RESUME / CV
francoisjulie4@gmail.com
julie@mattmuseum.org
Julie Francois is a Haitian American interdisciplinary artist and museum worker empowered by history as it relates to the present to drive her work and practice. Based out of New England, she holds her BFA in studio art from the School of the Museum Fine Arts at Tufts University and is currently working as the Art Bridges Fellow at the Mattatuck Museum, working to diversify museum leadership and curatorial work.
Julie's work has been showcased regionally across the Northeast. She has led community workshops at the Tufts University Archive Center and Tufts Africana Center, given speeches relating to her interdisciplinary art practice at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and has been a visiting lecturer at Quinnipiac University. At the Mattatuck Museum, she works in the curatorial department to support a variety of Art Bridges initiatives and collaborates across the institution to promote public accessibility and engagement.
Professional Honors
SMFA Print & Paper Award | March 2022, Boston, MA
Anne E. Borghesani Award Grant: Haiti’s History Through Art and the Diaspora | May 2023, Medford, MA
Stephen D. Paine Scholarship: Boston Art Dealers Association |October 2023, Boston, MA
Finding Your Vision Workshop | October 2024, Boston, MA
Juror Award, Fragments Reflections on Memory | February 2025, Solomons, MD
Selected Exhibitions
SMFA Paint and Area Show
March 2021 - June 2021, Boston, MA
Tufts University Chaos in Movement Show
November 2021 - January 2022, Boston, MA
SMFA Photo Area Show
February 2022 - March 2022, Boston, MA
SMFA Print Area Show
March 2022 - April 2022, Boston, MA
Tufts University Latinx Center
April 2022 - May 2022, Medford, MA
Piano Craft Gallery: Justify the Fish ISS Show
April 2022 - May 2022, Boston, MA
Tufts University: Re-Imagining Relations: Unsettling Time and Place
April 2022 - May 2022, Medford, MA
A Black Girls Exhibition Show: God is a Woman
August 2022, Hartford, CT
SMFA/Tufts x Museum of Fine Arts Boston: Archive and Autobiography
November 2022 - April 2023, MFA Boston, Boston, MA
Leica Photo Gallery: Emerging Artists
June 2023 - August 2023, Boston, MA
ICA Boston: Emerging Artists Exhibition
July 2023, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
Tufts University Anderson Gallery: Party of One
September 2023 - October 2023, Boston, MA
New Britain Museum of American Art: Nor’easter Juried Show
September 2023 - October 2023, New Britain, CT
Art Futures: 2023 Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Showcase
March 2024 - April 2024, Boston, MA
Photographic Resource Center's 2024 Student Show
April 2024, Cambridge, MA
Building Backwards: SMFA Senior Thesis Show
May 2024, Boston, MA
Griffin Museum Vison(ary) Exhibition
June 2024, Winchester, MA
Art Access: New Britain
September 2024, New Britain, CT
Printmakers Guild of NY Showcase
November 2024, Albany, NY
Rewriting Her Story: A Virtual Exhibition
January 2025, Virtual
Fragments: Reflections on Memory
February 2025, Solomons, MD
June 2025, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
July 2025, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA
Presentations / Artist Talks
Museum of Fine Arts Boston: Archive and Autobiography Artists Panel
February 2023, Boston, MA
Fletcher School at Tufts University: Latinx Night
April 2023, Medford, MA
Boston’s Youth in Charge: Speaker Series
October 2023, Boston, MA
Anne E. Borghesani Symposium
November 2023, Boston, MA
Collaging the Archive: Black Jumbos Then and Now Workshop
February 2024, Tufts University Campus, Medford, MA
Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Showcase: Artists Panel
April 2024, Boston, MA
Visual Thinking Strategies; Visiting Lecturer
January 2025, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
Preserving Our Legacies Through Personal Archives
January 2025, Virtual, Tufts University
O’Keeffe in Conversation: Activating the Mattatuck Museum’s Collection
March 2025, Virtual, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Insights into the Collection Tour
May 2025, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
July 2025, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA
Curatorial
Projects
Georgia O’Keeffe in Conversation: Women in Abstraction
June 2025, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT
The Universe of Gerald Saladyga
October 2025, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT
NESA at the MATT: Learning from the Past
December 2025, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT
Staff Favorites from the Mattatuck Collection
January 2026, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT
MIXMASTER 2026 Juried Members' Exhibition
January 2026, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT
Wende Caporale-Greene: The Art of Feeding Community
January 2026, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT
Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art
January 2026, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT