BIOGRAPHY

Julia Ukrainian-born artist, Julia Levitina, creates powerful and elegant sculptures in bronze that aim to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary. Levitina personally attends to her entire craft process, from clay to bronze, including metal casting and finishing, in her studio, which is unique as many sculptors outsource these processes to foundries.

Julia’s work has been exhibited around the world, including the Brookgreen Gardens, SC, the Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, MI, University of the Arts Gershman Y Center in Philadelphia, the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Los Angeles; the Foundation Taylor in Paris, the Festival of the Arts in Ludwigslust, Germany, and the City Hall of Odesa, Ukraine. Her sculpture can be found in public and private collections in the United States, in Europe and in India, including La Salle University Art Museum and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA, Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, MI, The Flanders House in New York City, Jewish Museum in Budapest, and Eugeen Van Mieghem Museum and Antwerp City Hall in Belgium, among others; with her latest larger-than-life public bronze installation located on Georgetown University’s main campus in Washington, D.C.

Julia Levitina’s work has been distinguished with numerous grants and awards, including the J. Ettl Grant, the Gloria Medal for the Meritorious Body of Work and the Edward Fenno Hoffman Prize for Uplifting the Human Spirit from the National Sculpture Society; the Philadelphia Sculptors Grant; the Exhibition Award and the Foundry Prize from the Foundation Taylor, and the CAMAC International Artist Residency in France. Her sculptures were recently featured in the Fine Art Connoisseur and the American Art Collector magazines.

Levitina has taught sculpture and lectured around the world. Her residencies, workshops and classes include Fleisher Art Memorial, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Florence Academy of the Fine Arts and Foundry Ciglia & Carrai in Italy; Paris Academy of the Fine Art, L’Association et Résidence d’Artistes Tournefou and the Camille Claudel Museum in France, where she has recently founded a drawing club.

Julia Levitina has mounted many solo exhibitions of her sculpture, drawings and prints bi-continentally, with her latest invitational solo exhibition, titled L’Oiseau Invisible Chante | Invisible Bird Sing, held at the Mahler-Lopes Gallery in France in November, 2024. She is represented by Somerville-Manning Gallery in Wilmington, DE.

2025