Born in Newbury, VT, 1979
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2006 MFA, Fine Arts, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
2001 BFA, Fine Arts, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2013 Residency with Site-Specific Installation and Fellowship, Fjellerup, Denmark
2012 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide), Residency & Fellowship, New York, NY
2010 Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Fellowship at the National Academy of Fine Art, New York, NY
2008 International Open Art Residency, Island of Dreams, Greece
2007 PA Festival of the Arts Merit Award
2006 Greenwich House Pottery Residency, New York, NY
2006 Nancy Ashton Memorial MFA Award, Hunter College, CUNY
2003-2005 The Scholarship Foundation MFA Award
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
2013
Historias Coloridas de México (ceramic and glass mosaic), Brooklyn School of Inquiry, Brooklyn, NY forthcoming
Mens sana in corpore sano [a sound mind in a healthy body] (mural), PS/MS 282, Brooklyn, NY forthcoming
2012
S.P.A.R.C. Residency Windows (ceramic and glass installation), Sirovich Senior Center in affiliation with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Frieze installation in conjunction with tacet creations (porcelain installation), fresco gelato shop, New York, NY in progress
2011
Roots/Routes (mural), New York City Department of Transportation – Urban Art Program, New York, NY
Road Less Traveled (mural), St. Nicks Alliance – Arts@Renaissance,Brooklyn, NY
Floor-Sight (digital billboard), The Billboard Art Project, Savannah, GA, Nashville, TN & Duluth, MN
2010
Found on Governors Island (mixed-media installation), FIGMENT Season-Long Sculpture Garden, Governors Island, NY
2009
Prospect Flora (mixed-media installation), Brooklyn Utopias?, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
Epiphyte (mixed-media installation), Windows Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Treehouse (Interior/Exterior) (printed billboard), ArtBridge, New York, NY
Gilded Phytophilic Bats (mixed-media installation), Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Affiliate, Solomons, MD
2008
Relative Environment (mixed-media installation), Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY
Gowanus Canal Species (mural), Toll Brothers City Living & Art Assets, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013
Fjellerup i Bund & Grund, Assorted Venues, Fjellerup, Denmark forthcoming
In Her Nature, Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY forthcoming
Collectively Assembled, Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY
2012
These Trees: Melissa Cowper-Smith & Julia Whitney Barnes, Hendrix College, Conway, AR
The Ballot Show (Quadrennial), Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Faculty Exhibition, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Frenzy Into Folly, Openings Collective: Church of the St. Paul The Apostle, New York, NY
These Trees: Melissa Cowper-Smith & Julia Whitney Barnes, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn NY
tART: What’s in a Collective, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY
Brucennial 2012, BHQF, New York, NY
Postcards from Long Island, Barister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
In-Habitat, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
NurtureArt Benefit, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
tART Year 8, Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Sampler, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Alarums and Excursions: Fuse Works, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Naming the Animals, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
Sweet + Sour, OZANEAUX Art Space, New York, NY
Honey, Liloveve, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship Exhibition, National Academy of Fine Art Museum, New York, NY
Cool and Collected, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Green Too, Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park & Arts Center (Smithsonian Institute Affiliate), Solomons, MD
tart at AIR, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Julia Whitney Barnes: Orchid-Bats selected works Armstrong-Hipkins Center for Arts, Romano Gallery at Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
2009
SummerSpace, OZANEAUX Art Space, New York, NY
Brooklyn Utopias?, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
Green Party, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
NurtureArt Benefit, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
tART at AIR, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Within The Menagerie: Julia Whitney Barnes & Melissa Pokorny, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
WIld Things, Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park & Arts Center (Smithsonian Institute Affiliate), Solomons, MD
I Heart Art, Work Gallery/The Wassaic Project, Brooklyn, NY
2008
tART Summer Salon, Rabbitholestudio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Small Favors, Harrison & Jill Bonovitz Galleriies, The Clay Center, Philadelphia, PA
Generations VI, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Julie Durkin, Lauren Olitski & Julia Whitney Barnes Mulry Fine Art, W. Palm Beach, FL
Images 2007, PA Festival for the Arts, Robeson Gallery, University Park, PA
2006
Julia Whitney Barnes: Orchid-Bats 9494 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2005
MA’s Select MFA’s Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
The Real Party, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2004
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
Momenta Benefit, Momenta Brooklyn, NY
2003
Julia Whitney Barnes: Cycles, 65 Hope Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Signs of Life, Free Biennial Festival, New York, NY
2001
Take heART, Media Production International, New York, NY
BFA Thesis Show, Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York, NY
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
New York Observer/GalleristNY, October 1, 2012 “In Brooklyn, It’s Go Time”
Exit Strata, September 27, 2012 “Frenzy Into Folly – with videos”
The Village Voice, September 19, 2012 “Voice Choices: Wild Ones, Openings NY Presents a New Exhibit”
Hyperallergic, September 11, 2012 “GO Red Hook: Three Themes Observed”
The Villager, August 16, 2012 “Sirovich Center Offers Window(s) Into Mosaics”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 24, 2012 “Brooklyn Artist Julia Whitney Barnes: Paintings to Ceramics to Murals”
Brooklyn Eagle, February 23, 2012, “Bats, Orchids and Tree Houses, A Brooklyn Artist Shares Her Inspirations”
The L Magazine, February 1, 2012, “Artists Imagine Inhabitable Habitats”
Flavorpill, January 25, 2012,“Critics Pick: In-Habitat”
Gowanus Your Face Off, January 10, 1012 “Climate Reality Project’s Gowanus Expedition”
The Greenpoint Gazette, September 16, 2011, “The Renaissance Women of tART” [cover story]
Catalog for Open Engagement conference, published May 2011
W-MBC TV, Airdate: April 25, 2011, “Interview for Naming The Animals exhibition at Curious Matter”
Catalog for Naming The Animals exhibition, published April 2011
BCAT TV, September & October airdates 2010, “Neighborhood Beat: Red Hook – Julia Whitney Barnes”
Artnet, August 11, 2010, “Mural Fellowships Announced for 2010”
Larchmont-Mamaroneck Patch, July 29, 2010, “Hot New Brooklyn Artists at Opening of ‘Cool & Collected’”
The Baltimore Sun, July 15, 2010, “Sculpture garden celebrates relationship between art, nature”
The Warren Reporter, January 26, 2010, “Brooklyn artist Julia Whitney Barnes to exhibit at Blair Academy”
The New York Times: City Room, March 4, 2010, “Ode to the Gowanus Canal”
The Huffington Post, November 19, 2009, “Bats: The New Canary in the Coal Mine?”
