Julia Jerome is a sculptor and installation artist working at the threshold between material transformation and systemic forces. Their work examines transformation as evidence: the material carries its making within it. Working with natural and industrial materials such as steel and skin, resin and pollutants, they subject them to tension, abrasion, exposure, erosion, and time. These actions reveal how bodies relate to each other and their environments. Through pressure, through wearing, through mutual transformation.

Their practice is grounded in years of large-scale, site-responsive building and desert production. Jerome was the lead artist of The Reckoning, a monumental sculptural installation awarded an honorarium grant, and has served as an artist and crew lead on four additional Honorarium-supported works. These projects involved long fabrication cycles, structural engineering under constraint, and on-site construction in extreme environments with heat, wind, dust, and instability shaping both form and process.

They have exhibited in galleries, warehouses, outdoor sites, and temporary environments across California and Massachusetts. Trained in scenic design, aerial performance, and art history through Emerson College, New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA), and Florence Academy of the Arts, Jerome brings a hybrid background in structure, body, and material discipline to their practice.