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2026

‘Questioning’ featured in The New York Times

Miranda, Carolina A. She Became a Private Eye for Her Art. Investigators Had Questions., The New York Times, July 9, 2026.

‘Questioning’ featured in the Los Angeles Times

Feng, Rhoda. The curious case of the private eye artist and the government inquiry, Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2026.

Julia Weist featured in KCRW: Art Insider

McNeil, Joanne. Private Eye, KCRW: Art Insider, June 30, 2026.

Live Theatrical Production at New Theater Hollywood

Questioning, live theatrical production to debut at New Theater Hollywood, July 10 – 19, 2026

Film Screening at Times

Double Agents: Films by Abigail Raphael Collins & Julia Weist, Times, New York, June 18, 2026

Artist Talk at Rijksakademie

Julia Weist: Radical Participation, “Library Nights” public program, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, June 4, 2026

Group Exhibition at The Delaware Art Museum

Citizen Artist, The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, April 11 – July 19, 2026

Group Exhibition at The Hessel Museum of Art

False Sponsor, The Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 4 – May 24, 2026

2025

'Vehicle Sightings’ Series Acquired by The Whitney Museum of American Art

Six artworks by Julia Weist acquired by The Whitney Museum of American Art

Julia Weist Selected for a MacDowell Fellowship

Panel Discussion at the Hessel Museum of Art

Bard PMP x Magnum Foundation panel discussion, Hessel Museum of Art, December 6, 2025

Lavine Lecture Series at MIT List Visual Arts Center

2025 Lavine Lecture: Julia Weist, MIT List Visual Arts Center, November 13, 2025

Artist Residency at Millay Arts

Millay Arts, August, 2025

Artist Talk at the Center for Photography Woodstock

Center for Photography Woodstock, July 24, 2025

Group Exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

The Arrested Image, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, June 14 – November 2

Julia Weist in conversation with Jill Magid

Assisted Nonfiction, a conversation with Jill Magid at Triple Canopy, April 9 at 7pm

Julia Weist on the Amy Beecher Show

Systems Down with Julia Weist, episode on the Amy Beecher Show podcast

Group Exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art

Prologue, Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti, December 13, 2025 - June 1, 2025

Julia Weist in conversation with Julia Scher

Columbus Museum of Art, March 14, 2025

2024

Julia Weist published by Triple Canopy

Weist, Julia. Artistic License.

Panel Discussion at the Museum of Modern Art

Salon 51: Off the Record, 6PM, December 9, 2024

‘Private Eye’ featured in Artspiel

Lahav, Jac. “The Art of Being Watched: Julia Weist and Surveillance Culture” Artspiel, 13 October, 2024.

Julia Weist featured in WIRED

Burgess, Matt, and Dhruv Mehrotra. “Liscense Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars” WIRED, 03 October, 2024.

Julia Weist in Albany Times Union

Weist, Julia. “ Commentary: Americans numb to being monitored and tracked” Albany Times Union, 9 September, 2024.

Julia Weist interviewed in Document Journal

Vogelson, Nick. “Artist Julia Weist’s latest exhibition gives audiences the vantage of a private investigator” Document Journal, 3 May, 2024.

2023

‘Demonstration’ on view at the Museum of Modern Art

This work, acquired by the museum in 2021, is on view as part of the installation “Collection 1970s–Present” at MoMA through 2024.

Group Exhibition at Soft Network

Weist’s work is included in the group exhibition Re: Scott Burton’s Atrium Furnishment, curated by Darling Green, on view at Soft Network, May 1 - 20, 2023.

‘From the Future’ on view at the Art Institute of Chicago

This work, acquired by the museum in 2021, is on view in the Photography and Media galleries at AIC.

‘Should(n’t) acquired by the Guggenheim Museum

Public Lecture at Bard Graduate Center

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Can Art Be Evidence?, January 25, 2023

2022

‘Campaign’ featured in Artnet News

Cascone, Sarah. Artist Julia Weist Is Protesting the R Rating of Her New Film by Advertising the Project on a Times Square Billboard, 16 November 2022.

