bio & cv
After dropping out of Rhode Island School of Design at age 19, Speed spent her twenties moving around the U.S. and Canada working pick-up jobs (house painter, horse trainer, ad writer, farm worker etc.) until moving to Texas in 1978 where she settled down and taught herself to paint. She switches back and forth regularly between oil painting, printmaking, collage, gouache and drawing, often combining disciplines. Two large volumes of her work, Julie Speed, Paintings, Constructions and Works on Paper, 2004 and Speed, Art 2003-2009 have been published by the University of Texas. She lives and works in Marfa, Texas. In her words, “I keep hours just like a real job, only longer, and in my spare time I read books, drink tequila, and garden.”
Solo Exhibitions:
2021 Julie Speed : East of the Sun & West of the Moon Dishman Museum of Art, Beaumont, Texas Jan 22- March 13 2021
2019-2020 Julie Speed : East of the Sun & West of the Moon Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA. Aug 31, 2019 – March 15, 2020
2018-2019 Julie Speed : East of the Sun & West of the Moon El Paso Museum of Art Nov 16, 2018- April 7, 2019
2017 Julie Speed: Excerpts from the Undertoad LHUCA Lubbock, Texas Aug 4 – Sept 30
2016-17 Julie Speed, Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, N.M.
2016 Undertoad The International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, Texas
2016 Undertoad FLATBED PRESS Austin, Texas Feb 18- April 9
2016 Undertoad Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas and Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas Feb 18 – March 19
2014 Julie Speed- Paper Cut: Selected Works on Paper The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2013 Julie Speed: Cut-up Southwest School of Art, San Antonio
2013 Julie Speed: Snug Harbor Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming Feb 1 – May 12
2012-2013 Julie Speed: Snug Harbor The Longview Museum of Fine Arts , Longview, Texas, Nov 10, 2012 – Jan 1 2013
2011 The Pirate Queen Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas
2011 Julie Speed, Boxes and Collages 2011 and The Pirate Queen & Other New Etchings Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2010 Julie Speed: Not From Here, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2009 Julie Speed, New Work/New Book Galleri Urbane, Dallas, Texas
2009 Julie Speed, Recent Collages, Boxes, Gouaches and Floaters, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, Texas
2008 Julie Speed, George Billis Gallery, NY, N.Y.
2008 Julie Speed George Billis Gallery L.A. Ca.
2007 Talking Room, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, Texas
2007 Bible Studies, Westby Gallery, Rowan University, New Jersey
2006 Heads, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Bible Studies, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, New York
2005 Bible Studies, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Bible Studies, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas
Bible Studies, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, Texas
Julie Speed, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, New York
2004 Julie Speed, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas
Julie Speed: Squares, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003 The Alters of My Ancestors, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas
The Alters of My Ancestors, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
The Murder of Kasimir Malevich, etc., Etherington Fine Art, Vineyard Haven, MA
2002 The Alters of My Ancestors, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
The Alters of My Ancestors, The Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas
The Alters of My Ancestors, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas,
2000 Julie Speed, New Work, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
1999 Queen of My Room: A Survey of Work by Julie Speed 1989 – 1999, Austin
Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Queen of My Room: A Survey of Work by Julie Speed 1989 – 1999 DVAC, Dallas, Texas
Queen of My Room: A Survey of Work by Julie Speed 1989 – 1999 Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas
Queen of My Room: A Survey of Work by Julie Speed 1989 – 1999 Art Institute of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
1997 Allene La Pides Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
1996 Allene La Pides Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington
1994 Carrington-Gallagher Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Ron Hall Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1993 Jansen-Perez Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1992 Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
1991 Guerilla Gallery, Austin, Texas
1990 Scott Alan Gallery, New York, New York
1989 J. B. Tollett Gallery, Austin, Texas
1989 Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1985 Foxworth Gallery, NY, NY
Books and Catalogs
2020 Julie Speed: Dark Skies Special project for the Taubman Museum of Art’s “Curated Cribs” program.
2018 Julie Speed : East of the Sun & West of the Moon published by the El Paso Museum of Art
2015 Julie Speed – Undertoad, jointly published by Flatbed Press, Austin and Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio. Essay by Lyle W. Williams, curator of prints and drawings, the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio.
2014 Julie Speed – Paper Cut: Selected Works on Paper, published by the Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas “Reality Redefined”, essay by Judy Tedford Deaton, Chief Curator, The Grace Museum
2013 Julie Speed: Snug Harbor, jointly published by The Longview Museum of Art and The Nicolaysen Museum of Art , essay “A Conversation between Julie Speed and Lisa Hatchadoorian”
2013 Julie Speed; Cut-Up, published by the Southwest School of Art, essay “Force of Confusion”, by Leigh Baldwin
2012 Speed & Rizzie: In One Room, essay by Mary Etherington, published by The Gerald Peters Gallery
2009 SPEED, ART 2003-2009 Artwork and essay, Tracking by Julie Speed, response fiction, Do You Hear What I Hear? by A.M. Homes, essay, The Moral Painter: The Art of Julie Speed by Elizabeth Ferrer, published by the University of Texas Press
2006 HEADS - Julie Speed Cloverleaf Press
2005 Julie Speed, essay Julie Speed, Iconoclast by Barbara Rose, published by Gerald Peters Gallery, N.Y.
2004 Julie Speed: Paintings, Constructions and Works on Paper, essay, Julie Speed, The Art of Metaphor by Dr. Edmund Pillsbury and essay Speed Time by Elizabeth Ferrer, published by the University of Texas Press
2002 Alters of My Ancestors, jointly published by the Nave Museum, Lawndale Art Center, The Art Museum of South Texas , essay, Julie Speed’s Altered Ancestors by Dana Friis-Hansen and Julie Speed and the Art of Transformation by Edmund P. Pillsbury, Ph.D
1999 Julie Speed – Queen of My Room. Julie Speed and Elizabeth Ferrer, published by the Austin Museum of Art
Other:
Flatbed Press at 25
by Mark Lesly Smith (Author), Katherine Brimberry (Author), Susan Tallman (Introduction) published by the University of Texas Press 2016
The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists by Robert Craig Bunch, published by Texas A&M University Press 2016
Queen of Her Room, 30 min. doc. For Gallery HD TV NY produced by Karen Bernstein.
Texas Monthly Talks, 30 min. interview with Evan Smith KLRU TV PBS.
Austin Now, Julie Speed produced by Domenique Bellavia KLRU television
"I [art] Marfa", exilés artistiques au Texas 3/5, Episode 2: Julie Speed, artiste by Katie Callan et Sebastien Carayol, Produit par: Petit Dragon, en association avec ARTE France 3/7/2014
A (Third) Eye for Detail by Antoine Sanfuentes MSNBC.msn.com