JULIA KUNIN
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
1993 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, MFA
1984 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, BA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY, NY, “Emi Avora / Julia Kunin: Against Nature”
2006
Karyn Lovegrove, Los Angeles, CA
Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, NY, "The Orchid Thief"
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", Martin Margulies 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, Berry 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, Brooklyo 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 Brunswick, 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"
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
-- “Art Calendar,” The New York Sun, May 17
2006
Brooks, Amra, “Must See Art,” LA Weekly, December 13
Rothman, Sabine, "Divine Inspiration: Wild Style," House and Garden, September, p. 68 (illus.).
2004
Johnson, Ken, "Flipside," Artists Space, The New York Times, December 17
2004
MacAdam, Barbara "Corporal Identity-Body Language," Museum of Art & Design, Artnews, April
2002
Tumer, Elisa, "Kings of Quirk," selection from the Marugulies collection, The Miami Herald, Sept.22
Johnson, Ken, "FIT," New York Times, July 26
2001
Cotter, Holland, "Sculpture," New York Times, May 18
2000
Fischer, Katinka, "Nicht Monster...," Wiesbaden Kurier, Nov. 17
1998
Castemfors, Marten, "Underjordisk granszon," Svenska Dagbladet, August 30
1996
Smyth, Cherry, Damn Fine Art by New Lesbian Artists, Cassell Publications, London, England
1993
Melrod, George, "The Police Building," Art News, May
1992
Kahn, Wolf, "Connecting Incongruities," Art in America, November
PUBLICATIONS
Klein, Sheri, Art and Laughter, New York: I. B. Taurus, 2006.
Hammond, Harmony, Lesbian Art in America, New York: Rizzoli, 2000
FELLOWSHIPS
2007
The John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residency, Sheboygan, WI, June – September
2006
The MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency, Peterborough, NH, 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
Yaddo, 1995, 1991, 1990
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