Julia Siemon is a specialist in early modern European art. Prior to joining Bard Graduate Center, she held curatorial appointments in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Department of Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; and, most recently, in the Paintings Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Her exhibitions, organized for those institutions as well as for Waddesdon Manor, have considered diverse subjects including historic Japanese textiles, Neoclassical ornament design, Netherlandish silver of the late Renaissance, and eighteenth-century British painting. In addition to exhibition catalogues that she has edited, her research has appeared in volumes published by the British Museum Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hill Art Foundation, Holburne Museum, and National Museum, Krakow, and in journals including The Burlington Magazine and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. She is also the author of an extensive catalogue raisonée of preparatory drawings by the sixteenth-century Flemish artist Johannes Stradanus—a volume published digitally by Cooper Hewitt. Her scholarship has been recognized through grants, fellowships, and awards from the Getty Foundation’s Paper Project, the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, the Medici Archive Project, the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, and others. She holds a PhD in Italian Renaissance art from the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where she served as part-time core lecturer for several years. At BGC, she has taught Curatorial Thinking: From Object to Exhibition.