CURRENT POSITION

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

2022

Parting of the Ways, National Historic Trails Interpretive Center, Casper Wyoming (forthcoming)

2022

Analogues, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (forthcoming)

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

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

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS