JULIE SCHENKELBERG
SELECTED CURRICULUM VITAE
Julie Schenkelberg is a Cleveland-based artist whose sculpture and site-specific installations transform architectural remnants, industrial materials, and domestic objects into immersive environments. Alongside her studio practice, she worked for 18 years as a professional scenic painter for theater and has taught art and sculpture for more than two decades. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Mattress Factory, Museum of Arts and Design, and Asya Geisberg Gallery. She is an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellow, a recipient of a Harpo Foundation Grant, and a former resident of Yaddo, Art Omi, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Red Bull Arts Detroit.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2010–Present — Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
EDUCATION
2011 — MFA, Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2006 — Post-Baccalaureate, Sculpture, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France
1996 — BA, Art History, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
1994 — Studies in German and Art History, Institute of European Studies, Vienna, Austria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 — Looking Glass, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
2025 — Amulet, NADA Miami, Miami, FL
2024 — Installation Infinite, Octagonal Pavilion, private site-specific commission, Cleveland, OH
2024 — Parlor Trix, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2022 — Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Chautauqua Institution Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
2022 — Solo Exhibition, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2022 — Outdoor Installation, Arteventura, Aracena, Spain
2021 — Aurora, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2020 — From the Ashes, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
2018 — Reliquary, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
2016 — Impart, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
2016 — Lumerian Shift, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
2015 — Lumerian Shift, SiTE:LAB, UNTITLED Miami Special Projects, Miami, FL
2015 — Embodied Energies, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
2013 — Hearsay, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
2010 — Bad Blood, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2027 — Site-Specific Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2026 — SYNESTHESIA, Equity Gallery Project Space and Courtyard, New York, NY
2026 — Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Exhibition, Cleveland, OH
2026 — Judith Rae Solomon Gallery, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
2025–2026 — Salon of Possible Futures, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2025 — Group Sculpture Exhibition, Real Tinsel Gallery, Historic Mitchell Street, Milwaukee, WI
2024 — Conduit Gallery 40th Anniversary Group Exhibition: Guest Artists Curated by Conduit Gallery Artists, Dallas, TX
2024 — Healing Spaces, Malone Art Gallery, Malone University, Canton, OH
2024 — Uncertain Futures, Forest for the Trees Collective, Governors Island, New York, NY
2024 — Symbols/Spaces, with Rebekah Wilhelm, Tinnerman Gallery / YARDS Projects, Cleveland, OH
2023 — University of Akron, Myers School of Art Faculty Exhibition, Akron, OH
2022 — Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Exhibition, Cleveland, OH
2021 — University of Akron, Myers School of Art Faculty Exhibition, Akron, OH
2021 — Bas Blue, Wasserman Projects / David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2019–2020 — Burke Prize Finalist Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2019 — Salon, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2019 — Auction Benefit, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2017 — Group Exhibition, Red Bull Arts Detroit, Detroit, MI
2014 — From the Ruins, 601 Artspace, curated by Jane Harris, New York, NY
2014 — SiTE:LAB / ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
2014 — Inhabiting Ten Eyck, Storefront Ten Eyck, curated by Karin Bravin, Brooklyn, NY
2014 — Rooms to Let, Cleveland, OH
2014 — A Womanhouse or a Roaming House? “A Room of One’s Own” Today, A.I.R. Gallery, curated by Mira Schor, Brooklyn, NY
2014 — Moon 3, Satellite Gallery, site-specific collaborative installation, Cleveland, OH
2013 — UNTITLED Miami, presented by Asya Geisberg Gallery, Miami, FL
2013 — SiTE:LAB / ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
2013 — Spring, The Willows, New York, NY
2013 — In the Zone, Station Independent, New York, NY
2012 — Ladies and Gentlemen, Nomadic Art Initiatives, New York, NY
2012 — Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2011 — Fragmentation, The Phatory, curated by Dan Cameron, New York, NY
2011 — Things Fall Apart, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2011 — Exit, Visual Arts Gallery, curated by Matthew Moravec, New York, NY
2010 — Five Poems…, 1090 Art Gallery for Latin and International Art, Vero Beach, FL
2008 — Off the Wall, The Sculpture Center, juried by Gregory Amenoff, Cleveland, OH
2006 — 19, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2020 — Emergency Relief Grant, SPACES and partners, Cleveland, OH
2019 — Burke Prize Finalist, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2017 — Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, Indianapolis, IN
2017 — Red Bull Arts Detroit Fellowship, Detroit, MI
2017 — Project Support, Norwegian Arts Council, Stavanger, Norway
2017 — Plug Projects / West Bottoms Neighborhood Project, Kansas City, MO — project supported through an NEA Our Town grant
2016 — Frey Foundation ArtPrize Seed Grant, Grand Rapids, MI
2016 — Everything Is Transformed, SiTE:LAB / ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI — project supported through an NEA grant
2015 — Harpo Foundation Grant, through the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2015 — ArtPrize Juried Installation Award, Grand Rapids, MI
2015 — The Color of Temperance, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA — project supported through an NEA grant
2014 — Slavic Village Grant, Cleveland, OH
2014 — Present Resonance, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH — project supported through an NEA grant
2011 — MFA Fine Art Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2011 — Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Finalist
RESIDENCIES
2024–2025 — Engaged Artist-in-Residence, Arts & Humanities Council, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2024 — Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
2022–2023 — Davis Foundation Studio Residency, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2022 — Arteventura, Aracena, Spain
2022 — Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2021 — Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2020 — Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2019 — Volterra-Detroit Foundation Residency, Volterra, Italy
2018 — Self-Directed Research, Berlin, Germany
2018 — Bed-Stuy Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2017 — Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
2017 — Art Omi, Ghent, NY
2017 — Red Bull Arts Detroit, Detroit, MI
2016 — University of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
2016 — SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, MI
2015 — Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2012 — Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2008 — School of Visual Arts Summer Residency, Sculpture, New York, NY
2005 — Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2001–2002 — School of Visual Arts Summer Residency, Painting, New York, NY
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
2027 — Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2022–Present — Adjunct Faculty, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2021–2023 — Adjunct Faculty, University of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
2014 — Visiting Faculty, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
2010–2011 — Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1999–2009 — Scenic Artist and Seminar Instructor, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH
BOARD SERVICE
2021–Present — Board Member and Curatorial Committee Chair, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
LECTURES, STUDIO VISITS, AND MENTORSHIPS
2025 — School of Visual Arts, MFA Program — New York, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — Lecture and Studio Visits, Philadelphia, PA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago — Lecture and Studio Visits, Chicago, IL
Cleveland Institute of Art — Visiting Artist for Semester, Cleveland, OH
Johnston Community College — Kansas City, MO
School of the Art Institute of Chicago — Lecturer, Chicago, IL
Volterra-Detroit Foundation — Lecturer, Volterra, Italy
University of Utah, Architecture Department — Volterra, Italy
School of Visual Arts, Master’s in Art Practice Program — New York, NY
University of Michigan, MFA Fine Arts Department — Ann Arbor, MI
University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning — Cincinnati, OH
Maryland Institute College of Art, Fine Arts Department — Baltimore, MD
Kansas City Art Institute — West Bottoms Project / NEA / Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
School of Visual Arts, MFA Fine Arts Department — New York, NY
Cleveland Institute of Art — Cleveland, OH
College for Creative Studies — Detroit, MI
The Juilliard School, Theater Department Intern Program — New York, NY
Pratt Institute, MFA Fine Arts Program — Brooklyn, NY
The Union for Contemporary Art, Mentorship Program — Omaha, NE
Indiana University, MFA Fine Arts Department — Bloomington, IN
The College of Wooster, Fine Arts Department — Wooster, OH
Kenyon College, Fine Arts Department — Gambier, OH
Kendall College of Art and Design — Grand Rapids, MI
University of Akron, Myers School of Art — Akron, OH
Akron Art Museum — Lecture, Akron, OH
Baldwin Wallace University — Berea, OH
Ritsumeikan University — Osaka, Japan
Hathaway Brown School — Presentation and Artist Talk, Cleveland, OH
International Council of Art School Deans — Artist Perspective Conference Panelist
CreativeMornings — Lecturer, Grand Rapids, MI
Akron Art Museum — Lecturer, Akron, OH
SOHO20 Gallery — New York, NY
COLLECTIONS
John and Mildred Putnam Sculpture Collection, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Private collections