Julie Niemi

artist/curator/writer/editor


currently 
Growing Up Absurd (2022)


recently doing 

F: Reconstituting Tolstoy College
Collective Question
Exhibition and film project
UB Art Galleries, New York
Fall 2021


Perfidia by Sky Hopinka
Managing Editor & Contributor
Published by Wendy’s Subway & CCS Bard
September 2020


Collection Question Residency
Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY
August 21–31, 2019

Collective Question in Loosely Assembled 
SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art 
Montreal, QC
February 15–April 15, 2019

a while ago now 
Foundation for Arts Intitiatives (FfAI)
Grant Recipient for extended research
on Tolstoy College
June 2018–June 2019


Assistant Curator
John Michael Kohler Arts Center


Bibliothèque Kandinsky's Summer University
Centre Pompidou
July 2018


Curator in Residence
Contemporary Art Stavanger, Norway
October 2017


Moving Image Residency
EMPAC
July 2017


Curator
The Barn
2016–2017



say hello  
 julieaniemi@gmail.com
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other internet places 




Julie Niemi (b. 1988, Fayetteville, Arkansas, raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an artist, independent curator, producer, writer, and editor based in New York. Through research, design, writing, publishing, and exhibition-making, her projects grapple with counter histories in the United States. These projects typically look to the built environment and to place-making as a starting point for inquiry, utilizing scraps of archives and natural resources to tell a longer story of unknown persons, regional places, nameless figures, and collectives.  

She co-runs Diagram Press, is part of the working group Collective Question, and a recent recipient of a grant from the Foundation for Arts Initiatives

Julie received an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, where she was commissioning editor of aCCeSsions. Her thesis at CCS Bard was on Tolstoy College, an anarchist educational community active at the University at Buffalo in the 1970s and ‘80s. From 2013–2015, she was co-founder and editor of VIA Publication.

Currently, she’s the Communications Manager at David Kordansky Gallery, New York. Previously, she held positions as Assistant Curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Curatorial Fellow at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; and Communications Associate at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

She has provided editorial and marketing support for: RAM Publications, Los Angeles; Project Projects, New York; Inventory Press, New York; and East of Borneo, Los Angeles. She has given talks at the Centre Pompidou, University of California, Los Angeles, Independent Curators International, and Threewalls