Education
Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, 1999. Click here for Writings & Reviews
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, San Francisco Art Institute, 1997.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Academy of Art College, 1988.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of San Francisco, 1988.
University of South Florida, University of Massachusetts, 1981-1984.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Summer Selections San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artists Gallery, Ft. Mason Center.
2007 Drawings Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music & Art, Mountainview , CA .
2006 Surface Reflection Accident Gallery, Eureka , CA.
Mystery Spot Configuration V.U. Gallery, Western Washington University , WA .
2005 Moving Target Stellar Somerset Gallery, Palo Alto , CA .
2003 Glamour Wood The First Street Gallery, Eureka , CA.
Chromatica: New Drawings Vallila City Library, Helsinki , Finland .
2001 Winterworld: Recent Paintings Octavia’s Haze Gallery, San Francisco .
1999 New Paintings Terrain, San Francisco .
Drawn and Quartered Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute.
1996 Speakeasy Salon: Paintings & Puppets Black Pine Circle Theater, Berkeley , CA .
1995 The Bridge: Art & Science Chiron Corporation, Emeryville , CA .
1994 Terminals, Tracks, & Crossings Fr. Connoly Gallery, University of San Francisco .
1993 Between the Lines International Inn Gallery, Oakland , CA .
1992 The Well of Souls The Berkeley Square , Berkeley .
1989 Eikons The Soft Touch Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco .
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 CHINA Past and Present Gualala Art Center, Gualala, CA.
Aqua Lunita II Studio 104, San Francisco.
Self-Portrait Invitational Accident Gallery, Eureka.
2007 Metamorphosis Green Rice Gallery, San Jose , CA .
2006 Aqua Lunita Studio 104, San Francisco.
Faculty Exhibition, Creative Arts Gallery, College of the Redwoods, Eureka.
2005 The Visual Arts Project of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Magic Theater, San Francisco .
The Portrait Show Accident Gallery, Eureka.
Small Paintings Stellar Somerset Gallery, Palo Alto , CA .
2004 Close Calls Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito , CA .
Sparrow Lines Collaborative Drawing Project with Felix Macnee, Creative Arts Gallery, College of the Redwoods.
Crossing Bridges CBS MarketWatch, San Francisco .
Night of Art d. p. Fong Gallery, San Jose , CA .
AAWAA 15 th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition The Women’s Building, San Francisco .
Humboldt State University Faculty Exhibition, The First Street Gallery, Eureka .
2003 where are you & your drawing at? The Lab, San Francisco .
An Artist’s Artist: The Inez Storer Legacy San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose.
The Lab’s Seventh Annual Art Auction, The Lab, San Francisco .
Making their Mark SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco .
Humboldt State University Faculty Exhibition, Reese Bullen Gallery, Arcata , CA .
2002 Across the Generations: Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury Exhibition in conjunction with the
12 th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Sonoma State University Art Gallery , CA .
Recent Paintings Mussi Artworks Foundry Gallery, Berkeley , CA .
AAWAA Artists at San Pablo City Art Gallery San Pablo , CA .
2001 Works On Paper Three-Person exhibition, MeSH Gallery, Sebastopol , CA .
Post-Postcard 5 Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco .
2000 Visual Nectar Rizzoli Gallery, San Francisco .
Murals and Miniatures Terrain, San Francisco .
Inspired by Title Terrain, San Francisco .
Tails of the City Destination Foundation, Metreon Center , San Francisco .
1999 Terrain in Newport : 5 Hydrangea House, Newport , RI .
Mix Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA.
Telling Tales Benicia Public Library, Benicia , CA .
1998 Windows on the Waterfront Jack London Square , Oakland , CA .
1997 Artists Among Us: Creative Fellowship Artists Pro Arts, Oakland . Catalog.
The Celtic Lands Guest curator/exhibiting artist, The 60th Street Gallery, Oakland .
Bookworks Pacific Center for the Book Arts Biennial, San Francisco Main Public Library.
1996 Regional Canvas: A Survey of Painting Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland .
Science Imagined Berkeley Art Center , Berkeley , CA. Catalog.
Creating Our Vision Prieto Gallery, Mills College , Oakland . Catalog.
Our Mother’s Daughters Crucible Steel Gallery, Cell Space, San Francisco .
Bookends: Individual Perspectives North Redwoods Book Arts Conference, Arcata , CA .
1995 Women’s Caucus for Art National Conference & Exhibit, Boston Library, Boston , MA .
Transcending Boundaries SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco .
Oakland Artists Oakland Federal Building , Civic Center.
Grants and Awards
2009 Awarded Senior Artist-In-Residence, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR.
2008 Ingrid Nickelsen Trust Grant for Women Artists.
2004 Artist Fellowship, Earthwatch Institute and Ford Motor Company Foundation,
archaeological project, Traditions of Cedar, Salmon & Gold , Skagit River Valley , WA .
2003 Morris Graves Foundation Artist Residency, for drawing.
College of the Redwoods Foundation Grant, Helsinki art scene photographs.
2001 Full Artist Fellowship/Residency, The Julia & David White Artist Colony, Costa Rica .
1998 Cadogan Graduate Fellowship in painting, The San Francisco Foundation.
Rick Cramer Memorial Graduate Fellowship in painting, San Francisco Art Institute.
Legion Paper Award for drawing, San Francisco Art Institute.
1997 Two-year California Graduate Fellowship for study at the San Francisco Art Institute.
1995 Creative Artist Fellowship, Set Design/Puppetry, Cultural Arts Division of the City of Oakland .
Teaching
2002-08 Associate Faculty, Figure Drawing, Introduction to Art, Painting, Drawing, and Color and Design courses, College of the Redwoods, CA.
2007 Visiting Instructor, Large Scale Drawing Workshop, Community School Music & Art, Mountainview, CA.
2003 Lecturer, Beginning Drawing, Humboldt State University , Arcata , CA .
2002 Lecturer, Expressive Drawing, San Jose State University , San Jose , CA .
Faculty, Fundamentals of Drawing, UC Berkeley Extension Program, Berkeley.
2001 Faculty, Fundamentals of Drawing, UC Berkeley Extension.
Visiting Artist, Printmaking, The Urban High School, San Francisco .
Instructor, The Fantastic Landscape, and Experimental Drawing, San Francisco Art Institute Community Education.
Faculty, Painting with Mixed-Media, UC Berkeley Extension.
2000 Visiting Artist, Workshop for Interdisciplinary Core undergraduates, San Francisco Art Institute.
Instructor: The Fantastic Landscape, Beginning Painting, and Monoprinting classes, San Francisco Art Institute Community Ed.
1999 Instructor, Painting, Extension Education Program, San Francisco Art Institute.
Visiting Artist, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Artist Studio Program, San Francisco .
Instructor, The Dance Palace Community Center Summer Arts Camp, Pt. Reyes Station, CA.
1998 Teaching Assistant, SF Art Institute, Painting I & II, Printmaking, Living & Breathing Painting.
1997 Instructor, Studio One Art Center , Oakland Office of Parks & Recreation.
Visiting Artist, Rockridge Public Library, Artists-In-Libraries After School Arts Education Program, Cultural Arts Division of Oakland .
1996 Visiting Artist, Montclair Public Library, Artists-In-Libraries After School
Arts Education Program, Cultural Arts Division of Oakland . Visiting Artist, Studio for
Technology & the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
Additional Experience
2008 Installation of permanent large-scale wall mural, Green Room, Green Birds, CSMA, Mountainview, CA.
2007 Artist Lecture, Tateuchi Hall, Finn Center, CSMA. Installation of three large-scale, site specific
wall drawings : Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Lady in the Moon, Autumn Moon Festival, puppet show to benefit Chinese orphanages. Wrote play, created puppets,
set/stage design, performance. Arcata , CA .
Faculty Curator, Eye Candy , Color & Design Student Show, College of the Redwoods.
2005 Visual art presentation for Sarah Hammond’s play, Green Girl ,
Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Magic Theater, San Francisco .
Artist Lecture, Stellar Somerset Gallery, for “Artwalk”, Palo Alto , CA .
Skagit Stratiforms: Artists and Archaeologists in the North Cascades , Lecture, Math/Science/Engineering Colloquium, College of the Redwoods.
2003 Visiting Artist-In-Residence, Spike Island Arts Centre, Bristol , England .
Faculty Curator, Individual Perspectives , juried student paintings, College of the Redwoods.
2002 Member, San Francisco Art Institute Artist’s Committee.
Invited Juror, Diego Rivera Gallery, Student Exhibitions, San Francisco Art Institute.
1999 Interim Painting Department Manager, San Francisco Art Institute.
1998 Selection Committee, first Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship; and Hiring Committee, Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute.
1993-01 Artistic Director, stage designer, performer, for The Three-Legged Puppet Troupe, at
venues including ZEUM, Yerba Buena Gardens Center for the Arts, Wise Fool Puppet Festival,
Cell Space; In the Street Festival, 509 Cultural Center/Luggage Store, San Francisco ;
San Jose Discovery Museum , San Jose ,“No-Penny Opera”,
Golden Gate Lutheran Church ; Black Pine Circle Theater, Berkeley,
Laurel Community Playhouse, and 60 th Street Gallery, Oakland , CA .
1994 Choreography/dance performance, Sidhe , Energy Arts Institute, Oakland .
Library scribe, The Diagonal Core Wall , collaborative mural project, designed by Ann
Hamilton and Ann Chamberlain, New Main Public Library, Civic Center, San Francisco .
Lecture/slide show, Chiron Corporation, Emeryville , CA .
Lecture/slide show, Tuesday Art Lecture Series, Oakland Chamber of Commerce.
1993 Video/film for Underworld Opera Company’s Close Your Mind and Kiss Me ,
SomArts Theater, San Francisco . Performance/video for “Vent” and “Aqua”, interdisciplinary
arts troupes performing at the Pacific Stock Exchange, Headlands Center for the Arts, etc…
Presentation on Artist’s Journals, Pacific Center for the Book Arts, Berkeley, CA.
Public Collections
Library of the Museum of Modern Art , New York , NY.
University of South Florida , Tampa , FL.
New York Public Library, New York , NY .
Chiron Corporation, Emeryville , CA .
The Julia and David White Artist Colony, Costa Rica
The Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta , CA .
Publications / Bibliography / Media
2007 “Julie McNiel at Mohr Gallery”, Artweek , November issue.
“What Dreams are Made Of: Artist Julie McNiel”, Mountainview Voice , 8/10/07.
2005 Stellar Somerset Gallery, “Small Paintings”, featured on KQED’s online “Gallery Crawl”. http://www.kqed.org/topics/arts/gallery-crawl/
December edition.
“McNiel at Stellar Somerset ”, Palo Alto Daily, 6/3/05
“Art, Science, on Common Ground”, The Eureka Reporter, 1/27/05.
2004 “Two Artists Collaborate on Project” Eureka Times-Standard, 9/2/04.
“Images Half-Seen”, The Eureka Reporter , 9/10/04.
2003 Drawings published in Watchword Press #5 , San Francisco .
“Imaginary Worlds Come Alive”, Eureka Times-Standard , 8/29/03.
KHSU Radio Interview, Artwaves , “Glamour Wood : Julie McNiel’s Paintings”, 9/9/03, with journalist Wendy Butler.
KHSU Radio Interview , “Adventures in Drawing: Julie McNiel", with Jennifer Bell, 9/10/03.
“Individual Perspectives”, The Eureka Reporter , December.
2001 “Triple Play: MeSH Gallery”, The Bohemian , July.
“D’Andrade, McNiel & Smith at MeSH”, Artweek, July issue.
1997 Drawings published in Southern Oregon State College’ West Wind Review , and Elephant Printing’s Mountains & Alleys.
1987-96 Drawings/poetry published in various literary arts magazines, including Nerve Cowboy ,
Lynx Eye , and Free Lunch . Drawings featured in The Island, the San Francisco Irish Arts
Foundation’s magazine. Featured artist, contributing writer, 510 Magazine.
Freelance illustrator for non-profit organizations, including California Tomorrow magazine,
Watch magazine, and The Philippine Drug Intervention Project of San Francisco.