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JULIA GOODMAN
b. 1979, Atlanta, GA; lives and works in the Bay Area

EDUCATION
2009 MFA, California College of the Arts, SF, CA
2003-7, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
2001 BA, Cum Laude, International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA

SELECTED SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
Unimaginable Units of Time, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA

2023
Vessel, Julia Goodman & Klea McKenna, Euqinom Gallery, SF, CA

2021
Falling apart to hold together / Holding together to fall apart, Euqinom Gallery, SF, CA

2017
Gravities, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
Above and Below, Jewish Community Center San Francisco, SF, CA
Unearthed, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2013
Skinscapes, Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, CA
Well Worn, w/ Drew Cameron of Combat Paper, Z Space, SF, CA
Rag Sorters and Star Gazers, Recology Artist in Residence, SF, CA

2012
A Different Kind of Warmth, The Present Group #20, Oakland, CA
Radicle Papyrus, 18 Reasons, SF, CA

2011
Transparent Substrate, w/ Scott Cazan, Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA
Everything is Always Moving, Performance Art Institute, SF, CA
Transparent Substrate, w/ Scott Cazan, 18 Reasons, SF, CA

2010
Transparent Substrate, w/ Scott Cazan, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Mass Ventriloquism, w/ Brindalyn Webster, Gothenburg Museum of Natural History, Gothenburg, Sweden
Navigating Blindly, Stellina’s and Blunk Residency, Pt. Reyes Station, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
Bay Area Women in Abstraction, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, SF, CA (forthcoming)

2025
A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin, Portland, OR
The Sky Below, Marin MOCA, San Rafael, CA
I can't go on. I'll go on., 12710, Berkeley, CA
Mother of Collaboration, The Good Ship Dodo, SF, CA
Fabrications, The Space Program, Saint Joseph's Art Society, SF, CA
Reunited, CCA Campus Gallery and SF Advocacy for National Museum of Women in the Arts, SF, CA
Dark Matter, The Space Program, Minnesota Street Projects, SF, CA

2022-23
Eureka! Creativity in California: Artists of the Golden State,
California Governor's Mansion, Sacramento, CA

2021
Suspended Matter, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, with Julia Goodman, Asma Kazmi, Laura Arminda Kingsley, and Jennifer K. Wofford, Curated by Patricia Cariño Valdez

2020
Paper Routes: Women to Watch, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Calm, Euqinom Gallery, SF, CA

2019
Surfacing Histories Sculpting Memories, Hubbell Street Galleries, SF, CA, Curated by Claudia Schmuckli and Janna Keegan
Present Objects, Euqinom Gallery, SF, CA
Speculative Retrievals: Krista Franklin, Julia Goodman and Sahar Khoury, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
The Now In Then, Cal State East Bay University Art Gallery, CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA

2017
Artist as Maggid: Jewish Tales and Creatures, Contemporary, Jewish Museum, SF, CA
Pulp/Paper/Page, The Center for Book Arts, New York, New York

2016
Pegasus and Mermaids, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
NextNewPaper, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Home, ProArts Oakland, Oakland, CA

2015
Rooted In Soil, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
Rooted In Soil, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL

2014
Reimagining Progress: Consumption, Consumerism, and Alternative Economies, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
Belewe, Kala Art Institute Off-Site, Berkeley Central Arts Passage, Berkeley, CA
Wabi Sabi, AlterSpace, SF, CA
Social Paper, Center for Book & Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
The Tyranny of Good Taste, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO

2013
The Tyranny of Good Taste, The Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Around the Table: Food, Creativity, Community, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Reduce, Reuse, Re-imagine, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Space Time, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
Product’s By-Product, Intersection for the Arts, SF, CA

2012
In Other Words, Intersection for the Arts, SF, CA

2011
35th Anniversary Exhibition, Dieu Donne, New York, New York
Green Works, Project 4, Washington DC
Pure Paper, Rena Bransten Gallery, SF, CA

2010
Innovations in Contemporary Craft, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Juried Annual 2010, ProArts, Oakland, CA (Selections by Paola Santoscoy)
Spatium Sets, UCSB Gallery 479, Santa Barbara, CA
JB Blunk Residency Group Show, Triple Base, SF, CA

