Julia Kunin is an American sculpture and video artist. She was born in

Vermont Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...

, and lives and works in

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. Her work is inspired by

organic form In romantic literature, a work has organic form if the structure has originated from the materials and subjects used by the author. Using the organic metaphor, the structure is seen to grow as a plant. It stands in contrast to a mechanical form, a ...

s, undersea creatures, and interior spaces, with a focus on the female body. She graduated from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

( M.F.A.) in 1993 and

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

(

B.A. Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

) in 1984, and attended the

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists residency located in Madison, Maine, just outside of Skowhegan. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 t ...

. Her work has been featured in ''

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'', '' House and Garden'', ''

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'', and in

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's book ''Lesbian Art in America'' (Rizzoli, 2000). Kunin is the recipient of many honors and awards, including a

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in 2013. She has participated in many

artist residencies Artist-in-residence, or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs which involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs which provide artists with space a ...

and

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programs, includin
The Macdowell Colony
in

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; the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, in

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; and Yaddo, in

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. Kunin has been featured in numerous exhibits nationally and internationally, with shows i
Mother Gallery
in NYC in 2022 wit

a group show a
LACMA
in Los Angeles in 2022, as well as in Miami at th
Mindy Solomon Gallery
in 2022. She has had solo shows at th
McClain Gallery
in Houston in 2021 and in NYC in 2020 a
Kate Werble Gallery
and a
Sandra Gering Inc
in 2015
Barry Whistler Gallery
in

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in 2013
Greenberg Van Doren
in 2012, and th
Deutsches Leder Museum
in

Offenbach, Germany Offenbach am Main () is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main. It borders Frankfurt and is part of the Frankfurt urban area and the larger Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. It has a population of 138,335 (December 2018). I ...

in 2002. She had a two-person exhibition wit
Jackie Gendel
a
Jeff Bailey Gallery
in 2014. Kunin is represented b
Sandra Gering Gallery
in

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External links

Julia Kunin on the web

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kunin, Julia Living people 21st-century American sculptors American video artists American women video artists Artists from Vermont Rutgers University alumni Wellesley College alumni 21st-century American women sculptors Year of birth missing (living people) Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni