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Early Life
Joanne Julian was born in Los Angeles, CA. She is about 74 years old and was born in 1949. Julian is a second-generation Armenian-American and grew up in a disciplined household. She attended Otis Art Institute. She has taught at the City of Los Angeles, Art Center College of Design, and California State University, Northridge. She has a daughter named Suzie, a medical physicist creating cancer treatment.

Career
Julian traveled and studied in Asia which resulted in her work consisting of Asian influence, an interest in nature, gardens, animals, and space. She creates on papers up to 13 feet long and combines painting and drawing. Critics have praised her art by describing it as "a unification of humanity","a gentle merging of natures" and, saying that her work remains them "that drawing is a physical enterprise".Julian has had an active studio for over 50 years. She has also successfully presented 20 solo exhibitions and over 60 group exhibitions. Her work has been published in her own exhibition catalogs in The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Art LTD, and Voyage LA.''

Exhibitions
Solo/two-person exhibition: Angeles, CA
 * 2019 "New Work", VITA Art Center, Ventura, CA
 * 2017 "Defying Darkness", Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
 * 2015 "Garden Portraits", Valley Performing Arts Center, CSUN, Northridge, CA
 * 2008 "Counterpoints", California State University Northridge, CA
 * 1999 "New Images: An Homage to Teshigahara", Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
 * 1999 "Fluid Gestures", California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
 * 1995 "The Paintings and Drawings of Don Bachardy and Joanne Julian", Vincent Price Gallery, Los
 * 1987 "Paintings and Drawings", Thomas Babeor Gallery La Jolla, CA
 * 1986 "Mostly Bouquets", California State University, Northridge, CA
 * 1986 "Transamerica Occidental Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
 * 1982 "Mural Drawings and Other New Work", Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 * 1973 "The Drawings and Paintings of Joanne Julian", The Point Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

group exhibition:
 * 2022 “Reflections on Our Warming Planet”, Lois Lambert Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
 * 2021 "Menagerie: All Creatures Great and Small", VITA Art Center, Ventura, CA
 * 2019 “Holiday Group Show”, Tufenkian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA
 * 2018 “Visions of Elysium”, Inland Empire Museum of Art, Upland, CA
 * 2017 Soluble Power, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
 * 2015 “The Drawing Show", The Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA
 * 2006 "Drawn to Scale", Spokane Falls College, WA
 * 2004 "Faculty Exhibition", College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA
 * 2001 "Intersections" (New Large Scale Scrolls) California State University, Northridge, CA
 * 1999 "Our Favorite Things", Vincent Price Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 * 1997 "Against the Wall", College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA
 * 1995 "Gallery Jewels", Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
 * 1987 "Flowers", Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
 * 1986 "Tropics Exotics", One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA