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born: Newbury, VT – live/work: Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION
2010 Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Program, National Academy of Fine Art, New York, NY
2006 MFA, Fine Arts, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
2001 BFA, Fine Arts, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
1993–1997 Fine Arts, Norwich Art School, Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, CT

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide) Residency & Fellowship, New York, NY, 2012
Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Fellowship at the National Academy of Fine Art, 2010  
International Open Art Residency, Island of Dreams, Greece, 2008
PA Festival of the Arts Merit Award, 2007
Greenwich House Pottery Residency, New York, NY 2006
Nancy Ashton Memorial MFA Award, Hunter College, CUNY, 2006
The Scholarship Foundation MFA Award, 2003-2005

LECTURES & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010–2012 Digital Art, Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2011 Publication Design, Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2011 Street Art, Visting Lecturer, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2011 tART Collective, Visting Lecturer, Open Engagment Conference, Portland, OR
2010 Painting & Ceramics, Visting Lecturer, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
2009 Digital Art, Visting Lecturer, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2007–10 Clay & Casting, Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Hunter College, NYC
2007–10 Clay & Casting,Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Hunter College, NYC
2007 Foundations: Sculpture, Visting Lecturer, Hunter College, NYC
2007 MA Studio Art: Summer Program, Visting Artist, New York University, NYC
2006 3D Design, Adjunct Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
2006 Advanced Ceramics, Teaching Assistant, Jeff Mongrain, Hunter College, NYC
2005 Drawing, Teaching Assistant, Valerie Jaudon, Hunter College, CUNY, NYC
2005 BFA Senior Seminar, Visting Lecturer, Parsons The New School of Design, NYC

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

PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
2012                   
Mens sana in corpore sano [a sound mind in a healthy body] (mural), PS/MS 282, Brooklyn, NY forthcoming
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 & Art Assets, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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
Red Hook Hoe-Down, Sweet Lorraine 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