Julia Bryan-Wilson (PhD, UC Berkeley, 2004) is Professor of LGBTQ+ Art History and core faculty in Columbia's Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. Her research interests include feminist and queer theory, theories of artistic labor, performance and dance, production/fabrication, craft histories, photography, video, visual culture of the nuclear age, and collaborative practices. Bryan-Wilson is Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP). She also chaired The International Jury of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2024, and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2019. She is the author of four books, a widely-published critic, and her research has been supported by grants and fellowships internationally.

Julia has been selected as the National Juror for the 2025 Neddy Artist Awards. The Neddy Artist Award is one of the most generous and longest-running awards for visual artists in the State of Washington, providing two annual gifts of $25,000, and six awards of $2,000, to artists living and working in the Puget Sound region. The program began in 1996 and is funded by the Behnke Foundation as a tribute to the life and work of Seattle painter and teacher Robert E. [Ned] Behnke (1948-1989).