EDUCATION
2016-2018, Master of Fine Arts, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. Painting/Printmaking
2007-2011, Bachelor of Arts, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA. Visual & Environmental Studies with a Secondary Field in Italian.
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
In the weather of it, curated by Amanda-Millet Sorsa, Julia Rooney and Anne Marie Rooney, Below Grand, New York, NY
Greenscreen, Bluescreen (public installation), Willow Island Sculpture Park, Canton, NY (upcoming)
2023
Blueprint (solo), Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
Album (solo), Freight+Volume, New York, NY
2022
Screen Shot (solo), Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2021
Sections (solo), Real Eyes Gallery, Adams, MA
@SomeHighTide (solo), Arts+Leisure, New York, NY
2019
paper paper (solo), curated by Storm Ascher, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Doubles (solo), Chashama: One Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Corner Show, curated by Jan Dickey, DDDD, New York, NY
2023
Search and Rescue, Readymade Gallery, Orleans, MA
Below a grand, Below Grand, New York, NY
Learning to read from lips and stones, Below Grand, New York, NY
2022
Footnotes and other embedded stories, curated by Laurel V. McLaughlin, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2021
Affective Histories, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
Out of Office, curated by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Collar Works, Troy, NY
Art on Paper, curated by Emily Stamey, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Painting Abstraction: 197X – Today, Zeit Contemporary Art (online), New York, NY
Praying on the Name, curated by Jacob Todd Broussard and Adam Thibodeaux, KINGFISH, Buffalo, NY
2020
We Live in Real Time, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Unrealized, organized by Assembly Room and Artfare (online), New York, NY
Joie de vivre, Zeit Contemporary Art (online), New York, NY
Open House, curated by Julia Rooney, Elegran Real Estate, New York, NY
2019
Women in Paint, curated by Anita Trombetta and Claudia Santiso, 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
Patterns of Influence, curated by Andrea Kantrowitz, Sue Collier, and Barbara Laube, The Painting Center, New York, NY
The House, curated by Jessica Gaddis, Matthewis Persen House, Kingston, NY
My Kingdom for Baked Alaska, curated by Anita Trombetta and Claudia Santiso, Meeting House, Troy, NY
Reading Painting, curated by Maya Strauss and Seth Becker, Treasure Town, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Daddy’s Books, curated by Lauren Faigeles and Caitlin MacBride, Life Lessons, Brooklyn, NY and Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
Engaged Editions: Creative Advocacy in Print, curated by Aimee Lusty, Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Tails, Next to Nothing Gallery, New York, NY
Way Out Now, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Folded: New Acquisitions to Artspace Flatfile, curated by Katy Rosenthal, Artspace, New Haven, CT
super/NATURAL, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Wild Seed, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2017
Nasty Women, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT and Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
Reconstruir, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2016
Feast, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
SHIM Invitational 3, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY
MFA-18, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Gnome Show, curated by Sara Stern, Stern Garden, New York, NY
2015
Yourself, curated by John Baber, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
Small Works Invitational: Paintings, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY
Single, curated by Maria Dimanshtein, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
Engaging Artists, curated by Megan Suttles, Hot Wood Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
After Image: Contemporary Artists & Photography, curated by Raymond E. Mingst and Arthur Bruno,
Art House Productions Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
PUBLIC TALKS & WORKSHOPS
2024
In the weather of it: A Poetry Reading, Below Grand, New York, NY
The New Social Environment #1020: Julia Rooney and Anne Marie Rooney in conversation with Ginevra de Blasio, The Brooklyn Rail, New York, NY
Blueprint: Julia Rooney and Matt Saunders in Conversation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
2023
Greenspace, Greenscreen, workshop at the NYPL and Bryant Park, New York, NY
Julia Rooney in conversation with Ernest A. Bryant III, Criticism+Value IX, New York, NY
2022
Screen Shot, Julia Rooney talks with Keely Orgeman, Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT
Search, panel discussion with Julia Rooney, Stephanie Sparling Williams and Mira Dayal, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Greenscreen on The Green, public workshop with Julia Rooney, Artspace and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Sidewalk Studio, papermaking workshop with members of the New Haven community, organized through Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2021
Affective Histories, panel discussion moderated by Xiao Situ, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
Julia Rooney in Conversation with Caroline Fowler, Real Eyes Gallery, Adams, MA
Indexing Without a Client—The Mueller Report, Peter Rooney and Julia Rooney, Presentation at The
2021 Conference of The American Society for Indexing
Julia Rooney and Sara Stern in Conversation @SomeHighTide, in conjunction with solo show at Arts+Leisure, New York, NY
2019
Yale Prison Education Initiative Partnership Panel, moderated by Zelda Roland, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Art and Social Activism, public papermaking workshop, curated by Nicholas Cohn, New York, NY
Artist talk: Bianca Boragi and Julia Rooney Discuss Minimal Means: Concrete Inventions in the U.S., Brazil and Spain, curated by Joan Robledo-Palop, Zeit Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2018
CALL/VoCA Talk: A Panel Discussion with Legacy Specialists Antonia A. Perez, Julia Rooney and Rose Nestler, moderated by Kendra Roth, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Yale Prison Education Initiative Partnership Panel, moderated by Daniel Karpowitz and Zelda Roland, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Information as Material: Engaging Instructional Matter in the Installations of Sol LeWitt and Sarah Sze, presented at The Physical History of Art Symposium, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
(Inter)sections: Gallery Conversation between Efe Igor and Julia Rooney, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2017
Sidewalk Studio, silkscreen and pattern-making workshop with members of the New Haven community, organized through Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Studio/gallery workshop, co-organized with Farah Al-Qasimi and the Yale Refugee Project, held at Yale University Art Gallery and Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2016
The Recipe Box, participatory project at The More Art Social, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY
2015
REMAP Open Session: Participatory Workshop on Re-Mapping NYC with Homeless Communities, co-organized and led by Anna Adler, Corinne Cappelletti and Julia Rooney, The Jefferson Market Library, New York, NY
Material Ingredients: Finding a Congruity between Hummus and Paint, public workshop held at the Materials Lab at The Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
RESIDENCIES
2024
Hidden Hills, Asheville, NC (upcoming)
2022
The Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat, Laceyville, PA
2021-22
Happy and Bob Doran Connecticut Artist in Residence, Yale University Art Gallery and Artspace, New Haven, CT
2021
MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists, North Adams, MA
2021
The Norfolk Residency, Greenwoods 2058, Norfolk, CT
2020, 21, 22
DNA Residency, Provincetown, MA
2020
Brush Creek Arts Foundation, Saratoga, WY
2019
Meeting House, Troy NY
2019
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, SU-CASA (teaching residency), New York, NY
2016
League Residency at Vyt, Ruth Katzman Scholarship, The Art Students League, Sparkill, NY
2014
The Vermont Studio Center, merit-based scholarship, Johnson, VT
2014
Engaging Artists, More Art and The Artist Volunteer Center, New York, NY
2009
Studio Arts College International, Florence, Italy
GRANTS & AWARDS
2022
Artist Community Engagement Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
2018
Yale Prison Education Initiative Teaching Fellowship, Art & Social Justice Fund, Dwight Hall and Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2015
REMAP: A series of workshops with unhoused communities tracing personal histories and alternative ways of navigating New York City, project with Anna Adler, Corinne Cappelleti and Julia Rooney, funded with a grant from More Art and The Artist Volunteer Center
2011
David McCord Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
Council Prize in Visual Art, The Office for the Arts, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
2009
Artist Development Fellowship, The Office for the Arts, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
”In the weather of it,” review by Logan Royve-Beitmen. Tussle Magazine. April 4, 2024
https://www.tusslemagazine.com/rooney
“Julia Rooney Blasts Art History’s Blueprint,” review by Matt Gleason. Coagula. January 11, 2024.
https://coagula.com/2024/01/11/julia-rooney-blasts-art-historys-blueprint/
Blueprint, exhibition catalogue with essay by Yechen Zhao, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Julia Rooney: Album at Freight+Volume," review by Anthony Haden-Guest. White Hot Magazine, February 2023. https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/rooney-album-at-freight-volume/5693
"Pixels, QR Codes, and Square Paintings: In Conversation with Artist Julia Rooney," interview with Amanda Millet-Sorsa, Testudo, January 13, 2023.
https://testudomkt.com/editorial/juliarooney-interview-pixels-qrcodes
In the studio: Julia Rooney, video interview, January 2023, The Joan Mitchell Foundation.
