EDUCATION
MFA Fine Arts, Painting & Combined Media, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY, 2006
BFA Fine Arts, Painting, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2001
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Tangled up in Blue, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY (opening reception March 2; on view March 1–April 21)
Instruments of Inspiration, Hancock Shaker Village, Chace Gallery, Pittsfield, MA (April 13-August 31)
Inspired, Hancock Shaker Village, Poultry House, Pittsfield, MA (April 13-October 31)
United by Flowers, Philadelphia Flower Show/Hudson Valley Seed Company, Philadelphia, PA
2023
Julia Whitney Barnes: Picturesque Botany at The Octagon House, Armour-Stiner Octagon House Museum, Irvington, NY
Us & ME, Special Pop-Up exhibition in Portland, ME, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Portland, ME
Julia Whitney Barnes, Planting Utopia, Shaker Heritage Site & Albany International Airport, Albany, NY (on view through Fall 2024)
2022
Julia Whitney Barnes, Planting Utopia, Shaker Heritage Site & Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
Julia Whitney Barnes, Galerie Julian Sander, Cologne, Germany
House & Garden, Washington Art Association & Gallery, Washington Depot, CT
Birds of a Feather, Kobe Art Center/Ethan Cohen Fine Art, Beacon, NY
Bold Little Beauty, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
Sans Toi, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
Cool & Collected '22, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT
2021
Select6, Garvey|Simon NY, New York, NY
On the Water, Front Room Gallery/Art Buoy, Kingston, NY
Sunrise, Sunset, Albany International Airport, Concourse A Gallery, Albany, NY
Continuum, Perspectives Gallery at Whitney Center (Ely Center of Contemporary Art) Hamden, CT
Together apART: Creating During COVID, ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY
Propagation, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT
Far & Wide National, The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM), Woodstock, NY
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
Flourish, Lark & Key Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Embody, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2020
New Folk, Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY
The Ballot Show, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY
minimalism/MAXIMALISM, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY
Verdant, an Exhibition of Green for Earth Day, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Julia Whitney Barnes: Botany of Poughkeepsie, Cunneen Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Tickled Pink, Queen City Gallery 15, Poughkeepsie, NY
Summer Sampler, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY
Celebrating Color, WomensWork Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2018
Brick by Brick, The Erie Canal and the Building Boom, ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY
Frabjous, Openings Collective: Church of the St. Paul The Apostle, New York, NY
Pattern in Landscape, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY
True North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
The Creek Flows Into the River: New Work from the Hudson River Valley, Walnut Hill Gallery, Hudson, NY
2017
18th, 19th, 21st: Confabulations of Millennia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME
Jolynn Krystosk & Julia Whitney Barnes, Art Centro/Fall Kill Creative Works, Poughkeepsie, NY
Super Natural, Mattaewan Gallery, Beacon, NY
Taconic North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Nasty Women HV, Instar Lodge, Germantown, NY
coda, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2016
The Ballot Show (Quadrennial), Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Monsters in America, International Crytopzoology Museum, Portland, ME
Monsters in America, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY
Beauty, Openings Collective: Church of the St. Paul The Apostle, New York, NY
Bringing Brooklyn to Norfolk, Gallery 21, Norfolk, VA
Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Front Room Gallery, Summer Sampler, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Eumetadotos, Novella Gallery, New York, NY
The Unexpected Path, Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY
The Old Gem, Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Front Room at 15, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Love, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Liberalis, Novella Gallery, New York, NY
The Last Brucennial, Vito Schnabel & The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
2013
Collo, Warehouse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Group Therapy: Politics & Aesthetics, 111 Front Street Galleries/Two Trees, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Sampler, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
In Her Nature, Fountain Art Fair, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY
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
Frenzy Into Folly, Openings Collective: Church of the St. Paul The Apostle, New York, NY
These Trees: Julia Whitney Barnes + Melissa Cowper Smith, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Collectivity: Art-Making in a Collective, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY
Brucennial 2012, Bruce High Quality Foundation, 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: presented by 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
2010
Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship Exhibition, National Academy of Fine Art Museum, New York, NY
Cool and Collected, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Julia Whitney Barnes: Paintings & Ceramics, Armstrong Hipkins Center for The Arts, Blairstown, NJ
tart at AIR; What’s in a Collective, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Green Too, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Smithsonian Affiliate, Solomons, MD
