PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PRESENT Project Advisor/Mentor, Empowered Phụ Nữ Collective
2021-PRESENT Archival Researcher & Producer, New Wave Documentary
2020-22 Photovoice Project Consultant, University of California Irvine
2022 Co-Facilitator, Empowered Phụ Nữ Collective
2022 Digital Asset Management Specialist, Freelance
2021 Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts Lowell
2020-21 Art History Teaching Assistant, OCAD University
2020 Local Program Coordinator, Block by Block, Toronto Ward Museum
2020 Project Archivist, Hamilton Artists Inc.
2019 Graduate Research Fellow, Southeast Asian Archive at the University of California Irvine
2018 Digital Media Consultant, Southeast Asian Digital Archive (SEADA) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
2018 Archiving Intern, Southeast Asian Digital Archive (SEADA) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
2017-18 Art History Graduate Assistant, X University
2016-17 Youth Program Coordinator, Vietnamese Women’s Association of Toronto
2015 Technical and Programming Promotions Intern, Vtape

SELECT SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS

2023 VESSELS, First Friday Art Crawl, Artspace (Peterborough)
2022 Shifting Articulations of Asian-ness in Contemporary Canada, online
2021 Reaching Across Generations: Shorts Program, ReFrame Film Festival (Peterborough)
2020 Migration & Diaspora Shorts Program, SEA x SEA: Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival (Seattle)
2019 It’s Still You, Breakthroughs Film Festival (Toronto)
2019 BAGEROO TWELVE! Volume 2, the8fest (Toronto)
2018 Cultural Crossroads Screening, Aurora Picture Show (Houston) 
2017 Been Here So Long, Reel Asian and Vtape commission for Ontario150 (Toronto)
2017 Life/Death/Life, 187 Augusta (Toronto) 
2016 Photophobia: Contemporary Moving Images Festival, Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton)

PRESENTATIONS

Invited Presentations & Workshops

2023 Zine Workshop Facilitator, Creating Community Archives Through Recipes, Artspace, Peterborough
2023 Workshop Co-Facilitator, “nhà bếp của EPN" (the kitchen of EPN), Together We Rise Festival, Scarborough
2022 Panelist (Artist Talk). Shifting Articulations of Asian-ness in Contemporary Canada, online
2021 Guest Speaker (Artist Talk), Sheridan College, online
2021 Photovoice Workshop Facilitator, Just Environments, online
2021 Guest Speaker (Artist Talk), Sheridan College, online
2021 Zine Workshop Facilitator, Discovering the Story of You, UVSA Eastern Canada, online
2021 Panelist (Artist Talk), Reaching Across Generations Panel Discussion, Re:Frame Film Festival, online
2020 Moderator, PROFIT and LOSS: artists consider Viet Nam, the war and its effects, University of Toronto
2020 Panelist (Artist Talk), Shelter in the Storm: Asian American Studies Arts Episode 3 “The Archives,” online
2019 Workshop Presenter, SEA Storytelling: How to Make Your Own Zine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California
2018 Guest Presenter (Artist Talk), OCAD University, Toronto
2018 Workshop Presenter, UVSA Eastern Canada Leadership Summit, Toronto
2018 Panelist (Artist Talk), Re: Collections Symposium Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto Media Arts Centre, Toronto
2017 Presenter, A History of The Vietnamese-Canadian Community in Toronto, Toronto District School Board Asian Heritage Month Student Symposium, Central Technical School, Toronto

Refereed Conference Presentations

2023 Moderator, ‘Union’: Navigating Contemporary Art in Public, Institutional, and Digital Community Spaces, Association for Asian American Studies, Long Beach, California
2023 Panelist, NEW WAVE: Centering Vietnamese Joy in the Public Imagination, Association for Asian American Studies, Long Beach, California
2022 Poster Presentation, Care during COVID-19 at the Photovoice Conference: 30 Years of Photovoice, online
2022 Panelist, Conflict and Care: an intergenerational, transnational dialogue between feminist scholar-activists at Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Denver, CO
2021 Co-Presenter, Healing SEA Monsters Through Zines, Southeast Asian American Studies Conference, online
2021 Panelist, VOICE: Visualizing Our Identities and Cultures for Empowerment at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference, online
2021 Panelist, VOICE: Visualizing Our Identities and Cultures for Empowerment at the Annual Public Health Summit, University of California Irvine, online
2020 Presenter, SEAing More: Looking at Vernacular Photographs at the Southeast Asian Archive, Paper presented at the Association of Canadian Archivists Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia
2020 Panelist, Archiving Our Resilience: Memory, Identity, and Community in the South and Southeast Asian Diaspora at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Washington, D.C. (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019 Panelist (Artist Talk), Millennial Southeast Asian Diasporic Artists on the New Frontier: Products of War, Code- Switching, Fractured Identities at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Madison, Wisconsin
2018 Presenter, Navigating Multiple Histories & Discrepancies in Understanding Nineteenth Century Photography in Viet Nam, Paper presented at Un-Histories Conference, OCAD University, Toronto

Published

2022 Exhibition text, Object of Affection, Afternoon Projects
2021 Essay, Archival Affections, Trinity Square Video

Refereed Publications

Huỳnh, J., To, P., Lee, C., Vo Dang, T., Tzu-Chun Wu, J., and Sora Park Tanjasiri. “Care during COVID-19: A Virtual Asian American and Pacific Islander Photovoice Project.” AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community 19, no. 1 & 2 (March 2022): 57–86. http://www.aapinexus.org/2022/03/29/article-care-during-covid-19/.

To, P., Huỳnh, J., Tzu-Chun Wu, J., Vo Dang, T., Lee, C., and Sora Park Tanjasiri. “Through Our Eyes, Hear Our Stories: A Virtual Photovoice Project to Document and Archive Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Experiences During COVID-19.” Health Promotion Practice 23, no. 2 (March 2022): 289–95. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399211060777.

AWARDS

2023 Spring Grant, Canonbury Foundation
2022 Grants for Individual Artists, EC3/City of Peterborough
2022 ArtReach Grant, Empowered Phụ Nữ Collective
2021 ArtReach Grant, Empowered Phụ Nữ Collective
2020 Neighbourhood Grant, Social Planning Toronto
2020 Best Documentary Award, SEA x SEA: Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival
2019 New Generation Award, Breakthroughs Film Festival co-presented by the Future of Film Showcase
2018 Graduate Student Travel and Prize Award
2018 Roloff Beny Foundation Photography Award
2018 Dr. Annie Smith Graduate Scholarship
2018 Graduate Fellowship
2018 International Work Experience Grant
2017 Dr. Annie Smith Graduate Scholarship
2017 Ontario Graduate Fellowship
2017 Canada's Young Women's National Leadership Grant
2015 Guido & Olga Pugliese Study in Italy Scholarship
2014 Roger Jowett Memorial Award for Excellence in Studio Work
2014 Faculty Award for Excellence in Painting
2013 Rummy Gill Painting Award

PRESS

2022 Trần, Nhân. “Documenting Language and Archive in Vietnamese Diasporic Autobiography," Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network
2021 Dring, Julie. “Interview with Julia Huỳnh,” The Covert Collective
2021 Châu, Giao. “Raising Children Between Cultures,” Culture Magazin
2019 Schiffito, Lia. “Artful Historians | 306 Hollywood, Julia Huynh And The Art Of Cultural Preservation,” Head Stuff

EDUCATION

Master of Arts, Photography Preservation and Collections Management, X University
Thesis: Performing and Preserving Memories: Vernacular Photographs in the South Vietnamese Diaspora
Vietnamese for Beginners, School of Continuing Studies affiliated with the University of Toronto
Bachelor of Arts, Art & Art History Specialization, Studio Focus in Photography, Minor in Italian, University of Toronto
Diploma of Fine Arts, Sheridan College