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Background
Joanne Julian is an Armenian/American artist. She is most known for her large works on paper as well as her drawing and painting media. Her work includes printmaking, ink painting, botanical and avian illustration, abstract composition, and calligraphy. She has worked on series that are realistic, simple, and abstract. Because of her interest in nature and gardening from a young age, her subject matter has involved palm trees, fish, water, and more.

Early life and education
Julian was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, California by conservative first-generation Armenian parents. Her grandparents had escaped to the United States during the Armenian Genocide. She grew up in a strict home where good grades, good manners, and hard work were expected. She attended public school and worked her way through college. She received her BA and MA degrees in sculpture and printmaking from California State University, Northridge. She also received her MFA degree in painting from College of the Canyons in Valencia, California. Julian has studied and traveled in Asia, which has influenced her artwork. She absorbed the techniques of Zen masters, seen through her use of nature, humanity, and yin and yang in her artwork.

Work
Throughout college, Julian was teaching for the city of Los Angeles and doing clerical work at California State University Northridge. Julian was a faculty member at College of the Canyons from 1973-2007, where she became the Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Dean of Fine Arts and Humanities, and later became the Gallery Director. Her work was represented by Jan Baum Gallery in Los Angeles and was later represented in New York City, La Jolla, and San Francisco. Julian has taught and lectured at ArtCenter College of Design, Glendale Community College (California), University of California, Los Angeles, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College.

Accomplishments
Julian has mounted 20 solo exhibitions and over 60 group exhibitions nationally. Julian's artwork has been a part of the following exhibitions and galleries:

•Joanne Julian: Defying Darkness at the Carnegie Art Museum from March 12 to May 21, 2017. •Tufenkian Fine Arts from June 30th to September 16th, 2023.

•Moah Lancaster Museum of Art and History from May 13 to August 20, 2023.

•Reflection on Our Warming Planet from July 16 to September 3, 2022.

•Recent and Seldom Seen, an exhibition that took place from June 9th to June 23, 2019 at the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California.

•From March 10 to May 19, 2019, Joanne was also a part of another exhibition called The Imaginary- Realism and The Imagination at Carnegie Art Museum.

•During 2015, Garden Portraits, Valley Performing Arts, CSUN Northridge, CA

•Visions of Elysium, Inland Empire Museum of Art, Upland, CA in 2018

•Soluble Power, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA in 2017

•The Drawing Show, The Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA in 2015

•Drawn to Scale, Spokane Falls College, WA in 2006