JULIA ZAY
b. 1970, Texas
Lives and works in Olympia, WA
EDUCATION
MFA Video School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MA Radio-TV-Fim (Cinema & Media Studies) Northwestern University
BA, Cum Laude Interdisciplinary Arts/Gender Studies Vassar College
EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS + ARTWORK IN PRINT
2023 Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts @ The Olympia Armory, Olympia WA. Group exhibition - photography
2019 Blue, Olympia Knitting Mills, Olympia, WA. Group exhibition - drawing
2017 Statements and Questions, The Evergreen State College Gallery, Olympia, WA. Faculty show - photography
2016 Gifts and Occupations. Olympia Knitting Mills Gallery, Olympia, WA. Solo exhibition - photography, sculpture
“Mononeirist.” Encyclopedia Volume 3: L-Z. Miranda Mellis & Tisa Bryant, editors. Portland, OR: Publication Studio, 2016
2015 de facto. Stable Studios, Olympia WA. Solo exhibition - photography, printmaking, sculpture
2010 The Atlas of Gifted Ideas. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Group show - drawing.
2004 Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Orphan Film Symposium, The University of South Carolina
2003 LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore
2002 Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
University of California Santa Cruz
2001 Braunschweig School of Art, Braunschweig, Germany
HEDAH Center of Contemporary Art, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Kunstschule Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany
Houston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Houston, TX
Thaw Festival of Video, Film, and Digital Media, Iowa City, IA [Awarded “Best of Festival”]
Colloque Droit & Gauche D’auteur, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Bourges, France
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
Pandaemonium Biennial, The Lux Centre, London
Women in the Director's Chair International Film + Video Festival Tour
2000 inSITE, San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
MIX: New York, Lesbian + Gay Experimental Film & Video Festival
MIX: Brasil, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo
Kino im SCHULZ, Cologne, Germany
Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago IL
Women in the Director's Chair International Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL
Copyright/Copywrong, Ecole Regionale des Beaux Arts, Nantes St. Nazaire, France
1999 Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bienalle Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France
1998 Slade School of Art, London
1996 Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Paris Lesbian Film Festival
1995 Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
Vancouver Lesbian + Gay Film/Video Festival
1994 Montreal Gay + Lesbian Film/Video Festival
Berlin Lesbian Film Festival
San Francisco International Gay + Lesbian Film Festival
London Gay + Lesbian Film Festival
Hong Kong Lesbian + Gay Film Festival
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
1993 Downtown Community Television (DCTV), New York, NY
Chicago Lesbian + Gay International Film Festival
MIX: New York Lesbian + Gay Experimental Film + Video Festival
PUBLICATIONS
“Labor of Attention”, Empty Quarter. Pam Minty and Alain LeTourneau, eds. Portland, OR: Publication Studio, 2016.
“Fugue”, Ectopia: A Travel Guide to Displacement. Elise Goldstein, ed. Brussels: a.pass, 2013.
“Notes on Screen Testing.” journal of visual culture Vol. 6, No. 1 (Summer 2007)
Film Review: “Cabin Field (2005) by Laura Kissel.” The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 2007).
“Geography of a Fugitive.” Clamour 2 (1997). San Francisco, CA
“Geography of a Fugitive.” Kiosk 9 (1996). Buffalo, NY
Untitled (prose poem) Prosodia 5 (1995). San Francisco: New College of California.
“DYKE TV.” Felix: Journal of Media Arts and Communication, Vol.2, No.1 (1995) [‘Landscapes’], pp. 188-191.
AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES
2026 Faculty Foundation Grant, The Evergreen State College
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Pope Press, Olympia, WA
Artist-in-Residence, Salon Refu, Olympia, WA
2013 Faculty Foundation Grant, The Evergreen State College
Sponsored Research Grant, The Evergreen State College
2011 Faculty Foundation Grant, The Evergreen State College.
2001 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship, Media Arts
2000 James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1997 Graduate Fellowship, University of Chicago. Awarded for study in the Ph.D. program in Art History
1994-6 Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University. Awarded for study in the M.A./Ph.D. program in Radio/TV/Film
1993 Beatrice Daw Brown Poetry Prize, Vassar College
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dorian Bowen, “Orphans 04: On Location: Place and Region in Forgotten Films” in The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2005) pp. 167-171.
Fugitive Sites/Parajes Fugitivos: inSITE 2000-2001 Catalog. Osvaldo Sanchez + Cecilia Garza, eds. San Diego: Installation Gallery, 2002. pp. 176-179.
Fred Camper, "Chicago's Own: Screen Testing," Chicago Reader, Sept. 8, 2000, sec. 2, p. 7.
Jim Dwyer, “Re-MIXed: The New York Lesbian + Gay Experimental Film Festival” www.insound.com, Fall 2000
Women on the Edge, www.streamedia.net/womenontheedge. Featured Artist, June-August 2000.
Fred Camper, "Homegirls: New Work by Chicago Women and Girls," Chicago Reader, March 17, 2000, sec. 2, p.14.
Chicago Free Press, Women in the Director’s Chair Festival announcement with video still from Screen Test No.1, March 12, 2000, 47.
TEACHING
2003-Present Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (received tenure in 2012)
2015-2016 Program Mentor, Low Residency MFA Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2002-03 Lecturer, Department of Film + Digital Media, University of California Santa Cruz
2001 Visiting Lecturer, Committees on the Visual Arts and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
2000-01 Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College Chicago
SELECTED RELATED EXPERIENCE
2004 Production Designer, Mixed Greens (DVD-ROM, interactive). Producer, Writer, Director: Michelle Citron. Chicago, IL
2000 Production Designer, Cocktails and Appetizers (DVD-ROM, interactive). Producer, Writer, Director: Michelle Citron. Chicago, IL
1995 Props and Sets, Second Unit, The Watermelon Woman (16mm, Feature). Director: Cheryl Dunye. Still Photography: Zoe Leonard. New York, NY
1993 Associate Producer, We Interrupt This Program (Broadcast). Producer: Creative Time, Inc. Director: Mary Ellen Strom. New York, NY
1993 Associate Producer, Pink. Directors: Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH/New York, NY
1993 Installation Coordinator, Jenny Holzer Truisms, The 42nd Street Project, Creative Time Inc., New York, NY