
2017

Accelearation of similarity
Acrylic on Canvas
72 × 64 inches
1983

a.d.
Oil on Linen, Cibachrome Glass
84 × 42 inches
1993

Hole
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
60 × 125 inches
2019

Iteration
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
72 × 94 inches
2018

You Disappear Me
Oil and Lacquer Ink on Canvas
48 × 106 inches
1987

Thrill
Oil on Canvas
50 × 95 inches
2011

Installation view, Fast Forward, Painting from the 1980s
2017

Untitled (flag)
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
48 × 91 inches
2016

Installation view, The 80s. Art of the Eighties, Albertina Modern, Vienna, 2022

Spirit
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
60 × 92 inches
2015

WTF!
Oil, Lacquer Ink and Flashe on Canvas and Panel
60 × 106 inches


Bio
Born
1956New York
Education
1979Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1978School of Visual Arts, New York
1977Middlebury College, Vermont, BA
Solo Exhibitions
2022Fulfillment, Helena Anrather, New York
2022Super Dakota, Brussels, BE (upcoming)
2021Airlock or gazing into the void, Two person show with Wendy White, VonAmmon Gallery, Washington D.C.
2021Fade to Fade, Three person show with Wendy White, and Paul Pfeiffer Library Street Collective gallery, Detroit
2019Tears, Drips and Pixels, Super Dakota, Brussels BE
2019Helpp, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2017Displacement, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2016Vilma Gold, London, UK
2015Empowerment, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2014Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2014Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
2016Vilma Gold, London, UK
2998Galerie Georges-Phillipe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, FR
1995Crypte de L’Eglise del’Assomption, Rosnay-L’Hopital, FR
1995Eglise de Aumenancourt, Marne, FR
1995Passages, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Troyes, FR
1995Gallery Georges-Phillippe Nathalie Vallois, Paris, FR
1993American Fine Arts, New York
1991Galerie Faust, Geneva Switzerland
1991Option 41: Julia Wachtel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1991American Fine Arts, New York
1990Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
1990Galerie Georges-Phillippe Vallois, Paris, FR
1989Diane Brown Gallery, New York
1985Nature Morte Gallery, New York
1985Nature Morte Gallery, New York
1984Julia Wachtel, Nature Morte Gallery, New York
1983Haim Stainbach and Julia Wachtel: Social Conquest, C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center Mall, New York
1981Relations of Absence, Fashion Moda, Bronx
Group Exhibitions
2021The Sum of All Parts, MoMA, New York
2021The 80s, The Albertina Modern museum, Vienna
2021The Phillips Collection Museum, Washington D.C.y 2022
2021F#%k U & ur DisNey, Super Dakota Gallery, Brussels, BE
2021K as in knight, Helena Anrather, New York
2020World Peace, MoCA Westport, Norfolk
2020The Secret History of Everything, Perrotin, New York
2020Back to the Future, Galerie Georges-Philippe and Natalie Vallois, Paris
2020The Library Street Collective, Detroit
2020100 Sculptures, No Gallery, traveling exhibition
2020Private Eyes: American Postmodern Art, KODE Art Museum, Gergen, NO
2020Passing Time, online show organized by curate Neville Wakefield, Ceclia Bengolea, and Alex Perweiler
2019Smile, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, curated by Todd Von Ammon
2019Think about all the James Deans and what it means, Super Dakota, Brussels
2019The Sorcerer’s Burden, The Contemporary Austin, curated by Heather Pesanti
2019Paradise, Westport Art Center, Wesport
2019Mature Themes, Foxy Production, New York
2019Brand New, Art and Commodity in the 1980’s, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
2019Open House: Elliot Hundley, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lost Angeles
2019été pourri peinture fraiche, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR
2019Focus Group, Von Ammon Co Gallery, Washington D.C.
2017Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2017Man Alive, Jablonka Gallery, Brussels
2017Strange Attractors, curated by Bob Nickas, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
2016Almanch 16, Le Consortium, Dijon
2016Ordinary Pictures, Curated by Eric Crosby. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016Ideologue, The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City
2016Champagne Life, Saatchi Gallery, London
2016Not in New York: Carl Solway and Cincinnati: Highlights of 20th century art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
2015Gallery 30 / 130: Thirty Years of Books and Catalogs..., Bob Nickas at White, Columns, New York
2015The Shadow is Taken, Algus Greenspon, New York
2015THE CRACK-UP, Room East, New York
2015Zabriskie Point, Geneva,
2015Venganza (I don’t want to be friends), Armada, Milan
201520 Years of Collecting, Zabludowicz Foundation, London
2015TOYS REDUX - ON PLAY AND CRITIQUE, curated by Raphael Gygax and Judith Welter, Migros Museum, Zurich, (catalogue)
2014Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2014Portrait de ¾, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
2014New Hells, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2014Forever Young, curated by Marie de Gualejac, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2013Ericka Beckman / Julia Wachtel, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2013Post Culture, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2013Une odyssée: les 30 ans du frac champagne-ardenne, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
2013Selections from Absolut Collection, Curated by Finbar Krook Rossato, Spiritmuseum, Stockholm
2013Group Show, The Artist’s Institute, Curated by Haim Steinbach, New York
2012Remote Control, Institute for Contemporary Art, London
2012Face a Face, FRAC Poìtou-Charantes, Angoulême
2012The Old, the New, the Different, Curated by Fabrice Stroun, Kunsthalle, Bern
2011Situation New York 1986, Art and Public - Cabinet, Geneva
2009Images et (Re)Presentation, Le Magasin, Grenoble
2009Group Show, Gallerie Georges-Philippe & Natalie Vallois, Paris
2001W Exhibition, Curated by Bob Nickas and Vincent Pecoil, Le Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dole
1999Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s, Curated by Lydia Yee, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1999Artlovers, Curated by Marcia Fortes, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
1999Sweet & Sour, Art & Public, Geneva, (CH) Text & Signifier, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
1999Absolut Collection, Louvre, Museum of the Applied Arts, Paris
1998Weather Everything, Curated by Eric Troncy, Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
1998I Love New York, Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College of Art
1996Can We Talk, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
1995Pittura Immedia, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz
2995Peinture, Photo et Cie. Les rencontres d’Arles, Arles
1991Painting Culture, fiction/non fiction, New York
1990Stendahl Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
1990Le Choix des Femmes, Le Consortium, Dijon
2990Total Metal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
1990The Last Laugh, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
1989Group Show, Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart
1989The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City
1988Works Concepts Processes Situation Information, Curated by Bob Nickas, Hans Meyer Gallery, Dusseldorf
1988Appropriation and Syntax: The Uses of Photography in Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
1987Nothing Sacred, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles,
1987Avant-Garden the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1987Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
1987The Art of the Real, Curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva
1987Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1987Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University/C.W.Post, Campus, Greenvale
1986American Fine Arts Co., Colin de Land Fine Art, New York
1986When Attitudes Become Form, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
1986The Ready Made Painted, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York
1986Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York
1986Group Show, Nature Morte Gallery, New York
1985Split Vision, Curated by Laurie Simmons and Robert Mapplethorpe, Artists Space, New York
1985Persona Non-Grata, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York
1985Infotainment, Texas Gallery, Houston, traveled to: Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; De Selby Gallery, Amsterdam; Galerie Montenay Del Sol, Paris
1985Americana, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
1985East Village, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal
1984Neo York: Reported on a Phenomenon, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara
1984Emblem, L.A.C.E. Gallery, Los Angeles
1984Timeline of Intervention in Central America, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1, Long Island
1984Hundreds of Drawings, Artists Space, New York
1983Group Show, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo
1983Terminal Show/Preparing for War, Brooklyn
1983Revolutionary High Art, Latino Space, New York
1982Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York
1981Selections, Artists Space, New York
1981Selections 14, Drawing Center, New York
1979Film/Audio Installation, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1, Long Island City
Exhibitions
4 Feb–14 Mar 2021
Catherine Telford Koegh, Alexander Carver, Tony Cokes, Raque Ford, Kate Mosher Hall, Manal Kara, Vijay Masharani, Pope.L, Walter Price, Michael E. Smith, Catherine Telford Keogh, and Julia Watchtal
14 Apr–4 Jun 2022
Julia Wachtel