CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor of Art (tenure track)
Area: Head of Photography
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Chapman University Orange, CA 92866
EDUCATION
2005
MFA
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2000
BA
University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
1999
Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain- Semester Abroad
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
In Darkness, Mt San Jacinto College Art Gallery, San Jacinto, CA
2022
Analogues, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
2021
Parting of the Ways, Irene Carlson Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
2020
Conquest of the Vertical, as-is gallery, Los Angeles CA
2018
Wait ‘til You See the Devil’s Punchbowl, AVC Gallery, Antelope Valley College, CA
2017
Wait ‘til You See the Devil’s Punchbowl, Eduoard de Merlier Photography Gallery, Cypress College, CA Julie Shafer: Conquest of the Vertical SPE, Exposure Journal
2014
Fireside Lounge to 41.296111, -105.515000, 2A Gallery, LA, CA 2005 Sunday, Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Sunday, Roski Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2004
Skintight, F-Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West, The Getty: PST ART: Art & Science Collide, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Mighty Real / Queer Detroit 2024 Biennial | Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2021
Old Growth, New Decay, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2019
In the Sunshine of Neglect, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
2018
sites of build up, sites to mine, Glassell Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
C.O.L.A. 2018 Individual Artist Fellowship, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
The Gildless Age, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA
Altered Land,University of Wisconsin Art Gallery, Eau Claire, WI
¡Dígame!, Casa Colonial, Oaxaca, Mexico
2015
Convergence, in collaboration with the National Park Service at the Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, CA
Jagged Negotiations, Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014
Julie Shafer and Ginny Cook, Public Access, Los Angeles, CA
Being Here and There curated by Sant Khalsa Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Love Is In the Air, organized by Calvin Phelps, 2A Gallery, LA, CA
Primer III, curated by Marco Rios, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, CSULA
Che Mondo, curated by Carole Ann Klonarides, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sea Level Change, curated by Enid Baxter Blader, Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center, San Francisco, CA
Carte de California: Contested Terrain, Kellogg University Art Gallery, CalPoly Pomona, CA
Being Here, Andi Campognone Projects, Pomona, CA
LECTURES
2021
An Artist Conversation with Julie Shafer, University of LaVerne, LaVerne, CA
2020
Julie Shafer- Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery Lecture Series
2019
Guest Lecturer, UCLA
Guest Lecturer, Cal Arts Kaucyila Brooke’s Seminar in Photography
2018
We are only, ever, walking with ghosts– Julie Shafer presents a lecture about their photographic work. SPE- Society of Photographic Education, Southeast Chapter, Louisiana State University
2017
We Don’t Belong Here, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Panelistfor The Gildless Age, at the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Artist Lecture, Obracadobra Artist Residency, Oaxaca, Mexico
Artist Lecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2013
TEDx conference – Finding your Voice. Presented lecture on Conquest of the Vertical, a photographic series of 6’ tall pinhole photographs of remote California mining sites.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
McCulloh, Douglas “In the Sunshine of Neglect: Defining Photographs and Radical Experiments in Inland Southern California, 1950 to the Present”, Published by Inlandia Institute, Dec. 31 2018
2018
Thompson, Kristine, “Records of Consequence,” C.O.L.A. catalog, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 2018
2017
Ennis, Ciara “Julie Shafer: Conqust of the Vertical” feature article in Exposure Photographic Journal, Spring ed. 2017
2016
Knight, Christopher “The Gildless Age’: A different tale of the ‘1 percent’ at the Torrance Art Museum” Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2016
2015
L.A. Weekly: Julie Shafer speaks about her solo show Fireside Lounge to 41.296111, -105.515000 at 2A Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Khalsa, Sant and Andi Campignone, “Being Here and There,” Published by The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA November 2014
AWARDS & HONORS
2021
Grant Writer’s Bootcamp Recipient
2020
Chapman University Faculty Opportunity Fellowship
2018
City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Grant Recipient
2017
Distinguished Guest Artist, Obracadobra, Oaxaca, Mexico
2016
Artist in Residence, Obracadobra, Oaxaca, Mexico
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Ogden, Utah
Escalette Collection, Chapman University
Robert V. Fullerton Museum, CSUSB, San Bernardino, CA
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
