Julia Purdy
450 Harrison Ave., studio 318
Boston, MA 02118
juliapurdyart@gmail.com
www.juliapurdyart.com

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
SoWa Artists Guild Group Show, Boston City Hall Galleries, Boston, MA.
New World Coming, Piano Craft Gallery, juried by Violence Transformed, Boston, MA.
One Future, Shared Habitat Earth, The Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA.

2024
SMFA Art Sale, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (SMFA), Boston, MA
This Is America, V3, The PEG Center for Art & Activism, juried by Claudia Fiks, Newburyport, MA.
Here - I’ll Get That for You, museum invitational, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA.
This Is America, V2, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, Boston City Hall, juried by Claudia Fiks, Boston, MA.
The Act of Making Art, Wellesley Free Library, juried by Kaveh Mojtabai, awarded Honorable Mention, Wellesley, MA.
In the Balance, Shared Habitat Earth, Wedeman Gallery, Newton, MA.
The Alchemy of Art and Play, Piano Craft Gallery, juried by Sage Brousseau and Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Boston, MA.
Face It, Piano Craft Gallery, juried by Violence Transformed, Boston, MA.

2023
Let There Be Light, a juried exhibition at Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Small Works Show 2023, New Art Center’s New Art Corridor, juried, Newton, MA.
Awake: Mindfulness & Presence in Art, Overlook Gallery, Unbound Visual Arts, juried by Jack Energy, Brighton, MA.
LabShares Satellite Gallery, New Art Center Corporate Lending Program, Waltham, MA.
What’s Going On, Piano Craft Gallery, juried by Violence Transformed, Boston, MA.

2022
Abstract Art Contemporary Approaches, Mosesian Center for the Arts, juried by Boriana Kantcheva, Watertown, MA
More Than Words - art inspired by literature and poetry, Belmont Gallery of Art, juried by Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA.
Cape Cod: Outside In, Upside Down, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, juried by Molly Demeulenaere, South Yarmouth, MA.
Art For Hope, Morini Gallery, juried by Tatiana Flis, Mansfield, MA.

2021
Remembering Together: Marking Lives COVID-19, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA.
7th Annual Colorful Abstractions, Fusion Art, juried by Chris and Valerie Hoffman, online exhibition.
BerryDunn Satellite Gallery, New Art Center Corporate Lending Program, Waltham, MA.
RENEWAL, The W Gallery, juried by Jean-Pierre Ducondi and Judi Stein, Wayland, MA.
Pop Up Gallery, juried by Art Wellesley, Wellesley, MA.
Storefront Project, juried by Art Wellesley, Wellesley, MA.

PUBLICATIONS
Beyond Words Magazine, Issue 49, July-August 2024
Beyond Words Magazine, Issue 28, July-August 2022
Beyond Words Magazine, Issue 25, April 2022
Beyond Words Magazine, Issue 24, March 2022

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
2025 Featured artist, Community Canvas, WGBH (PBS Boston), August 14, 2025
2024 Honorable Mention, Thought Bubbles, Newton Art Association, juried by Kaveh Mojtabai, founder and publisher of Artscope Magazine.
2023 Volunteer of the Year Award, Cambridge Art Association.

EDUCATION
2008-2010 Boston University — Master of Science, Arts Administration
1992-1996 Michigan State University — Bachelor of Arts, English2017-2019 New Art Center, Newton, MA
2017, 2019 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2018, 2019 Master class painting workshops with Margaret Gerding

MEMBERSHIPS
2025-current National Association of Women Artists Signature Member
2024-current SoWa Artists Guild
2022-current United South End Artists
2020-current Cambridge Art Association

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
2009-2012 Gallery Teacher, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
2009-2012 Volunteer, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
New Art Center Corporate Lending Program
art_works Corporate Client
JAMS, Boston, MA office
Atlanta, GA
Boston, MA
East Lansing, MI
Edgewater, NJ
Los Angeles, CA
Nashua, NH
Newton, MA
New York, NY
Palo Alto, CA
Providence, RI
Wellesley, MA