‘Campaign’ featured in Document Journal

Becker, Morgan. Julia Weist’s ‘Governing Body’ questions what we deem indecent in the scope of mainstream cinema, 15 November 2022.

Group Exhibition at Moskowitz Bayse

Weist’s work is included in the group exhibition Privacy Creep, organized by Ernesto Renda, on view at Moskowitz Bayse, November 12 - December 22, 2022.

Studio Visit with Topical Cream

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Interview by Caitlin MacBride, September 5, 2022

Interview in BOMB Magazine

Tyc, Cat. Art and Government: Julia Weist Interviewed by Cat Tyc, 8 June 2022.

‘Definitions’ acquired by the The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Solo Exhibition at Rachel Uffner Gallery

Governing Body is on view at Rachel Uffner Gallery, May 19 - June 18, 2022

Felix Art Fair

Weist’s works are on view at Felix At Fair in Los Angeles with Rachel Uffner Gallery, February 17 - 20, 2022

2021

‘Public Record’ referenced in the New York Times

Herstik, Lauren and Graham Bowley. Cultivating Art, Not Arguement, at a Los Angeles Law Office. 30 November 2021.

‘From the Future’ acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago

‘Public Record’ featured in The Art Newspaper

Angeleti, Gabriella. Queens Museum director on its transformative expansion and learning from the pandemic, 21 October 2021.

‘Public Record’ featured in Hyperallergic

Packard, Cassie. Julia Weist’s “Public Record” Probes the Impact of Artists on Cities, 19 August 2021.

‘Limits’ acquired by The Jewish Museum

‘Role’ acquired by The Queens Museum

Artist Talk at the New York City Municipal Archives

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June 29, 2021

‘International’ acquired by The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Interview by Lives Radio Show podcast

Episode 155, May 26, 2021

Interview by Artists and Hackers podcast

Episode 5, El Paquete Semanal: An Offline Internet in Cuba, June 6, 2021

‘Rubrics’ acquired by the MIT List Visual Arts Center

This work is on view in MIT’s Hayden Library.

Group Exhibition at nGbK

Weist’s work is included in the exhibition Museo de la Democracia, on view at nGbK in Berlin, Germany, April 17 - June 13

‘Demonstration’ acquired by The Museum of Modern Art

‘Giuliani’ acquired by the Brooklyn Museum

2020

Artist Talk at the Art Gallery of York University

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December 15, 2020

‘Proyecto DATA’ commissioned and published by Triple Canopy

Selected for a 2021 Fellowship by the Camargo Foundation

Cassis, France

‘Public Record’ featured in Art in America

Hotchkiss, Sarah. Julia Weist Transforms New York City’s Archival Records into Artworks That Live in Digital Public Space, 17 June 2020.

‘Public Record’ featured in n+1

Weist, Julia. Public Record: Where do artists appear in city records, and how does the government see them?, 15 May 2020.

‘Public Record’ featured in The Art Newspaper

Carrigan, Margaret. ‘Victimised and rejected’: new work explores the history of artists working in New York and the need for public art, 20 May 2020.

‘Public Record’ featured in Document Journal

Reagan, Caroline. Julia Weist’s ‘Public Record’ reveals the long history between New York City and its artists, 19 May 2020.

Panel Discussion at Fairfield University

Cuba Today: Internet Access, El Paquete, and the New Filmmakers, February 7, 2020.

‘El Paquete’ featured on Rhizome

Connor, Michael. Michael Connor’s Decade in (the end of) Internet, 10 January 2020.

2019

‘Reach’ featured in Artnet News

Group Exhibition at Galería Moisés Pérez Albéniz

Weist’s work is included in the group exhibition and accompanying catalogue News, etc., on view at Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz November 16 - February 29, 2020.

Work commissioned by The Shed in New York

On view June 19 - August 25, 2019

Group Exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in New York

Weist’s work is included in the group exhibition The Scalability Project at A.I.R. Gallery in New York, June 27 - July 28, 2019.

Named ‘Public Artist in Residence’ by the Department of Cultural Affairs & The Department of Records and Information Services

The City of New York

Solo Exhibition at Galería Gorria in collaboration with Nestor Siré

On view April 13 - May 11, 2019