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Julia Whitney Barnes is a Brooklyn-based, mixed media artist who has spent the last dozen years making indoor and outdoor works related to the natural world. Julia earned a MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York in 2006 and a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design in 2001. Her studio is located in a large, converted factory building, along the Gowanus Canal, where she recently completed, in conjunction with Art Assets, a site-specific outdoor painting directly along the Canal at the site of a future Toll Brothers development. This summer, Julia’s installation Gilded Phytophillic Bats, comprised of dozens of life-sized, gold-plated ceramic bats, and based on species indigenous to the area, hung in a willow tree as part of the exhibition “Relative Environment” in Fulton-Ferry State Park, directly north of the Brooklyn Bridge. Julia is also part of an all-female art collective, tART, whose combined work was featured this summer at Rabbitholestudio Gallery. Also during summer 2008, Julia participated in the International Open Art Residency on the Island of Dreams in Greece. Accompanying a 2009 exhibition in Athens, Greece of the 91 residency artists from 18 countries will be a book published by Hillside Press and a documentary, in which Julia was interviewed about the residency. One of Julia's installations will also be included in the upcoming book "500 Ceramic Sculptures," to be published by Lark Books in Spring 2009. Julia's work has been featured in many other exhibitions in the US and is represented by Mulry Fine Art.

EDUCATION
2006 MFA, Studio Art Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
2001 BFA, Fine Art Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
1993–1997 Fine Art Norwich Art School, Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009
Unnatural Sourroundings, Mulry Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2008
Gowanus Canal Species, Toll Borthers City Living & Art Assets, Brooklyn NY
Relative Environment, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY
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
Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
Julia Whitney Barnes: Orchid-Bats 94 9th Street 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
Spring Group Show, Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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
2000
Bound and Unbound, Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York, NY

RESIDENCIES
International Open Art Residency, Island of Dreams, Greece 2008
Hunter College, Thomas Hunter Hall, Clay & Casting Studio, NYC 2007
Greenwich House, Center for Ceramics, NYC 2006

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007-08 Clay & Casting, Visiting Artist, Hunter College, CUNY, NYC
2006 Ceramics, Adjunct Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
2006 3D Design, Adjunct Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
2006 Advanced Ceramics, Teaching Assistant, Jeffrey Mongrain, Hunter College, CUNY, NYC
2005 Drawing, Teaching Assistant, Valerie Jaudon, Hunter College, CUNY, NYC

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Brooklyn Arts Council
College Art Association
SculptureCenter
tART (a collective of emerging women artists dedicated to equal opportunities in the arts)
Whitney Museum for American Art