Julia M. Kunin

Brooklyn, NY 

718-812-0884

Kunin.Juliam@gmail.com

www.JuliaKuninart.com

www.JuliaKunin.com

EDUCATION

1993 MFA, Sculpture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

1984 BA, Wellesley College. Cum Laude. Honors in Sculpture.

                      Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021            Rainbow Dream Machine, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX

2020.             Mechanical Ballet, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY

2015 Les Guerilleres, Sandra Gering Inc. New York, NY 

2014 Le Boulon, An independent project for the UNTITLED,

Art Fair, Miami, FL. 

2013 Golden Grove, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX 

2012 Nightwood Greenberg Van Doren Gallery New York, NY 

2002 Rotes Wildleder, Deutches Leder Museum, Offenbach, Germany 

2000 Cephalopoden,. Bellevuesaal, Wiesbaden, Germany

1999 Crimson Suede, Stefan Stux Gallery Project Room, New York, NY 

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022.           Wild Chambers (Julia Kunin and Yevgeniya Baras) Mother Gallery,

New York, NY

2017.           Halsey Hathaway and Julia Kunin, Kristen Lorello Gallery, New York, NY

2014 Julia Kunin and Jackie Gendel, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY

2013 Farewell Ruins, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2007 Against Nature, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY   

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022.           Conversing with Clay, Selections from the LACMA collection,    

                    LACMA Los Angeles, CA            

                    Composition and Layout, Contemporary Design &Objects,    

                    Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

Cosmic Geometries, EFA project space, New York, NY 

                    Group exhibition (untitled), Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY

2020.           Claytopian New York, Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY. Curated by Matt Nolen

2019.           Fur Cup. Underdonk gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

Dallas Art Fair, Dallas  with McClain Gallery of Houston, TX.                 

2018            Raw Design. Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA. Curators:

Glenn Adamson and Ariel Zaccheo.                                                                                           

                    Said by Her, Lesley  Heller Gallery, NY, NY

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

                    Re-construction, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX

                    Molding/Mark-Making: Ceramic Artists and Their Drawings.

Dorsky Gallery, LIC, NY.         

                    Curators: Margaret Mathews Berenson and Allison Peller.

2017.           Post Election, September Gallery, Hudson, NY.

2017.           Postcards From the Edge, in support of visual Aids at Metro

Pictures Gallery, NY.

2016.           Faculty Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

2016.           Coming to Power, Macaroni Gallery, New York, NY, Video Program.

2016 Dysfunction, BCA/Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT

2016 In a Field with No Bounds, New City Galerie, Burlington, VT

2016 NY, NY: Clay , CAC/Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY

2015.            Who, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY.

2014.             Nature’s Knot, Luise Rose Gallery, New York, NY.

2014 Zsolnay: Dawn’s Glow. The Resurgence of the Zsolnay Eosin  

           Glaze.Kapolna Galeria, Kecskemet, Hungary. 

2014.             Clearing House. Mamu Galeria, Budapest, Hungary 

2013.            2Q13, Marcelle Josephs Projects:Lloyd’s Club, London , England.

2013         The Body is Present, Ramapo College, Ramapo NY. 

2013        Group show. Nick Art and Design, Pecs, Hungary. 

2013        Fulbright Group Exhibition, Staycation Museum, Berlin Germany. 

2012        Mortal Stillness, Moss Bureau, NY, NY.

2011        Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery Gallery, NY, NY. 

2011        Reviving the Light. Iliad Gallery, NY, New Zsolnay Ceramic Design.

2009        Salt Peanuts, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX 

2009        Commune, Black and White Gallery, NY, NY. 

2009        Radiant, Fordham University, NY, NY  

2009 Macht Leder Lust, German Leather Museum, Offenbach, Germany. 

2009 In Transit, Moti Hasson Gallery, NY, NY

2006 Group Exhibition, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2006 The Orchid Thief, Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, NY 

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

2004 Flipside, Artists Space. New York, NY

2003 Triennial of Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Applied Art and 

           Design, Frankfurt, Germany. 

2003 Corporal Identity, Body Language, MAD museum, New York, NY. 

2002 FIT, Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 

2002 Artists to Artists. Ace Gallery, NY, NY. 

2002 Unexpected Selections, Martin Margulies collection. The Art Museum at 

           F. I. U. Miami, FL. 

2001 Sculpture, Flip Side Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

2000 White, Nikolai Fine Art, NY, NY.

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

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

1998 Elbowroom, Tredje Sparet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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

1996 Pattern and Relief, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY. 

1996 Pieces of Eight, Marymount Manhattan College, NY, NY.

1995 Revealing Desire, Cristinerose Gallery, NY, NY. 

1995 Wheel of Fortune, Lombard-Freid Gallery, NY, NY. 

1994 Rough Cuts, Henry Street Settlement, NY, NY. 

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

1993 Coming to Power, David Zwirner Gallery, NY, NY. 

1993 Object Lessons, The Police Building, NY, NY. 

1992 On Paper, Sculpture Center, NY, NY. 

1992 Queer, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

1992 Six East Coast Sculptors. Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont.  

           Curated by Barbara Zucker.

1992 Outrageous Desire, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 

1992 Intimacy, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ..

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

1990 Short Stories, Epoche Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 

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

1989 No Relief, Ridge Street Gallery. NY, NY. 

1988 Sculpture 1988, White Columns Gallery, NY, NY. 

1988 Annual Small Works Show, Sculpture Center, NY, NY. 

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

1987 Introductions, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas. 

VIDEO SCREENINGS

1996  Scenen, Stockholm, Sweden. Red Jam Picnic.

1993 David Zwirner Gallery, NY, NY. Coming to Power. Video:

Red Jam Picnic.

1993 Mix, Experimental Film and Video Festival, NY, NY. And

Sao Paolo, Brazil. 

Video: Red Jam Picnic

1993 The New Festival, NY, NY. Video: Charting in Fractions.

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS

2013 Fulbright Scholar, Hungary

2010 The Trust for Mutual Understanding, travel grant to Hungary

2008 Art Omi, Ghent, NY.

2008 Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, fellowship

2008 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2007 The John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry artist residency,

Sheboygan, WI.

2006 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2004 The Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement,

Artist residency NY, NY.

2001 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation studio and grant.

2000 Residency, Wiesbaden, Germany. 4 months.

1999 Artslink Fellowship. Textile project, Republic of Georgia.

1996 The Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship.

1995 New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Fellowship.

1995 Yaddo, artist residency 

1991 Yaddo, artist residency

1990 Yaddo, artist residency

1989 Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY, artist residency

1987 Core-Fellowship, Houston. (1985-87)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2022        Adamson, Glenn “Monuments for the Moment”. Art in

America. September, 2022.

2021.             Diaz, Krystl “Brooklyn-Based Lesbian Artist Debuts Her    

                      Sculptures at Houston’s McClain Gallery”. Outsmart Mag. January 4.

2020-2021.   Fensom, Sarah “Future Forms” Art and Antiques Magazine. Winter.

2020 Glentzer, Molly. “Escape to Small Fantasy Worlds…. Houston

Chronicle. December 4.

2016 Jones, Elizabeth Rachel. "Ceramic Dysfunction at BCA".

Seven Days. May,2.

2016 Lily, Amy. "In a Field With No Bounds, New City Galerie”,

Seven Days. February. 

2016 Exposure. Ceramics Monthly, March 2016.

2015 Maine, Stephen.”Julia Kunin at Sandra Gering”. ArtNews, May. 

2015 Moon, Grace. "Julia Kunin at Sandra Gering". Velvet Park, Art,

Thought and Culture.    

2014 Velvet Park Media. “Top Significant 25 Queer Women of 2014”.

December.

2014 Wei, Lily. “Clay Time, Ceramics finds its place in the artworld

mainstream”. ArtNews. 

2013 Delso, Meredith. “Farewell Ruins Julia Haft-Candell and Julia

Kunin”. Houston Press March 15.

2013 Lewis, Betsy. “Two Trippy Little exhibits at Barry Whistler”. Dallas

Observer. 

2012 Wiener, Daniel. “A Letter to Raphael Rubinstein”,The Brooklyn

Rail, April

2012 “In Conversation: Julia Kunin with Maria Elena Gonzalez”. The

Brooklyn Rail, April

2011 Burrichter, Felix. “69 Beautiful Things”.  PIN-UP Magazine, Issue

11

2011.             Yablonsky, Linda. “Artifacts/Feats of Clay”. New York Times Style

Magazine. July 7.         

2010 Recker, Keith. “Out of the Wunderkammer”. HandEye magazine. 

2009.             Britt, Douglas. “Salt Peanuts Strikes Idiosyncratic Chord”.

Houston Chronicle. April, 8.

2009.             Carroll, Sean.  “Critics Pics, “Salt Peanuts” Inman Gallery.

Artforum.com. 

2008.             Margulies, Martin and Hinds, Katherine. The Martin Z.

Margulies Collection, painting  and sculpture. The Martin Z.

                      Margulies Foundation, Miami, FL

2007    Cohen, David. “Art in Brief”. NY Sun, June 14.

2007.            Gonzales, Maria-Elena. “Sculptor Julia Kunin”.  Velvet Park

Magazine. 

2006 Brooks, Amra “Must See Art” LA Weekly, December 13. 

2004 Johnson, Ken “Flipside” Artists Space. The New York Times.

December 17.

2004 MacAdam, Barbara. “Corporal Identity-Body Language”. MAD

museum. Art News, April.

2003.            Turner, Elisa. “Kings of Quirk the Marugulies Collection”. The

Miami Herald. Sept. 22.

2002 Johnson, Ken. “FIT”. New York Times. July 26. 

2001 Cotter, Holland. “Sculpture”. New York Times. May 18. 

2000 Hammond, Harmony. Lesbian Art in America. Rizzoli, NY, NY. 

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

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. 

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