Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture

Julia Kunin

Discipline: Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006

Julia Kunin is an artist who is currently based in New York. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.F.A. from The Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Kunin was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary in 2013 and is the recipient of a 2010 Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant to Hungary, the 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and residencies at MacDowell, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, a CEC Artslink grant to The Republic of Georgia, The Belevuesaal residency Wiesbaden, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and The Core Program in Houston. She was a member of the Women’s Action Coalition and is a founding member of the activist group, “We Make America.”

Studios

Eastman

Julia Kunin worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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