Quick Facts
Biography
Julia Santos Solomon (born 1956) is a Dominican-American multi-media artist.
Early life
She was born in the Dominican Republic, and came to the United States at the age of 10, moving to New York City in 1966 to study art. She attended High School of Art and Design in New York City, Rhode Island School of Design, and Brown University.
Career
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, Leon-Litton Collection at the University Museum, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the Altos de Chavón Foundation, La Romana, Dominican Republic. She is archived at both the Dominican Studies Institute at City University in New York, and at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in Washington, DC.
Her work has been discussed in several articles by Marianne de Tolentino, the art critic of the Listin Diario and featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, State of the Arts, New Art International, Acrylic Revolution, the Art Times Journal and Acrylic Illuminations.
Santos Solomon was a founding member of Altos de Chavon School of Design and Parsons School of Design, through which her vision shaped generations of successful Dominican artists.
List of Works
The following works are accessible through the artist's personal website.
- Artist's Palette Pool, New Zealand Collection
- Wind and Tenderness, Tropical Collection
- Painted Terracotta, Family Narrative Collection
- New Zealand Cliffs, Handmade Prints Collection
- Little Fish, Dreaming Series