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Julia Hechtman

Julia Hechtman is a visual artist who makes works focusing on the balance of absence and presence, life and death, and real-time and memoried experience in her multi-faceted studio practice. The natural world features prominently in her works, which has allowed her to travel extensively, and to contemplate the familiar in new ways. Her favorite place to go is the Arctic. In 2019, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Reykjavik at Lístaháskolí Íslands, where she pursued her research into the roles of landscape and memory in identity production. In 2024 she will be going to Svalbard on a two week residency on a tall ship.

Departments

Art + Design

Education

  • MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • BFA, Syracuse University

Awards

  • Fulbright Scholar, 2018-2019

Research Focus

  • Personal Narrative
  • Landscape
  • Experimental approaches to video and photography

In the News

Photo courtesy of Julia Hechtman
Art + Design

Julia Hechtman explores the Arctic

Associate chair and teaching professor of art + design Julia Hechtman spent two weeks in an artist residency aboard an Arctic Circle-bound ship.

August 1, 2024