Education
2005 MFA, Studio Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1999 BFA, Photography, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1997 – 1998 Film, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Captain Rooftop, JAUS Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Captain Rooftop, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2015 Always Green, Ever-Living, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2014 Madeleine, The Luckman Gallery, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Playback, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Anna Moore, Changing Role Gallery, Rome, Italy
2007 Anna Moore, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Anna Moore, Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2005 Occurrence At Lookout Rock, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2003 Fracture Line, Gallery D300, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2003 An Exchange, Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
2002 An Exchange, Interactive Media Arts Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1997 Julie Orser: Liquid Light Fragments, Garage Gallery, Portland, OR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 She Who Made Me, Curated by Mary Anna Pomonis, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Interiors, Ctrl Gallery, Curated by Paul Young, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Western Values: Re-Thinking the Old West, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2022 POST CINEMA, Curated by JAUS and panke.gallery, Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Ultra!, Torrance Art Museum, part of a Public Art Exhibition in The City of Torrance, CA
2020 Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
2019 In Production: Art and the Studio System, (organized by LACMA; curated by Rita Gonzalez), Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
2018 Do Nothing Until You Hear From Me (Eileen Cowin) and New Narrators... (Julie Orser), Two Person Exhibition, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
2016 End(less), MRK Contemporary Video Art Festival, Museum Romeinse Katakomben, Valkenburg, Netherlands
2014 Hollywood Forever, SIA Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom
2014 Analog/Digital 2014, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2013 L.A. Stories: Videos from the West Coast, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2013 Super 8, Curated by Christopher Grimes Gallery, Traveling Exhibition: Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 Echo of Echo, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Super 8, Curated by Christopher Grimes Gallery, Traveling Exhibition: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany and Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco, CA
2012 We Can Pretend: Three Artists’ Takes on Hollywood Genre Film, Curated by Carrie Paterson, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Doublespeak, UMOCA Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2011 Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 ARTLAB Film Forum, Curated by Akosua Adoma Owusu, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2010 Seeing is Becoming, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
2010 Culture Shock: Video Interventions at the QET, Public Video Exhibition coinciding with Vancouver’s presentation of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, B.C.
2009 Unusual Behavior, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
2009 Drama of the Gifted Child: The Five Year Plan, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2009 feeling, Feelings, Compact/Space, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Here Once Again Where Art and Cinema Interact, The Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea
2008 Video as Video: Rewind To Form, Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago, IL
2008 Akklimitizatsia (Acclimatization): New Work from Saint Petersburg & Los Angeles, C.A.G. Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2007 Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980–2006, Curated by Dextra Frankel, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
2007 Works by Emerging Video Artists, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
2007 Notes from the Overpass: New Art from Los Angeles and Saint Petersburg, Galleriet G18, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2006 Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures, Curated by Josh Siegel, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2006 Contemporary, Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2006 A Play on Action: 5 Los Angeles Artists Consider Feminism, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Fair Exchange, Curated by Irene Tsatsos and Glenn Phillips, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
2006 At Home in the World, Armory Northwest/965, Pasadena, CA
2006 Action Adventure, Curated by Josh Kline, CANADA, New York, NY
