Julia Kunin lives in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.F.A. from The Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Solo exhibitions include: Mechanical Ballet at Kate Werble Gallery, NY, NY 2021, and Rainbow Dream Machine at McClain Gallery, Houston, TX 2020 -2021. Les Guerilleres Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, NY, 2015, Golden Grove, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2013, Nightwood, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY, NY, 2012, Against Nature, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 2007, Crimson Blossom Deutches Leder Museum, Offenbach, Germany 2002. Recent two person Exhibitions: Kaleidoscope Eyes, with Mara Held, at McClain Gallery in Houston, TX 2023. , Wild Chambers, with Yevgeniya Baras, at Mother Gallery, NY, NY 2022. Recent group Exhibitions include:  Cosmic Geometries, curated by Hilma’s Ghost, EFA gallery, 2022, Conversing in Clay, at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA.,  Raw Design, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA 2018, “Said by Her” Lesley Heller Gallery, NY, NY, 2018, Kristen Lorello Gallery, NY, NY 2017 and Coming to Power Macarrone Gallery NY, NY 2016.  Kunin was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary in 2013. In 2010 She received a Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant to Hungary. In 2008 she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a residency at Art Omi. In 2007 she received the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residency. Fellowships include: The MacDowell Colony, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, CEC Artslink grant to The Republic of Georgia, Artist Residency in Wiesbaden, Germany, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, The Core Program in Houston, TX, and Skowhegan.  Julia Kunin currently has a series of ceramic lamps at Ralph Pucci International.  In 2022 she contributed artist interviews to Two Coats of Paint. She is also a member of the board of FIAR, The LGBTQ Fire Island artist residency. Her work was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, and by The Museum of Art and Design, in New York, NY.