For over forty years, Julie Linowes has been a cutting-edge multi-disciplinary artist deploying photography, installation, video sculpture, and projection to create complex, multi-layered projects.

Linowes has exhibited widely both internationally and in the United States and is in the permanent collections of prominent museums including the National Museum of Women in the Arts and American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Linowes is also in private and corporate international collections and has been in numerous solo and group exhibits, including a Sotheby’s exhibit and auction and the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s Both Sides of Photography. 

Over her career, Linowes’ work has explored female psychological structures and experiences using narrative devices and employing a surrealist aesthetic. Her work challenges the viewer on a visceral level, demanding they let go of rational understanding and surrender to an experience without answers. However, 2016 and, subsequently, 2020 brought entirely new and devastating realities. Unable to look away, Linowes re-oriented her practice towards political issues. Leave Your Tie at the Door (2019) was her first foray into this arena and addresses the ongoing war on women. 

In 2020, Linowes expanded her practice into painting and sculpture, and in 2022 with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, she embarked on a series of large paintings (48” x 60”) which directly address this subject. The works from Just a Body are available upon request, and details from these paintings can be viewed in Collections here.

Julie Linowes lived in Auckland, New Zealand from 1989 to 2006, where she was Chair of the Department of Photography, Film & Video at Whitecliffe College of Art & Design as well as Director of the Master of Fine Arts program. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1988 from the University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television. Linowes has been published in academic journals, and she presents papers at international conferences in her area of specialization.