Resume
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Upcoming exhibitions
2025- Suffolk University Art Gallery, The Long View: Women Artists in the Studio
2026- Chazan Gallery, Providence RI, Julia Shepley and Henry Ferreira
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2024- Boston Sculptors Gallery. Boston, MA, October 2024, Julia Shepley:Transmissible
2023- Goetemann Artist Residency exhibition at Ocean Alliance, Gloucester, MA
2022, 2019, 2015- Boston Sculptors Gallery. Boston, MA, 2022: Carry; 2019: Strata; 2015: Locus
2018- Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston MA, Julia Shepley: Linger and Shift with poetry by Audrey Henderson
2017- Montserrat Gallery, Beverly, MA, Julia Shepley, Sequential Prints
Select Exhibitions, Two Person Plus
2025- Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, May 2025, Elemental
Catamount Arts, St Johnsbury Vermont, September 2024 Shift: Boston Sculptors Travel North
2023- Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, Somerville Prints!
Zea Mays Sanford Gallery, Florence, MA, Edge Of the Ocean Artist book and Prints
Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Art and Poetic Text
2022- Catamount Arts, St Johnsbury Vermont, Material Drawing, Drawn to Touch: Audrey Goldstein, Julia Shepley, Michelle Samour, Debra Weisberg
Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA Material Drawing Redux
2019- Jewett Art Gallery at Wellesley College, Wellesley MA, The Boston Printmakers 2019 north American Print Biennial
2018- Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston MA, Breath and Matter,Poetry and Sculpture
Chandler Gallery, Cambridge MA, Prints as Sculpture
2017- Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, Marking time, 70th Anniversary of the Boston Printmakers
Wheaton Biennial, Norton, MA, Printmaking Reimagined
New England Biolabs, Explorations
2015- Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA, The Sculptor's Eye, Prints Drawings and Photographs from the Collection
Gallery Kayafas, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, Ovid's Girls Boston/Berlin
2014- MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany; Berlin, Germany, Ovid's Girls Boston/Berlin
Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, Ovid's Girls Boston/Berlin
2012- The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Stirring the Waters-Between Two Bodies
University Gallery, UMASS Lowell, MA, Boston Sculptors at 20
2011- Museum of Art, UNH, Durham NH, Selected Boston Sculptors
Hampden Gallery UMass Amherst, MA; Antibodies, a collaboration with Tina Trollmo-research scientist
2009- Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, Material Drawing, Audrey Goldstein, Julia Shepley, Michelle Samour, Debra Weisberg
Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, Sixth Annual Juried Exhibition
Bristol Art Museum, Bristol RI, Looking at Glass
2008- The Gallery, Mt. Ida College, Newton, MA; Wild Life/ Wildlife
2006- Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, Great Buys: Recent Acquisitions
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 360 Degrees at Fitchburg
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA, Boston Sculptors
2007- MUM, McGrath O'Brien Highway, Somerville, MA, site-specific public installation
2004- Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, Presence Of Light
Harbor Gallery, UMass, Boston, MA, Inspirations
2003- Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, Collection/Connections
State House, Boston "3" Massachusetts Cultural Council Visual Fellowship exhibit
2002- ICA at MCA Portland, ME, Terrain: Sculpture Today
Reviews/publications
2022- Sculpture Magazine, "Julia Shepley:Carry", "Material Drawing Redux", B Amore
2018- ArtScope Magazine, "Poems, Plaster and Paper more than words at Simmons", Elizabeth Michelman
2017- North Shore Sunday Magazine and wickedlocal.com/news/, "Julia Shepley Sequential prints", Keith Powers WBUR
2015- Boston Globe, Julia Shepley "Locus", Cate McQuaid
2013- ArtScope Magazine, "Height, Width, Depth, Time", Elizabeth Michelman
2012- Bomb Magazine, Selection for summer road trip #17, The Sculpture Center - sculptural installation
2011- Sculpture Magazine "Julia Shepley", Jane Ingram Allen; Art New England, "Sculpture Defying Gravity", Alicia Faxon
2010- Boston Globe, "Out/In", Cate McQuaid; Art New England, "Out/In", Alicia Faxon; Boston Globe,"In/Of/ About Paper" Cate McQuaid
2009- Boston Sunday Globe, "Material Drawing: Drawn to go beyond pen and paper" Cate McQuaid
2007- The Boston Globe, "Fluid States", Cate McQuaid
2006- Art New England, Julia Shepley, "Baste", Alicia Faxon; The Boston Globe, "Magic in the Mundane" Julia Shepley, "Baste", Cate McQuaid; The Tab, Julia Shepley, "Baste"
2004- Sunday Republican, "Presence of light", Gloria Russell
2002- Sculpture, "Julia Shepley, Float,"" Marty Carlock; The Boston Globe, Shepley "Float," Christine Temin; The Portland Phoenix, "Terrain: Sculpture Today," Jenna Russell; Maine Sunday Telegram, "Terrain: Sculpture Today," Phillip Isaacson
Residencies/Grants
2024- Somerville Arts Council; sculpture grant
2023- Goetemann Artist Residency in collaboration with at Ocean Alliance whale research, Gloucester, MA
2019- Boston Printmakers residency at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, Venice Italy
2018- Artist Residency at Penland School of Craft, NC, dimensional relief printing in the Letterpress studio
2016- Artist Residency at Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence MA
2014- Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Publication Award, Ovid's Girls Boston / Berlin