Biography

Julie A. McConnell, a fine arts photographer and installation artist, lives in New York City. 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. Her canine-inspired photomontage 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. Animals in Mind: Photomontages, 2007, was McConnell's fifth solo exhibit. That same year her work was included in the group exhibit, Neither Muscles Nor Secretions in Madrid, Spain and David Cohen's SEED Project, featured in Artworld Digest. Recent group exhibits were Enantiomorphic Chamber at NurtureArt and Sustaining Vision: A Tribute to Arlene Raven at New Jersey City University's Lemmerman Gallery. In early 2009 her work was exhibited in a two person show at PS122 Gallery. September exhibits included the group show Natural Histories at Central Booking and the solo exhibit, Deliberations on Equilibrium: An Installation and Photographs. She received a BFA in Photography from New York University Tisch School of the Arts (1986) and a MFA in Photography from Hunter College (1994).