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Solo Exhibitions
2025 Interconnected, Lakeview Gallery, Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Tech University, Smithville, TN 2024 Piece Together, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 2023 Power in Numbers, Taubman Center North Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2022 Never Mere Ornament, 355 POD Space Gallery, VisArts, Rockville, MD 2019 Yellow Womanhood, Honfleur Gallery, Anacostia Arts Center, Washington, DC More Than a Body, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA (catalog) Authentic Hybrid, Korus Hall, Korean Cultural Center, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington, DC 2018 Collective Quilting, Maze Gallery, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD Blanket Statement, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 2017 Like Any Other, IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, DC Work in Progress, Textile Arts Center, New York, NY Womanspreading, The Project Space, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, Canada 2016 Like Any Other, The Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA Selected Group Exhibitions 2024 The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture, curated by Karen Lemmey, Tobias Wofford, and Grace Yasumura, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (catalog) Hallyu! The Korean Wave, curated by Rosalie Kim of the V&A Museum and Christina Yu Yu, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC 2023 Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge, curated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Robert Lehman Gallery, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY Reckoning: Adornment as Narrative, curated by Erika Diamond, Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC Gathering, curated by Cecile Chong and Sophia Ma, FiveMyles, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY 2022 This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, curated by Mary Savig, Nora Atkinson, Anya Montiel, and Elana Hain, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (catalog) Squaring Up Histories, curated by Erika Diamond, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY Home-Land: Exploring the American Myth, curated by Michael Quituisaca and Alexandra Schuman, American University Museum, Washington, DC (catalog) In Spite of Modernism: Contemporary Art, Abstract Legacies, and Identity, curated by Haley Clouser, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA (catalog) 2021 Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics, curated by MASS Design Group, Ellen Lupton, and Julie Pastor, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY #mask: Creative Responses to the Global Pandemic, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM Finding Common Ground: Sowing the Seeds of Community & Collaboration, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco CA^ The Power of Patience, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD Amplify, curated by Alison Byrne and Heather Hakimzadeh, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA Two-Person Exhibition, In Solidarity, The Factory, Manchester, NH (with Anthony Peyton Young)^ ROLODEX. Craft a Conversation, John Cram Partner Gallery, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC^ K-Recollection, curated by Ji Young Yun, Korean Cultural Center, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington, DC 2020 There, There, curated by Adriel Luis, IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, DC Handcrafted: Textile Art Biennial, Kay Gallery, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD Rights and Wrongs: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Vote, curated by Lauren Frances Adams, The Peale Center, Carroll Museums, Baltimore, MD Reassertions, curated by Elisa Gutierrez, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY 2019 Here: A Bit of Everywhere and Everyone They’ve Been, curated by Vanessa Kowalski, Main Gallery, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY Over, Under, Forward, Back, curated by Blair Murphy, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA (catalog) 2017 One Another, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA Mother Tongue, Mary Fifield Art Gallery, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA 2016 Painting Biennial: She Comes in Rags, curated by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2015 Flormula, Hunt Memorial Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA All is Subject, Gallery 360, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Chosen Homeland, Korean Cultural Center, Washington, DC (catalog) Residencies and Fellowships 2025 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Residency, CSG Endowment Fellowship and VCCA's 50th Anniversary Fellowship, Amherst, VA 2024 Headlands Center for the Arts, Residency, Sausalito, CA Santa Fe Art Institute, Residency and BIPOC Award, Santa Fe, NM 2022 The Nicholson Project, Residency, Washington, DC 2021 The Factory, Residency, Manchester, NH 2020 Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua Institute, Residency, Chautauqua, NY IA&A and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Fellowship, Washington, DC 2019 NARS Foundation, Residency, Brooklyn, NY 2018 School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Traveling Fellowship, Boston, MA Montgomery College, Residency, Silver Spring, MD 2017 Root Studio, Residency, Columbia, MD Textile Arts Center, Residency, New York, NY Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Residency, Alberta, Canada 2016 Vermont Studio Center, Residency and Emerging Artist Fellowship supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Johnson, VT Gallery 263, Residency, Cambridge, MA 2012 Georgetown University, CNDLS's Integrative Arts Fellowship, Washington, DC Other Awards 2020 BlackRock Center for the Arts, Handcrafted Textile Art Biennial Juror's Award, Juror: Caroline Kipp, Germantown, MD 2019 Torpedo Factory Art Center, 2019 Solo Exhibition First Prize at Target Gallery, Jurors: Sandy Guttman, Michael Matason, and Terence Nicholson, Alexandria, VA Marshall University, 8th National Juried Exhibition Third Prize, Juror: Steven Matijcio, Huntington, WV 2017 Korean Cultural Center, 23rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition Second Prize, Jurors: Erin Christovale and Max Presneill, Los Angeles, CA 2016 Tufts University, Graduate Travel Grant, Medford, MA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, President’s Research Award, Boston, MA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Montague Travel Grant, Boston, MA 2015 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boit Award Honorable Mention, Boston, MA KOWINNER: Korean Women's Int'l Foundation, International Art Competition First Prize, Hong Kong 2012 Phi Beta Kappa, Joseph S. Lepgold Award First Prize, Washington, DC Georgetown University, 20th Annual Misty Dailey Award for Excellence in the Arts, Washington, DC American Association of University Women, Celebrating Women’s Voices in Politics and Art at the National Museum of Women in the Arts: Poster Competition First Prize, Washington, DC Awards and Exhibitions Juried 2024 Selection Panelist, Windgate-Lamar Fellowship, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC 2023 Juror, Artists at Work: Smithsonian Community Committee Exhibition, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC Juror, Post-Graduate Residency Program, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA 2022 Programming Committee, James Renwick Alliance for Craft, Washington, DC Juror, Scholastic Art Competition, Fairfax County Public Schools, Falls Church, VA 2019 Juror, Exhibition, The Art League, Alexandria, VA Juror, Exhibition, The Fine Gallery, Leesburg, VA 2018 Juror, Solo Exhibitions, The Art League, Alexandria, VA Selected Lectures, Presentations, and Workshops American University, Washington, DC Anacostia Arts Center, Washington, DC ArtTable, New York, NY Auburn University, Auburn, AL Emerson College, Boston, MA George Fox University, Newberg, OR Georgetown University, Washington, DC Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, DC Korean Cultural Center, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington, DC Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington, VA Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY New York Public Library, New York, NY Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Textile Arts Center, New York, NY Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA Transformer, Washington, DC University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA Woodlawn & Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House, Alexandria, VA Public Collections Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN^ Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, NY^ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM New York Public Library, New York, NY Ohio University, Athens, OH^ Penn State University, University Park, PA^ Scripps College, Claremont, CA^ Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC University of Georgia, Athens, GA^ Yale University, Haas Arts Library Special Collections, New Haven, CT^ Film Appearance "The Wedding Banquet" (2025) Directed by Andrew Ahn. Written by Andrew Ahn and James Schamus. Starring Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-Chan, Joan Chen, and Youn Yuh-Jung. Film by Bleecker Street, Kindred Spirit, ShivHans Pictures, and Symbolic Exchange. Education MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA BA, Studio Art, summa cum laude, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Lehigh University (attended), Bethlehem, PA Selected Bibliography Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, "Can you mount an art exhibition about race in the age of Trump?," CNN, July 20, 2025. [link] Karen Shih, "A Sewn Statement on the Big Screen," Maryland Today, May 14, 2025. [link] You-jin Song, "Inside MFA, Boston's 'Hallyu! The Korean Wave' exhibition," Arirang News, The Korea International Broadcasting Foundation, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 8, 2024. [link] Solon Kelleher, "'Hallyu!' at the MFA rides the South Korean culture wave," WBUR, Boston’s NPR, March 22, 2024. Alpesh Kantilal Patel, "Curatorial Perspective: Form and Formless," Surface Design Journal, Winter 2023. 28–30. Nadya Kim and Tess Porter, "Inspiring Creative Changemakers," Smithsonian Magazine, July 13, 2023. [link] PBS/WETA-TV, "WETA Arts: April 2022," PBS station for the DC area, April 1, 2022, 22:25-28:11. [link] Korean Cultural Center, K-Art in DC: 10 Years of Exhibitions at the KCC Washington D.C., 2022. 42, 87, 113–114. Mark Jenkins, "Connecting modern abstraction with personal identity," The Washington Post, March 11, 2022. [link] Susan Brown, "Julia Kwon’s Unapologetically Asian Face Mask," Textile Society of America, September 7, 2021. [link] Mark Jenkins, "Celebrating the art of the game with unexpected delights," The Washington Post, July 2, 2021. [link] Kathaleen Roberts, "Face coverings from around the world—abbrev.," Albuquerque Journal, May 22, 2021. Kimberly Ruth, "Unapologetically Asian with Julia Kwon," Art Uncovered (podcast), May 4, 2021, 1:49-30:10. [link] Paolo Arao, "Studio Visit with Julia Kwon," The Coastal Post, April 6, 2021. Caroline Kipp, "Statement Piece: Learning from Julia Kwon and Kate Kretz's Thought Provoking Face Mask Artwork," James Renwick Alliance's Craft Quarterly, Winter 2021. 1, 10–11. [link] Mary Savig, "Making the Most: In the Studio with Julia Kwon," Smithsonian Magazine, February 5, 2021. [link] Suzy Kopf, "Rights and Wrongs Examines the Ongoing Struggles for Suffrage," BmoreArt, November 16, 2020. [link] Daniel Ahn, "'Unapologetically Asian' artist speaks via hand-sewn masks," Korea.net: Republic of Korea's Ministry of Culture, June 5, 2020. [link] Sophie Gharai and M. Hunt, "Exploration of DC's Powerful, Impactful Art," District Fray Magazine, July 2019, 52-54. [link] PBS/WETA-TV, "WETA Arts: May 2019," PBS station for the DC area, May 3, 2019, 17:19-22:15. [link] John Anderson, "At the Arlington Arts Center, A Strong Showing of Fiber," Washington City Paper, January 23, 2019. Rebecca Rafferty, "Blanket Statement," Rochester City Newspaper, February 27, 2018. Won Jung Lee, "No Racial Discrimination and Cultural Hierarchies," SBS Int'l-TV, April 14, 2017. Soo Yeon Oh, "Looking at Various Cultures Through Art," Korea Daily LA, JoongAng Ilbo, April 13, 2017. |
