art et la Culture, Aix-en-Provence, France; travelling to Temple University Gallery, Rome, Italy; The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; The Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2002-2004
"Response," Exit Art, New York, NY, 2002
"Revisiting Modernism," The Painting Center, New York, NY, 2002
"The Sharp Foundation Show," Ace Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
"To Kiss the Spirits, an Artist's Homage to Hallis Sigler," Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2002
25th Anniversary Show, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2002
Yale University School of Art Alumni Exhibition, Yale University School of Art, Hew Haven, CT, 2001
Faculty Sabbatical Exhibition, The Betty Rymer Gallery at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001
"Power of the Seen: Twelve Painters Work from Life," The Painting Center, New York, NY, 2001
"Celebrating 75 Years: Pulling Prints: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Collection," Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, 2001
"Identities: Contemporary Portraiture," New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, 2001
"Tres Realistas," Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mayorca, Spain, 2001
18-Year Retrospective, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2001
"Reconfigured," Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY, 2000
"Exquisite Corpse," Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2000
Jose Cobo and Susanna Coffey, Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2000
Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea, 2000
"The End," Exit Art, New York, NY, 2000
"The Likeness of Being," DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, 2000
"Self-Portraits," The Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery, Detroit, MI, 1999
"Selections from the Davidson Collection," The Art Institute of
Chicago, IL, 1998
"Body Double," Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY, 1998
"Little," Jeffrey Cuploff Fine Arts, New York, NY, 1998
"La Visions de L'Esprit, David Armstrong, Susanna Coffey, David
Schacter," Bang Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1998
"Eyes Mind," Kendall Art & Design, Hudson, NY, 1998
"Recent American Portraits," Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA,
1998
"La Tradition," Exit Art, New York, NY, 1997
"HAIRDO," The Work Space, The Work Space, New York, NY, 1997
"About Face," Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery, New York, NY, 1997
"Eleven Faces," The Painting Center, New York, NY, 1997
"48th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition," The American
Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY, 1996
"Selections from the Permanent Collection," The Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1996
"Group Show," Bang Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1996
"Figurative Impulses," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 1996
"Christmas Show," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1996
"47th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition," American
Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY, 1995
"Image & Eye," The New York Studio School, New York, NY, 1995
"Inside Out," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
CT, 1995
"Self-Portraits," Lyons-Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1995
"Group Show," Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain, 1995
"Something in Common," Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1994
"Aids Awareness," Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY, 1994
"By Special Request," Hers gallery, Wakefield, RI, 1994
"American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, 1994
"Self Portrayal," The Mary Porter Sesnon Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 1994
"The Family," Cincinnati Arts Consortium, Cincinatti, OH, 1993
"Issues of Identity," MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY, 1993
"A Reinvention of Classicism," Rockfort Art Museum, Rockfort, IL, 1993
"Songs of Retribution," Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY, 1993
"Bodily," Penine Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1993
"The Figure, New York, '93," 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 1993
"Summer Show," Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1993
"Preview Show," The Painting Center, New York, NY, 1993
"Open Studios," The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York, NY, 1993
"In Your Face," A/C Project Room, New York, NY,; traveling to Cortland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1992
"Faculty Sabbatical Show," Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1992
"Susanna Coffey, Susan Lichtman," 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY, 1992
"Spirited Visions," State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1991
"Christman Invitational Show," Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, 1990
"Midwest Drawing Invitational," University of Indiana Art Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana, 1990
"Soul Survivors," Beacon Street Gallery at Upton Full House, Chicago, IL, 1990
"3 Artists from Chicago," Art Gallery of Kent State, Kent, OH, 1990
"Chicago Artists Abroad," The Cultural Center of the Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL, 1989
"Portraits, Landscapes," Beacon Street Gallery at the Upton Full House, Chicago, IL, 1989
"Gallery Artists," Sazama-Brauer Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1988
"Six Painters," School of the Art Institute Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1988
"2x2," School of the Art Institute Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1988
"Susanna Coffey, Dan Gustin," University of Indiana Fine Arts Center, Bloomington, Indiana, 1987
"Big People," University of Indiana, Gary, IN, 1987
"Three Artists," J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1987
"Self Portrait," ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1986
"Showing Off," State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1986
"Black and White," Contemporary Arts Workshop, Chicago, IL, 1986
"Aspects of the Figure," J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1985
"The Shadow Show," N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1985
"Nocturne," The Payne Art Center, Oshkosh, WI,; traveling to the Burpee Museum, Rockford, IL, 1985
"S.A.I.C. Faculty Show," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1985
"Unseen," ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1984
"Artist Call," Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1984
"Pilson Artists," Sven Parson Gallery, DeKalb, IL, 1984
"M.F.A. Theses Show," Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 1982
"Two Alumni," Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT, 1982
"The Figure Today," The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT, 1982
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Brauer Museum, Valparaiso, IN
The Cinncinnati Museum of Art, OH
Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Joan Flasch Book Collection, Flaxman Library, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Catherine T. and John D. Mac Arthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
National Academy of Art and Design, New York, NY
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Rockford Museum, Rockford, IL
The William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collections at the Marian Coffin Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Vanderberg Foods, Chicago, I L
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Cate McQuaid, Review, The Boston Globe, November, 19, 2004.
Emile Ferris, Article, F News, September 2004.
Fred Camper, Review, The Chicago Reader, June 10, 2004.
Alan Artner, Review, The Chicago Tribune, June 4, 2004.
Catalog, Susanna Coffey, essay by Mark Strand, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 2003.
Catalog, 178th National Academy of Design Annual Exhibition, 2003.
Mario Naves, Review, The New York Observer, November 4, 2003.
Catalog, Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Foundation, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Arts Foundation, 2002.
Catalog, Susanna Coffey, essay by Michael Rooks, poem “blue” by Susan Wheeler, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 2001.
Tom Patterson, Review, The Winston-Salem Journal, February, 15, 2001.
Catalog, The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 2001.
Catalog, Reconfiguring the Heroic, 2000.
Catalog, Man and Space: Kwanju Biennial, Kwanju, Korea, 2000.
Catalog, Exquisite Corpse, essay by Mark Pascale, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2000.
Catalog, The Likeness of Being, essay by Judith Stein, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY, 2000.
Judith Bonner, Review, The New Orleans Art Review, November/December 2000.
Joshua Meyer, Review, Art New England, April/May 2000.
Diane Thodos, Review, The New Art Examiner, March 2000.
Cate McQuaid, Review, The Boston Globe, January 20, 2000.
Catalog, Contemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago, by Ruth Fine, Raymond Hernandez-Duran, and Mark Pascale, Chicago, IL, 1999.
Nicole Krauss, Review, Art in America, September 1999.
Review, The New Yorker, February 8, 1999.
Review, Art New England, February 1999.
Ken Johnson, Review, The New York Times, January 22, 1999.
Deborah Everett, Review, NY Arts, January 1999.
Edith Newhall, Review, New York Magazine, January 1, 1999.
Catalog, Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College, September 1998, essays by Michael Rooks and Eileen Myles, 1998.
Kim Levin, “Work in Progress,” The Village Voice, April 22, 1997
Dominique Nahas, Review, Art Review, 1997.
David Humphrey, Review, Art Issues, Summer 1997.
Jeffrey Whittle, “Susanna Coffey,” A Journal of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 1997, pp. 22-23.
Miles Unger, “Deceptive Mirrors, Contemporary Self Portraits,” Art New England, December 1996/January 1997.
Catalog, Inside Out, 1995.
Catalog, Something in Common, essay by Mary Jane Jacob, 1995.
Mary Jane Jacob, Catalog, Something in Common, 1995.
Catalog, Prodigal Daughter, March, 1995.
Eileen Myles, Review, Art in America, July 1994.
Arlene Raven, Review, The Village Voice, March 1, 1994.
David McCracken, Review, Chicago Tribune, December 1992.
Elizabeth Condon, Review, New Art Examiner, December 1992.
Patty Carroll, Spirited Visions: Artists in Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Abigail Forstner, Chicago Tribune, February 1, 1991.
David McCracken, Review, Chicago Tribune, May 1991.
Peter Kypreotelis, Mesimvrini, Athens, Greece, 1990.
Tom Gross, Review, New Art Examiner, March 1990.
Exposures: Women and Their Art, contributors Betty Ann Brown and Arlene Raven, New Sage Press, 1989.
Associate Professor in Painting with Tenure, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1982 – present
Co-director and faculty member of the Landscape and Figure Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago at Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI, 1985 - present
The Cooper Union School of Art & Design, New York, NY, Fall Term, 1999
Visiting Lecturer, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1999
Visiting Lecturer, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1999
The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 1998; 1996; 1995; 1994
Boston University, Boston, MA, 1998
The College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 1998
The University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 1998
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 1997
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 1997; 1994
The New York Studio Program, New York, NY, 1997; 1994
Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy, 1996
The American University, Washington, DC, 1996
Randolf-Macon College, Lynchburg, VA, 1995
University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, IL, 1995
Royal College of Art, London, England, 1995
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1994
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1994
Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1994
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1993
Associate Professor of Design and Color, Brooklyn College, New York, NY, 1993
Graduate Advisor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1991
Painting Instructor, Hospitalfield Trust, Arbroath, Scotland, 1990
Lecture, Uptown Hull House, Chicago, IL, 1989
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Circle Campus, Chicago, IL, 1985
Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Art, Hew Haven, CT, 1982
CETA, Art Teacher, The New Haven Correctional Center, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT, 1979-1982