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About Julia Kunin
Julia Kunin lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works frequently in Hungary. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.F.A. from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Her work explores themes of queerness, feminism, and the relationship between architecture and the body.
Solo exhibitions include Laughing Castles at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY (2025); Dream Machines at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL (2023); Mechanical Ballet at Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2021); Rainbow Dream Machine at McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (2020–2021); Les Guérillères at Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (2015); Golden Grove at Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX (2013); Nightwood at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (2012); Against Nature at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (2007); and Crimson Blossom at the Deutsches Ledermuseum, Offenbach, Germany (2002).
Recent two-person exhibitions include Kaleidoscope Eyes with Mara Held at McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (2023), and Wild Chambers with Yevgeniya Baras at Mother Gallery, New York, NY (2022).
Recent group exhibitions include The Surreal Body at Seven Sisters Gallery, Houston, TX (2026); Painting Deconstructed at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2024); I’ll Be Your Mirror at the Queer Biennial, Detroit, MI (2024); Behind This Mask, Another Mask, curated by Sam Adams at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Queer Clay at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), Pomona, CA (2023); and Conversing in Clay at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA.
Kunin received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2026. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary in 2013 and received a Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant to Hungary in 2010. In 2008, she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a residency at Art Omi. In 2007, she participated in the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residency.
Additional fellowships and residencies include MacDowell, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, a CEC ArtsLink Grant to the Republic of Georgia, an artist residency in Wiesbaden, Germany, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, The Core Program in Houston, Texas, and Skowhegan.
Kunin currently has a series of ceramic lamps at Ralph Pucci International. She has written artist interviews for Two Coats of Paint and serves on the board of FIAR (Fire Island Artist Residency), the LGBTQ+ Fire Island artist residency.
Her work was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Her work was reviewed by Roberta Smith in The New York Times in October 2022 in the review Yevgeniya Baras and Julia Kunin at Mother Gallery.
Kunin received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2026 and was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary in 2013. In 2010, she received a Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant to Hungary. In 2008, she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and completed a residency at Art Omi. In 2007, she received the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residency.
Her fellowships and residencies include The MacDowell Colony, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, a CEC ArtsLink Grant to the Republic of Georgia, an artist residency in Wiesbaden, Germany, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, The Core Program in Houston, Texas, and Skowhegan.
Julia Kunin currently has a series of ceramic lamps at Ralph Pucci International. She has written artist interviews for Two Coats of Paint and serves on the board of FIAR (Fire Island Artist Residency), the LGBTQ+ Fire Island artist residency.
Her work was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Her work was reviewed by Roberta Smith in The New York Times in October 2022 in the review Yevgeniya Baras and Julia Kunin at Mother Gallery.
Julia Kunin CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami FL.
2020 -2021
Rainbow Dream Machine, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2020-2021
Mechanical Ballet, Kate Werble Gallery, NY, NY
2015
Les Guerilleres, Sandra Gering Inc., NY, 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 NY, NY
2002
Rotes Wildleder, Deutches Leder Museum, Offenbach, Germany
2000
Cephalopoden,. Bellevuesaal, Wiesbaden, Germany
1999
Crimson Suede, Stefan Stux Gallery Project Room, NY, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Upcoming: I’ll Be Your Mirror, Reflections of the Contemporary Queer. Curated by Patrick Burton. Detroit, MI
2024
Upcoming: A show among friends: The Re Institute, Millerton, NY
2024
Behind This Mask Another Mask, Abigail Ogilvey Gallery, Curated by Sam Adams, Los Angeles, CA
2024
The Aesthetics of Everyday Objects, The Cup. ATLA gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2023
Design Miami, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL 2023
Getting to Ick, Hesse Flatow Gallery, NY, NY.
2023
Making in Between, Queer Clay. The American Museum of Ceramic Art, AMOCA, Pamona, CA
2023
A Summer Arrangement. Object and Thing at the Long House, East Hampton, NY
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS
2023
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
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. NY, NY.
2000
Residency, Wiesbaden, Germany. 4 months.
1999
Artslink Fellowship. Textile project, Republic of Georgia.
EDUCATION
1993
MFA, Sculpture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N
1984
BA, Wellesley College. Cum Laude. Honors in Sculpture
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
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