Bio

Julia Goodman works at the intersection of papermaking, textiles, sculpture, and painting. Her work is held in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, DePaul Art Museum, Recology San Francisco, and Google. Unimaginable Units of Time marked her first solo museum exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in 2025. Group exhibitions include National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Berkeley Art Center, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, DePaul Art Museum, and Poetry Foundation. Her residencies include JB Blunk Residency, Recology SF, Creativity Explored, Salina Art Center, and The Space Program. Goodman was selected for the 2020 Women to Watch Award by the San Francisco Advocacy for the NMWA.

Goodman is currently an Artist in Residence at the Eames Institute and part of the 2026 Teaching Artist Cohort through the Center for Craft. She is leading monthly Wrenching News Workshops as part of Maren Hassinger: Living, Moving, Growing at BAMPFA. This summer Goodman’s work is included in Contemporary Women in Abstraction at Paul Thiebaud Gallery and Recology Retrospective at Heron Arts.

She taught “Papermaking: Fiber to Paper” - the last remaining semester-long papermaking college class in the Bay Area from 2024 - 2026. Goodman was a Visiting Lecturer at Columbia College Chicago with an emphasis on papermaking from 2014 - 2015. Additionally, she has led workshops throughout the Bay Area, including NIAD, Creative Growth, San Jose Children’s Museum, Exploratorium, and Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).

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, where she started making paper in 2003 with a kitchen blender and old window screens. She lives in the Bay Area with artist Michael Hall and their family.