2009
Within the Menagerie: Melissa Pokorny & Julia Whitney Barnes, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn NY
SummerSpace, OZANEAUX Art Space, New York, NY
Brooklyn Utopias?, Old Stone House Museum, Brooklyn, NY
NurtureArt Benefit, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
Green Party, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
tart at AIR, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Wild Things, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Smithsonian 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 Galleries, The Clay Center, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Julie Durkin, Lauren Olitski, Julia Whitney Barnes, Mulry Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Images 2007, Robeson Gallery, Penn State, University Park, PA
2006
MFA Exhibition: Julia Whitney Barnes Orchid-Bats, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2005
MA’s Select MFA’s, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Julia Whitney Barnes: Cycles, 65 Hope Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
2024 PS253 (Interior Stained Glass) Public Art for Public Schools/Percent for Art, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Julia Whitney Barnes - Planting Utopia, Shaker Historic Site & Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
2021 Julia Whitney Barnes - Nocturnal Nature, Brookfield Place, Winter Garden Arts Brookfield, New York, NY
2020 Illumination: An Interpretation of Charles Booth's Stained Glass Windows (interior installation), Arts Brookfield, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Hudson River of Bricks/Rhinebeck (exterior installation), Wilderstein Sculpture Biennial, Rhinebeck, NY
2018 Hudson River of Bricks/Poughkeepsie (interior installation), Poughkeepsie Trolley Barn, Poughkeepsie, NY
2017 Hudson River of Bricks/Newburgh (exterior installation), GlenLilyGrounds,Newburgh, New York
2015 Industry Meets Ecology (exterior mural in collaborative w/ Ruth Hofheimer), Gowanus Public Arts Initiative Mural, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Legal Aviary (exterior mural), Baw Ridge SAW/Sichenze & Sichenze storefront, Brooklyn, New York
2013 Flora I Fjellerup (wood installation & exterior mural), Fjellerup i Bund i Grund, Storefront, Fjellerup, Denmark
2013 Historias Coloridas de México (ceramic and glass mosaic), Brooklyn School of Inquiry, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Refracted Nature (ceramic and glass mosaic), Sirovich Senior Center/LMCC, New York, NY
2011 Roots/Routes (exterior mural), New York City Department of Transportation - Urban Art Program, New York, NY
2011 Road Less Traveled (exterior mural), St. Nicks Alliance – Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Floor-Sight (exterior digital billboard), The Billboard Art Project, Savannah, GA, Nashville, TN & Duluth, MN
2010 Found on Governors Island (exterior ceramic installation), FIGMENT Season-Long Sculpture Garden, Governors Island, NY
2009 Prospect Flora (mixed-media installation), Brooklyn Utopias?, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Epiphyte (mixed-media installation), Windows Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Treehouse: Interior/Exterior (exterior printed billboard), ArtBridge, New York, NY
2009 Gilded Phytophilic Bats (exterior ceramic installation), Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Affiliate, Solomons, MD
2008 Relative Environment (exterior ceramic installation), Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Gowanus Canal Species (exterior mural), Toll Brothers & Art Assets, Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024/25 Maker-Creator Research Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Library & Garden, Winterthur, DE
2022 Individual Artists Grants, (partnering with Shaker Heritage Center), New York State Council on the Arts
2018 Individual Artist Commission, New York State Council on the Arts, Decentralization Program, Arts Mid-Hudson
2015 Gowanus Public Arts Initiative Grant (Arts Gowanus, The Old Stone House & District 39), Brooklyn, NY
2013 Residency with Site-Specific Installation & Fellowship, Fjellerup I Bund I Grund, Fjellerup, Denmark
2012 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide) Residency & Fellowship, New York, NY
2010 National Academy of Fine Art, Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Residency & Fellowship, New York, NY
2008 International Open Art Residency, Island of Dreams, Greece
2006 Greenwich House Pottery Residency, New York, NY
2006 Nancy Ashton Memorial Fellowship MFA Award, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
TEACHING & LECTURE EXPERIENCE
2016–24 Painting I, II, III; Drawing I, II & II; Fundamentals of Art & Design Adjunct Faculty, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2022–23 Cyanotype Workshop (5 day intensive), Instructor, Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts, Maplecrest, NY
2010–18 Digital Art, Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2014 Open Engagement Conference, Artists Talk, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
2013 Special Projects: Mosaics, Visiting Teaching Artist (3rd Grade), Brooklyn School of Inquiry, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Street Art, Visiting Lecturer, Portland State University, Portland, OR
2011 tART Collective, Visiting Lecturer, Open Engagement For Social Practice Conference, Portland, OR
2011 Basic Publication Design, Adjunct Faculty, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2007–10 Clay & Casting, Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Hunter College, City University of NY, New York, NY
2006 Ceramics – 3D Design, Adjunct Faculty, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
2005 BFA Senior Seminar, Visiting Lecturer, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY