Julie Weitz

Working across performance, film, installation, and photography, Julie Weitz accounts for the wounds and resilience of diasporic culture by creating embodied and collective experiences for repair. Weitz’s performance-art practice animates figures from Yiddish folklore and uses the interactions between figures and sites—especially those where Yiddish culture was all but eradicated—to explore themes of loss and healing through a diasporic lens. Weitz is a Fulbright Scholar (2023–24) and Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellow at Yiddishkayt (2020–23). Her artwork has been exhibited at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco), Galicia Jewish Museum (Krakow), Jewish Museum of Vienna (Austria), LAND (Los Angeles), Lambert Center for the Arts (NYC), and Judisches Museum (Germany).