Julia Bollinger is a painter based in Virginia, USA. She received her BA in Studio Art at Colorado College in 2005 and attended Florence Academy of Art from 2015-16. Julia moved to the mountains of Virginia the following year, and her home terrain has heavily influenced her work.
Julia situates herself in place, responding to her surroundings and bodily experience to realize her pieces. She is currently working en plein air in oil, composing the paintings through sustained observation. Julia also creates intuitively and from memory in the studio, translating thoughts and feelings from her time communing with the subject into abstract and symbolic works. Through painting the relationship is alchemized and integrated.
The two creating processes are a way for the artist to explore the dimensions of being: the sensory translation experience of having a human body and the imaginal or dream reality ignited by the convergence of body and environment.
EDUCATION
2015-16 Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy and Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2006-2009 Colorado College, BA, Studio Art, Colorado Springs, CO
EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS
2023 Art on Paper with Oehme Graphics, New York, NY
2023 Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair with Oehme Graphics, Baltimore, MD
2022 Printmaking in Floyd, Floyd Center of the Arts, Floyd, VA
2019 Velvet Ropes curated by Charlie Roberts, Shrine NYC and Sargent Daughters, New York, NY
2019 New River Art Biennial, Moss Center for the Arts, Blacksburg, VA
2019 New Voices, Floyd Center of the Arts, Floyd, VA
2018 Featured Artist, The Market Gallery, Roanoke, VA
2017 Taubman Museum Sidewalk Art Show, Roanoke, VA
2013 Behind the Scene: Oehme Graphics, Art Depot, Steamboat Springs, CO
2012 Make Studio Collective, Make Studio Gallery and Co-op, Steamboat Springs, CO
2011 In the Brush, Winter Group Show, K. Saari Gallery, Steamboat Springs, CO
2009 Internal Intricacies, Cossit Hall, Colorado Springs, CO
AWARDS/EXPERIENCE
2017 Best in Mixed Media Award, Taubman Museum Sidewalk Art Show, Roanoke, VA
2013 The Presidential Scholarship Fund Award, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
2010-13 Printmaker and Studio Manager, Oehme Graphics, Steamboat Springs, CO
NOTABLE COLLECTIONS
Robin Peake Stuart Collection, Chatham Hall, Chatham, VA
Oehme Graphics Permanent Collection, Steamboat Springs, CO
PRESS
2024 Elle Decor, “This Cozy Hamptons Home Is a Breath of Fresh Air”, By Michael Diaz-Griffith and Styled by Howard Christian, Published Online: Aug 6, 2024
2024 Artemis Journal 2024, Volume XXXI, Edited by Jeri Rogers
2023 Milk Art Journal, June 2023, Vol.2, Body & Belonging, Edited by Katherine October Matthews