JULIA SCHER Julia Scher, Wonderland, 2018 | Page 3

She is the recipient of several grants and fellowships including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Preservation
Grant for Media Arts, the John F. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Installation Art
(2005), The Bunting Institute Fellowship for Surveillance Studies at Harvard University (1996–1997), and the
NEA Grant for Installation Art (1992).
Julia Scher has taught and lectured at a number of institutions including the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, The Cooper Union for Art and Science, Hartford University Art School, the University of California,
Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, Harvard University, Columbia University, The Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton, and Rutgers University. While teaching at the Department of Film and Video at
the Massachusetts College of Art, (1995–1996), she launched the first “Surveillance Studies” class in the United
States. Since 2006, Scher has been Professor for Multimedia Performance Surveillant Architectures at the
Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
Her work is held in multiple collections: Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Kunstsammlungen, Wiesbaden; John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois; Le Consortium, Dijon;
MAMCO, Geneva; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MoMA PS1,
Long Island City, New York; Neue Galerie Graz – Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Radcliffe Institute, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and SFMOMA, San Francisco.
Photos:
© Andrea Rossetti
Cover:
Wonderland, 1998, mixed media (vintage and new technical components), variable dimensions (JS 014)
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