Julia Vogl

Julia Vogl
Born July 4, 1985
Washington, D.C.
Nationality  United States United Kingdom
Education Oberlin College Slade School of Fine Art
Known for Sculpture, Public Art
Awards Listed by the American for the Arts Year in Review top projects 2011, Audrey Whykeham Prize, Nancy Balfour Trust Scholarship, Aesthetica Creative Works Competition 2012, Catlin Art Prize Winner 2012

Julia Vogl is an artist originally from Washington DC, and has done a lot of work in London, England. On January 11, 2009, she was funded by The Brooklyn Arts Council to create an installation in Fort Greene Park entitled Blades of Fort Greene.[1] While attending the Slade School of Art she completed two other major public art works. The first was entitled "Colouring the Invisible," at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies SEESS[2] And then for her Degree show she made a work entitled "£1 000 000 | 1 000 opinions (where would you allocated £1 000 000 of public spending?)".[3] Julia Vogl was the recipient of the Catlin Art Prize in 2012. Previous winners have included British artist Russell Hill, who won the award in 2011.[4] she went on to receive an Arts Council England Grant to make her self-initiated cultural olympiad work- HOME, a public art project for Peckham.[5]

During 2013 Julia Vogl was involved in a participatory artwork at the Discovery Museum Newcastle upon Tyne. The medium of the piece was recycled plastic bottles.[6][7] Her presence in Newcastle was the result of a competition which the museum won.[8] This project links Julia to the Museums at Night and The Late Shows programmes and Connect 10 is a project run through Culture 24 that matches Ten contemporary artists & ten exciting Museums at Night events during the weekend of May 16–18, 2013. Featuring: Martin Creed, Richard Wentworth, Gavin Turk, Jake and Dinos Chapman, rAndom International, Mat Collishaw, Julian Wild, Cullinan and Richards, Susan Forsyth & Julia Vogl.[9]

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