Julie Wolfe

Julie Wolfe is a multimedia, conceptual artist based in Washington, D.C., and New York City. Her work explores the layered relationship between external environments and interior states of perception, often drawing from archives of collected imagery, data, and found material. Through a practice that spans painting, installation, collage, and artist’s books, Wolfe constructs richly textured systems of color, form, and language that serve as poetic frameworks for navigating time, memory, and identity.

Known for her experimental use of materials—including layered transparencies, overprinting techniques, and hand-drawn interventions—Wolfe frequently reconfigures her own visual archive to explore new associations. Her artist’s books function as intimate extensions of her studio practice, bridging the tactile and conceptual, the personal and the collective.

For The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute’s Spring 2026 exhibition, Wolfe is collaborating with photographer to create a series of artworks based on pairings from the Met’s historic and contemporary fashion collections. Wolfe’s layered visual language, grounded in the logic of transformation and juxtaposition, serves as a vital lens for interpreting the evolving relationships between bodies, garments, and cultural memory.

Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including The American University Museum, The Allen Memorial Art Museum,, the World Bank, Microsoft, the National Gallery of Art Library, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Library. She is represented in Paris, New York, and Washington, D.C.