JULIA LONG
Julia (Di) Long (b.1984, China) is an artist currently working and living in Beijing China. Born in a family of three generations’ practice in arts, she has chosen a discursive path that later led her way to the art world. Long earned her bachelor degree with highest honor in world history from Nankai University in Tianjin China, furthered her study in American history and gender history in University of Georgia with a full scholarship. She then moved to New York and worked as a restaurant publicist, while making art, doing illustration for magazines, translating articles, and hosting a podcast.
Long has shifted her focus mainly on art in 2017, since then she has done three solo exhibitions at Tabula Rasa Gallery Beijing, along with her translation works of female writers and her writings with a gender focus, she has thus formatted her discursive themes of artistic endeavors into a universe focusing on the discussion on feminism, women’s history and experiences, with an intercultural perspective based on her academic background and personal observation.
Selected solo exhibitions include: If We Could Swap Our Places, with Tabula Rasa Gallery & Bao Collection Space (Upcoming, Shanghai 2024); _Running Up T__hat Hill, _Tabula Rasa Gallery (London, 2024);___Provisional Emotions,___Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2021); Meanwhile, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2019); One Eighth of the Narrative, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2017); _Serendipity,___UNdefine (Shanghai, 2014); Selected group shows include: Home Sweet Home, Power Station of Art (Shanghai 2017); _Nián Nián :The Power and Agency of Animal Forms, _(Deji Museum, 2023).
Publication:_Distracted, an essay collection (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2021) Selected translation publication include: Joan Didion’s two_Paris Review interviews ( The Art of Fiction No.71, and The Art of Non-fiction No. 1) ; Hilary Mantel, _Paris Review _interview ( The Art of Fiction, No. 226), Chinese version published in 2020. Patti Smith, _Devotion( Why I Write), _(Yale University Press, 2017), Chinese version published in 2021.
Courtesy Tabula Rasa Gallery
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