Juror

Julia Bloom

Artist, director, and curator

Julia Bloom lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied piano and composition at Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA; and visual art at the Boston Museum School, Boston, MA, and Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. Her practice includes painting, sculpture, and drawing. Bloom’s work is included in the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ Art Bank Collection and Wilson Building Art Collection, among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014). She has been awarded seven fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is represented by Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC. Bloom is also the director and curator of Freight Gallery, Washington, DC, an alternative microexhibition space in a historic freight elevator.