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​Education

Fall 2023-Current

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MFA Candidate in New Media at The University of North Texas

2013-2017

BFA The University of Texas at Austin

Exhibitions and performances

2024

Cedars Union Open Studios group new media exhibition, Dallas, TX

And Always Remember to Leave an Image Solo Exhibition, UNT Union Gallery, Denton, TX

Lumia Musica, Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, Denton, TX

Pivot: 2nd year MFA group exhibition, Lewisville Grand Gallery, Lewisville, TX

Nocturn Video Art Screening, UNT College of Fine Arts, Denton, TX

First and Second-year MFA Student Showcase, UNT CoLab, Denton, TX

2023

Cedars Union Open Studios, New City Park, Dallas, TX

In Symbiosis, Elm Fork Education Center Performance and group exhibition , Eagle Gallery, Denton, TX

Lumia Musica, Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, Denton, TX

2022

Denton ISD Faculty Art Exhibition, UNT CoLab, Denton, TX

Juried 30 Under 30 Exhibition, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX

27 Washes Live Performance, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX​

2019

Warhol Tours Live Performance, Mpingu Village, Malawi

Lemonade Stand Live Performance, Rhumphi Village, Malawi

On the Line Live Performance, Rhumphi Village​

2017

Omnibus Filing Collaboration with Daniel Bozhkov, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX

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

It’s Morning Again in America Collaboration with Henry Smith , Stouthaus Coffee, Austin, TX

Teeter, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX

Washers Collaboration Live Performance, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX

2016

The Department of Internal Reconstruction solo exhibition & live performance, Locker 95 Gallery

Convention Group Show, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Young Bloods Group Show and live performance, Doty Fine Arts Building, Austin. TX

Fine Arts Studies Showcase, AT&T Courtyard Gallery, Austin, TX


Awards and Grants

2024
Recipient of the United States Paul D. Coverdell Fellowship in Graduate studies 

Special Collections Research Fellow, The University of North Texas.

Arrowmont Student Fellowship, Arrowmont School for Art and Craft, Gaitlinberg, TN

Featured in UNT Research magazine as one of the top ten "Up-and-Coming Researchers to Watch in 2024”.

2023

Vorteman Scholarship recipient July and Dec, Denton, TX.

2022

Dallas Museum of Art, Awards to Artists, Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award Recipient

2018

Let Girls Learn Grant, Mpingu Secondary School Library

APCD Grant, Mpingu Secondary School

2017

Bill D. Francis Endowed Scholarship in Visual Arts Studies and Art Education

George H. Mitchell Undergraduate Student Awards for Academic Excellence

Cactus Yearbook Outstanding Undergraduate Award

2016

University of Texas Artist Professional Development Travel Grant

Bill D. Francis Endowed Scholarship

Jennifer Tune Jorns Endowed Scholarship

University-Wide Nomination for Best Undergraduate Research Showdown Video

Second Place Award voted by a judged panel of researchers on 6 minute research pitches.


Artist Statement

Julia Caswell Freund is a Texas-based multimedia artist working in video, performance, textiles, and sculpture. Drawing from her neurodivergent experiences, Freund’s practice often employs hyper-imagery, infinite looping, physical sensation, recursive gestures, micro-expressions, and fixation to investigate somatic experiences. Through an idiosyncratic visual lexicon, she blends the fever-dream-like aesthetics of advertising with imagery drawn from early childhood testing and learning environments. Building on post-war performance art traditions, Freund incorporates not only the body but also cognition into a practice, contextualizing early performance art within the contemporary attention economy.

Freund is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Texas and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017. A background as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Teaching Artist, and Broadcast Television Studio Engineer influence her use of multimedia.

Contact: juliacfstudio@gmail.com
Website: www.juliacaswell.com
Instagram: @juliacfreund
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