JULIA FELSENTHAL
b. 1983, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Orleans, MA
Education
2006 B.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Thalassomania, JDJ Tribeca, New York, NY
2022 New Flower Paintings, The Primary Essentials, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Saltwater, Garvey Rita, Orleans MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Garvey Rita at the Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, MA
Floral Abundance, Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York, NY
Friends Seminary Contemporary Art Auction, 52 Walker, New York, NY
The Readings We Give The Sky, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY (with Victoire Bourgois and Marian Williams)
Feels Like Home, JDJ Tribeca, New York, NY
2023
Transcendence, JDJ Tribeca, New York, NY
Surf Rats, Alias Gallery, Orleans, MA
Figurative Group Show, AMZehnder Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Out the Window, Garveey Rita, Orleans, MA
Over Land and Sea Part II, Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York, NY
Friends Seminary Contemporary Art Auction, David Zwirner, New York, NY
2022
Water Paintings, Tori Jones Studio, Block Island, RI
Floralia, Garvey Rita, Orleans, MA
Wet Paint, Tanuki Gallery, Brewster, MA
A Day For Ukraine, FARM Projects, Wellfleet, MA
2021 Holiday Hustle, Longstreet Gallery, Eastham, MA
Selfie 1.0, Orleans Modern Art, Orleans, MA
Garvey Rita at the New York Botanical Garden Antique Fair
2020 Re-Leaf Botanical Show, Dday Studio, Woodstock, NY
Press
2023 Contemporary Art Daily, Julia Felsenthal at JDJ, July 19, 2023
Yale University Radio Interview with Brainard Carey, July 6, 2023
Abraham Storer, “Julia Felsenthal Finds No Place to Hide in Her Paintings,” The Provincetown Independent, May 10, 2023
2022 “In This Brooklyn Painter’s Studio, the Flowers Are Always in Bloom,” Vogue, October 27, 2022
2021 Kate Guadagnino, “The T List: A Portraitist Turns to Nature,” T Magazine, August 18, 2021
Special Projects, Published Illustrations and Talks
2022 “D is for Dahlia” published in FLORA-Z by Georgia Hilmer, Planterdoos Press
2021 Print Collaboration with Simrane Paris, November 2021
2020 Melissa McGill and Julia Felsenthal In Conversation, Magazzino Italian Art (Virtual), May 9, 2020
2018 “Dickie Kept Birds,” published on Chicago, June 20, 2018
2017 Alex Katz and Julia Felsenthal in Conversation, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, June 20, 2017
2015 “Self-Portrait Without Hair,” published on Vogue, May 28, 2015
2013 “Amy Adler” published on Bomb, March 12, 2013
2011 “Joan Didion,” published in Girl Crush, 2011; Republished on The Paris Review, August 18, 2011
Select Art Writing
2023 “Tauba Auerbach: An Artist Whose Work Might (Possibly) Have Its Own Free Will,” T , March 16, 2023
2022 “Eccentric Architecture,” essay for Lily Stockman: The Tilting Chair at Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY, Oct, 2022
“The Alex Katz Woman: Portraits of Composure,” catalog essay for Alex Katz: Now! Not in the Future—Not in the Past at Galerie Ludorff, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2022
2021 “Jacqueline de Jong Paints It All,” T, Nov 8, 2021
2020 “With Her First New York Solo Show in a Decade, Shahzia Sikander Shows a New Side,” Vogue, Nov 7, 2020
“Harold Ancart Brings His Kaleidoscopic Trees to Chelsea,” T, Sept 8, 2020
“The Rembrandt Self-Portrait That has Long Captivated Pat Steir,” T, July 21, 2020
“Agnes Pelton Finally Gets Her Due With a Major New Show at the Whitney,” Vogue, March 10, 2020
“Lisa Yuskavage: A Painter Who Wants Art to Shock,” T, Feb 12, 2020
“In a New Exhibition, Designer Duro Olowu Fashions a Portrait of Chicago,” Vogue, Jan 13, 2020
“Suzanne Jackson: An Artist Who Makes Paintings Without a Canvas,” T, Nov 19, 2019
“Melissa McGill: Red Alert,” Vogue, May 2019
“With a New Show at Dallas Contemporary, John Currin Considers His Life as a Man,” Vogue, Sept 17, 2019
“Searching for Myself in Alice Neel’s Radical Portraits,” Vogue, Feb 26, 2019
“In Nathaniel Kahn’s The Price of Everything, a Lively Portrait of Money Run Amok in the Contemporary Art Market,” Vogue, Oct 18, 2018
“Peter Halley: An Art-World Lion Finds a Den in a Mid-century Landmark,” T, Sept 14, 2018
“Kim Gordon Wanted to Be a Visual Artist. Then She Got ‘Sidetracked,’” T, July 12, 2018
