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Julia Schwartz
Born 1957, Pomona, CA
Lives and works in El Cerrito, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
The opening door, Et al, SF, CA
2019
In, for, to, in search of (but not from), Antioch University Library, Culver City, CA
2018
Tenderly cradled and lavishly flung, Visitor Welcome Center, Koreatown, CA
2012
Trading maps for stars, Bleicher Gallery La Brea, LA, CA
2011
The hollow sea, Bleicher Gallery La Brea, LA, CA
2010
Flesh and bone, Bleicher/Golightly gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008
Nest, Tracy Park gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
ART FWD 5x5x5, Marin MOCA, San Rafael, CA
The Fall Invitational, 500 Capp St., SF, CA
I believe I am the luckiest person alive, kill shelter presents, Night Gallery, LA, CA
give me light, Personal Space, Vallejo, CA
in the weeds, PULP Holyoke, Holyoke, MA
2023
Body High, LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2022
Flower Shop, SMOKE THE MOON, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2021
HOLIDAY, LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY
Chrysalis Metamorphosis, SMOKE THE MOON, Santa Fe, New Mexico
HIGH DESERT HIGH, SMOKE THE MOON, Santa Fe, New Mexico
occurring or situated between stars, LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2020
So Far, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Drive-By-Art, organized by Warren Neidich, Anuradha Vikram, Michael Slenske, and
Renée Petropoulos, Los Angeles, CA
If Everything is an Outrage: The Binder of Women, Track 16, LA, CA
2019
A Store Show, ODD ARK, LA, CA
Binder of Women, BOW II Limited Edition Print Release, The Pit, Glendale, CA
That Not Said, 515, LA, CA
Dreamhouse Vs Punkhouse, LA, CA
Dream Wavers, Loyola Marymount University along with STNDRD, LA, CA
Democracy Shop at Frieze LA with Artists 4 Democracy, Paramount Studios,
Los Angeles, CA
2018
BIG Show, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
SuperPak, Artists 4 Democracy and Paper Chase Press, LA, CA
LA Looking, LAVA Projects, LA, CA
I swear it was just… there, Dalton Warehouse, LA, CA
Near To You, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2017
Wrong II, PØST, LA, CA
Night Divides the Day, PØST- Kamikaze Series, LA, CA
Black Mirror, Charlie James Gallery, LA, CA
The Only Way Out Is In, Citrus College, Glendora, CA
Introductions, Trestle Gallery, NY, NY
2016
The Night Opens//La Nuit S’Ouvre, BLAM, LA, CA
Book Happening, Sloan Projects, Bergamot Station, CA
Southern California/Baja Biennial, SDAI, San Diego, CA
Dig for Fire, Eastside International (ESX), LA, CA
Insomnia, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2015
States of Being, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA
Within the Cave, Durden and Ray, LA, CA
Pulp Painting, Studio Apothiki, Cyprus, Greece
Going Big, Central Booking, NY, NY
After Eden, Durden + Ray, Culver City, CA
From the Barricades, Kreuzberg Pavilion, Berlin, Germany
Telephone Game, Prohibition Gallery, LA, CA
FAMILY TIES, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
MAS 8: San Diego, San Diego Art Institute, SD, CA
2014
John Wolf, Aqua Art Fair, John Wolf Fine Art, Miami FL
SECOND FAMILY, 2 Rivington NY NY
Thanks For the Mammaries, For your Art, Los Angeles, CA
Not-Knowing, JAUS LA, CA
DIY, BOS 2014 Bushwick, NY
Shed Skin, LACC, LA, CA
2013
Beasts and Bodies, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
The Ghost in You ASC Projects/Gallery 304, New York NY
What I Like About You Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn NY
Millennial Abstractions Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
White Soup and Weighty Air, JAUS, LA, CA
International Painting Show Appels Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2012
Turbulence George Lawson Gallery, Culver City, CA
Appels Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2010
Marine Art Salon, Santa Monica, CA
Selected PRESS
2025
evergreenreview.com Patterner, images to accompany poems, October 2025
2020
Maziar, Paul, “An Interview with Julia Schwartz,” AICA, August 25
“Julia Schwartz and Track 16 host and online fundraising event in the memory of Elijah
McClain,” LA Art Party, August, 2020
Davis, Genie, “The Binder of Women at Track 16,” Art and Cake, March 24, 2020
2018
Hackett, Mary Addison, “TEXTING: Julia Schwartz at Visitor Welcome Center,” Two Coats of
Paint, August 12, 2018
Nys Dambrot, Shana, “Art galleries with names that remind us of summer,” LA Weekly
Heitzman, Lorraine, “Julia Schwartz at Visitor Welcome Center,” Art and Cake, July 27, 2018
2017
Johnson, Jaqueline Bell, “Black Mirror at Charlie James,” Art and Cake, April 30, 2017
Rosen, Miss, “Black Mirror explores our dystopian world,” MANDATORY
Zellen, Jodie and Davis, Genie, “Nancy Buchanan/Black Mirror,” ArtScene
Interview with Mat Gleason, Coagula Art Journal, Issue #115, February, 2017
2016
Gleeson, Scott, "States of Reckoning: An Interview with Julia Schwartz," Peripheral Vision:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Visual Arts, Issue No. 3, 2016
2016
Johnson, Jacqueline Bell, “Drawing Lines: The Only Way Out is In,” Art and Cake
Susan Hodara, “While Others Sleep, They Make Art,” New York Times, February 14, 2016
Westchester, ARTSNews, February, 2016 The Late Night Works of Artists With Insomnia
2015
Dambrot, Shana Nys, “Within The Cave at Durden and Ray,” Huffington Post
Wood, Ever, “Artillery Pick of the week: States of Being at Torrance Art Museum,” October 8,
2015
“The List,” L.A. Confidential, Summer Issue
Post Road # 28, Publication of Boston College Department of English
“Fresh Faces in Art: Eight L.A. Artists you should know,” Fabrik Magazine, Issue 2
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Casey, Ginny review of Built from Broke at Nino Meir Gallery, LA, CA painterstable.com
2017, essay “On Being and Becoming” included in Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis, Perspectives from Analyst-Artists, Edited by George Hagman. Routledge[
AWARDS and HONORS
2016 Foundation Prize in Painting and Drawing- Peripheral Vision Arts
LECTURES
2014
"Art and Social Media" panel discussion Cal State University, Long Beach
2011
"The New Center presents: The Organizing Principles: an art exhibition and performance": exhibit, music, and interview
“The Organizing Principles: art and process” Connection in a My Space World: Embracing Culture and Creativity in Psychoanalytic Thought
“Aesthetic Gesture in the Arts, Self Experience, and Psychoanalysis” Connection in a My Space World: Embracing Culture and Creativity in Psychoanalytic Thought.
2010
“Art, Creativity and Self Psychology: Aesthetic Gesture in the Arts, Self Experience and Psychoanalysis” AIMED Creativity and Madness Conference.
EDUCATION
1979 Case Western Reserve School of Medicine- MD
1975 University of California, Irvine- BS
CURATORIAL AND OTHER EXPERIENCE
2019
Member of The Binder of Women
2017
Co-organizer, Night Divides The Day, PØST (Kamikaze series), LA, CA
Curator, Black Mirror, Charlie James Gallery, LA CA
2015-present Member of the Advisory Board of Fine Art Complex 1101 in Tempe, AZ
2015
Member of Durden + Ray curatorial program based in Los Angeles
Curator, States of Being, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2012-2017
Arts Editor- Figure/Ground Communication website, conducted over 20 interviews with visual and other artists