2006 VideoMixTape5, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
2006 Signal Channel: Contemporary Video Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2006 11:59, Curated by Parker Jones, Compact/Space, Los Angles, CA
2005 A Single Channel Video Show, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
2005 Dis/Connect, South La Brea Gallery, Inglewood, CA
2005 Greater LA MFA: A Student-To-Student Invitational Exhibit, Cal State Long Beach, CA
2005 Supersonic 2: The Southern California MFA Show, LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Shipping & Receiving: The CalArts MFA Thesis Show, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA
2004 Soft Emergencies, VU Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
2004 Mid-Res, Stevenson Blanche Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2003 Transit, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2003 Stratum, Soundvision Gallery, Portland, OR
1999 Thesis Show, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Selected Screenings
2026 52nd Seattle International Film, Seattle, WA
2026 53rd Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH
2022 Text a Love a Muse, organized Insert Blanc Press, 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Night at the Movies, Organized by Maura Brewer & Pau Pescador, Online Screening, UV Cinema, Colección AMALITA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 Games, Organized by Maura Brewer & Pau Pescador, Online Screening, 18th Street Art Center, CA
2019 Video in Site: The Horror Film & The Western, LACE, Organized by Maura Brewer & Pau Pescador, Los Angeles, CA
2017 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Jury Award, Ann Arbor, MI
2017 44th Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH
2017 19th Annual Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
2017 12th Annual Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
2017 Chicago Feminist Film Festival, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2016 Screening, Open Sessions 7: Hibernating Plan, The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
2016 Femmes Video Art Festival, Curated by Micol Hebron, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA
2015 All I could do is watch, ATLAS IN LA, Organized by Pau Pescador, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Intermission, Terry Chatkupt, Julie Orser, Marco Rios, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
2014 16th Annual Maryland Film Festival, MD
2014 2nd Annual Afterglow Summer Video Series, Curated by Harry Dodge and Aimee Goguen, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
2013 26th Annual Dallas VideoFest, Dallas, TX
2012 Souvenirs From Earth, Curated by Alec Crichton, Video Art Television Broadcast, France and Germany
2012 MoMA Documentary Fortnight 2012: MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media, MoMA, New York, NY
2011 Storefront Video, Curated by Akosua Adoma Owusu, Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
2011 Sight of Place: Landscape in Experimental Film and Video, Curated by David Burns, UCI Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
2011 Between Document & Fiction, Curated by José Carlos Teixeira, Maus Hábitos and Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal
2011 Out of the Great Northwest, Curated by Stephen Slappe, The Horse Hospital, London, England
2010 Into the Great Wide Open: New Video from Los Angeles, The Woodmill Building, London
2010 34 Degrees North: A Selection of Artist Videos from Los Angeles, Curated by Paul Young, Art LA Contemporary, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Narration, Animation, Provocation: Video Screening Part 2, Curated by Kristi Lippire, Torrance Art Museum, CA
2009 11th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Cinematic, or Moving Images Expanded: Artists' Film and Video Showcase, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2008 Imitation of Life, Saison Vidéo Screening #32, Lille, France
2007 Stranger than Fiction-Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2006 FilmLichter 06, International Short Film Festival Detmold, Germany
2006 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 19th Annual Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
2006 Contemporary Film Series: Spark Video Program, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2006 Spark Video, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
2006 The Visuals, Curated by Echotrope, University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE
2006 Stranger than Fiction, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
2006 Film & Video from Portland Oregon, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London
2005 No Heroics Please, (collaboration with Jon Irving), REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2004 SFEMF, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), San Francisco, CA
2002 A Night of Moving Images, Nada Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 NEAMO, Northwest Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Portland, OR, and San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
2000 22nd Big Muddy Film Festival, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL
1999 Peripheral Produce, at Cinema 21 and Peripheral Produce at The Lab, Portland, OR
Public Art & Special Projects
2025 - 2027 Love, Leimert, Metro Art, Public Art, Video Installation at Leimert Park Station along the K line in South Los Angeles, CA
2021 Forest Ambience 2 [Special Mix] : Happy Birds in Ultra!, Public Art Exhibition, Curated by Torrance Art Museum Director Max Presneill, at Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center, The City of Torrance, CA
2015 Black Dahlia Dinner, Special Project: Art and Culinary Dinner Series, Curated by Los Angeles Eats Itself, at WUHO Gallery, Hollywood, CA
2012 Not Your Kind of People: Mini-Films, Special Commissioned Project: 16 Mini-Films for the band Garbage
Big Bright World: Music Video, Special Commissioned Project: Music Video for the band Garbage
2011 Full Screen, Public Art Video Installation, Curated by CULTUREHALL, at Big Screen Plaza, New York, NY
Awards, Grants, Residencies
2025-2026 DCA Cultural Trailblazer award from the City of Los Angeles
2023-2026 Lucas Artist Fellowship for Visual Arts, Montalvo Arts Center
2017 Jury Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
2014 ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation
2014 Investing in Artist grant, Tools & Equipment, Center for Cultural Innovation
2012 Tokamak Residency Program 2012, Helsinki, Finland
2010 California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship
2009 Artistic Innovation grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation
2004 California Institute of the Arts Scholarship, Valencia, CA
2003 The Herb Alpert Foundation Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2001-2002 Artist in Residence, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2001 Filmmaker in Residence, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
1999 Stephen Swerling Award, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Artist Lectures
2023 Artist Lecture, New Genres Program, UCLA Department of Art, CA, October 12
2022 Artist Gallery Walkthrough, POST CINEMA, Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Artist Lecture, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, March 4
2018 Panel Discussion with Eileen Cowin and Britt Salvesen (LACMA), Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
2016 Interview, Artist Julie Orser, Yale University Radio WYBCX, May 6
2016 Artist Lecture, New Genres, UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA, October 12
2015 Artist Lecture, Always Green, Ever-Living, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, October 8
2015 Interview, The Conversation: Contemporary Art Podcast by Michael Shaw, Episode#106: “The Crit” 5 students from Michael Asher's Post-Studio seminar, as portrayed in Chapter 2 of Seven Days in the Art World, May 16
2014 Artist Lecture, Madeleine, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, October 16
2013 Artist Lecture, LA Stories: Narrative Videos from the West Coast exhibition, Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL, November 7
2013 Artist Lecture, Video and Film, Department of Art, Architecture + Art History, University of San Diego, September 26
2012 Panelist, Multiplicities in Dialogue: From Political Caucus to Engaged Community, Women's Caucus for Art, CAA, Los Angeles, CA, February 24
2010 Artist Lecture, Artists In Their Own Words, California State University, Long Beach, June 13
2010 Interview, Julie Orser, video artist extraordinaire, GYST Radio, Los Angeles, CA, May 2
2009 Artist Gallery Talk, Unusual Behavior, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA, November 14
2008 Artist Lecture, MFA Program Visiting Artist Lectures, Otis College of Art and Design, CA, October 23
2008 Artist Lecture, Broad Performance Space, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, April 24
2008 Artist Lecture, CAP, Community Arts Partnership, California Institute of the Arts, CA July 15
2008 Artist Lecture, Summer Institute, UCLA Department of Art, CA July 17
2007 Artist Gallery Talk,Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA, March 31
2006 Artist Panelist, A Play on Action: 5 Los Angeles Artists Consider Feminism, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, hosted by The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA, April 1
2006 Artist Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, April 28
2005 Nomad & Residence, ART2102, Los Angeles, CA, May 21
2002 Visiting Artist, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR, March 12
2000 Visiting Artist, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, April 10
1999 Visiting Artist, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, April 8
Bibliography
2024 Torrance Art Museum, Angels Gate Cultural Center, and Palos Verdes Art Center Make the South Bay Shine, by Diversions LA, February 27, 2024
