Julie Held

Biography
1977-1981 Camberwell School of Art
1982-1985 The Royal Academy Schools

Currently tutors at The Royal Drawing School, London
Elected Member of The London Group, The New English Art Club, Royal Watercolour Society and The Arborealists.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 The Reciprocity of Seeing, Tregony Contemporary, St Mawes, Cornwall
2017 Forms of Life: Small Drawings, Mercer Chance Gallery, London
2015 Living Memories: A Life in Portraits, The London Jewish Cultural Centre
2015 Connections (with Peter Clossick), The Lovely Gallery, London
2014 Living London, Eleven Spitalfields, London
2010-11 Works on Canvas, Leipzig
2010 Colour and Texture (with Peter Clossick), The Boundary Gallery, London 2009 Bilder auf Papier, Galerie Sud, Leipzig
2008 Regard and Ritual (with Shanti Panchal), Eldon Gallery Portsmouth University 2007 Regard and Ritual (with Shanti Panchal), The Ben Uri Gallery, London
2003 Crossing the Bridge Back to Saxony, Deutsche Telecom University, Leipzig 2003 Foyer Show, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Arts, London
2001 Works on Paper, Sternberg Centre, London
1999 The Boundary Gallery, London
1998 The Frank Kafka Gallery, Prague
1998 The City Library, Leipzig

Recent Group Exhibitions
2025 Spring Forward, Tregony Contemporary, St Mawes, Cornwall
Drawing the Unspeakable: Curated by David Dimbleby and Liza Dimbleby TOWNER Eastbourne
Assemble:25, Tregony Contemporary, Portobello Road,London
The Quietness of Feeling: An Exploration of Trees through the Art of Benjamin Haughton and The Aborealists
2022 Painting With An Accent: German Jewish Émigré Artists,
The Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in partnership with The German Embassy, London
2021 Celebration of Venus and Gardens, Anna Lovely Galler2019 NEAC Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2019 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London
2019 The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition, King’s Place, London 2019 Black and White Contemporary Drawing, Linden Hall Studio, Kent 2018 Acquisitions and long-term loans, The Ben Uri Gallery, London
2018 The London Group Exhibition, Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall 2018 The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 2018 The Arborealists, Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset
2018 DRAW, The Mandells Gallery, Norwich
2018 Summer Show, The Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2018 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
2018 EQUINOX, The Felix & Spear Gallery, London
2017 The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition, King’s Place, London 2017 Substance & Light (with Tony Eyton RA & Clarisse d’Arcimoles), Eleven
Spitalfields, London
2016 NEAC Annual Exhibition, The Mercer’s Company, London
2016 The Ruth Borchard, The Next Generation, King’s Place, London 2016 Christies, London
2013-14 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2012 The Ruth Borchard Collection, King’s Place, London
2010 The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
2008 The Threadneedle Figurative Prize Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
* Also many annual London Group, RWS and Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions

Collections Include:
Nuffield College, Oxford University, England
The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England
The London School of Economics & Political Science, London New Hall, Cambridge
Staffordshire County Council’s Art Collection
Baker McKenzie International Law Firm
The Ben Uri Gallery & Museum, London
The Ruth Borchard Collection, London
St Ives Society, Cornwall