Hair. Teeth. Canned meats. Emotional chickens. Broken toys. Salt and Pepper shakers. Volcanos. Hormones. Vintage plastic. Fluffy things. Portals.

Julee Hightower Ryle received a BFA from Pratt in 2002, focusing on painting and sculpture. After graduating Julee worked in NYC as an artist assistant and in messy fine arts jobs involving ceramics, bronze, metalsmithing, moldmaking, casting, plastics, sculpture fabrication, film sets and smashing things with a forklift.

Julee left the art world to start a family, having 5 babies in 7 years. After fully immersing herself in the world of stay at home moms, she returned to her own painting practice through the lens of mom life. She lives with her family in Walla Walla, WA. 

CV- JULEE HIGHTOWER RYLE Born: 1980 Wenatchee, WA, United States

EDUCATION 2002 Pratt Institute, BFA Painting (Sculpture), Brooklyn, NY 1999 Wenatchee Valley College, AA (Ceramics), Wenatchee, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023 One-Hundred Not-So-Daily Paintings, Stevens Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 2021 Plants/ People, Brasserie 4, Walla Walla, WA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024 Intimacy, Red 225, Nashville, TN 2023 Juried Show, Foundry Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA 2022 Painting at Night, Collar Works, Troy, NY 2002 Three Person Senior Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 2002 Another Two Painter Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 2001 Two Person Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

GRANTS 2023 Grants for Artists’s Progress 2022 Dan Dunn Memorial Grant

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Whitman College, Memorial Building, Walla Walla, WA