Julie Lindell is an installation artist from Seattle. In 2012 she moved to New York to study Critical Theory and the Arts at the School of Visual Arts. New York has been her home ever since.
Her work examines the functions assigned to objects and the forces that render them obsolete. Through acts of transformation and reconfiguration, she explores adaptation as a survival strategy for things that have lost their use and relevance. By challenging fixed definitions of purpose, Lindell considers how established norms evolve over time, making room for new forms, greater diversity, and unexpected possibilities.
Exhibitions include the Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, The Center on Contemporary Art, as well as venues in Portland, Oregon, and Santa Rosa, CA,
In New York Julie has shown with the Holland Tunnel Gallery, Ann Street Gallery, Chris Davison Gallery in Newburgh, NY, and recently at the Art Cake Gallery in Industry City, Brooklyn. She is a member of the NY Sculptors Guild.. Her work is in the City of Seattle Permanent Collection, and at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts collection in Santa Rosa, CA.
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Education
2012 MA Critical Theory and the Arts, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
2010 MFA Leslie University, Cambridge, MA
1990 BFA Cornish College of the Arts/ Antioch University, Seattle, WA
Selected Solo Shows
2022 Variants of Concern Lab, Studio Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2021 Dispersion, a public performance, NYC and Newburgh NY
2017 Stones Project -social media production, Newburgh, NY
2012 Seen and Not Heard- Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
Flexible Flyer- Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
How to sit on a Loveseat- Design Center Lobby, Seattle, WA
2011 New Work- Anchor Art Space, Anacortes, WA
Untitled Square Responding to Egypt- Seattle Art Museum Gallery, WA
2010 Memory- Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Revolution- Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
Visitor- sponsored by Art-Sparks, Westlake Park Public Art initiative, City of Seattle
Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, and 4Culture
Group Shows
2026 Art Cake Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Bank Art Gallery, Newburgh, NY
LGBGT Center Gallery, NYC
EVERYTHING, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2023 Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2022 Art Spaces @ Krasdale Gallery, NY
2021 Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2020 Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2019 Stonewall 50, Carriage House Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Anne Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2018 Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2017 Chris Davison Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2017 Chris Davison Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2016 Chris Davison Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2015 Barge Watch Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2014 Anne Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Atlas Studios, Newburgh, NY
2013 Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2012 Rootbound at Carkeek Park, COCA Funding Award, with Seattle Parks and Recreation.
Sleeping Lady Resort, Leavenworth, WA.
Bellevue Art Museum Biennial Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue, WA.
Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Presenting New Acquisitions, Seattle City Light Portable Works Collection.
Materials and Methods, Pratt gallery, Seattle, WA.
COCA Art Space, Juror: MK Guth.
2011 Boston Young Contemporaries- Boston University gallery, Boston, MA.
COCA Funding Award, with Seattle Parks, Carkeek Park Advisory Council.
Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA.
2010 Bellevue Art Museum Biennial Sculpture exhibition, Bellevue, WA.
Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Carkeek Park, COCA Funding Award, with Seattle Parks, Carkeek Park Advisory Council.
2009 Bumbershoot Arts Festival, stipend from City of Seattle, 4Culture, and One Reel.
Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Carkeek Park, COCA Funding Award, with Seattle Parks, Carkeek Park Council, Seattle.
2008 Tryon Creek State Park, funding stipend in conjunction with the RACC,
The Friends of Tryon Creek, Oregon Cultural Trust, and Oregon State Parks Department.
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, CA 2008-2010.
Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA.
2007 Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA.
Bibliography
2025 Art Spiel, Reclamation #Holland Tunnel Revisited, Newburgh, NY 9/3/25
2022 Marking Time, catalog, Westchester, NY.
2013 MFA Graduate, catalog, Lesley University Press.
2012 Center on Contemporary Art, Rootbound, catalog, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural
Affairs and 4Culture Site Specific.
2011 COCA, Cycles of Return, catalog, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs and 4Culture
2010 Upchurch, Michael, Lines Between Nature and Nurture Blurred, Seattle Times, July.
Huberman, Bond, Bellwether 2010 BAM Biennial, City Arts Magazine,
Center on Contemporary Art, Heaven and Earth II, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural
Affairs, 4Culture Site-Specific.
2009 Manley, Paula, Public Art Sustains Portland, Public Art Review, Issue 41, volume 21-
Upchurch, Michael, Walking with Purpose Through a Blend of Art and Nature, Seattle Times, July 31
Center on Contemporary Art, Heaven and Earth, catalog, Carkeek Park
Advisory Council, Seattle Parks and Recreation.
On Center, Webster’s Woods Art Park, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Jake Seniuk
2007 On Center, Webster’s Woods, Second Wind Blows In, Jake Seniuk
2006 Ceramics Monthly Magazine, September 03
Clay Times Magazine, Feats of Clay, September/October 2003
The Sacramento Bee, Jocelyn Wiener, April 24th, 2003
Residencies
2025 Studio KURA, Fukuoka, Japan
Byrdcliffe, Artist Residency Woodstock, NY
2024 Byrdcliffe, Artist Residency Fellowship, Woodstock, NY
HISA, Hellenic International Studies, Paros, Greece
2016 Vermont Studio Center fellowship award, Johnson, VT
2014 Jiwar residency, Barcelona, Spain
2013 Centrum, Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA
2010 James and Janie Washington, stipend award, Seattle, WA
2007-2009 Pottery Northwest, teaching stipend award, Seattle Center, WA
Collections
2011 Orchard- Webster’s Woods, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2010 At Rest- installation became virtual@ 2010. Rights to image remain with Wells
Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
2009 Remembering-City of Seattle and Seattle City Light Portable Works Collection, Seattle
1989 The Opening- Shinzo Suto collection, Japan Airlines Co. LTD