Born December 22, 1970, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Currently lives and works in Seattle, Washington.
Education and Awards
1992 New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, New York
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Class Valedictorian, Presidential Scholar
1994 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1998 Artist Trust Gap Grant, Seattle, Washington
1999 King County Arts Commission Portable Works Purchase Award
2000 Seattle Arts Commission “Printworks” Collection Purchase Award
Seattle City Light 1% For The Arts Collection Purchase Award
Scholarship Award, Paint and Image Class, Pilchuck Glass School
Emerging Artist in Residence Award, Pilchuck Glass School
2002 Neddy Award Nominee, Behnke Foundation, Seattle, Washington
Finalist, King County Airport Public Art Project, Seattle, Washington
King County Special Projects Grant, Seattle, Washington
2003 Emerging Public Artist Roster, Seattle Art Commission, Seattle, Washington
Artist in Residence, The Museum of Glass and Contemporary Art, Tacoma,
Washington
2004 Public Commission, The Electric Gallery, The Office of Art and Cultural Affairs and Seattle City Light, Seattle, Washington
Residency Award, Centrum Center for the Arts, Port Townsend, Washington
One and Two Person Exhibitions
2009 Julia Ricketts: New Work, Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2008 Tones and Tides, Baas Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Excerpts and Variants, Fulcrum Gallery, Tacoma, WA
2007 City Views, Larson Gallery, Yakima, Washington
2006 Reveal, Baas Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Equilibrium, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2005 Julia Ricketts: Bird’s Eye View, Baas Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2003 New Paintings, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Chroma, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
Echoes, Solomon Fine Art, Seattle, Washington, with Nancy Callan
2002 Earth Drawings and Water Colors, Baas Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, with
Margaret Boozer
Immaterial, Solomon Fine Art, Seattle, Washington
2001 Ephemera, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2000 Urban Constructions: Julia Ricketts, Baas Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Threshold States, Red Dirt Studio Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1999 Julia Ricketts, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Urban Renewal, Salon Ciba, Seattle, Washington
1998 Julia Ricketts, Baas Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1994 Julia Ricketts: Recent Paintings, The Lawrenceville Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1992 BFA Exhibition, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Selected Juried and Group Exhibitions
2010 Summer Thoughts, Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2007 Spring Fling, Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, Washington
City Light, City Art, Curated by Deborah Paine, The Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2006 Transformations: Works by Electric Gallery Project Artists, Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Gage Academy Instructor Exhibit, Washington State Trade And Convention Center, Seattle, Washington
2005 pARTners, Curated by Deborah Paine, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington
2004 Transition and Transformation, Curated by Kristen Tollefson, CitySpace,
Bank of America Tower, Seattle, Washington
On the Edge: Art from the Pacific Rim, Chappell Gallery, New York, New York
Neutral/ New, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2003 Crossroads: New Art From the Northwest, Curated by Michael Klein,
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington
2002 Regroup/ Review, Solomon Fine Art, Seattle, Washington
2001 Space/Artists/Visions, Solomon Fine Art, Seattle, Washington
Pilchuck Emerging Artists, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Degrees of Abstraction, Baas Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
paper, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Women on Paper, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
2000 Seattle Collects 2000, Key Tower Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Structure, Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Printworks 2000, Bank of America Center, Seattle, Washington
1999 The Graphic Image, Shoreline Community College, Shoreline, Washington
1999 Pratt Faculty Exhibition, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington
The Northwest Annual Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Roads and Rivers, Metropolis Gallery, Bremerton, Washington
Introductions, The Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Perspectives, Baas Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1999 Faculty Exhibition, The Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington
1998 1st Annual Juried Printmaking Exhibition, The Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington
Image and Impression: A Community of Printmakers, The Washington State Trade and
Convention Center, Seattle, Washington
Many Visions: Prints from the Sev Shoon Arts Center, Seattle Pacific University
1997 Pilchuck Summer Staff Show, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Printworks, The Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington
Pilchuck 1997, History of the World Gallery, Camano Island, Washington
1996 Independent Inquiries, Anderson Glover Gallery, Kirkland, Washington
Black and White, The Battery Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1994 Group A: L’Assoluto Naturale, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Publications
“Pure Form: Julia Ricketts at Fulcrum Gallery,” Alec Clayton, The Volcano Weekly, Tacoma, Washington, May 2008
“City Center: Artists Look at Yakima Through the Prism of Urban Renewal,” Kim Nowacki, Yakima Herald-Republic, September 14, 2007
The Seattle Review, Volume XXVI, No. 1, Winter 2004 (Cover Art), Colleen McElroy, Editor
You Are Here, Kitty Harmon, Editor, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
“Reviews”, Matthew Kangas, Glass Quarterly No. 92, Fall 2003
“The Conversation”, Emily Hall, The Stranger (April 10, 2003):p.29
Revolutionary Landscapes: Place, Perception, and Representation
Southern Graphic Council Conference 2003, Perry Lynch, Presenter
“Shows Highlight Three Seattle Painters’ brushes with abstraction,” Matthew Kangas, The Seattle Times (April 12 2002): p. 44h
“New Space for a Growing Vision,” Molly Rhodes, Art Access (Dec 2001/ Jan 2002):pp. 14-15
The Pacific Northwest: A Painted History, Kitty Harmon, Editor, Sasquatch Books, 2001.
Public and Corporate Collections
The Microsoft Corporation Collection, Redmond, WA
The Seattle City Light Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
4Culture, Formerly the King County Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Morley Financial, Portland, OR
The Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Portland State University, Portland, OR
