Julie Anand

“An interdisciplinary thinker and desert lover, I studied natural sciences before looking for new languages and communities in the arts. Having replaced the burden of proof with the celebration of subjectivity, my mixed-media and photographic artworks question conventional boundaries including those between disciplines and between bodies and their environments.”

Julie Anand is Professor of Photography in the School of Art. Her projects, informed by a background in ecology and geology, often explore material culture, body/land relations and issues of interdependency/boundary. She enjoys developing courses that bring people from diverse disciplinary backgrounds together including ART/SOS 467/567 Art and Ecology and ART/ENG 598 Collaboration: Visual Art and Creative Writing.

Parallel to her solo art practice, Anand sustains a collaborative art practice with her partner Damon Sauer. Their project, Ground Truth—Corona Landmarks, is in the collection of the Nevada Museum of Art’s Center for Art + Environment and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It was awarded a Land Arts Mobile Research Center/ Mellon Foundation Grant in 2017. This contemporary archaeology investigates the remains of Cold War satellite calibration targets in the Sonoran Desert. It has been featured in Wired magazine, Harper's, Hyperallergic, Places Journal, National Geographic magazine, Politken (print newspaper of Denmark) and was exhibited at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. in 2018.