About

Julia Schlosser, MA, MFA, is a Los Angeles based artist, artist-researcher and educator. She is a lecturer at California State University, Northridge, where she teaches photography, art history and the freshman seminar (AFYE). Her artwork elucidates the multilayered relationships formed between people and their pets. Her writing and research interests focus on contemporary photographic artwork that depicts animals’ lives and deaths. Her photographs are included in Antennae’s issue # 41 - Autumn 2017, Exposing Animals II and in Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death edited by Margo DeMello, Michigan State University Press, 2016. Julia chaired the 2017 Seeing with Animals Conference that focused on artists and art historians who depict and interrogate images of animals in contemporary art practice. She also co-juried the Co-Existence art exhibition, and edited and designed the Co-Existence catalog that was produced in conjunction with the conference.