ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Julia Clouser (b. 1992 Clearwater, Florida) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, MD. She completed her MFA in Multidisciplinary Art from the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019 and her BFA in Fine Art Photography from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2014. Julia was selected as the 2019-2020 recipient of the MFA Fellowship Studio at the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower where her current studio practice takes place. She has been a participating artist in the 2020 and 2022 ICA Flat File Program in Baltimore, MD and the Transformer FlatFile collection in Washington, DC. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums nationally, including a recent solo exhibition at Hunter Gallery in Rhode Island. Julia currently works as a Graduate Admission Counselor at MICA where she also teaches workshops in inkjet printing, risograph printing, film scanning, and projection mapping.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work rotates around themes of perception, memory, and place. I use photography, text, and video to understand how we perceive or fail to perceive moments in their natural context, and how this can expose the tension between the familiar fading away and the unfamiliar appearing. My recent work uses imagery appropriated from my grandfather’s 8mm films shot in Florida throughout the 1960s and 70s; these films were shot on a camera that unexpectedly exposed the film outside of its standardized frame, creating moments existing only in the film’s margins. By appropriating the space where the image has bled out of the frame, I am also creating a space for overlooked moments to be noticed within projects that require the labor of reading images.
E-Mail | clouserjulia@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2019 MFA, Mount Royal School of Art
Concentration in Critical Studies, Certificate in College Teaching of Art
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2014 BFA, Fine Art Photography
Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC
AWARDS + FELLOWSHIPS
2021 Business of Arts Professional Development Mini Grant, Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, Baltimore, MD
2020 Baltimore Artist Retreat Honorarium, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Baltimore, MD
FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Bromo Artist Relief Fund, Bromo Arts and Entertainment District, Baltimore, MD
2019 LAUNCH Fellowship, Strategic Planning Partners, Creative Careers Workshop, Baltimore, MD
MFA Fellowship Studio at Bromo Seltzer Tower, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Technology Research Assistant Fellowship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2017 Mount Royal Merit Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2014 Myra Miller Groobert Memorial Scholarship, Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC
2013 President’s Award, Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Some Friends Came Over, The Wurks Gallery, Providence, RI
Quiet Moments, Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus, OH
2022 Familiar Foliage, Hunter Gallery, Middletown, RI
2022 Flat File Exhibition, ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
2021 Flat File Exhibition, Frederick Arts Council Art Center, Frederick, MD
Women in the Arts Flat File Exhibition, Latela Curatorial Gallery, Washington, DC
Hypotheses, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Colors, Citric Signals Video Network, Orlando, FL
Reimagining Hope, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
Poster Show, but, also, Washington, DC
Turning Blue :: Part DEUX, Latela Curatorial x Artsy, Washington, DC
2020 Under 500, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Women in the Arts, Latela Curatorial x Artsy, Washington, DC
New Works: AACC Visual Arts Faculty, Cade Center Gallery, Arnold, MD
mojaíta, mojaíta, que bien se ve mojaíta, Latela Curatorial x Artsy, Washington, DC
House of Mount Royal, Mount Royal School of Art Virtual Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Visual Arts Adjunct Faculty Showcase, Cade Center Gallery, Arnold, MD
Womyn’s Photography of Baltimore, Luann Carra Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Insider Art Fair, Willow Street Gallery, Washington, DC
Latela Curatorial x Industrious, Industrious Alexandria, Alexandria, VA
Meshes, Flip Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2020 Flat File Exhibition, ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
2019 It Was Always Summer, Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, Baltimore, MD
LAUNCH 2019, ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
MICA Grad Show III, Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Surfacing, The Mansion at Strathmore, Bethesda, MD
LOVE LINE | Transformer’s 3rd Annual Heartbreaker’s Ball, The Line Hotel, Washington, DC
2018 4th Annual 10 x 10 Invitational, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
TIMONIUM (None of Us Like Each Other), Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1st Year Juried Show, Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
A Gate, International Art Gallery, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Baltimore, MD
What Does the Future Smell Like?, Dolphin Building, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2017 Better Luck Next Time, Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2016 Transformer FlatFile Collection, Coldwell Banker Dupont, Washington, DC
2014 NEXT at the Corcoran: BFA Class of ’14, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Petty Thieves Three Projection, Petworth Citizen + Reading Room, Washington, DC
Annual Printmaking Department Exhibition, Gallery 31, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
LECTURES
2022 Familiar Foliage: Artist Lecture, Hunter Gallery, Middletown, RI
2020 Panel Discussion: Memorializing Moments: From Nature’s Course to Man’s Manipulation, Moderated by Curator Leslie Mounaime,
Hosted by Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC
Visiting Artist Lecture, Fusion Academy, Washington, DC
2019 The Color of Where You Can Never Go: Artist Lecture, Invited by Professor Luca Buvoli, Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore, MD
2018 1st Year Juried Show: Artist Lecture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Invited by Curator Amanda Jirón Murphy, Baltimore, MD
2014 Artist Talk: Meet the Corcoran’s NEXT Artists, Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Interview: Julia Roble, Fifth Wheel Press, Baltimore, MD
fifthwheelpress.com/blogarchive/interview-julia-roble