Julie Gladstone

Julie Gladstone is a Toronto based artist working with abstract painting and mixed media textiles to explore the intersections of memory, embodiment, healing, time, and motherhood. She maps emotional and ancestral landscapes through layering, mark-making and the construction and deconstruction of internal and external spaces. Her practice is influenced by a lifelong exploration of structures of consciousness and somatic healing modalities based in Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Kabbalah and Yoga Metaphysics. Her work weaves together contemporary abstraction with ancestral needlework traditions and an interest in cosmology, alchemy and digital technology.

Gladstone received her MFA from OCAD University in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design in 2022 and her BFA from Concordia University in painting and drawing. She has exhibited internationally, with solo shows at the Museum of Jewish Montreal, OXH Gallery ( Florida) and Casino Obrero in Spain. Her work has been acquired by public and private collections including Archive Hospitality, The Battat Collection, Michael Garron Hospital, The Textile Museum of Béjar and The City of Edmonton.

Gladstone is the recipient of grants from the Toronto and Ontario Arts council. Other notable exhibitions have included: The Art Museum at University of Toronto (2024,) My Heart at Night at Emily Harding Gallery (2024); Lullabies in Exile at Redeemer University (2022) Return to the Fortress at the Museum of Jewish Montreal (2020) The Department of Canadian Heritage (2018). Gladstone’s work has been featured in publications including Art Toronto, CBC Arts, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic Magazine, Arts Coast Magazine, Toronto Guardian, Toronto Life, the Canadian Jewish News among others. In 2025, she was artist-in-residence at the Gladstone Hotel.