Julie Wosk is a painter,  photographer, author,  and  museum curator whose  

art work has been exhibited in American museums and galleries.  She is also a professor emerita of studio painting, art history, and English at the State University of New York, Maritime College in New York City.  She lives in both New York and the Berkshires in Massachusetts, and is a member of the Guild of Berkshire Artists.

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A native of Evanston, Illinois, she had early art training at the Art Institute of Chicago and her academic degrees are from Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She was awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities for art history seminars at Columbia University and Princeton, was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Arts, and was on the New Rochelle Council of the Arts.  

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She has also been presented with a State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. 

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As a curator, she has created the exhibit “Alluring Androids and Robots” shown at the New York Hall of Science and the Cooper-Union Engineering Gallery in Manhattan, and her exhibit “Imaging Women in the Space Age,” which originated at the New York Hall of Science and has been shown in Virginia and Texas. It is available to travel to other venues in the United States. For more information, contact the artist.

 

She has published five books on art, technology, film, robotics, and literature.  Her books include Artificial Women (Indiana University Press, 2024); My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves (Rutgers University Press, 2015); and Playboy, Mad Men, and Me--And Other Stories (2020) which describes her experiences as a young publications and press writer at Playboy and includes some her stories published in The New York Times and Newsday.  She has also published art exhibit reviews as a blogger for the Huffpost.

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She is also the author of the books Women and the Machine: Representations From the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Breaking Frame: Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century (Rutgers University Press).

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Her lecture “Alluring Androids and Robots in Film, Photography, and Art” was taped by PBS Channel Thirteen Television in New York as part of their “Best Lectures in New York.” And she has given several interviews about her books on television, NPR, and on European radio.

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She has presented guest lectures on art, technology, gender, and robotics at a wide range of academic and community organizations in America and Europe, including at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Design Museum in New York, the Berkshire Museum, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia University, the New York Public Library, the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, London University, and many more.