Julie Walsh is a Chicago-based curator with a focus on contemporary Asian art and immersive technologies. She was the founder and director of Walsh Gallery in Chicago, which from 1991 - 2011 exhibited contemporary work from Asia in all mediums. She has curated numerous exhibitions in her own space and in others around the world. Since 2016 she has focused on the fine art applications of immersive technologies. She is a founder of MIRAA Mixed Reality Academy for the Arts and artistic director of the Chicago Virtual Art Museum which is in a social web based platform. She is a frequent lecturer and moderator of panels at both national and international venues including VREurope (Amsterdam), VRHAM! (Hamburg), Virtual Worlds (Munich), Ars Elektronika (Linz), the Cameroon National Pavilion at the Venice biennale, Recto VRso (Laval), SxSw (Austin), NYU (New York), AAMC (Art Association of Museum Curators in NYC, and SAIC (Chicago).
In 2021 Ms. Walsh curated the grand opening exhibition for MEET Milan’s virtual center. In 2022 she was the curator for the second exhibition there with the iconic Digital Artist Tamiko Thiel. Ms. Walsh has also conducted a series of workshops on art in social VR platforms as well being an invited lecturer for INNOCULT for 30 cultural institutions from Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Her topic was Decoding Web 3.0, the Metaverse and NFT Art. She was the second invited curator to launch Feral File and curated a group exhibition of NFT art called In the Bardo: Unpacking the Real. In September 2022 Ms. Walsh will be curating a VR exhibition at MEET Digital Culture Center which will be IRL as well as accessible by social web based VR. Ms. Walsh is also the art advisor and curator for Art Consortium a French company that helps Cultural Institutions use block chain technology.
