1985 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), City Art Institute, UNSW, Sydney

2025 Forthcoming, new work in progress, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
2022 Smother Cementa22 Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos Museum, Kandos
2016 The Tears of the Earth curated by Sandy Edwards, Barometer Gallery, Paddington
2014 Reflections: Fire and Water curated by Sandy Edwards, CK Gallery, Newtown
2012 Veil Brunswick Street Gallery, Brunswick
2012 Water Magicians curated by Sandy Edwards, Syndicate at Danks, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo
2011 When First I Knew This Place curated by Caroline Edwards, Regional Art Space, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
2010 Fleeting Images 2010, curated by Virginia Handmer, Number Forty Seven, Rylstone
2008 Fleeting Images 2008, curated by Virginia Handmer, Number Forty Seven, Rylstone
1989 It bleats like a lamb, Camera Lucida Window Space, Chippendale
1989 Sordidatus, Camera Lucida Window Space, Chippendale

2024 CREATION w/ Deborah Kelly; Women With Knives collage collective, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2021The National 4: Australian Art, CREATION w/ Deborah Kelly; Women With Knives collage collective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2014 #bringtolightproject curated by Kim V Goldsmith w/ Regional Contemporary Art Network; Julie Williams - Wailing Wall, Old Lithgow Pottery, Lithgow
1993 Deciphering the Unseen w/ Ruth Thompson, curated by Peter Gill, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery
1993 Deciphering the Unseen w/ Ruth Thompson, curated by Audrey Banfield, Albury Regional Art Gallery
1993 Deciphering the Unseen w/ Ruth Thompson, curated by William Mora, William Mora Galleries Melbourne
1994 Deciphering the Unseen w/ Ruth Thompson, curated by Martyn Jolly, Canberra School of Art

2020 The Picture Show at the End of the World curated by Jonny Randall, Dark Mountain Project online film screening and Q&A w/ filmmakers
2018 Family of No Man curated by Cosmos, Les Recontres de la Photographie, Arles, France

2024 MANIPULATED, curated by Anke Stäcker, Articulate project space, Leichhardt NSW​​​​​​​
2024 OUT OF SIGHT curated by Sandy Edwards, Working Dog Gallery, St Leonards
2023 There Is No Lead Mine Here, curated by Gus Armstrong, WAYOUT Artspace, Kandos
2022 The Bitter Crust, WAYOUT Artspace, Kandos 
2021 NO SHOW curated by Aarna Hanley, Carriageworks, Eveleigh
2021 Grounded Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2021 HERE/NOW curated by Lucy Stranger, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
2020 Today I, Tomorrow You curated by Sam Dignand, Art Not Apart Festival, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra
2020 Colour Index curated by Michael Waite, Wedge Gallery, Kinokuniya Bookshop, Sydney
2019 Here and Not Here curated Dr Andrew Frost, Cementa19 Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos
2019 Super Hot Future Women with Knives collective, curated by Deborah Kelly and Jo Albany, Cementa19 Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos
2019 Penumbra curated by Julie Williams, Eskbank House Museum, Lithgow
2018 Arthere at Sydney Contemporary curated by Sandy Edwards, Carriageworks, Eveleigh
2017 A Secret, curated by Paul McDonald, Contact Sheet Gallery, St Leonards
2017 Seven Weeks, Seven Artists curated by Sandy Edwards, Barometer Gallery, Paddington
2017 Nebulus curated by Sara Roney, Headon Photo Festival, Sara Roney Gallery, Rushcutters Bay
2017 Bathurst Art Fair, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2016 Peepshow, curated by Dr Greg Pritchard, Artlands 2016, Dubbo
2015 International Women’s Day Exhibition, curated by International Women’s Day Art Committee, Eskbank House Museum, Lithgow
2014 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
2014 October Unseen curated by Sandy Edwards, 10X8 Gallery, Chippendale
2014 Skulls14, Lithgow Laneways Project Fundraiser, Lithgow Library
2014 Summer Show curated by Sandy Edwards, Black Eye Gallery, Darlinghurst
2013 Bathurst Art Fair, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2012 Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
2012 Catherine Cloran, Matt Palmer, Julie Williams, curated by Sandy Edwards, Arthere Gallery, Redfern
2012 Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Gertrude St, Fitzroy
2012 Crossing Lines curated by Kim V Goldsmith, Basement Studio, Dubbo
2012 Crossing Lines curated by Kim V Goldsmith, Parkes Shire Council Library
2012 Crossing Lines curated by Kim V Goldsmith, Eskbank House Museum, Lithgow
2012 Crossing Lines curated by Kim V Goldsmith, Outback Art Gallery, Coonamble
2012 Crossing Lines curated by Kim V Goldsmith, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo
2011 Bathurst Art Fair, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2010 Bathurst Community Portrait Prize, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2010 International Women’s Day Exhibition, curated by Lithgow International Women’s Day Exhibition Committee, Eskbank House Museum, Lithgow
2009 Land Exhibition, curated by Virginia Handmer, Number Forty Seven, Rylstone
2008 Land Exhibition, curated by Virginia Handmer, Number Forty Seven, Rylstone
2008 Land Exhibition, curated by Virginia Handmer, Number Forty Seven, Bourke
2007 Bathurst Art Fair, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2007 Land Exhibition, curated by Virginia Handmer, Number Forty Seven, Rylstone
2007 Revolution Exhibition curated by Dragan Kalemusic, Ironfest, Lithgow
2006 I carried the teapot my sister carried the cat, curated by Louise Dean w/ Lithgow Community Projects, Union Theatre, Lithgow
2002 Bald Archies, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
1996 Art in the Mountains ’96, Blue Mountains Community Arts Council, Katoomba
1995 Art in the Mountains ’95, Blue Mountains Community Arts Council, Katoomba
1989 Endangered Spaces, Artspace, Sydney
1989 Newmarket Art, Newmarket, Randwick

