Julia Paull

Julia Paull is a Teaching Professor in the Art 4D department at the USC Roski School of Art and Design, where she also serves as Chair. Her practice bridges photography, drawing, and prose, focusing on abstract gestures and documenting relationships with animals and the natural world.

Research interests include environmental art, endangered species conservation, and diaristic abstraction. Her work often explores transient situations and absence, such as still life photographs of plants critical to Southern California butterfly habitats and endangered species documentation in the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Panama, and California.

She has held residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute and The Hambidge Center, and her recent solo exhibitions include Drawn In Nature at Queens, LA, and Perfect Mason at the Theodore Payne Foundation. Awards include the USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative grant.

Julia Paull earned a BA from the University of California Santa Barbara and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Her photographic contributions appear in publications like Saturday Morning: Notes from Now for Tomorrow and The Ark and Beyond Frogs in Glass Boxes.