Solo and Collaborative Exhibitions and Projects

2024 The Afterlife of Abandoned Objects: Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery at Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
2023 Loneliness Creeps Down the Spine? Gallery Photoland, The Evergreeen State College, Olympia, WA
2023 Birth of the Hyperforest: 511 Gallery at PNCA, Portland, OR
2022 The Birth of the Hyperforest: Truckenbrod Gallery, Corvallis, OR
2020 Loneliness Creeps Down the Spine (online): Emerson Dorsch Online for Miami Art Week, Miami, FL
2020 The Observatory (with Chad Stayrook as Really Large Numbers): Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Dogs of Future Earth: 42 Social Club, Lyme, CT
2019 Birth of a Star (with Chad Stayrook as Really Large Numbers): VisArts, Gaithersburg, MD
2019 Fallout Dogs: The Vault at Spaces, Cleveland, OH
2019 Fallout Dogs and View of the Red Forest with Free Static: Drawn, Eugene, OR
2019 Fallout Dogs: Pataphysical Society, Portland, OR
2019 View of the Red Forest with Free Static: OSU Woodshop, Corvallis, OR
2018 Dogs of Future Earth: The Blue House, Dayton, OH
2018 Dogs of Future Earth: Olympic Mills, Portland, OR
2017 Julia Oldham and Casey Riordan Millard: Marta Hewett Gallery, Cincinnnati, OH
2017 How to Escape a Black Hole: BRIC Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2017 The Loneliest Places (with Chad Stayrook): Neon Heater, Findlay, OH
2017 March into the Sea (with Melody Owen): Optic, Corvallis, OR
2017 Mother (with Roxanne Jackson): The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR
2017 Girl Under the Stairs: This Friday or Next Friday, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Chasing the Wild Boar (solo screening): Northwest Film Center at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
2016 Julia Oldham and Jack Featherly (Portland Biennial 2016, curated by Michelle Grabner): Royal Nebaker Gallery, Astoria, OR
2016 How to Escape a Black Hole: Gray Box, Portland, OR
2016 Julia Oldham: Recent Videos: Foyer Gallery, Ablright College, Reading, PA
2015 Farewell Brave Voyager: She Works Flexible, Houston, TX
2015 Farewell Brave Voyager: Pataphysical Society, Portland, OR
2015 Whale Alert (project space installation with Chad Stayrook as Really Large Numbers): Rooster Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Flutteries, or A Feeling of impending Doom (with Chad Stayrook as Really Large Numbers and Jessica Segall): 125 Maiden Lane (Art in Buildings Program at Time Equities), New York, NY
2014 Video Work by Julia Oldham (solo screening): Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugeme OR
2014 Winter Wolf / Shadow Wolf (with Chad Stayrook as Really Large Numbers): Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2014 From These Woods by Really Large Numbers (with Chad Stayrook):
Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
2014 Whale Star (performance) by Really Large Numbers: Artists Alliance, Inc., New York, NY
2014 Surf and Turf (with Rebecca Goyette): Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Metabolic Morophology with Nina Horisaki-Christens, Takashi Horisak (performance with Takahiro Morooka)i: Recess, New York, NY
2013 Break Up (with John Royer): Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Reciting Pi (with Evan Reed): Field Projects, New York, NY
2013 How to Break a Coconut (with Trish Tillman): Opossum House, Eugene, OR
2011 Antimatter Twin: (e)merge art fair via G Fine Art, Washington, DC
2010 Strange Readings: G Fine Art, Washington, DC
2010 Possumhaw Plant Electrics: Carnegie Center, New Albany, IN
2010 Works by Julia Oldham: Anchor Art Space, Anacortes, WA
2009 The Timber: Art in General, New York, NY
2009 Balmy: Espaço3, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 Bramble Standoff: Media Niche at the Fine Arts Library, University
of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2007 Spiders and Insects: Macalester College Gallery, St. Paul,
MN
2006 12 x 12 Exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2005 Traces and Bearings: with Kate Baird Gallery 405, Springfield,
MO
2005 Habitat: Thesis Exhibition with Kate Baird, Midway Studios,
Chicago, IL
2005 Fight or Flight: with Alison Ruttan, Three Arts Club, Chicago,
IL
2002 Shift: Gallery H, Washington, DC

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2024 Don’t You Feel at Home (as Really Large Numbers with Chad Stayrook): 934 Gallery, Columbus, OH
2023 Biomass: 608 NW 13th St, Portland, OR
2023 Wild Metropolis: Carol Shen Gallery at Parker Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2023 The Devil Made Me Do It: Cabin Contemporary, Pottsville, PA
2022 The Land: Artists’ Film & Video that Listens to the Earth, curated by Julie Perini, organized by Eugene Contemporary Art, Broadway Metro, Eugene, OR
2022 Metamorphosis: Visualizing the Music of Paul Hindemith: Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR
2021 EDO/IRL: Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
2021 Metamorphosis: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
2020 Longest Night Solstice Ceremony 2020 (online): Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
2020 Athens International Film Festival: Athens, OH
2020 NHDocs: The New Haven Documentary Film Festival: New Haven, CT
2020 SheTown Film Festival: Detroit, MI
2020 Manual Experience (a Harmonic Laboratory project): Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR
2019 Who Takes Care of New York: Queens Museum, Queens, NY
2019 Julia Oldham, Pam Minty, Roland Dahwen: Boathouse Microcinema, Portland, OR
2019 Ecofutures Festival: London, UK
2018 When I Look At You: Peephole Cinema, San Francisco, CA
2018 Yes, I Am a Witch: FATVillage Projects, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2018 Translating the Animal: Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2018 Passion Fruit: BFP Creative, Brooklyn, NY
2018 The First Ages, Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY
2018 Spirit Ground: a screening by Ungrund: Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
2018 The Bee-Holder, Mayer Gallery at Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
2017 Specter: An exploration of folklore, fantasy and fear: Trio Contemporary Art Gallery, Athens, GA
2017 Totality (curated by Julia Bradshaw): Fairbanks Gallery at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2017 Light Years Away, curated by Wavelength: Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2017 Convergence: Digital Media and Technology: Schneider Museum, Ashland, OR
2017 Flatfiles 4: Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Nocturnes: The Lost and Found: FATVillage Projects, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2016 The Dead Are Not Quiet: San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2016 Maiden Mother Crone curated by Hannah Piper Burns: Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Intermix: Birke Gallery at Marshall University, Huntington, WV
2016 Montana Film Festival: Roxy Theater, Missoula, MT
2016 Field Studies: Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, Brooklyn, NY
2016 In My Likeness: Silber Gallery at Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
2016 Portland Biennial (curated by Michelle Grabner): Disjecta, Portland, OR
2016 Adrift in the Wonder World: Women Make Meaning of Moby Dick: Marta Hewitt Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2016 Bernheim: A Natural Muse – 35 Years of the Artist in Residence Program: Carnegie Center, New Albany, IN
2016 The Fifth Wheel: Linfield Gallery, McMinnville, OR
2015 Art Seen: Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Venus Vault: SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2015 From Nowhere: Sluice Art Fair, London, UK
2015 Peekskill Project 6 (with Chad Stayrook as Really Large Numbers): Hudson Valley Center for contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2015 Getting to Infinity; Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
2014 Heading Southwest (as Really Large Numbers with Chad Stayrook): Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY
2014 UNGRUND: Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR
2014 Experimental Film Festival Portland: Portland, OR
2014 Downtown Dinner (performance as Really Large Numbers with Chad Stayrook) with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Conrad Hotel, New York, NY
2014 Learned Helplessness (curated by Isin Onol): Muse Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 PDXX (curated by Hannah Piper Burns): Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Network Consciousness curated by Felicity Tayler: Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Artist-Animal Collaborators: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2013 Notched Bodies: Insectsin Contemporary Art: Arsenal Gallery at Central Park, New York, NY
2013 Unrestricted: Artadia at Eventi, New York, NY
2013 Infinity Loop: Furthermore, Washington, DC
2013 Six Women curated by Eric Heist: Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
2013 Terrestrial Transmissions curated by Lydia Moyer: Ruffin Gallery at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2012 Synthetic Zero curated by Jo Q. Nelson and Mitsu Hadeishi: Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY (As Really Large Numbers with Chad Stayrook)
2012 Creative Nonfiction: Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Mediations Biennale: National Museum, Poznan, Poland
2012 WNDX Film Festival: Winnipeg, Canada
2012 First Contact curated by Jacob Rhodes: Field Projects, New York, NY
2012 Experimental Film Festival Portland: Portland, OR
2012 Ridgewood Art Crawl: 1717 Troutman, via Outpost Artists Resources and the Queens Museum of Art
2012 Day Job curated by Nina Katchadourian: Feldman Gallery at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2012 Lupification, or the Divide: Archer Gallery at Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2012 Day Job curated by Nina Katchadourian: Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA
2012 Anti-Oxidant: Promantic curated by Jason LeBlond and Christina Medina: Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY
2012 This House is Not a Home, Southside Hub of Production, Chicago, IL
2012 Annual Exhibition, curated by Gary Hill, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2011 Hive Culture: Captivated by the Honeybee: Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2011 Snowclones (curated by Benjamin King and Rob Nadeau): ARTBLOGARTBLOG, New York, NY
2011 A Casual Evening with Arachnids (via Dr. Robert Suter): 35th Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
2011 Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial: Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY
2011 The Way Things Work: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
2011 Vanishing Animals curated by Lenore Malen: Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
2010 Day Job curated by Nina Katchadourian: Drawing Center, New York, NY
2010 CineSciences curated by Serge Dentin (Association Polly Maggoo): Cinema les Varietas, Veynes, France
2010 Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinemas: Association Polly Maggoo, Marseille, France
2010 Acid Rain Productions, November Episode curated by Lydia Moyer: Durham Access Media, Durham NC; Bowbarr, Carrboro, NC; Manhattan Neighborhood Network, New York, NY
2010 Visions in a Nunnery: The Nunnery at Bow Arts Trust, London, UK
2010 Collective Show NYC, Opening Night Screening with Vector Video: Participant Inc., New York, NY
2010 3rd Annual Kentucky Film and Video Showcase: 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
2010 Young Curators, New Ideas III: PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
2010 T minus 20: Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY
2010 You and Me Living Today (anatomically modern explorers): Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD
2010 Bagasbas Beach International Eco Arts Festival, Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines
2010 Videopolis Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
2010 Science Fair: Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
2010 Made in Red Hook: Lucky Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 The Moving Index curated by Stamatina Gregory (online): The Art Office, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Brooklyn is Burning curated by Andres Bedoya and Sarvia Jasso: MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
2010 Portable Caves with HKJB: 5-22 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY
2010 Sensing Motion: FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK (part of the moves10: Framing Motion festival)
2009 Soft Science: Human Animal at the Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
2009 Washington Project for the Arts Experimental Media Series: Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2009 FilmNight 3.0: Extra Lives: Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009 Lessons in the Sky: A Filmic Tribute to Audubon: Dia Art Foundation at The Hispanic Society of America, New York, NY
2009 Emerging Artists Auction: Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
2009 Transmodern Festival: Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD
2009 17 Days: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2009 Pavilhao 28 at the Psychiatric Hospital Julio de Matos with Atelier EA+ Lisbon, Portugal
2009 Artist Run Chicago: with Livebox at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2009 Sound Symposium: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Dearly, Madly: Howard House, Seattle, WA
2008 Archaeology of Wonder: Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2008 Filmideo: Redsaw Gallery, Newark, NJ
2008 Red Hook Open Studios: Monarch Luggage Factory, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Around the Coyote Video Lounge, curated by Livebox: Artropolis, Chicago, IL
2008 Centennial Video Special: Crawl Space, Seattle, WA
2008 Wild Life/Wildlife: Mount Ida College Gallery, Newton, MA
2007 Bridge Art Fair: Miami, FL with Livebox Gallery
2007 Emerging Video Artists: Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
2007 Notions of Wilderness: Kasia Kay Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 INPORT, International Video-Performance Art Festival: Tallinn, Estonia
2005 Juried Show, Juried by Mark Dion: Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
2005 Are You With Me? with Charlie Morris and Lawrence Jennings: Medusa Art Parlor, San Antonio, TX
2005 Research and Development: Little Black Pearl, Chicago, IL
2005 Winter Salon: Midway Studios, Chicago, IL
2004 Narrative Purgatory: Franke Institute, Chicago, IL
2004 11 Pack: 4Art, Inc., Chicago, IL
2004 Winter Salon: Midway Studios, Chicago, IL
2002 New Talent: Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College, MD

Illustration and Publication Projects

2023 Original illustrations for Iceland Summer: Travels Along the Ring Road by Kurt Caswell, Trinity University Press
2022 The Ferryman, a zine complication project by Ian Breidanbach, independently published
2022 “Medusa Retires to South Florida,” a short comic for art book Temple of Medusa, Century Guild Press
2017 Monsters From the Valley (a comic book) by Julia Oldham, independently published
2016 “The Loneliest Place” (Artist Project): Art Journal, Spring, 2016, published by College Art Association

Awards and Residencies

2024 Oregon Fellowship at The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2024 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
2024 Center for Art and Research Project Incubator at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2022 BRIClab Video Art Mentor: Brooklyn, NY
2020 Golden Slice Award for Best Short Film at NHDocs: THe New Haven Documentary Film Festival, New Haven, CT
2019 NYC Urban Field Station Artist Residency, Queens, NY
2018 Artist@Work, Corvallis Art Center, Corvallis, OR
2018 U Juhasa Artist Residency, Košariská, Slovakia
2018 Oregon Media Arts Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
2018 Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship Nominee
2017 Camp Colton Artist in Residence Program: Colton, OR
2017 Bison Bison: Corvallis, OR
2016 AIRIE, Artist in Residence in the Everglades, Everglades National Park, Florida
2016 Wassaic Project Winter Residency: Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2015 Master Artist Residency with Marisa Olson: Atlantic Center for the Arts
2015 Winter Workshop Residency at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2015 Career Opportunity Grant: Oregon Arts Commission
2014 Lower East Side Studio Program (as Really Large Numbers with Chad Stayrook): Artists Alliance Inc, New York, NY
2014 Third Culture Conversations: Lewis Integrative Science Building at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2013 Residency Unlimited, New York, NY
2013 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Swing Space (as Really Large Numbers with Chad Stayrook), New York, NY
2012 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission
2012 Coast Time, Lincoln City, OR
2012 Point B Worklodge Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Cuts and Burns Residency at Outpost, Queens, NY
2010 Artist in the Marketplace at the Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
2009 Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Residency, Clermont, KY
2009 Blue Mountain Center Residency, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
2009 New Commissions, Art in General, New York, NY
2008 Timber Residency, Marshalltown, IA
2007 Artadia, The Fund for Art and Dialogue
2006 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant: City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs

Catalogues and Compilations

2017 Mother (catalogue): The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR
2015 Connective Conversations: Inside Oregon Art, 2011-2014, The Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon Curator and Critic Tours, Edited by Kate Wagle, Design and Layout by Pace Taylor, Photography by Sabina Poole, Advised by Carol Dalu and Kandis Brewer Nunn
2011 AIM 30 Catalogue: Artist in the Marketplace at Bronx Museum of Art, published by Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
2010 Drawing Papers 95: Day Job, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2009 Soft Science: The Human Animal DVD Anthology, distributed by Video Data Bank, Chicago, IL
2009 The Timber catalog, Art in General, New York, NY
2007 Aspect Magazine,
Volume 9: Performance, Boston, MA

Lectures and Panel Discussions

2023 Loneliness Creeps Down the Spine gallery talk: Galerie Photoland at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
2023 Artist Lecture: Center for Contemporary Art at Pacific Northwest College of Art
2022 Birth of the Hyperforest gallery talk: Joan Truckenbrod Gallery, Corvallis, OR
2020 Conversation with the Director with NHDocs with Gorman Bechard (online)
2018 She Wolves, Whales and Black Holes: Art Across the Disciplines: Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
2018 Horror and the Uncanny: Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
2018 Julia Oldham: Departmental Artist Lecture: University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2017 She Wolves: Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
2017 Women Who run with the Wolves: Artist lecture for poetry class, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
2017 Artist lecture for animation students: University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2017 Artist lecture for JumpsART program: Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2017 Julia Oldham: Departmental Artist Lecture: Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2017 The Ghost Bird and Other Stories: The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR
2016 Speak, Thou Vast and Venerable Head: Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
2016 Speak, Thou Vast and Venerable Head: Marta Hewett Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (made possible by Friends of Steely Library)
2015 Star Noise: She Works Flexible, Houston, TX
2014 Artist Talk and Screening: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art,Eugene, OR
2014 Really Large Numbers Artist Talk: Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2014 Notched Bodies artist panel: Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Julia Oldham: Departmental Artist Lecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2013 Julia Oldham: Art and Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2013 Terrestrial Transmissions panel discussion, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2010 Strange Readings panel discussion with curator Jose Ruiz and physicist Paul So (George Mason University), G Fine Art, Washington DC
2009 Panel discussion with Nina Horisaki-Christens and Amy Berkov at Art in General, New York, NY
2009 Lecture in conjunction with “Balmy” screening,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2009 Panel discussion at “Archaeology of Wonder” closing,
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2007 Visiting Artist Lecture, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2006 12 x 12 Artist Lecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Education

2003-2005 MFA: University of Chicago
1997-2001 BA, Art History: Saint Mary’s College of Maryland