Julie Kamlesh Kumar is a sculptor, installation artist, educator, and machinist who grew up among geographic and cultural clashes. Her father grew up in India and her mother in traditional Catholic upstate New York, and mid-childhood she moved from the Alaskan north to the Texan deep south. She now resides in Oakland, California.

Julie builds immersive environments and intervenes on materials that erode, drip, melt, evaporate, break apart, and float away. She uses cutting-edge software to reinvent digital prototyping processes. She works with machines large enough to walk inside. She breaks things and puts them back together.

Her studio practice is situated among the realms of experimental materiality, conceptual absurdity, painterly formality, and labor-intensive technicality, but does not lie statically within any one.

She relentlessly pursues new skill sets that both tangentially and directly relate to her studio practice, and is happiest when making hybridized connections across disciplines.

Contact

jkumar15@gmail.com