Winter 2024—MOCA Toronto Board of Directors
Julia has joined the Board of Directors at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto. She wholeheartedly agrees with the institution’s mission: it is motivated by the principle that museums and their programmes are culturally and socially beneficial to the diversity of the communities they serve. MOCA supports and promotes forward-thinking artistic experimentation and provides a community space for enrichment, discourse, collaboration, and creativity. Working across all contemporary art forms, MOCA’s programmes empower local artists and engage the Toronto art scene while contributing to the international art community and scholarship.
Fall 2023—Signs Point to Yes
Julia has launched an apparel collaboration with artist Hannah Whitaker called Signs Point to Yes. The duo decided to make the clothes they want to wear but couldn’t find—unfussy, statement garments that reflect a spirit of play and experimentation rather than corporate trendcasting. All of their blanks are 100% cotton and made in a factory in North America with fair wage labour. Their first collection, Wet Look, was hand-painted in Toronto and Brooklyn, mostly with ketchup bottles and was recently featured in the New York Times.
Winter 2023—Solo exhibition at Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal
Julia’s next solo exhibition will open January 18, 2023, at Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal. The show will include new paintings, sculptures, and other works and will run through February 26. For more information, visit the gallery’s website.
Fall 2022—Bradley Ertaskiran at Art Toronto 2022
Julia will present new paintings at the booth of her Montreal gallery, Bradley Ertaskiran, during Art Toronto 2022, which runs from October 27–30. For more information about the fair, visit its website.
Fall 2022—Wheel of Fortune at York University
Julia has installed Wheel of Fortune, a new, permanent, site-specific public artwork, at The Quad at York University in Toronto.
Spring 2022—Solo presentation at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Julia is presenting a series of new works, including both large- and small-scale paintings, at Marianne Boesky. The presentation coincides with Frieze New York and will be on view beginning May 17. For more information, visit the gallery website.
FALL 2021—“Greater Toronto Art 2021” at MOCA Toronto
Julia is participating in “Greater Toronto Art 2021,” a survey of contemporary art in Toronto that will fill the entire Museum of Contemporary Art. The twenty-one featured artists currently work in Toronto or are connected to the city. As the press release puts it, “The title […] plays on the name of the city’s broad metropolitan area and addresses the ever-expanding notion of what Toronto might be, where it extends, and what practices and attitudes exist here.” Read more here.
October 21–25, 2021—FIAC Online Viewing Room
Julia’s Montreal gallery, Bradley Ertaskiran, will present new works in a two-artist presentation for its FIAC Online Viewing Room. The viewing room will be live from October 21–25. To visit FIAC, click here.
Installation view with Julia’s work in the foreground. Photo: LF Documentation.
FALL 2021—“Sculptures by Painters” at Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
Julia will present work alongside artists Harold Ancart, Sascha Braunig, Holly Coulis, Oreka James, Paul P., and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Let's’lo:tseltun in this exhibition, which will be on view October 2–November 6, 2021. Visit the gallery website.
FALL 2020—SOLO EXHIBITION AT BRADLEY ERTASKIRAN, MONTREAL
Julia’s solo exhibition, “Days of Our Lives,” is on view through October 31 at Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal. The show features new paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Visit the Bradley Ertaskiran website to learn more.
Fall 2020—“CADIO LIMÓN” AT GALERÍA PELAIRES, MALLORCA
Julia is included in a group exhibition, curated by Cristina Anglada, that also features Elisabeth McIntosh, Katherine Bernhardt, Elena Alonso, Larissa Lockshin, Cornelia Baltes, Adrianne Rubenstein, Sofia Stevi, Patricia Treib, and Ella Kruglyvaskaya. Visit the Galería Pelaires website here.
SPRING 2020—FRIEZE NEW YORK VIEWING ROOM
Bradley Ertaskiran is presenting several new paintings by Julia as part of its Frieze Viewing Room, online May 8–15. To visit the Frieze site, click here.
SPRING 2020—WANDA KOOP RESEARCH FUND JUROR
Julia was pleased to join curator Josée Drouin-Brisebois and filmmaker-artist Ali Kazimi on the jury of the Wanda Koop Research Fund. Together they selected artist Divya Mehra for the $15,000 CAD prize. Read more here.
