JULIA KUNIN
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION
1993 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, MFA
1984 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, BA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020-2021 Kate Werble Gallery, "Mechanical Ballet". NYC, NY

2020-2021 McClain Gallery, "Rainbow Dream Machine", Houston, TX

2015 Sandra Gering Inc, NY, NY. "Les Guerilleres
2014 Untitled Art Fair, Miami, Fl. "Le Boulon", independent project.
2013 Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX. "Golden Grove"
2012  Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY, NY. "Nightwood".
2002 Deutches Leder Museum, Offenbach, Germany, "Rotes Wildleder"
2000 Bellevuesaal,Wiesbaden,Germany, "Cephalopoden"
1999 Stefan Stux Gallery Project Room, NY, NY, "Crimson Suede"
         Four Walls. NY, NY. "Rambling Conversation" series
         Old Gallery, Tblisi, Georgia

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022 Mother Gallery, "Wild Chambers". NY, NY.  Julia Kunin and Yevgeniya Baras

2018 Kristen Lorello Gallery, NY, NY. Halsey Hathaway and Julia Kunin

2017 Untitled Art Fair, San Francisco, CA. with Sandra Gering Inc. with Lynn Myers.
2014. Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY. Julia Kunin and Jackie Gendell
2013. Sandra Gering Gallery at Unitled, Miami, Fl Julia Kunin and Michael Scott
2013 Inman Gallery, Houston, TX. "Farewell Ruins. With Julia Haft-Candell
2007. Greenberg Van Doren Gallery. "Against Nature" with Emi Avora


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. "Conversing in Clay, Selections from the LACMA collection" 

Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida. "Composition and Layout, Contemporary Design &  Objects."

EFA Gallery, NY, NY. "Cosmic Geometries", curated by Hiima's Ghost.

Kate Werble Gallery, NY, NY. 


2020 

Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY."Claytopia".

Dallas Art Fair, with McClain Gallery.

Freedom Fair, NY, NY with Mother Gallery.

 

2019 

Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "Fur Cup"

Dallas Art Fair with McClain Gallery of Houston, TX


2018 

Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA "Raw Design".curated by Glenn Adamson

Leslie Heller Gallery, NY, NY. "Said by Her"

Honey Ramka Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. "Depth of Surface"

McClain Gallery, Houston, TX. "Reconstruction

Dorsky Gallery, LIC, NY. "Moldmaking, markmaking, Ceramic artists and their Drawings".


2017. 

September Gallery. Hudson, NY. " Post Election"

Visual Aids at Metro Pictures, NY, NY. "Postcards from the Edge"


2016

Faculty Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 

Maccarone Gallery, NY, NY. "Coming to Power". video program

Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT. "Dysfunction".

New City Galerie, Burlington, VT. "In A Field With No Bounds".

Clay Art Center, Portchester, NY. "NY, NY Clay."


2015

Leslie Heller Workspace, NY, NY. "Who".


2014

Louise Ross Gallery. NY, NY. "Nature's Knot", curated by John Monti

Kapolna Gallery, Keckemet, Hungary." Zsolnay: Dawn’s Glow. The Resurgence of the Zsolnay" Eosin Glaze.

Mamu Galeria, Budapest, Hungary. (Tisztulo Haz).Cleaning House


2013

Marcelle Josephs Projects: Lloyd’s Club, London, England. "2Q13"

Ramapo College, Ramapo NY. "The Body is Present"

Nick Art and Design, Pecs, Hungary. Group exhibition

Staycation Museum, Berlin Germany. Fulbright Group Exhibition


2012

Moss Bureau, NY, NY. "Mortal Stillness"


2011

Salon 94 Bowery Gallery, NY, NY. "Paul Clay"

Iliad Gallery, NY,"Reviving the Light" New Zsolnay Ceramic Design.


