JULIA ELSAS: Exhibitions, Residencies, and Biography

I will be an Artist Fellow at Virginia Center for Creative Arts in October and November.

I am currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA.

My work is included in Cream, from the top curated by Kathryn Weller Renfrow. This annual exhibition features the work of recent Bay Area MFA graduates. The show is split between two venues: The Richmond Art Center in Richmond, CA and The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novato, CA. My work will be at the The Richmond Art Center from April 6 - June 5. The opening reception is May 1.

I have been accepted as an Artist Fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and will be working on new projects there in November and December.

I was selected to participate in Fresh Young Things: New Talent from Northern California at JAYJAY gallery in Sacramento. Exhibition press can be seen in The Sacramento Bee and the The Sacramento News and Review.

I received an MFA in Art Studio from UC Davis in June 2009.

I was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2000, I received a BA in Studio Art from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. After college, I relocated to Carrboro and later Durham, North Carolina. While living in the southeast, I studied at Penland School of Crafts, Meredith College, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2005, I was chosen as one of thirty contemporary North Carolina artists to exhibit work at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh and at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. That same year I had a solo show at Branch Gallery.

In 2009 I graduated with an MFA in Art Studio from the University of California at Davis. While studying at Davis, I was a Joan Mitchell Foundation Nominee, received the Robert Arneson Award, the Fay Nelson Award, two Freedmond Gadberry Student Awards, and a Graduate Research Grant. I was also the Graduate Coordinator of the 2008-2009 UC Davis Art Studio Program Lecture Series, in charge of coordinating, promoting, and planning the year-long lecture series.

I am currently living in San Francisco, California.