Biography

Julie A. McConnell, a fine arts photographer and installation artist, lives in New York, NY. In 2000 she was a participant of Aljira's Emerge Program and Exhibition curated by Arlene Raven. Selections from her digital montage series, Hillary et al., were featured in Photography Quarterly. Over the years her Doberman companions have inspired her unique card line, Canine Greeting Cards, one of which was published in A Thousand Hounds: The Presence of the Dog in the History of Photography (Taschen Press). Reviews of her work have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, The New York Times and c international contemporary art. McConnell participated in the book, Death in the Studio, which featured the interpretive studio deaths of 62 artists documented by Hannes and Priesch. Recent group exhibits were Enantiomorphic Chamber at NurtureArt and Sustaining Vision: A Tribute to Arlene Raven at New Jersey City University's Lemmerman Gallery. Central Booking's Natural Histories exhibit featured her Animals in Mind Stereograph Cards. In 2009 selections from Animals in Mind were exhibited in a two person show at PS122 Gallery. Her last two solo exhibitions, Deliberations on Equilibrium and Single-Use Landscape have included mixed media installation components. Both explored the treatment of the environment and its animals. She received a BFA in Photography from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and a MFA in Photography from Hunter College.