2009

Inman Gallery, Houston, TX "Salt Peanuts"

Black and White Gallery, NY, NY."Commune"

Fordham University, NY, NY "Radiant"

German Leather Museum, Offenbach, Germany. "Macht, Leder, Lust"

Moti Hasson Gallery, NY, NY "In Transit"


2007
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, The Armory. NY, NY

2006
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
Sandra Gering Gallery. "The Orchid Thief". NY, NY
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery. The Armory. NY, NY

2005
Suite 106 Gallery, NY, NY. "112 Mercer Street"

2004
Artists Space. New York, NY "Flipside"

2003
Museum of Applied Art and Design, Frankfurt, Germany, Triennial of contemporary art and design

Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, "Corporal Identity, Body Language"

2002
Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "FIT"

Ace Gallery, NY, NY, "Artists to Artists"

The Art Museum at F. I. U. Miami, FL. "Unexpected Selections", MartinMargulies collection

2001
Flip Side Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Sculpture"

Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, "The Grammar of Ornament

2000
Nikolai Fine Art, NY, NY, "White"
The Workspace, NY, NY, "The Dog and Pony Show"

1999
Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn NY. "Red Square"

1998
Kagan Martos Gallery, NY, NY. “Something to Bump Into”.

Tredje Sparet, Stockholm, Sweden. “Elbowroom”.

Daniel Spreng Gallery, Bern, Switzerland. 2 person exhibition.

1997
New Image Art, West Hollywood, CA. “The Pink Wink”.

Gallery 128, NY, NY. “Material Girls”.

1996
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA. “Gender Fucked”.

Crest Hardware Show, Brooklyn, NY.

Marymount Manhattan College, NY, NY. “Pieces of Eight”.

Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY. “Pattern and Relief”.

1995
Cristinerose Gallery, NY, NY. “Revealing Desire”.

Lombard-Freid Gallery, NY, NY. “Wheel of Fortune”.

1994
Henry Street Settlement, NY, NY
"Rough Cuts, the expanded artist's notebook"

1993
Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT, "Crosscurrents of Influence"

The Police Building NY, NY, "Object Lessons"

1992
Sculpture Center, NY, NY, "On Paper"

Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Queer"

Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, "Six East Coast Sculptors," Curated
by Barbara Zucker

Rutgers University, New Brunswi
ck, NJ, "Outrageous Desire"

City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, "Intimacy"

1990
Soho Center for Visual Artists, NY, NY, "Material Obsession"

Epoche Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, "Short Stories"

1989
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY, "Vulgar Realism"

Ridge Street Gallery. NY, NY, "No Relief"

1988
White Columns Gallery, NY, NY, "Sculpture 1988"
Sculpture Center, NY, NY, "Annual Small Works Show"

1987
Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, "Small Wonders"

Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, "Introductions"

VIDEO SCREENINGS
1996
Scenen, Stockholm, Sweden, "Red
Jam Picnic"

1994
Mix, Experimental Film and Video Festival, NY, NY. And Sao Paolo, Brazil
Video: "Red Jam Picnic"

The New Festival, NY, NY, Video: "Charting in Fractions"

1993
David Zwirner Gallery, NY, NY, "Coming to Power," Video: "Red Jam Picnic"

FELLOWSHIPS
2013

Fulbright Fellowship to Hungary


2010

Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant to Hungary


2008

Pollock Krasner Grant

Art Omi residency


2007
John Michael Kohler Arts Industry residency. Summer

2006
The MacDowell Colony, residency, July/August

2004-05
Artist in Residence, The Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement.
NY, NY

2001
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation studio and grant, NY, NY

2000
Residency, Wiesbaden, Germany, 4 months

1999
Artslink Fellowship, Textile project in the Republic of Georgia

1996
Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship

1995
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State Fellowship

1995, 1991, 1990
Yaddo

1989
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

1987
Core-Fellowship, Glassell School of the Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(1985-87)

1984
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture


PUBLICATIONS

2020 “Artists Quarantine with their Collections”. Hyperallergic. July 4.

2017 Essay in Sharon Louden’s book: The Artist as Cultural Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life. pp, 198-204, Intellect Books, Chicago University Press. Chicago, IL. 2017.

2016 “Shapeshifting Abstraction” Catalogue essay for Meg Lipke’s exhibition: Pliable Channels, at Freight and Volume Gallery, NY, NY. March, 2016

2016 Essay: “One Question”, for the blog: “Romanoff Grave”

2016 Interview with artist Katharine Kuharic for Blissmag.com. April 2016.

EXHIBITIONS CURATED

2011 Reviving the Light, Iliad Gallery, NY, NY. Zsolnay Ceramic Designs Co-

Curated with Andrea Megyes.

1990 Short Stories, Epoche Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Selected Collections:

LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (recent)

German Leather Museum, Offenbach, Germany

Martin Margulies Collection

Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP