Julia Bloom

Julia Bloom is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and sculpture. She studied at Berklee College of Music, the Boston Museum School, and Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been exhibited at Addison/Ripley Fine Art in Washington, DC; Greater Reston Arts Center in Reston, VA; Lucky Street Gallery in Key West, FL; Salzland Museum in Schoenebeck, Germany; the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, DC; along with other regional and national galleries.

Bloom was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a fellowship from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, and seven fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Publications and articles about Bloom’s work appear in The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Northern Virginia Magazine, Poet Lore, Southern Accents, and New American Paintings. Bloom’s work is in several public and private collections, including the University of Virginia School of Law, Wheat First Securities, and the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru. Bloom lives and works in Washington, DC and is represented by Addison Ripley Fine Art. She is also the creator of Freight Gallery, a small pop-up exhibition space in a freight elevator.