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URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/caa-public-lecture-julia-kunin/
SUMMARY:CAA Public Lecture: Julia Kunin
DESCRIPTION:Join Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free\
 , public lecture with Julia Kunin on Thursday\, March 5\, 2026\, at 6pm.\n
 \nJulia Kunin lives in Brooklyn\, NY\, and works frequently in Hungary. Sh
 e earned a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA from The Mason Gross Schoo
 l of the Arts\, Rutgers University.  Her work explores themes of queernes
 s\, feminism\, and the body.  Her ceramic sculptures reference Hungarian 
 ceramics made at the Zsolnay factory both during the Art Nouveau period an
 d during the socialist era.\n\nSolo exhibitions include: Laughing Castles 
 at Klaus Von Nichtssagend gallery\, NY\, NY\, Dream Machines at Mindy Solo
 mon Gallery\, Miami\, FL\, Rainbow Dream Machine at McClain Gallery\, Hous
 ton\, TX (2020 -2021)\; Mechanical Ballet at Kate Werble Gallery\, NY\, NY
  (2021)\; Les Guerilleres Sandra Gering Gallery\, NY\, NY (2015)\; Golden 
 Grove\, Barry Whistler Gallery\, Dallas\, TX (2013)\; Nightwood\, Greenber
 g Van Doren Gallery\, NY\, NY (2012)\; Against Nature\, Greenberg Van Dore
 n Gallery (2007)\; Crimson Blossom Deutches Leder Museum\, Offenbach\, Ger
 many (2002).\n\n\n\nRecent two-person exhibitions: Kaleidoscope Eyes with 
 Mara Held\, at McClain Gallery in Houston\, TX (2023)\; Wild Chambers wit
 h Yevgeniya Baras\, at Mother Gallery\, NY\, NY (2022). Recent group exhib
 itions include: Painting Deconstructed\, Ortega Y Gasset projects\, Brookl
 yn\, NY (2024)\;  I’ll Be Your Mirror\, Queer Biennial\, Detroit\, MI (
 2024)\; Getting to Ick\, Hesse Flatow Gallery\, NY\, NY\; Behind this Mask
 \, Another Mask curated by Sam Adams at Abigail Ogilvey Gallery\, Los Ange
 les\, CA\; Queer Clay at AMOCA\, LA\, (2023)\; Conversing in Clay\, at LAC
 MA\, Los Angeles\, CA.\n\nKunin was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary in 2013
 . She has received numberous awards including a Trust for Mutual Understan
 ding grant to Hungary\, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant\, a residency a
 t Art Omi\, and the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residency. Fe
 llowships include: The MacDowell Colony\, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Found
 ation\, CEC Artslink grant to The Republic of Georgia\, Artist Residency i
 n Wiesbaden\, Germany\, Yaddo\,  The Millay Colony\, Vermont Studio Cente
 r\, The Core Program in Houston\, TX\,  and Skowhegan.\n\nJulia Kunin cur
 rently has a series of ceramic lamps at Ralph Pucci International and he i
 s also a member of the board of FIAR\, The LGBTQ Fire Island artist reside
 ncy. Her work was recently acquired by the Everson Museum of Art\, Syracus
 e\, NY\, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, LACMA\, and by The Museum 
 of Art and Design\, in New York\, NY. Her work was reviewed by Roberta Smi
 th in the New York Times\, October 2022\, Yevgeniya Baras and Julia Kunin 
 at Mother Gallery.\n\nSupport Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Public Lecture 
 Series\, which invites a range of artists\, designers\, architects\, criti
 cs\, writers\, curators\, and other professionals of national and internat
 ional stature\, by donating to our Annual Fund!
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CATEGORIES:Lectures + Talks
LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bl
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