Julia Weist’s work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and The Jewish Museum, among other collections. She has recently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Queens Museum, and The Shed, and internationally at the Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan; nGbK, Berlin; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; and the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. Recent solo exhibitions include “Private Eye” at Moskowitz Bayse and “Governing Body” at Rachel Uffner Gallery. Her latest public artwork, Campaign, debuted in Times Square in 2022.
She received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and a MILS from Pratt Institute and is currently a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Bard College. Weist is the recipient of a Core Program Fellowship from the Camargo Foundation and a Jerome Foundation Fellowship.