Born in 1974 in St Gallen, Switzerland
Lives and works in Brooklyn, USA
Julia von Eichel was born in Saint Gallen, Switzerland in 1974 and attended the Corcoran School of the Arts in DC and The Art Institute in Chicago before graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at Perrotin, September, Lucien Terras, Sperone Westwater, Lesley Heller, Sarah Meltzer, Winston Wächter, the DeCordova Museum, and the Children’s Museum of the Arts, among many others. Her work is held in multiple private collections, including Goldman Sachs and Microsoft, and has been featured in publications from Artillery Magazine to the Wall Street Journal, from the New York Times to The New Yorker. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Gallatin, NY.
Julia von Eichel has challenged existing modes of technique in every phase of her career. She considers herself a sculptor, even when working in two dimensions—the manipulation of material, with the aim of expressing inner turmoil, manifests itself at times in tangles of string, structures of silk and snapped dowels, or planes of oil paint etched with a razor. Her hands are her preferred tools: sewing, burnishing, tying, or sliding color as if it were an object, not just a hue. A constant in her decades of exploration has been the tension between the many emotions that battle one another under the surface of existence, the barely contained and unsayable contradictions at the heart of being human. Her current work, part sorrow in their somber tones and part joy in their bursts of bright colors, are her answers to all the frustration, pain, catharsis and connection of the past few years.
solo shows
2025
- Perrotin New York, New York, NY
2022
- Pricked and Broken, Visitor Center, Newburgh, NY
2021
-Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2016
- Scream In My Throat, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2015
- Lucien Terras, New York, NY
2014
- Bridge Project, Children's Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, curated by Jil Weinstock
2011
- Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
2008
- Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
group shows
2025
- Women in Abstraction, Gavlak, West Palm Beach, Florida
2024
- Meditation, Perrotin, New York, NY
- Galerie Mighela Shama, Geneva, Switzerland
2023
- Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
- Sarah Shepard Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Freaky Flower, September Gallery, Upstate, NY
- Viewing Room, Perrotin, New York, NY
2022
- Dwellers Part 1, Perrotin, New York, NY, curated by Lucien Terras
- Dwellers Part 2, Perrotin, Paris, France, curated by Lucien Terras
2021
- Addison Ripley, Washington DC
- Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY
2019
- Encounters I, Cristina Grajales Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Stephanie Ingrassia
2018
- Metro Pictures, Brooklyn location, curated by John Newsom
- Sutures, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY curated by Tim Hawkinson and Ken Tan
2017
- Intertwined, curated by Christine Massey & Charlotte Mouquin, Chashama, Brooklyn, NY
- Nothing Twice, John Doe, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Etty Yaniv
2016
- Absolute Beginner, Lucien Terras, New York, NY
- Splotch, Sperone Westwater Gallery and Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY, curated by Eileen Jeng
2015
- Art on Paper art fair, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
- Divine Disruption, The Gallery@1GAP, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Suzy Spence
- Drawing Redefined, deCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
- 143 Reade Street, Lucien Terras Projects, New York, NY
2012
- Contemporary Watercolor, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Veronica Roberts
2011
- Contain, Maintain, Sustain, Artisphere, Arlington, VA, curated by Welmoed Laanstra, Sara Reisman, Ernesto Santalla
- Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
2010
- Weekly Rotations (#5), Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak
2009
- Paper Trail v.5; Intimate Gestures, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2008
- Untitled (Show 2), Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
- Drawn to Detail, deCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
- Infinite Line, Contemporary Drawing in Time and Space, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer