Julie Weitz
is an artist, writer, and educator who creates embodied, collective experiences for repair, using creative practices that surface the wounds and resilience embedded in diasporic culture.
Her research-based art practice animates figures from Yiddish folklore and uses their interactions with culturally resonant sites—especially those where Yiddish culture was all but eradicated—to explore themes of loss and healing. Weitz engages with caricature, folklorism, and emplacement to situate her work within the past, present, and future of Jewish cultural developments.
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’s work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, BOMB, and Hyperallergic.
For regular updates and personal essays, follow Weitz’s Substack: Exiled in Yiddishland
Contact Julie.
info@julieweitz.com