JULIE WEITZ
Julie Weitz (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based visual artist whose performance art practice responds to local surroundings with an attuned sensory awareness of ecological and historical contexts.
Since 2017, Weitz has been focused on a multipart performance series that centers on a feminist embodiment of a mystical creature drawn from Yiddish folklore. That project, My Golem, reimagines the mythological golem as a sacred clown who guides humanity toward reparative ways of relating to one another and to the more-than-human world.
Weitz’s work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, BOMB, and Hyperallergic. Her solo exhibition GOLEM: A Call to Action recently debuted at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA. Weitz is a Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellow at Yiddishkayt and a 2020-21 Cultural Trailblazer of the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. In the past, she has received support from the Coaxial Foundation for the Arts, Innovation Foundation, the California Center for Cultural Innovation, LAXART, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, the Banff Centre, Asylum Arts, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Weitz currently teaches in Los Angeles and regularly contributes to Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA).
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