Julie Sutherland’s work ranges from paintings and drawings that use pre-existing visual material to examine issues of power, gender, and American history to collaborative practices that encourage and facilitate political and social engagement. Her influences come from historical archives and ephemera, anti-poverty and technology research, and speculative design.
Sutherland has shown her work at Columbia College in Chicago, the Handwerker Gallery in Ithaca, New York, Root Division and the ODC Gallery in San Francisco, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and was included in the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program. She has been an artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Vermont Studio Center, and a design fellow at Code for America. She lives and works in the San Francisco.
EDUCATION
Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design, 2016 University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art and Art History, 2003 Mills College, Oakland, CA.
Other: University of California, Berkeley, Bay Area Video Coalition, California College of Art
RESIDENCIES & STUDIO PROGRAMS
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, May 2022 (upcoming)
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, October 2021
Root Division, San Francisco, CA, 2011 – 2014
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM June-August, 2011
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, April 2009
EXHIBITIONS
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inside/Out (End of residency event), 2021
[100 Days Action] Hubble Street Galleries (CCA), Take Action, 2018
[100 Days Action] Hubble Street Galleries (CCA) 100 Days Action Residency, For Freedoms, 2018
[100 Days Action] Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), SF, CA, 2017
[100 Days Action] Southern Exposure (SOEX), SF, CA, 2017
[100 Days Action] Royal NonSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2017
Root Division, San Francisco, CA: Soft Muscle, curated by Adrienne Heloise (cat.), 2014
Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY: Strange Bedfellows, 2014
A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL: Strange Bedfellows (cat.), 2014
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA: Strange Bedfellows, 2013
Root Division, San Francisco, CA: Strange Bedfellows, curated by Amy Cancelmo (cat.), 2013
Root Division, San Francisco, CA: Taste 2013
Theater Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Julie Sutherland: Toward a More Perfect Union (solo), 2012
Wix Lounge, San Francisco, CA: Root Division at Wix, 2012
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA: Monster Drawing Rally, 2012
Root Division, San Francisco, CA: Taste 2012
Farleys, San Francisco, CA: Root Division at Farleys, 2012
Root Division, San Francisco, CA: Root Division Art Auction Heart, San Francisco CA: Drawing Conclusions, 2011
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM: Open Studios, 2011
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA: Reversing the Gaze, WCA Exhibition (catalog), 2011
El Rio, San Francisco, CA: Art Auction to benefit Lyon Martin Health Services, 2011
Root Division, San Francisco, CA: Introductions 2010 (Jurors: Stephanie Hanor, Nathan Larramendy, and Susan O’Malley), 2010
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA: Chronotopia, NQAF 2010 (Curated by Tirza Latimer, Tina Takemoto, Pam Peniston, Rudy Lemke and Cheryle Dunye), 2010
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, San Francisco, CA: Art Fag Potluck, 2010
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA: Monster Drawing Rally, 2010
Root Division, San Francisco, CA: Art Auction, 2009
Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Egoless, 2009
Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Identity, 2009
The Lab, San Francisco, CA: The Lab’s Art Sale and Auction, 2009
Black and Blue Tattoo/ Femina Potens Edge, San Francisco, CA: Beauties, 2008
The Lab, San Francisco, CA: Post-Postcard 11, 2008
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA: Making Room for Wonder, NQAF 2010 (Curated by Tirza Latimer), 2008
SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Big Deal 14, A Visual Aid Benefit, 2007
Private Studio, San Francisco, CA: Wouldn’t Mama Proud, 2006
Mills College, Oakland, CA: B.A. Show 2002
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency Fellowship, 2021
[100 Days Action] YBCA 100 List, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2017
Drawing Center, NYC Viewing Program, 2012
Santa Fe Art Institute Residency Grant, 2011
Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, April 2009)
James Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Nomination, Mills College, Spring 2007
Herringer Prize in Art History, Mills College, Fall 2002
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014 Kitsch-In, co-curated with Amy Cancelmo + Richard Reinhart,Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2008 Mooshka, Big Think Studios, San Francisco, CA (for Visual Aid)
2005 Mariano Fortuny Textiles, Kathleen Taylor – The Lotus Collection, San Francisco, CA
TEACHING & DESIGN
2020-present, Product Designer & Manager on Social Safety Net Initiatives at Code for America, San Francisco, CA
2016 Design Fellow, Criminal Legal, Code for America, San Francisco, CA
2011-2014 Instructor, Beginning Acrylic Painting, Portrait Drawing, & Beginning Drawing, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2012-2013 Instructor, Beginning Drawing, Sharon Art Studio, San Francisco, CA
2009-present Freelance Graphic Design and Production, San Francisco, CA
2006-2009 Graphic Production Assistant, Elements Design Group, San Francisco, CA
2003-2006 Gallery Manager, Kathleen Taylor – The Lotus Collection, San Francisco, CA
2003 Curatorial Intern, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2001 Teacher’s Assistant, Oil Painting, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA
PRESENTATIONS/ SYMPOSIA
The Cleveland Tableau, Artist Presentation and Panel Participant, College Art Association, February 2014
Artist Presentation, Santa Fe Art Institute, June and July 2011
Artist Presentation, ArtFag Potluck, November 1, 2009
Egoless Artist Panel, Femina Potens Gallery, September 2009
Presentation with Marcia Randall, “The California Labor School” at “Seeing Art as Work,” Mills College, Dec 2001. In conjunction with “At Work; the Art of California Labor”, San Francisco State University Gallery, San Francisco, CA. September – October 2003.
PRESS/ PUBLICATIONS
“Maintenance Window”, Logic Magazine, Care Issue #10, August 2020
“Inauguration of the People, by the People” 100 Days Action Collective, Living Room Light Exchange Vol. 02, Apr 2017
Cancelmo, Amy, Root Division 15-Year Anniversary (catalog), Root Division, 2018
Root Division, Strange Bedfellows catalog, June 2013
Root Division, 10-Year Anniversary catalog, December 2012
Tanya Augsburg and Karen Gutfreund, Man As Object: Reversing the Gaze, (catalog for WCA Exhibition), November 2011
Heather Duthie, MissionLocal.org, Mission Open Studios Weekend, Oct 12, 2009
Justin Juul and Heather Duthie, MissionLocal.org, Open Studios, Oct. 10, 2009