JULIA BLAND (American, b. 1986) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from RISD in 2008 and her MFA from The Yale School of Art in 2012. She has been an artist in residence at The Macdowell Colony, Yaddo, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lighthouse Works, The Sharpe-Walentas Space Program, and The Shandaken Project: Storm King. She has received awards including The Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship from Yaddo, The Carol Scholsberg Memorial Prize, and The Florence Leif Award for Excellence in Painting. Recent solo exhibitions include ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), Derek Eller Gallery (New York, NY), The Lighthouse Works (Fisher’s Island, NY), Helena Anrather (New York, NY), and On Stellar Rays (New York, NY). Recent group exhibitions include The Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY), Derek Eller Gallery (New York, NY), John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan, WI), Chambers Fine Art (Beijing, CN), and Yossi Milo Gallery (New York, NY). She has exhibited at art fairs in New York, Miami, and Dallas. The gallery will present her work at EXPO (Chicago, IL) and NADA (New York, NY) this spring. She has been reviewed or featured in many publications, including The New York Times, Mousse Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections.





















Gallery Exhibitions
Selected Press
- ‘Chicago Oomph’, Mousse Magazine, April 2023
- ‘9 Must-See Shows in New York This March’, Artsy, March 3 2020 ,
- ‘Lower East Side’s Best Art Exhibitions Bring Us Brave New Subgenres of Abstraction’, Observer, February 27 2020 ,
- ‘Editors' Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York's Art World This Week’, Artnet News, February 3 2020 ,
- ‘Julia Bland: The Half That Ties, the Half that Breaks’, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2019 , (PDF)
- ‘When Paintings Are Stitched, Unstitched, Twisted, and Knotted’, Hyperallergic, April 2018 , (PDF)
- ‘In the Studio With Julia Bland’, Artnet, December 2018 , (PDF)
- ‘Julia Bland, A Mixed Media Artist That Takes You on a Journey’, Arte Fuse, October 2017 , (PDF)