2009
Smart Art Competition, Lincart and Adventure Ecology, SF, CA
(Selections by Betti-Sue Hertz, Deborah Munk and John Zarobell)
MFA Exhibition, California College of the Arts, SF, CA
Juried Annual 2009, ProArts, Oakland, CA (Selections by Ali Subotnik)

2008
30 Under 30, Varnish Art Gallery, SF, CA
Distributed Exhibition, San Jose ICA, San Jose, CA
From Memory to Invention, PlaySpace Gallery, SF, CA
The California Show, Fort Gallery, SF, CA

RESIDENCIES
2026 The Eames Institute , Petaluma, CA (forthcoming)
2026 Maile Center Living Color Residency, Volcano, HI (forthcoming)
2024 The Space Program, SF, CA
2017 Honorary Fellowship, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2016 Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
2015 Creativity Explored, SF, CA
2015 Angelic Organics, Caledonia, IL
2013 Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, CA
2012 Recology, SF, CA
2009 Studio Apprentice, Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York City, New York
2009 JB Blunk House, Inverness, CA

SELECT ARTIST TALKS / VISITING ARTIST / WORKSHOPS
2026
Wrenching News Workshops, Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA (forthcoming)
Imagining the Cosmos: Artistic Visions of the Universe, Honors College with Dr. Aparna Venkatesan, University of San Francisco, SF, CA
Sustainable Art with Recology AIR Program, Apple, SF, CA

2025
The Exploratorium with Dr. Isabel Hawkins, SF, CA
Artist Lead Workshop, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA

2024
Guest Artist Workshop, NIAD, Richmond, CA
Artist Lead Workshop, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA
Public conversation w/ Dr. Isabel Hawkins and Dr. Aparna Venkatesan, Exploratorium, SF, CA

2023
Visiting Artist, The Oxbow School, Napa, CA
Artist Conversation, Robert C. Williams Museum of Paper, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA
Public conversation w/ Dr. Isabel Hawkins and Dr. Aparna Venkatesan, Exploratorium, SF, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Visiting Artist Lecture, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA

2022
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Montana State University School of Art, Bozeman, MT
Color Council with Leah Rosenberg, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA
Online studio visit, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC

2021
NIAD, Richmond, CA, Online studio visit
Conversation with Jenni Sorkin, Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Conversation with Jenifer K. Wofford & Patricia Carino Valdez, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

2020
Artist Conversation, National Museum of Women in the Arts and Intersect Chicago, Chicago, IL
Online Studio Visit, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC

2018
Artist Lead Workshop, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA

2017
The Battery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
50 Artists: Julia Goodman on Amanda Ross-Ho, SFMOMA, SF, CA

2016
Contemporary Art & Jewish Themes with Larry Rinder, Jewish Community Center East Bay, Berkeley, CA

2015
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL with Farmer John Peterson “Good Soil, Good Roots”

2014
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Undergraduate “Research Studio”
San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum, San Jose, CA

2012
Topophilia, CCA MFA Program, SF, CA

2011
The Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA
SF State MFA Program, SF, CA Graduate Seminar

AWARDS & GRANTS
2026 SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA
2025 Nominee, Euerka Fellow, Fleishacker Foundation, SF, CA
2024 SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA
2022 SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA
2020 Nominee, Tosa Studio Award, Minnesota Street Projects, SF, CA
2018 SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA
Nominee, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
2016 Nominee, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
2014 Full Time Faculty Grant, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013 San Francisco Art Award Semi Finalist, Gallery Wendi Norris, SF, CA
2012 SECA Award Nominee, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA
2009 Gordon Onslow Ford Scholarship, Lucid Art Foundation, Inverness, CA
2nd Place Smart Art Competition, SF, CA (Juried by Betti-Sue Hertz (YBCA), Deborah Munk (Recology SF) and John Zarobell (SFMOMA) )
Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Nominee, CCA (Juried by Lance Fung (Independent) and Apsara DiQuinzio, (SFMOMA) )
2007-9 Lowenthal Scholarship, California College of the Arts, SF, CA
2004 2nd Place, Long Beach Arts Open National Exhibition, Long Beach, CA
2003 Santa Monica College Mentor Program, Santa Monica, CA

COMMISSIONS
2015 Up In the Trees, San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum, San Jose, CA
2014 Gift for the Mayor from Recology San Francisco, SF, CA
2012 A Different Kind of Warmth, The Present Group #20, Oakland, CA

