Julia Goodman works at the intersection of papermaking, textiles, sculpture, and painting. Her work is included in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, DePaul Art Museum, Recology San Francisco, and Google. Goodman has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and recent exhibitions include the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, DePaul Art Museum, Poetry Foundation, Saint Mary’s College, CCA Hubbell Street Gallery, and Berkeley Art Center. Her residencies include JB Blunk Residency, Recology SF, Creativity Explored, Salina Art Center, and The Space Program. In 2020 she was selected for the 2020 Women to Watch Award by the San Francisco Advocacy for the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Goodman earned an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BA in International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University. In between she studied art at Santa Monica College. In 2015-2016, she was a Full Time Visiting Lecturer, Interdisciplinary MFA Program in Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago. Goodman teaches Papermaking: From Fiber to Paper at CCA and leads papermaking workshops throughout the Bay Area including Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Exploratorium, Creative Growth, and NIAD. She lives in the Bay Area with artist Michael Hall and their family.
Certain is nothing now. (detail)