SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE Inspiring Creative Changemakers by Nadya Kim and Tess Porter
Julia is featured in this article where Smithsonian educators selected objects from across the Smithsonian Museums to explore how artists have reckoned with past and present racial conflicts in the US as well as share techniques to inspire the next generation of changemakers.
Opens on October 18, 2023 Form and Formless UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY
Julia's work will be featured in this group exhibition, curated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel, as part of UrbanGlass's annual theme "Forever Becoming: Decolonization, Materiality, and Trans* Subjectivity." The opening reception is scheduled on Wednesday, October 18th from 6:00pm–9:00pm.
Opens on November 3, 2023 Reckoning Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC
Julia's work will be featured in this group exhibition, curated by Erika Diamond, that explore the idea of adornment as narrative.
Opens on November 17, 2023 Labor of Fire DC Arts Center, Washington, DC
Julia's work will be featured in this group exhibition, curated by Benedetta Castrioto. The exhibition will focus on considering work, artistic labor, and the political economy of the art world and our greater society.
Opens on December 11, 2023 Solo Exhibition Taubman Center North Gallery of The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Julia will present her bojagi patchworks with various patterns from contemporary sociopolitical events to not only challenge the notion of authenticity, but also argue for more capacious possibilities for one's identity and sense of community.
Summer 2024 Artist Residency and BIPOC Award Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Julia will participate in SFAI's 2024 thematic residency where resident artists will explore concepts around sovereignty, including land, treaty rights, cultural appropriation, gender, bodily autonomy, ethnolinguistics, dissemination of content, and interdependencies or divisions that change sovereign relationships.
Opens on November 1, 2024 The Shape of Power: Stories of American Race and Sculpture Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Julia will exhibit her work that comments on the dehumanization and fetishization of Asian female bodies as part of this exhibition, curated by Karen Lemmey, Tobias Wofford, and Grace Yasumura.