COLLEGE FACULTIES & OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2025 - 2026 Interim Printmedia Lead and Adjunct Faculty, Independent Studio Critique (MFA), First Year 3D, California College of the Arts, SF, CA
2024 - 2026 Adjunct Faculty, Papermaking: from Fiber to Paper, California College of the Arts, SF, CA
2015 – 2016 Teaching Artist-In-Residence, Oakland School for the Arts, Oakland, CA
2014 – 2015 Full Time Visiting Lecturer, Interdisciplinary MFA Program in Book and Paper Arts,
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2011 – 2014 Adjunct Instructor, Graduate Independent Study Advisor, MFA Program, California College of the Arts, SF, CA

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025
Glenn Starkey, SLOMA presents Julia Goodman’s solo exhibition, Unimaginable Units of Time, through Nov. 30, New Times SLO
Sarah Hotchkiss, In ‘The Sky Below,’ Artists Depict Futures Worth Sticking Around For, KQED
Mother of Collaboration, Catalog/Zine with essay by Tanya Zimbardo
Jessica Zack, How a San Francisco ceramicist built a creative haven for artist-parents and their kids, San Francisco Chronicle
Emily Wilson, CCA’s ‘Reunited’ Celebrates Materiality of Supporting Women Artists, 48hills.org,
Janna Keegan, Julia Goodman: Material Transformations, essay, Reunited Exhibition Catalog

2023
Jaimie Baron, Julia Goodman + Klea McKenna @ Euqinom, Squarecylinder.com

2021
David Roth, Best of 2021, Squarecylinder.com

2020
Jaimie Baron, Julia Goodman at Euqinom Gallery, Squarecylinder.com
Jaimie Baron, Berkeley Art Center show asks what it means to be suspended in space and time, Berkeleyside

2019
Speculative Retrievals, Catalog with essay by Jenni Sorkin and Bill North

2017
Maria Porges, Jewish Folktales Retold, Squarecylinder.com, December 21
Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist As Maggid, Exhibition Catalog

2016
Gary Demuth, Papermaker finds empowerment in creating art from pulp, Salina Journal, April 21

2015
Social Paper, Exhibition Catalog
Cover Image, Poetry Magazine, April 2015, Chicago, IL
Lindsay Garbutt, Poetry Cover Arts: Volume 205, Harriet: A Poetry Blog, March 25
Lori Waxman, Dirt Takes Center Stage at DePaul Art Museum, Chicago Tribune, March 4
Rooted in Soil, Exhibition Catalog

2014
Jessica Cochran & Melissa Potter, Papermaking and Social Action, Art In Print, March – April, Volume 3, Number 6
Lori Waxman, Social Paper, Chicago Tribune, March 5

2013
Christopher Blood, Materials Reimagined: An Interview with Julia Goodman about Recology
SF Artist in Residence Program, Oxford Journals’ ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment), July
Claudine Ise, Review: Tyranny of Good Taste, Chicago Tribune, January 8
Nirmala Nataraj, Art at the Dump: Artists in Residence, San Francisco Chronicle and 96 Hours

2012
Bean Gilsdorf, Julia Goodman: Overlap, The Present Group #20, Oakland, CA
Tirza True Latimer, Paper Trail: Following Julia Goodman, Open Space (SFMOMA Blog)
Nirmala Nataraj, ‘In Other Words’: Art about language, technology, San Francisco Chronicle

2011
Nikki Grattan & Klea McKenna, Julia Goodman, In The Make
Mary Eisenheart, Everything is Always Moving, San Francisco Chronicle and 96 Hours
Cherie Louise Turner, Pure Paper, Art Practical

2009
MFA Grad Show Selections 2009, FiberScene.com
Jeff Mcintire-Strasburg, David de Rothschild’s Adventure Ecology hosts SMART Art competition, Sundancechannel.com
Adrienne Skye Roberts, Action, Ritual, and Ephemerality: Julia Goodman and the (de)Appropriation Wall,
Open Space (SFMOMA Blog)
JD Beltran, X-ray Vision Through Art, San Francisco Chronicle

COLLECTIONS
DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Google, SF, CA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Recology San Francisco, SF, CA