Time Out New York, October 1, 2009 “Own This City: Museums”
The L Magazine, June 2009 “Some Art with your Indie Rock? “Art Event” “Arts at Northside”
wagmag, June 1, 2009, “Review: Within the Menagerie”
The Greenpoint Gazette, May 28, 2009, “Wildly Amusing”
500 Ceramic Sculptures, May 2009 book published by Lark Books
The New York Times, City Beat Blog, March 27, 2009, “Converting Chelsea Scaffolds Into Art”
AMNY, March 20, 2009, “Artistic Neighborhood Face-Lift”
Curbed, October 30, 2008 “Have Toll Brothers Turned to Art to Win Gowanus Hearts & Minds?”
Brownstoner, October 30, 2008 “Closing Bell: Wild Gowanus”
NBC New York October 30, 2008 “Toll Brothers Using Art to Win Gowanus Hearts & Minds?”
flash film, October 10, 2008 “Interview with Julia Whitney Barnes”
New York Art Crit, August 4, 2008 “Summer Sculpture 2008: Vegetable Mineral”
The New York Times (Travel Section) August 3, 2008 “In Brooklyn, Sharing a River but Not Much Else”
Kathimerini (Greece), K Magazine, August 3, 2008 “Art Eretria: Openart Residency”
The Brooklyn Paper, July 19, 2008 “Park Art”
Black Book Magazine, July 3, 2008 “Sweet tarts Go Down The Rabbit Hole”
The Palm Beach Post, November 30, 2007 “Stop. Look. Go! Art: Exhibitions of Note”
The Brooklyn Paper, October 20, 2007 “Art: Go Gowanus”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 19, 2007 “Gowanus Sheds its Tough Skin for a Weekend Of Open Art Studios”
Hunter College MFA Thesis Catalog, May 2006 “MFA Spring 2006”
MA’s Select MFA’s, November 2005 “Wall Text/Catalog Essay: Julia Whitney Barnes”
RE:D Magazine, Winter/Spring 2004 “RE:CORD Fine Arts”
The New York Sun, April 19, 2003 “Calendar Pick with photo – Cycles: Julia Whitney Barnes”
The L Magazine, May–June 2003 “65 Hope Street Gallery – Cycles: Julia Whitney Barnes”
Free Williamsburg, April–May 2003 “Williamsburg Galleries: 65 Hope Street”
LECTURES & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013
Digital Art, Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2012
Art on the Mac for Art Majors, Course Development/Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Ceramic Sculpture, Painting & Printmaking, Visiting Artist & Lecturer, Hendrix College, Conway, AR
Digital Art, Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2011
Publication Design, Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Digital Art, Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Street Art, Visiting Lecturer, Portland State University, Portland, OR
tART Collective, Visting Lecturer, Open Engagment Conference, Portland, OR
2010
Digital Art, Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Painting & Ceramics, Visting Lecturer, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
Clay & Casting, Artist in Residence/Lecturer, Hunter College, New York, NY
2009
Digital Art, Visting Lecturer, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Clay & Casting, Artist in Residence/Lecturer, Hunter College, New York, NY
2008
Clay & Casting, Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Hunter College, New York, NY
2007
Foundations: Sculpture, Visting Lecturer, Hunter College, New York, NY
Clay & Casting, Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Hunter College, New York, NY
MA Studio Art: Summer Program, Visting Artist, New York University, New York, NY
2006
3D Design, Adjunct Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
Ceramic Sculpture, Adjunct Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
Advanced Ceramics, Teaching Assistant, Jeff Mongrain, Hunter College, New York, NY
2005
Drawing, Teaching Assistant, Valerie Jaudon, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
BFA Senior Seminar, Visting Lecturer, Parsons The New School of Design, New York, NY
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
College Art Association
Park Slope Food Cooperative
tART (a collective of emerging women artists dedicated to equal opportunities in the arts)
Bat Conservation International
City of Baltimore’s Percent-for-Public Art Program: Pre-Qualified Artist Pool