Julia Rommel
b. 1980, Salisbury, MD Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
| 2005 | MFA, The American University, Washington DC |
| 2002 | BS, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA |
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | Solo Presentation, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris, France |
| Staples, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2022 | Just a Splash, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway |
| Uncle, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2020 | Long Leash, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA |
| 2019 | Fall Guy, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway |
| Candy Jail, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2018 | Twin Bed, Bureau at Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 | Stay-at-Home Dad, Mathew Cerletty & Julia Rommel, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway |
| 2016 | Man Alive, Bureau, New York, NY |
| A Cheesecake With Your Name On It, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2015 | Two Italians, Six Lifeguards, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
| 2014 | Girl With Silver Rings, Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium |
| The Little Match Stick, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2013 | Mother Superior, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, France |
| 2012 | Delaware, Bureau, New York, NY |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | To Gain a Hold of the Stone That Forever Is Falling, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway |
| The Shape of Color, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2023 | How Soon Is Now?, Standard (Oslo) at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany |
| Chromazones, Analog Diary, Beacon, New York, NY | |
| Artists for Artists Space, Artists Space, New York, NY | |
| Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2022 | I Live in a Box of Paints (I'm Drawn to Those Ones that Ain't Afraid), RUSCHWOMAN, Chicago, IL |
| What a Long Strange Trip, Analog Diary, Beacon, NY | |
| Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Travel Bureau, selected by Paulina Olowska, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom | |
| 2021 | untitled Arrangement, Bureau, New York, NY |
| Therein / Thereof / Thereto, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway | |
| 2020 | Ups & Downs - 15 Years of Standard (Oslo), Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway |
| My Way: The Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers and Contemporary Abstraction, Parts & Labor Beacon, New York, NY | |
| Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2018 | Nothing Will Be As Before - Ten Years of Tanya Leighton, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany |
| Painting/Objects: Sarah Crowner, N. Dash, Sam Moyer, Julia Rommel, Erin Shirreff, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY | |
| 2017 | FOTG, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY |
| Milwaukee Collects, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI | |
| 2016 | Zombie Formalism, ca. 1970/2016, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY |
| The Congregation, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Thought Patterns, Deborah Ronnen Fine Arts, Rochester, NY | |
| In The Making, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY | |
| 2015 | Intimacy In Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY |
| Now I See the Secret of Making, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX | |
| This Room, Klaus von Nichtsaagend, New York, NY | |
| Space Between, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY | |
| Rudolf de Crignis, Imi Knoebel, Julia Rommel, Bill Walton, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2014 | Seven Reeds, Overduin & Co, Los Angeles, CA |
| Where Were You?, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom | |
| Stars & Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Bathurst, Australia | |
| Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst NSW, Australia | |
| No Ground But Say Ground, Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, NY | |
| The Retired Architect, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2013 | Infra-Mince, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| Correspondences: Ad Reinhardt at 100, TEMP Art Space, New York, NY | |
| The New Sincerity, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX | |
| You Start to Want to Die, cur. Clay Hapaz, Doyers Street, New York, NY | |
| Freak Out, Greene Naftali, New York, NY | |
| Good Luck and Safe Journey, T293, Naples, Italy | |
| Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO | |
| Monsalvat, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2012 | Out of the Blue, Bortolami, New York, NY |
| Bureau at FIAC, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France | |
| Ugly Broke Sober, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY | |
| Group Show, West Street, New York, NY | |
| 2011 | Eric Palgon, Julia Rommel, Dan Shaw-Town, West Street Gallery, New York NY |
| Addicted to Highs and Lows, cur. Rich Aldrich, Bortolami, New York, NY | |
| Reverie, cur. Stephen Westfall, Zürcher Studio, New York NY | |
| 2010 | The Curse of the Pharaohs, cur. Shaun Krupa, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, NY |
SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
| 2023 | '4 Artists on How Ellsworth Kelly Shaped the Way They See the World,' Cultured Magazine, May 25 |
| 2022 | Barry Schwabsky, ‘Julia Rommel,’ Artforum, April, p. 210 |
| Lisa Yin Zhang, 'Julia Rommel: Uncle,' TheGuide.art, March 1 | |
| John Vincler, ‘What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now: Julia Rommel,’ The New York Times, February 16 | |
| 2021 | Julia Rommel, Zolo Press, Mexico City, Brussels |
| 2019 | Johanna Fateman, ‘Julia Rommel,’ The New Yorker, April 29 |
| Roberta Smith, ‘Julia Rommel: Candy Jail,’ The New York Times, April 25 | |
| Nina Wolpow, 'Julia Rommel: Candy Jail,' The Brooklyn Rail, April | |
| 2018 | Louisa Elderton, ‘Julia Rommel Tanya Leighton / Berlin Art Week,’ Flash Art, October 19 |
| 2016 | Peter Schjeldahl, ‘Goings on About Town,’ The New Yorker, December 14 |
| Phong Bui, 'Julia Rommel Man Alive,' The Brooklyn Rail, December 6 | |
| William S. Smith, 'Julia Rommel,' Art In America, December 1 | |
| Will Heinrich, 'What to See in New York City Galleries This Week,' The New York Times November 24 | |
| Kathleen Madden, ‘Julia Rommel,’ Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting, pub. by Phaidon Press Limited, London | |
| Keith Varadi, ‘Review: Julia Rommel,’ Spike Art Quarterly, p. 197, Spring 2016 | |
| Susan Hodara, ‘Painting Overtakes Pixels in Aldrich Museum Exhibition,’ The New York Times February 18 | |
| 2015 | Feelings: Soft Art, Skira Rizzoli, New York, NY, November 3 |
| Julia Rommel, Around Woman, Bureau, New York, May | |
| 2014 | Piero Bisello, 'Julia Rommel's intimate conversations on definite at Sorry We're Closed, Brussels', Conceptual Fine Arts, November 17, 2014 |
| Ed. by Lisa Girault, Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century From the Goldberg Collection, exhibition catalog, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst NSW | |
| Michael Wilson, 'Julia Rommel,' Artforum, May | |
| Rosenberg, Karen, 'Julia Rommel: The Little Match Stick', The New York Times, March 6 | |
| Bacon, Alex, 'Julia Rommel: The Lttle Match Stick', The Brooklyn Rail, March 4 | |
| Smith, William S., "First Look: Julia Rommel", Art in America, February | |
| 2012 | Peetz, John Arthur. "Critic's Pick", Artforum.com, May |
| 'Talking Monochrome Blues,' The Painted Word, Junev | |
| 2011 | Saltz, Jerry. “Addicted to Highs and Lows”, New York Magazine, April |
FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
| 2018 | Artist-in-Residence, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva Island, Florida |
| 2015 | MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH |
COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Art Gallery Astrup Fearnley Museet Hammer Museum Kadist Foundation Kistefos Museum Museum of Modern Art, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art Walker Art Center Whitney Museum of American Art