Julia Sinelnikova

Julia Sinelnikova is an interdisciplinary artist who works with holograms, performance, and digital culture. Her light installations have been exhibited internationally, and she has performed widely as The Oracle of Vector Gallery. She has received commissions from NYC Parks Department, Pace University, Michael Madden (Maroon 5), Refinery29, GIPHY, Webster Hall, and Norte Maar. Heavily inspired by electronic music, Sinelnikova has designed sculptural sets for performers including Lee Burridge, Machinedrum, The GZA (Wu Tang Clan), Peaches, Juliana Huxtable, and Aurora Halal. Selected profiles of her work have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Office Magazine, VICE, Artnet, Huffington Post, The Creators Project, PAPER Mag, and The New Criterion. Her work has been presented at the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, The Oulu Museum of Art, and Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. Sinelnikova has also exhibited site-specific installations for Miami Art Week / Art Basel annually since 2011. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from The Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY). She lives and works in Brooklyn.

In 2018 Sinelnikova advanced her practice via partnerships with two museums. The Tides Institute and Museum in Maine offered the artist a one month residency and commissioned a public installation. In the fall, Sinelnikova was offered a one year scholarship to participate in The New Museum’s NEW INC incubator program, where she is working within a technology-oriented community to launch an immersive artist agency. She also presented two solo exhibitions: one in January at Superchief Gallery NYC, and another in December at Lazy Susan Gallery in Lower Manhattan. She was sponsored by Harvestworks NYC for the entire calendar year, through which she developed a new iteration of the code for “Data Log,” her interactive video and sculpture project. The resulting commission will be display this summer as part of New York Electronic Arts Festival on Governors Island, NYC. Sinelnikova is represented by Wallplay NYC and Cement Gallery (EU).