Julie Weitz
is an artist, performer, writer, and educator who creates embodied, collective experiences for repair through creative and relational practices that unearth the wounds and resilience of diasporic culture.
Her research-driven work animates figures from Yiddish folklore and uses their interactions at culturally significant sites—especially those where Yiddish culture was nearly erased—to explore memory, loss, and collective repair. Through caricature, folklorism, and emplacement, Weitz situates her work within evolving trajectories of diasporic cultural expression and in solidarity with global liberation movements.
Weitz is a Fulbright Scholar (2023–24) and a Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellow at Yiddishkayt (2020–23). Her work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco), POLIN Museum (Warsaw), Galicia Jewish Museum (Kraków), Jewish Museum Vienna, Coaxial Arts Foundation (Los Angeles), and the Jüdisches Museum Augsburg. Her performances have been presented at Extra City Kunsthal (Antwerp), Dokumentale and ShtetlBerlin (Berlin), and Harvard Divinity School (Cambridge), among other venues. Weitz has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, BOMB, and Hyperallergic. She is a contributing writer for Momus and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and serves on the faculty of the University of Nevada’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program.
For regular updates and personal essays, follow Weitz’s Substack: Exiled in Yiddishland
Contact Julie.
info@julieweitz.com