Julia Kwon's work is featured in Director Andrew Ahn's reimagination of the 1993 Ang Lee classic The Wedding Banquet, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Starring Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-Chan, Joan Chen, and Youn Yuh-Jung, the film is a poignant and heartfelt romantic comedy about a chosen family navigating cultural identity, queerness, family bonds and expectations.
"A Sewn Statement on the Big Screen" Maryland Today
You can learn more about Julia's participation in the making of the film through this article published on May 14, 2025.
On view through September 14, 2025 The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
This exhibition, curated by Karen Lemmey, Tobias Wofford, and Grace Yasumura, features Julia Kwon's work that comments on the dehumanization and fetishization of Asian female bodies.
Exhibition Catalog The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture by SAAM and Princeton University Press This catalog of the exhibition at Smithsonian American Art Museum is now available. SAAM’s groundbreaking exhibition, featuring 82 artworks created between 1792 and 2023, examines the ways in which sculpture has shaped and reflected attitudes and understandings about race in the United States.
On view through July 1, 2025 Julia Kwon: Interconnected Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Tech University, Smithville, TN
Julia Kwon's solo exhibition features works that resist the notion of reductive, easily legible identity and underscore the interconnected systems of oppression. The exhibiting works collectively argue for more capacious possibilities for identity and sense of community.
Summer 2025 Artist Residency Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
Julia Kwon will participate in VCCA's Mt. San Angelo Residency this summer. She will have solitary time to focus on art-making while being a part of a lively, collaborative community of accomplished artists.