2019 Lens 2019 Acquisitions, Unframed.LACMA,org, by Rebecca Morse, December 23
2015 Los Angeles Eats Itself Turned the Entire Black Dahlia Murder into an Edible Art Experience, LAWeekly, by Paul Teetor, April 15
2014 Julie Orser: Madeleine, by Rebecca Sheehan, Exhibition Text: Madeleine, Luckman Gallery Los Angeles
2014 Julie Orser’s Cinematic Fascination, KCET’s Artbound, by Alicia Eler, October
2014 Continuing and Recommended, September 2014 "Analog/Digital", ArtScene Magazine by Roberta Carasso, September
2013 At the Norton: ‘L.A. Stories’ is intriguing, mysterious video exhibit, Palm Beach Post, by Larry Aydlette, November Norton show explores how video artists deal with narrative, Palm Beach Daily News, Arts Review, by Jan Sjostrom, November
2013 The Anti-Hollywood, Boca Raton Magazine, Review, by John Thomason, November 13
2012 NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE: Selections from MoMA's Documentary Fortnight 2012, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2012
2011 Doublespeak, ARTPULSE Magazine, by Cara Despain, Reviews, December 2011
2011 Doublespeak, 15 bytes: Utah's Art Magazine, by Ehren Clark, November 2011 Edition
2009 Review: Drama of the Gifted Child: The Five Year Plan, X-TRA, by Micol Hebron, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 44 - 47
2009 America’s Absurdist Videos: Unusual Behavior Open at CAF, Santa Barbara Independent, by Elizabeth Schwyzer, November
2009 Off the Off Radar Art, Santa Barbara News Press, Arts Scene, by Josef Woodard, November
2008 Julie Orser, Roma, Changing Role, Exibart.com, by Helga Marsala, March 2008
2008 Julie Orser: Anna Moore, by Hahn Ho, Exhibition Catalogue: Here Once Again: Where the Art and Cinema Interact, Museum of Art Seoul National University, pgs 71, 82-83
2008 Julie Orser, Changing Role, Roma, ARTKEY Magazine, by Maria Leonardi, April
2008 Julie Orser: Mary Goes Round, Exhibition Catalogue: Imitation of Life, Saison Vidéo Lille France, p.55
2007 Julie Orser, Artforum, Critics’ Picks, by Andrew Berardini, July 2007
2007 Julie Orser: “Anna Moore” at Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Art LTD., by Shana Nys Dambrot, September 2007, p.18
2007 Julie Orser: Occurrence At Lookout Rock, Exhibition Catalogue: Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park Los Angeles, pgs 66-67
2006 Upside-Down and Backwards L.A. Artists go to the Fair, by Glenn Phillips, Exhibition Catalogue: Fair Exchange, Millard Sheets Gallery Pomona, pgs 51, 53-54
2006 Contemporary, Roma, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Exibart.com, by Fabrizia Palomba, July
2006 A Play on Action at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, ArtWeek, by Annie Buckley, June 2006, p.18
2006 I-80 Cultural Exchange, City Weekly Omaha NE, by Michael Joe Krainak, May 3
2005 Where’s the Crazy, It’s college: ‘Greater LA MFA’ should be more insane, OC Weekly, by Rebecca Schoenkopf, Vol.10 No.52, September
2004 San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2004, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), The Wire, by Richard Henderson, Issue 248, October 2004, p.80
2003 Video molds lasting image, Santa Clarita Daily News, by Eugene Tong, Valencia CA, News, December 28
2003 Visual Reviews, Portland Mercury, by Chas Bowie, Portland, OR, Visual Arts, April 10, p.35
1997 Julie Orser, Willamette Week, by D.K. Row, Portland, OR, Visual Arts, September 10, p63
Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Ernesto Esposito Private Collection
Academic Positions & Appointments
2012 – Present Professor and Area Coordinator of Creative Photography & Experimental Media Program in the Department of Art, California State University, Fullerton, CA
2012 – 2005 New Genres Lab Supervisor, UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012 – 2009 Guest Lecturer in Art, Art Department, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2012 Guest Lecturer in Media Studies, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
2010 Visiting Lecturer in Art, Digital Photography, Whittier College, January Term, Whittier, CA
2007 Guest Lecturer, UCLA Department of Art, Summer Session, Los Angeles
2008 - 2009 Instructor, Art & Film, Homeless Youth Program, CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP)
2001 - 2003 Instructor, Youth Program, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
Curatorial Projects
2006 – 2017 Co-Director of ART OFFICE for Film & Video, Los Angeles, CA
2008 troooz, ART OFFICE at Parkhaus in Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 Reality Testing, ART OFFICE & Slab at Parkhaus in Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 Reality Testing, ART OFFICE & Slab at LACE: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
2008 troooz, ART OFFICE at Show Cave Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Force of Nature, ART OFFICE in the Project Space, Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Look, Win, Get It On, ART OFFICE at UCLA Department of Art, EDA, Los Angeles, CA