Julee Hightower Ryle received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 2002, focusing on painting and sculpture. After graduating Julee worked in NYC as an artist assistant and various fine arts jobs involving ceramics, bronze, metalsmithing, moldmaking, casting, plastics, sculpture fabrication, film sets and smashing things with a forklift. Julee learned to sew and quilt after becoming a mom and then returned to her own painting practice through the lens of mom life: hair, teeth, canned meats, emotional chickens, broken toys, salt and pepper shakers, volcanos, fluffy things, portals… Currently Julee paints tardigrades in dreamscapes involving ancient Roman architecture, teeth, hair and aspects of modern parenting. Julee lives in Walla Walla, Wa with her husband and 5 children.

CV- JULEE HIGHTOWER RYLE B. 1980 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 2024 Council Chambers, Walla Walla, WA 2023 Juried Anniversary Show, Foundry Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA 2022 Painting at Night, Collar Works, Troy, NY 2022 Art Squared, Grannie won Best of Show, CAVU Cellars, Walla Walla, WA 2022 Juried Show, Combine Art Collective, Walla Walla, WA 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