Julia Shepley

Julia Shepley's Shadow Box Photograph Process

Upcoming Exhibitions

• Return: BSG Alumni, Boston Sculptors Gallery, June 11-July 12, 2026
  Receptions: Saturday June 13, 2-5pm and July 3,5-8pm
• RI Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, Member Exhibition, April 16 - May 15
  Opening Reception: April 16, 5-8PM
• Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, Interplay and Echoes with Marsha Goldberg and Marilu Swett; Experiments in Print with Marsha Goldberg, September 11 - October 18
  Opening Reception: Saturday September 26, 2-5PM

Recent Exhibitions

• The Long View: Women Artists in the Studio, Suffolk University Art Gallery, 2025
• Julia Shepley and Henry Ferreira Photographs, Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, Providence RI, 2026
• Julia Shepley: Transmissible, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2024
• Shift: Boston Sculptors Travel North, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT, 2024
• Elemental, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, 2025
• Goetemann Artist Residency in collaboration with the Ocean Alliance, Rocky Neck, Goucester, MA, 2023
• Somerville Prints!, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, 2023
• Object Lessons, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, 2024
• Edge Of the Ocean Artist book and Prints, Zea Mays Sanford Gallery, Florence, MA, 2023
• Art and Poetic Text, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, 2023
• Carry, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2022 (review | video)
• Drawn to Touch, Catamount Arts, Saint Johnsbury, VT, 2022 (video)

Featured Work

Recent Articles & Reviews

• B Amore, Traces and Transitions: Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, Art New England, Jan/Feb 2026
• Cate McQuaid, Jumping off the cliff, Ocean in a drop, Jan 4, 2026
• Deborah Barlow, The Long View, Slow Muse, Nov 4, 2025
• Isabel Barbi, Building a Lasting Legacy: Boston's Trailblazing Women Artists at Suffolk, ArtScope MagazineNov 4, 2025
• B. Amore, Julia Shepley, Sculpture Magazine, April 2022
• B. Amore, Debra Weisberg & "Material Drawing Redux", Sculpture Magazine, March 2022
• Julia Shepley, The residency as catalyst, The Boston Printmakers, June 23, 2020
• Elizabeth Michelman, Poems, Plaster & Paper: More Than Words at Simmons, Artscope Magazine, 2018
• Doug Holder, Poets/ Artists Ponder 'Breath and Matter', Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene, 2018
• Focus on Julia Shepley, Boston Sculptors Gallery
• Keith Powers, Julia Shepley presents thought-provoking series of small works at Montserrat, Beverly Citizen / Wicked Local
• Cate McQuaid, Sculptures with dynamism, The Boston Globe
• Alicia Faxon, New Sculpture: Defying Gravity, Art New England
• Jane Ingram Allen, Julia Shepley: Boston Sculptors, Sculpture Magazine
• Cate McQuaid, Drawn to go beyond pen and paper, The Boston Globe