https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/journal/in-the-studio-julia-rooney
Album , artist book with contributions by Laurel V. McLaughlin, Sara Stern and Anne Marie Rooney, Freight+Volume, New York, NY
2022
“Inhabiting an out-of-scale World,” interview with Julia Rooney and Filippo Lorenzin, published in Footnotes and other embedded stories, exhibition catalogue, Artspace, June 2022
“Artspace Reads Under The Lines,” by Brian Slattery, New Haven Independent, May 17, 2022
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/artspace_may_2022
“In Footnotes Artists’ Research Leads to Risk-Tasking, by Al Larriva-Latt, Arts Council Greater New Haven, May 16, 2022. https://www.newhavenarts.org/arts-paper/articles/in-footnotes- artistsget-into-embedded-practice
2021
Art on Paper 2021: The 46th Exhibition, exhibition catalogue by Emily Stamey, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, July 2021
“The Tabernacle as Image,” commentary by Xiao Situ, published by The Visual Commentary on Scripture (VCS), October 27, 2021. https://thevcs.org/tabernacle-evolutionsintimacy/tabernacle-image?first=7191
“The Quarantine Querent,” essay by Jacob Broussard, Cornelia Mag, April 30, 2021
https://www.corneliamag.com/article-set/6-the-quarantine-querent
@SomeHighTide, artist book with essays by Ernest A. Bryant III, Cora Frazier, Jeffrey Grunthaner and Samir Nedzamar, Arts+Leisure Gallery, Jan. 2021
“Julia Rooney: @SomeHighTide,” review by Cigdem Asatekin, The Brooklyn Rail, Feb. 2021 https://brooklynrail.org/2021/02/artseen/Julia-Rooney-SomeHighTide
“Art at Home: A Conversation with Julia Rooney,” interview for Conversation X, Feb. 18, 2021 by Caroline Tisdale: https://conversationx.com/articles/julia-rooney
“Julia Rooney interviewed by Jennifer Earthman,” published by Zeit Contemporary Art, Feb. 2021, https://www.zeitcontemporaryart.com/blog/36/
“Alteronce Gumby and Julia Rooney in conversation with Art Historian Samuel Shapiro,”
PERSPECTIVES podcast produced by Zeit Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2020
“Letter Writing as Proposition, The Importance of Touch and Collaborative Making with
Julia Rooney and Maya Strauss,” Tintamarre podcast, produced by JacobBroussard
2019
paper paper, video trailer produced by John Alexander of Crook & Nanny, Feb. 2020
2019, https://voca.network/blog/2019/02/01/your-work-your-legacy-a-call-voca-talk-at-pratt/
2018
“Your Work, Your Legacy: A CALL/VoCA Talk at Pratt,” by Emmanuel Castillo, VoCA Blog, Feb.
2019, https://voca.network/blog/2019/02/01/your-work-your-legacy-a-call-voca-talk-at-pratt/
Yale School of Art MFA 2018 Catalogue, published by Yale School of Art, New Haven,CT
2015
“I did a series in a very hot August,” published in AFTER IMAGE: Contemporary Artists & Photography, exhibition catalogue, curated by Arthur Bruso and Raymond E. Mingst. Jersey City: Art House Productions Gallery
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023-present
Critic, Experimental and Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2022-present
Teaching Artist, Friends of The High Line, New York, NY
2022-2023
Visiting Artist, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT
2020-2022
Artist Mentor, Lesley University MFA in Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
2013-present
Resident Visual, First-Year Arts Program, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
2020-present
Teaching Artist, The Wallach Art Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY
2021
Adjunct Professor, Metropolitan State University and MN Department of Corrections Open University Program, Saint Paul, MN
Guest critic, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2019
Teaching Artist, “(Un)Forming Paper,” Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, New York, NY
2018
Course Instructor, “Painting Basics,” Manson Youth Institution, Cheshire, CT
2016-18
Wurtele Gallery Teacher, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012-18
Teaching Assistant: “Visual Thinking” with Anahita Vossoughi (Yale School of Art, Spring’18);“Color Practice” with Anna Betbeze (Yale School of Art, Fall 17); “Painting Basics” with Kati Gegenheimer (Yale Summer School, Summer ’17); “Silkscreen” with Annette Lemieux (Harvard College, Department of Visual & Environmental Studies, Spring ’12)
2014-16
Artist Teacher Fellow, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
2014-15
Teaching Artist, Park Slope Women’s Shelter, Brooklyn, NY