Bio

Julia Bloom is a Washington, DC artist. She is currently making drawings using a vintage manual typewriter.

Selected exhibitions include Permission Slips at Addison/Ripley Fine Art and Inside Outside, Upside Down Invitational Juried Show at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC; Micro-Monuments, a two-part exhibition at the Salzland Museum in Schoenebeck, Germany and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC; and Sculpture Now 2014 at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC.

Selected grants include eight from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, and individual grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. She has been awarded seven fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Her work is in several private and public collections including the Wilson Building Collection in Washington, DC, the University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA, and the U.S. State Department–U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru. The DC Art Bank has acquired eight of her drawings, five of which are on display at the Martin Luther king Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC. 

Bloom attended Berklee College of Music, Boston Museum School, Maryland Institute College of Art.

Bloom runs an alternative micro-exhibition space called Freight Gallery in a historic freight elevator in Washington, DC.