WINTER 2020—NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA COLLECTION
Julia’s work recently entered the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
FALL 2019—NEW MONOGRAPH FROM BLACK DOG PRESS
The monograph documenting Julia’s exhibitions at the Power Plant, Toronto, and the Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver is out now! In addition to images of artworks and installation views from those shows, the book also includes a wide selection of new and recent artworks; essays by the exhibitions’ curators and by New York Times art critic Jason Farago; and a reprint of a Lydia Davis chapbook about observing the cows that live across the road. The book is available from Black Dog and will be distributed widely across North America in the coming months.
SUMMER 2019—“TOUCH SCREEN,” CO-CURATED BY JULIA, AT GALERIE ANTOINE ERTASKIRAN, MONTREAL
Julia has co-curated the summer exhibition at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran in Montreal. Featuring Steven Beckly, Marie-Claire Blais, Jessica Eaton, Gerald Ferguson, Molly Haynes, Mårten Lange, Ruby Sky Stiler, and Hannah Whitaker, the exhibition’s artists evoke partitions, scrims, and portals. The artworks presented here seem to push back and forth across thresholds, but the screens they evoke are anything but those of our electronic devices. Instead, materials and close observation—of the world, of mark-making—are gateways to form and meaning.
SUMMER 2019—“MUSCLED ROSE” AT SCRAP METAL GALLERY, TORONTO
Julia is included in the group exhibition “Muscled Rose,” at the Toronto nonprofit space Scrap Metal, alongside On Kawara, Divya Mehra, Ragnar Kjartansson, Martha Graham, David Altmejd, and others. The show is on view until August 24.
SUMMER 2019—RXART COMMISSION FOR SICK KIDS HOSPITAL, TORONTO
At the invitation of RxArt, a nonprofit that helps children heal through the power of art, Julia has completed a permanent, site-specific installation at the Hospital for Sick Children, commonly known as Sick Kids, in Toronto. Her multicolour design fills the common spaces of the dental and orthodontic clinics, which see over fifteen thousand patients per year.
SPRING 2019—JULIA INCLUDED IN “HINGE PICTURES” AT CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER NEW ORLEANS
“Across eight successive galleries, this exhibition presents practices that evolve from the flat plane of the wall to immersive sculptural environments. Staging a performance of material history, spatial occupation, and social positioning, Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension resuscitates abstract modernist vocabularies marked by patriarchal and colonial histories for use in a new feminist formalism.”
FALL 2018—JULIA INCLUDED IN “GROUNDINGS” AT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
Julia’s work will be included in “Groundings,” a group exhibition and performance series that “explores movement—both seen and unseen. […] The exhibition considers the reciprocal influence between bodies in motion and and the invisible forces that govern movement, such as gravity, time, and electricity.” The show runs from November 3, 2018 to June 9, 2019.
SUMMER 2018—“PLAYLIST” AT GALERIE ANTOINE ERTASKIRAN
Julia is participating in “Playlist,” a group exhibition on view at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran in Montreal through August 11, 2018.
SPRING 2018—Collaboration with Christopher stuart for “FIELD STUDIES”
Julia has collaborated with designer and artist Christopher Stuart on The Oracle, a wall sconce for Sight Unseen's exhibition “Field Studies.” Sight Unseen has paired thirteen furniture and interior designers with thirteen creatives from the worlds of food, fashion, film, art, and music, inviting each duo to create a collaborative functional object together. The objects will be exhibited at OFFSITE, then sold on 1stdibs to benefit the charity of each pair’s choosing.
SPRING 2018—“More than Words” at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Julia's second solo exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery, “More Than Words,” runs from April 26–June 9, 2018. The exhibition will feature a new series of sculptures as well as new paintings that, together, capture Julia's iterative play with color, form, texture, and materials, as well as her ongoing exploration of the creative potential of industrial products. The new works underscore the value of engaging with the intricate, often beautiful, and little-considered systems that lie just beyond any given surface.