Meet Graduate Admissions

• BA in Studio Art, UC San Diego
• MFA in Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Julia Schwadron has shown her artwork across the country as well as internationally, including recent solo exhibitions at HGallery Project Space in Bangkok, and The Farnham Galleries at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. Schwadron was a Visiting Professor of Painting and Artist in Residence at Chiang Mai University from 2010 – 2011, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Iowa from 2007-2009.

She was a founding member of the “Matzo Files,” an artist flat file project inside Streit’s Matzo store on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2004. As a Jacob Javits Fellow from 2002-2004, she facilitated an exchange in conjunction with the Transmedia Postgraduate Program in Art and Design in Brussels, Belgium. In 2006, Schwadron was awarded a Joan Mitchell Fellowship for residency at the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, VT, and a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

She currently lives and works in South Lake Tahoe, where she is a professor of Painting and Drawing as well as Program Coordinator for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Sierra Nevada College.