Education
Mills College; Bard College. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Mills College; Bard College. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
She is Associate Professor of Integrated Media in the Studio Art Department at Oberlin College. Julia Christensen"s art practice spans photography, video, sound, installation, sculpture, and performance. Christensen"s projects explore the intersections of technology, consumerism, landscape, and history.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions at venues such as Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Eyebeam (New York, New York), Ronald Feldman Gallery (New York, New York), Carnegie Museum of Fine Arts (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), 21C Museum/Hotel (Louisville, Kentucky), Austrian Cultural Forum (New York, New York), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland, Ohio).
Her work has been shown internationally in France, Greece, Croatia, Finland, and beyond. Christensen is a recipient of a Creative Capital Fellowship in Emerging Fields (2013) for her project, Upgrade Available, a series of art pieces and writings about our complicated relationships with obsolete electronics ("e-waste") and recordable media.
Other awards include the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2015), a MacDowell Fellowship (2015), New York State Council on the Arts Grant (2007), and commissions from Turbulence (2007) and New and Performing Arts Incorporated. (2007). Her video installation work has been supported by artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Experimental Television Center, and the Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Studio.