Bio

Julia Bloom lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied piano and composition at Berklee College of Music, and visual art at the Boston Museum School and Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work includes drawing, painting, and sculpture.

In 2020, Bloom started making drawings using a manual typewriter and other media, combining lines of text, typed stream-of-consciousness, and adding other media–charcoal, gouache, and pastel.

Bloom has exhibited at Addison/Ripley Fine Art, the Goethe-Institut, The Phillips Collection, the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, DC, and Columbia University in New York City. Five drawings are on exhibit at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC.

Bloom’s work is included in the collections of the District of Columbia Art Bank and The Wilson Building Art Collection in Washington, DC, among other private and public collections. She is a recipient of multiple Artist Fellowship Grants and Project Grants from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.

Bloom is the director and curator of Freight Gallery, an alternative micro-exhibition space in a working historic freight elevator in Washington, DC. 

Bloom will have a solo show at Addison Ripley Fine Art in December 2026.