With a practice rooted in experimental video, installation, and visual poetry, Julia Zurilla explores memory, silence, and displacement through an aesthetic that intertwines analog and digital technologies. Her work emerges from intuitive, affective research processes and materializes in visual compositions where nostalgia, language, and landscape exist in constant tension.
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Exhibitions + Highlights
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Monumentalizing the trace, solo show
An exhibition by the collaborative duo TREIZMAN + ZURILLA.
Conceived across the entire gallery, the installation transforms the space through video, light, and material interventions, where flooding and unflooding unfold in opposing temporal loops.
The work stages a tension between accumulation and withdrawal, exploring memory and environmental precarity as spatial experience.
The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery / May 2026 – August 2026
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IlluminArts, XII Season Anniversary Celebration
A program that brings together music and video art in a journey from innocence to illusion—and toward awakening.
Featuring works by Benjamin Britten, Philip Glass, and George Frideric Handel, where different eras resonate across time.
Julia Zurilla’s video art accompanies and expands this arc, exploring repetition, perception, and transformation.
Betsy Hotel /May 8 2026
RECENT NEWS
Oct, 2025
published by Miami New Times
by Douglas Markowitz
“New Atlantis” at Green Space
Working off a song prompt from none other than rock star and Miami local Iggy Pop, the thirteen local artists featured in this group show at Green Space in MiMo envision Miami as a “New Atlantis.”
Artists include Diana Eusebio, Jason Aponte, Julia Zurilla, Luna Palazzolo-Daboul, Elisa Benedetti, and others. The show opens on Thursday, October 16, and runs through March 2026. Green Space Miami, 7200 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 239-423-3332; greenspacemiami.org.
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Mar, 2025
published by IlluminArts
On March 7, 2024, IlluminArts and the Miami Beach Botanical Garden presented "Echoes of Mother Nature", a musical exploration of the themes of nature and climate change. Soprano Natalia Santaliz, guitar/cuatro player Héctor Molina, and pianist Anna Fateeva took center stage for this program. Video art exploring the strength and beauty of nature created by award-winning Miami-based artist Julia Zurilla was projected throughout the space, generating a powerful dialogue between the visual and musical arts.
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Jun, 2025
published by post(s)
by Manuel Vásquez Ortega
En esta unión de archivos vernáculos, analógicos, con registros digitales que exceden la atmósfera terrestre, la artista plantea a la vez una paradoja del tiempo en relación con la actua-lidad de un mundo hecho de imágenes: la ruina detenida de los recuerdos que habitan en las fotografías y videos alojados en nubes intangibles, orbitando en un punto indeterminado entre el espacio y la Tierra. Entre estas dos posiciones verticales opuestas, Julia Zurilla plantea así una noción de paisaje como constructo conceptual, en el que valores como la línea de horizon-te, la temperatura y la presencia humana en su plena cotidianidad recuperan un arquetipo de paisaje humano en sus aspectos más elementales
Dec, 2024
published by Art Circuits
By Felix Suazo
On vacation: Julia Zurilla
In February 2024, Julia Zurilla presented her solo show "Vacation Aesthetics of the Environment" at Laundromat Art Space, a creation and exhibition space active since 2015 located in Little Haiti. The project was developed from archival images that recreate the happy and catastrophic memory of Miami, a city blessed by its recreational charm and subjected to the rigors of the water. The videos, stills, and installations that make up the exhibition suggest a bucolic and unstable environment where there are boats, casinos, and hotels, but also hurricanes and floods, topped by a continuous line that evokes the horizon of water.
Apr, 2025
published by GLM
Oolite Arts is turning 40 and it’s celebrating with the community that made it all possible! As part of this milestone anniversary, the nonprofit is awarding $600,000 through The Ellies, Miami’s Visual Arts Awards, to support over 45 local visual artists and art educators. It’s the largest amount ever awarded in a single year of the program, bringing Oolite’s total investment in Miami-based talent through The Ellies to $3.6 million in just seven years.
Dec, 2024
published by Arts Calendar