“A Landmark Exhibition Returns for Its Third Iteration, Spread Across 5 Venues,” Vogue, June 27, 2018
“At the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Tel R Paints the Michigan of His Dreams,” Vogue, May 10, 2018
“Jane Freilicher Is the ‘Absurdly Underrated’ Artist Who Painted Flowers Like No One Else,” Vogue, April 20, 2018
“Yinka Shonibare’s ‘Alternative Monuments’ Arrive in Central Park,” Vogue, March 6, 2018
“Jordan Casteel is Making You Look,” Vogue, Feb 27, 2018
“At Jack Shainman Gallery, the Softer Side of Gordon Parks,” Vogue, Jan 12, 2018
2017 “Toyin Ojih Odutola: At the Whitney, a Vision of Africa—Without the Colonialist Meddling,” Vogue, Oct 27, 2017
“On the M4 Bus with Cartoonist Roz Chast,” Vogue, Oct 13, 2017
“On a Mission: Pamela Joyner’s Activist Art Show Arrives in New Orleans,” Vogue, Oct 2, 2017
“Kara Walker’s New Show Was a Sensation Before It Even Opened,” Vogue, Sept 8, 2017
“Alex Katz’s Subway Drawings Give a Glimpse of 1940s New York,” Vogue, April 25, 2017
“Sarah Crowner Crosses the Border and Collaborates with the Ghost of Frank Lloyd Wright at the Guggenheim,” Vogue, Jan 30, 2017
“Artist Taryn Simon on Filling the Park Avenue Armory with Professional Mourners,” Vogue, Sept 15, 2016
“Petzel Gallery Explores the Late Austrian Painter Maria Lassnig’s New York Years,” Vogue, Sept 13, 2016
“Jamaican Dancehall Artist Wilfred Limonious Is Finally Having his Moment,” Vogue, Aug 30, 2016
“‘The Keeper’ at the New Museum Pays Homage to Objects and Obsessions,” Vogue, July 23, 2016
“Petra Collins Remixes Georgia O’Keefe for the Tate Modern,” Vogue, July 18, 2016
“Tom Sachs on What NASA Has to Do With the Japanese Tea Ceremony,” Vogue, March 18, 2016
“Mapplethorpe Mania Hits Los Angeles,” Vogue, March 16, 2016
“Mickalene Thomas on Her Photographic Muses,” Vogue, January 28, 2016
“At Saatchi Gallery, ‘Champagne Life’ Takes on Art World Chauvinism,” Vogue, Jan 12, 2016
“‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’ Challenges the Myth of the Macho PaintSplattered Man,” Vogue, June 15, 2016
“In Call Her Applebroog, Beth B Takes On Her Mother,” Vogue, June 9, 2016
“Harry Bertoia’s First and Last Acts at the Museum of Arts and Design” Vogue, May 5, 2016
“Three Cuban Artists Take on the Moon at Galerie Lelong,” Vogue, April 30, 2016
“The Director of Eva Hesse on Why the Documentary is Long Overdue,” Vogue, April 26, 2016
“Hockney Reveals the Artist Through his Art,” Vogue, April 21, 2016
“Ebony G. Patterson Confronts Race and Childhood at the Studio Museum in Harlem,” Vogue, April 5, 2016
2015 “Confronting Jackson Pollock in New York and Dallas,” Vogue, Nov 23, 2015
“What About Women Reminds Us About Feminism,” Vogue, Nov 19, 2015
“Family Matters in Linda and Mary McCartney’s Photographs at Gagosian,” Vogue, Nov 18, 2015
“A New Documentary Takes on the Wild, Strange Life of Peggy Guggenheim,” Vogue, Nov 6, 2015
“Gordon Parks Pictures the Segregated South at Salon 94 Freemans,” Vogue, Nov 4, 2015
“On the Road with Cynthia Daignault at Lisa Cooley Gallery,” Vogue, Nov 2, 2015
“Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson Painted the Hamptons Before They Were Cool,” Vogue, Oct 31, 2015
“Maira Kalman on Her Beloved Dog,” Vogue, Oct 30, 2015
“Laurie Anderson Takes on Love and Death in Heart of a Dog,” Vogue, Oct 20, 2015
“Dana Schutz’s Paintings in New York and Montreal,” Vogue, Oct 19, 2015
“Head to Head with Martin Puryear at the Morgan Library” Vogue, Oct 15, 2015
“Fritz Scholder’s Indian Paintings at the Denver Art Museum,” Vogue, Sept 30, 2015
“Pablo Picasso’s Sculptures at New York’s Museum of Modern Art,” Vogue, Sept 17, 2015
“A Milanese Art Show is All About Your Mother,” Vogue, Aug 24, 2015
“Roy Lichtenstein and the Sea in East Hampton,” Vogue, Aug 3, 2015
“Searching for the Architect Eileen Gray on the Lower East Side,” Vogue, July 29, 2015
“Stanley Whitney on His Show at New York’s Studio Museum in Harlem,” Vogue, July 20, 2015
“Decoding Sarah Charlesworth’s ‘Patricia Rawlings, Los Angeles,’ at New York’s New Museum,” Vogue, July 9, 2015
“Artist Melissa McGill’s Constellation Brings the Stars Down to Earth,” Vogue, June 29, 2015
“Alex Katz on his Painting ‘January 3,’” Vogue, June 24, 2015
“Noah Purifoy’s ‘Junk Dada’ Is an Art Show for the Post-Ferguson World,” Vogue, June 10, 2015