b. 1984
Lives and works in New York

Master of Library & Information Science, Pratt Institute, 2011
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cooper Union School of Art, 2007

one and Two-person exhibitions


2024       Private Eye, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA

2022       Governing Body, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York

2019     ARCA [archive], Galería Gorria, Havana, Cuba (collaboration with Nestor Siré)

2018     ARCA [archive], Triple Canopy, New York (collaboration with Nestor Siré)

2017     17.(SEPT) [By WeistSiréPC]™, Queens Museum, New York (collaboration with Nestor Siré)

2016     Parbunkells, 83 Pitt Street, New York

2014     Mice, 83, Two Chairs, New York (two person exhibition with Haim Steinbach)

2008     The Size of Thoughts, Kantor/Feuer Window, New York

public artworks


2022       Campaign (Times Square), Times Square, New York, NY. Produced with support from the Stolbun Collection

2020     Public Record, Produced by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Records and Information Services, New York

2017       View-Through, Produced by O, Miami and Exchange for Change, Miami, Florida

2016       Reach, Queens Boulevard, Produced by 14×48, Queens, New York

selected group exhibitions


2023       The Backend, Montclair State University Galleries, Montclair, NJ
A Copious Flow, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY
Collection 1970s–Present: Limits of Control, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Re: Scott Burton’s Atrium Furnishment, Soft Network, New York
Photography and Media Rotation, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2022       Privacy Creep, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA

2021       Museo de la Democracia, nGbK, Berlin, Germany

2019       News, etc., Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Madrid, Spain
The Scalability Project, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
Open Call, The Shed, New York

2018       Offline Browser, Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan
12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

2017       En Masse: Books Orchestrated, The Center for Book Arts, New York

2016       Know Yourself, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
2015       Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Art in the Age of…Planetary Computation, Kunstinstituut Melly, The Netherlands
Tongue Stones, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York
2014      Within a Tournament of Value, Flux Factory, Queens, New York

2013       The Book Lovers, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
The Book Lovers, Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp, Belgium

2012       Young Curators, New Ideas IV, Meulensteen, New York
Pretty Conceptual, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
2011       Against the Way Things Go, Gasser & Grunert, New York

2010       Guilty Feet, 179 Canal, New York

2009      Impermanent Collections, Art In General, New York
Apartment Show, Envoy Gallery, New York
Kick the Can’t, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY
Women Get Fucked, Alagon Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008       Artist as Publisher, The Center For Book Arts, New York
Brucennial, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Salon Du Jour, Autoversion LTD Gallery, New York
If I Told You You Were Beautiful, Would You Date Me on the Regular?, Oliver Kamm Gallery, New York

2007       Library, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

writing

2024 Commentary: Americans numb to being monitored and tracked, Albany Times Union (September 2024)

2020       Proyecto DATA, Triple Canopy (October 2020)
Public Record, n+1 (May 2020)

2018       Permission to Participate, Frieze (September 2018)
!!!Sección A R T E [No. 11+Rhizome], Rhizome (January 2018)
Coming to America, Rhizome (January 2018)

2017       Packet Switching: Cuba’s Offline Internet, Art in America (September 2017)
WdW Review: Arts, Culture and Journalism in Revolt, Vol. 1. Rotterdam: Witte de With, 2017 [artist project]

2016       Person of the Day and Tomorrow, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (March 2016)

2015       After, About, With. New York: Arpia Books, 2015 [artist book]

2014       Collecting Without Ebay, BOMB Magazine (August 2014)
Industry vs. Machine: Canonization, Localization and the Algorithm, Red Hook Journal, Bard CCS (Nov 2014)

2008       The Bruce High Quality Foundation Foundation & Other Ideas. New York: I.C. Editions, 2008 [afterword]
Sexy Librarian: A Novel, Critical Edition. Baltimore: Slush Editions, 2008 [artist book]

exhibition catalogs & publications


2022       Documentation as Art: Expanded Digital Practices. London: Routledge, 2022

2019       News, etc. Madrid: Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, 2019

2018       Offline Browser. Taiwan: Hong-Gah Museum, 2018
Imagined Borders. Gwangju: Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2018
En Masse: Books Orchestrated. New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2018

2015       Artist Novels. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015
Tongue Stones. New York: Pioneer Works, 2015
Art In The Age Of…. Rotterdam: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2015

2012       Young Curators New Ideas. New York: Muelensteen, 2012

2009       Indie Publishing. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009

2008       Artist as Publisher. New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2008

commissions, grants & residencies


2024 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York

2021       Core Program Fellowship, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France

2020     COVID-19 Fund Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Conversations in Practice Residency, Ox-Bow

2019      Public Artist in Residence, Department of Records and Information Services / Municipal Archives, the City of New York
Open Call Commission, The Shed

2018      Media Arts Assistance Fund Grant, New York State Council on the Arts/Wave Farm

2017      Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

2016    Jerome Foundation Fellowship, The Queens Museum, NY
Net Based Prize Audience Award, Haus Der Elektronischen Künste, Basel, Switzerland

2015    OOH Media Plan Award, The Outdoor Advertising Association of America, Washington DC

2007    NYAEA Artist Welfare Fund Prize, New York Artists Equity Association, New York

panels, presentations & performances


2023       Can Art Be Evidence?, Bard Graduate Center, New York

2021       Public Record, NYC Municipal Archives, New York, NY

2020       …this is not made of language but energy, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
Cuba Today: Internet access, El Paquete, and the New Filmmakers, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT

2018       Offline Media Dissemination, Art Basel, Miami, FL
Art for the Offline Internet, The New Museum, New York

2015       Art in the Age of Social Media, Sotheby’s Institute, Los Angeles, CA

2011       Alternative Libraries Forum, Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ

2010       Radical Reference, Brecht Forum, New York
#class, Winkleman Gallery, New York

2009    In Conclusion, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
Body Blend, Dixon Place, New York
The Classroom, New York Art Book Fair, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York
Lullabies [with Tyler Coburn], Thrust Projects, New York

select bibliography


2024 Document Journal (May 2024) — “Artist Julia Weist’s latest exhibition gives audiences the vantage of a private investigator”
ArtReview (January 2024) — “Art Lovers Movie Club: Julia Weist and Nestor Siré, ‘Infomercial’”

2023 Art Institute of Chicago (August 2023) — “Exploring the Collection – Bureaucratic Collage: Ghosts in the System”
Barron’s (March 2023) — “Guggenheim Expands Its Collection of Female Artists”

2022    Artnet (November 2022) — “Artist Julia Weist Is Protesting the R Rating of Her New Film by Advertising the Project on a Times Square Billboard”
Document Journal (November 2022) — “Julia Weist’s ‘Governing Body’ questions what we deem indecent in the scope of mainstream cinema”
Topical Cream (September 2022) — “Rx Studio: Julia Weist”
BOMB (June 2022) — “Art and Government: Julia Weist Interviewed by Cat Tyc”

2021     Hyperallergic (August 2021) — “Julia Weist’s ‘Public Record’ Probes the Impact of Artists on Cities”
Artists & Hackers (June 2021) — “El Paquete Semanal: An Offline Internet in Cuba”
Lives Radio (May 2021) — “Julia Weist”

2020    Art in America (June 2020) — “Julia Weist Transforms New York City’s Archival Records into Artworks that Live in Digital Public Space”
The Art Newspaper (May 2020) — “Victimised and Rejected’: New Work Explores The History of Artists Working in New York and the Need For Public Art”
Rhizome (January 2020) — “Michael Connor’s Decade in (the end of) Internet”

2019    Artnet (December 2019) — “The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade”
El Cultural (December 2019) — “Fakes: Todo es Mentira”
The Architect’s Newspaper (July 2019) — “The Summer Shows at the Shed Take an Eclectic Look at the Built Environment”
The New York Times (April 2019) — “Artists as ‘Creative Problem-Solvers’ at City Agencies”

2018    Document Journal (December 2018) — “Artists Nestor Siré and Julia Weist on Cuba’s underground internet market”

2017    Hyperallergic (October 2017) — “Delivering the Internet, an Underground Network Keeps Cubans Connected”
Artforum (September 2017) — “500 Words: Julia Weist and Nestor Siré”
Art in America (September 2017) — “First Look: Julia Weist”
Mousse Magazine (June 2017) — “An Offline Internet that Fits in a Suitcase”
Vice (April 2017) — “Floridians Hack Google to Display Poetry by Inmates in Miami”
Hyperallergic (April 2017) — “Why Googling ‘Miami Inmates’ in South Florida Leads to Their Poetry”
Esse (February 2017) — “Participatory Libraries and the Possibility of Making a Mess”

2016    Spirale (October 2016) — “Dérives Virales Sur le Web”
Frieze (July 2016) — “Data Roaming”
Artforum (April 2016) — “Julia Weist at 83 Pitt Street”
ArtReview (January/February 2016) — “Future Great: Julia Weist”

2015    Adweek (August 2015) — “Today’s Secret to Viral Marketing? One Clever Real-World Idea”
The New Yorker (July 2015) — “A New Word on the Internet”
Rhizome (June 2015) — “Artist Profile: Julia Weist”
Popular Mechanics (June 2015) — “This Billboard Brought an Ancient Word to the Internet”
Gizmodo (June 2015) — “The Word the Internet Didn’t Know”

2013    Modern Painters (May 2013) — “The Book Lovers”
Paris Review (July 2013) — “Sexy Librarians, Secret Service, and Tangents”

2012    Journal of Documentation (2012) — “Alternative Libraries as Discursive Formations: Reclaiming the Voice of the Deaccessioned Book”

2009   Library Journal (February 2009) — “A Compendium of Sexy Librarianness”

2008   Readymade Magazine (June 2008) — “POD People: Sexy Librarian”
Triple Canopy (June 2008) — “The Unmaking of a Romance Novel”

2007   Art Fag City (August 2007) — “Emerging Artist: Julia Weist”

Public Collections


Art Institute of Chicago
Brooklyn Museum
City of New York
Jewish Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Queens Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum