Biography

Julie Dermansky was born New York City in 1966 and grew up in Englewood NJ. She got a BFA from Sophie Newcomb (part of Tulane University). She has completed major public art projects for NYC's Percent for the Art's Program and shows in galleries and museums in America and Europe.

Dermansky switched her focus from painting and sculpture to photography in 2004. Her work has been published in the New York Times, U.S. News,The Tulanian, the Armenian Reporter and Imagine LA. She has been working on a series about  Dark Tourism including genocide memorials and sites of historic blight. Currently she is developing a project utilizing Tulane’s Natural History collections that will combine her post-Katrina series with her work on natural history and anthropology within a natural history context. The Chicago Field Museum has incorporated aspects of her project in their show Called “Nature Unleashed that opened in May 2008 and will travel to eight other natural history museums through 2010. Dermansky has also been documenting the Louisiana National Guard at work. She published a book called “Under the Radar” after spending several weeks riding along with them and then joined them in Iraq where she was embedded for five months. Two photo books of here work are now available .

Dermansky was awarded an NEA fast track grant for her work at the Everhart Museum and is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow . She was recently named an Affiliate Scholar at Rutgers University’s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights.

Clients include

The New York Times, US News, Vintage Books, Focus Magazine, Alcatel, Tulanian Magazine, NPR, The Museum Of Cultural Inquiry, Movimiento Actual, Oculus, Mercury Records, Image LA, Armenian Weekly, Armenian Reporter, Chicago Field Museum, Focus Magazine, L’espresso, Weplay, Fund for Armenian Relief

Work available through

Photo Researchers and Polaris Images

Solo Exhibitions

2008

Memorial Sites : New York to Nairobi, Photographs by Julie Dermansky , Center for Architecture, New York City ,Sept 10- October 4th 2008

“Revenants: A New Orleans Reliquary, Post Katrina Photographs by Julie Dermansky with Poems by Ann McGarrel”, AVA Gallery And Art Center, Lebanon NH May 30- June 29 ,2008

2007

“Photographs of Sign Painting Around the World by Julie Dermansky” Steve Martin Studio, New Orleans, LA, April 7th -30

2006

“Natural Selections Photographs by Julie Dermansky” Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art, Scranton, PA, July 14 - Sept. 24

2004

"Natural and Unnatural History" Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, NY, July 22 - Oct 11,

"Shock and Pause", The Scene Gallery, New York City, May 12 - 18

2003

"Recent Work By Julie Dermansky", The Art Mission, Binghamton, NY, Oct 3 - Dec 4

2000

"At Auschwitz" Collaboration with Georg Steinboeck, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute for Religion, New York, NY Sept.- Jan.

1995

Criminal Paintings by Julie Dermansky, Kim Foster, New York October

1994

Krimenelle, Boudoir, Berlin, Germany, September

1993

Work by Julie Dermansky , Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY, December

Group Exhibitions

2009

New Orleans Photo Alliance, Caliente/Hot, August - OCt 2009

Puffin Foundation, Human Nature, Black &Blue, Jan 15- march 31st

2008

Paul Robeson Galleries, University of Rutgers, Newark New Jersey.“ Representing the Natural World” Nov. 6-Jan.28

Nature Unleashed, Chicago Field Museum- show travel for 2 years

2007

A Warning Shouldn’t Be Pleasant, Gallery At West LA College, March

2005

Fictional Postcards From the Edge, Hebrew Union Group Show

2003

"Icon Show" Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ,

"The Art of Aging", Hebrew Union College, New York, NY

2002

Group Show, Andy Jllien Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

"Women in the Bible" Hebrew Union College, New York, NY

2001

"Jewish Artists on the Edge" Yeshiva University, New York, NY

Group Show, Andy Jllien Gallery, Zurich Switzerland, June

2000

"Assemblage" S.U.N.Y. University Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, November

Tryon Center for the Visual Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina,

"Jewish Artists on the Edge", College of Santa Fe, New Mexico

1999

"Size Matters", Gail Gates Gallery, New York, NY

"The Bug Show", Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

1997

Julie Dermansky Gallery "Sex and Marriage", New York, NY

Julie Dermansky Gallery "Pathology", New York, NY,

1996

White Columns "Portraiture", New York, NY

Socrates Park, 25th Anniversary, New York

1995

PS 122 "Justice", New York, NY

Andy Jllien, Zurich, Switzerland,

Garner Tullis, New York, NY

1994

Thicket Gallery, New York, NY

1993

Boudoir in Exile/P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY

Eeves Mott Else, New York, NY

Helender Gallery, New York, NY

Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

Foster Peet, New York, NY,

Shirley Fiterman, New York, NY, 1993

Dooley Le Capellaine, New York, NY, 1993

Downtown Gallery, Monotypes, New Orleans, LA 1990

Crash, "The Decay of Elegance", Phoenix, AZ, 1990

X-Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 1989

Last Gas Sculpture Park, Brunswick, NJ, 1988

International Design Center, Group Show "2B Productions", New York, NY, 1988

Galleria Centro Cultural, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1988

Simms Gallery, "Gone Fishing", New Orleans, LA

Gasperi Folk Art Gallery, "Taboo Folk Fun", New Orleans, LA 1987

Contemporary Art Center, "Art for Art's Sake", New Orleans, LA, 1986

Maria Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 1985

Public Art Projects

2001

New York City Percent For Art Program, Linoleum floor and decorative steel fence for a Day Care Center in Queens, NY

2000

New York City Percent of Art Program, Linoleum floor and decorative steel stair railing for a Day Care Center in Brooklyn, NY

Education

1990

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

MFA Program, Teaching Assistant

1987

Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

BFA with Departmental Honors in Studio Art 1987

Awards

2006

NEA Fast Track Award -To support an exhibition of photographs by Julie Dermansky and related programs that explore natural history specimen displays at the Everhart Museum of Natural History , science and Art. The photographs and lecture-tours examine the way display formats influence public understanding of natural history collections.

1988

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship

1987

Arthur Q. Davis Drawing Competition Award

1986

Juanita Gonzales Award in Ceramics

Collections

2009

Sept 11 Memorial Museum, NYC

2008

Louisiana State Museum

1997

Milwaukee Art Museum

Publications selected

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Television

2008

WWL (CBS in New Orleans)  spot on Tulane NH Museum project

1997

New Yorkers', Japanese Public TV- a 20 minuet biographical segment that was later shown on NY1 Public Access TV

Employment

I have been self-employed for 22 years. I started making and selling jewelry on the streets of NYC in 1990 graduating from selling assemblage pins in front of Rizzoli, to being invited to do their windows on West Broadway. I opened my own storefront gallery on Elizabeth St. in 1990 and then started a wholesale craft business to supplement the sales from my studio. I participated in the International furniture show and gift show at the Jacob Javits center. My work in design and fabrication helped me win my first commissions for the percent for the arts program of NYC. I have sold my own art and worked with galleries for twenty years. In 2004 I closed my fabrication shop and have been concentrating on photography. Besides developing my personal projects, I now license my work and shoot portraits.

Work in Video

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