Julia Brown (born 1978) is an American-born artist who works in photography, installation and video. Her work is largely concerned with subject formation, visibility, invisibility and the political power of representation. Brown is an assistant professor of painting in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at George Washington University.
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Education & awards
Brown received a BA in studio art from Williams College in 2000, and an MFA from CalArts in 2006. Brown has participated in a number of residencies, including VIR Viafarini-in-Residence, the Fondazione Ratti Corso Superiore di Arti Visive, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 2008-2009 and 2010–2011. Brown was a studio fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2010, a Smithsonian Awards 2013 Artist Research Fellowship, and is currently a 2013–2014 Artist-in-Residency at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston CORE Program.
Exhibitions
Julia Brown has been exhibited in New York at Art in General, The Kitchen, BronxArtSpace Scaramouche Gallery, Harvestworks Media Festival, Talman + Monroe, LMAK Projects, and the Artists Space Project Room, The Brucennial; in Los Angeles at LACE and Supersonic at Barnsdall Gallery; Real Art Ways Houston; Blaffer Art Museum Wichita; Ulrich Museum of Art, Hartford; Provincetown Art Association Museum (PAAM); Via Farini, Milan; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Form Video, London; Blank Projects, Cape Town, and at The Gallery Apart, Italy.