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I am a Texas-based artist making installations, performances, videos, sculptures, and new media. My practice addresses how attention, affect, and labor intersect in a culture that treats thought and feeling as scarce resources to be managed and monetized.
I operate in the delicate, often absurd overlap between the inner self, politics, and the material environment. Personally, this is most interesting in the dissonant seam between digital and physical spaces, where fragmentation and productive disorientation shape awareness.
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JULIA CASWELL FREUND
Austin, TX beginning June 2026
juliacfstudio@gmail.com | www.juliacaswell.com
EDUCATION
2026
Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2017
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Transmedia
Certification in K–12 Fine Art Education
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND SCREENINGS
2026
Capital (solo exhibition and live performance), TIN.Dallas Gallery, Dallas, TX
Subconscious as Interface, group exhibition, Eklectika, Irving, TX
Video Art Night, screening, Dallas Aurora, Dallas, TX
2025
Dallas Art Fair Emerging Artist Exhibition, New Media Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Hard Boiled, live site-specific performance, Zeke’s Projects Gallery, Dallas, TX
Hack The World, curated by Kick Pigeon Kids, Grackle Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
Feminism in Bloom, The Doolin Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Owen Arts Center, Dallas, TX
Charting Course[s], Voertman Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Multiplicity, live intermedia performance, Mary Ellis Intermedia Theatre, Denton, TX
Washing Machine, live performance, Grackle Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2024
And Always Remember to Leave an Image (solo exhibition), UNT Union Gallery, Denton, TX
Juried Student Exhibition, Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Conference, University of Alabama Birmingham, 2300 Studios, Birmingham, AL
Virtual Self, New Media Exhibition, Cedars Open Studios, Dallas, TX
Pivot, Lewisville Grand Gallery, Lewisville, TX
How To Create A Political Persona 2024, live performance and screening, Denton, TX
2023
New City Park, site-specific installation, Cedars Open Studios, Dallas, TX
Lumia Musica, screening, Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, Denton, TX
In Symbiosis, University of North Texas Environmental Sciences Eagle Gallery, Denton, TX
30 Under 30 Juried Exhibition, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
The Institute of Anthrozoological Archeology, live performance, Denton, TX
Nocturn Video Art Night, screening, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2022
Washing Machine / 27 Washes, live performance, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
Denton ISD Faculty Art Exhibition, UNT CoLab, Denton, TX
2019
Warhol Tours, live performance, Mpingu Village, Malawi
Lemonade Stand, live performance, Rhumphi Village, Malawi
On the Line, live performance, Rhumphi Village, Malawi
2017
Julia Child’s Bake Sale (solo exhibition and live performance), Center Space Project, Austin, TX
Intro to Being Here, audio collaboration, Cohen New Works Festival, Austin, TX
Semi-Automatic Washing Machine, live performance, Creative 40 Acres Festival, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
It’s Morning Again in America, collaboration with Henry Smith, Stouthaus Coffee, Austin, TX
Teeter, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
Washers, collaboration and live performance, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
2016
The Department of Internal Reconstruction (solo exhibition and live performance), Locker 95 Gallery, Austin, TX
Convention, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Young Bloods, exhibition and live performance, Doty Fine Arts Building, Austin, TX
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2025
A Happening in Six Parts, multimedia installation group exhibition, SPARK, Dallas, TX
2017
SELECTED AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
2026
Teaching Fellow, The University of North Texas, Denton,TX
2025
Teaching Fellow, The University of North Texas, Denton,TX
Toulouse Graduate Student Research Award, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Donald R. Dennis Merit Award in Visual Art, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Rodeheaver Scholarship for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2024
Peace Corps Paul D. Coverdell Fellow, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Special Collections Research Fellow, University of North Texas Libraries, Denton, TX
Windgate Fellowship, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Toulouse Graduate School Research/Travel Grant, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2023
Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award to Artist, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2022
Denton Public School Foundation Grant Awardee
2018
Let Girls Learn Grant, Mpingu Secondary School Library, Malawi
2017
George H. Mitchell Undergraduate Student Award for Academic Excellence, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2016
University of Texas Artist Professional Development Travel Grant, Austin, TX
ARTIST INTERESTS
Live and video performance, installation, sculpture, analog media, physical computing, AI video, attention theory, ASMR studies, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.