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Julia Sherman mines American history and pop culture, feminist theory and a range of personal anxieties to create tableaus of fantasy, philosophy and interrogation. She is the founder of the artist run gallery Workspace in LA and has apprenticed with a weaver, a wig-maker and a cobbler. She is an alumnae of the Mountain School of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and she received her MFA from Columbia University. Sherman has been a contributing artist/writer to Triple Canopy, White Zinfandel and Cabinet Magazine and has shown her work at Sculpture Center NY, Recess Activities and The Museum of Modern Art.
In addition to her studio practice, Sherman is the creator of Salad For President, an evolving project that draws a meaningful connection between art and everyday obsessions, unearthing the value of those passions that may fall outside the purview of professionalized “practice.” Sherman is the creator of an ambitious Salad Garden on the roof of MoMA PS1, built in the summer of 2014. This project is now traveling across the U.S.
Press & Published
- Art In America – Art Tag Sale: A Collective Purge
- Artforum – Critics Picks – Ajar, October 2013
- ArtForum – Critics Picks, Where The Sun Don't Shine, July, 2013
- Cabinet Magazine Issue #49: There She Goes
- Cabinet Magazine: Issue 42, "Reviving The Habit," 2011
- Chicago Art Magazine, "A Room-A Loom at Swimming Pool," 2010
- Discorder Magazine,"Weaving Together A Sense of Fellowship," 2009
- Double Life – Sculpture Center In Practice Catalog
- Elle Magazine,"JF & SON’S SISTER ACT"- 2011
- Frieze – In Focus: Julia Sherman, April 2013
- Hyperallergic: MoMA Breaks For Recess
- New York Times, "Habit Forming," 2011
- Paris Review,"Getting in the Habit," 2012
- The Deacon's Bench,"Designing Women- Creating A Fashionable Habit For Nuns," 2012
- The Highlights: Re-Claiming Susan B. Anthony
- Triple Canopy, "She Goes Covered" – 2010
- Vantage Art Projects (Book), "Lateral Learning," 2010
- Volt Magazine,"JF & Son and Julia Sherman," 2011
- W Magazine,"Artist Julia Sherman Explains Her High-Fashion Collaboration With Nuns," 2011
- White Zinfandel Magazine, Issue #2,"Mountain House Creamed Chipped Beef (Shit on A Shingle)," 2012
- Whitewall Magazine – Julia Sherman Hosts An Art Tag Sale, by Samantha Katz