Julia Kwon

Julia Kwon is an interdisciplinary artist who creates work that comments on the objectification of Asiatic female bodies, challenges the notion of authenticity, and examines the complexities of constructing an identity within the context of globalism, cultural hybridity, and intersectionality. She also works on various collaborative projects that advocate for a more equitable society for all.

Her work is in the permanent collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery (Washington, DC), Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York, NY), The New York Public Library (New York, NY), and Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe, NM).​ She was awarded artist residencies at Chautauqua School of Art, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Vermont Studio Center, NARS Foundation, Textile Arts Center, among others. She presented artist lectures at institutions including Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of International Folk Art, The Phillips Collection, Georgetown University, Lehigh University, University of Rochester, Emerson College, and Montgomery College. She holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a BA in Studio Art from Georgetown University.