2023 Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, Artist in Residence, Muswellbrook
2023 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture (finalist) Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah
2022 Honourable Mention Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre
2022 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize (finalist) Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre
2022 Arts OutWest Arts Restart Micro Grant 
2020 Heysen Prize for Landscape (finalist) Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf
2020 Cementa21Artist Residency, Cementa Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos
2020 NAVA Artists’ Benevolent Grant
2017 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture (finalist) Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah
2017 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (finalist) Campbelltown Art Centre
2016 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (finalist) Campbelltown Art Centre
2015 Paramor Prize (finalist) Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool
2014 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (finalist) Campbelltown Art Centre
2013 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (finalist) Campbelltown Art Centre
2013 Delta Electricity Cultural Awards (finalist) Lithgow & District Arts Council
2012 Heysen Prize for Interpretation of Place (finalist) Hahndorf Academy, Hahndorf
2012 Wilson Visual Arts Award (finalist) Trinity Catholic College, Lismore
2011 People’s Choice Award, International Women’s Day Exhibition, Eskbank House Museum, Lithgow
2011 NAVA Marketing Grant for NSW Artists
2010 Commended, Muswellbrook Photographic Award, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
2010 National Photography Prize (finalist) Albury Regional Art Gallery 
2009 Winner, Inaugural Lithgow Prize for Photography, Lithgow Ironfest Arts Festival
2009 Highly Commended, Inaugural Lithgow Prize for Photography, Lithgow Ironfest Arts Festival
2008 Commended, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2008 Muswellbrook Photographic Award (finalist) Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
1995 Commended, Art in the Mountain ’95, Wentworth Falls School of Arts
1995 Muswellbrook Photographic Award (finalist) Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
1994 Highly Commended, Muswellbrook Photographic Award, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
1994 McGregor Prize for Photography (finalist) McGregor Summer School, Toowoomba
1993 Muswellbrook Photographic Award (finalist) Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
1992 Australia Council VACB Artist’s Project Grant for Deciphering the Unseen
1992 NSW Ministry for the Arts Marketing Grant for Deciphering the Unseen
1992 Aerolineas Argentinas, Agfa, Ilford, STA Travel, Vision Graphics, Travellers’ Medical Centre, and the Australian Centre for Photography, philanthropic support for Deciphering the Unseen

2024 CREATION Masterclass Collage Workshop w/ Deborah Kelly, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2024 Expressive Drawing Workshop, w/ Jody Graham, The Annexe - Foundations, Portland 
2020 CREATION Collage Collaboration, Deborah Kelly & Women With Knives, Kandos
2020 Cementa Regional Artist Professional Development Program, Mentor Amala Groom
2019 Super Hot Future Collage Workshop w/ Deborah Kelly for Cementa19, Kandos
2019 Masterclass Collage Workshop, w/ Deborah Kelly, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2012 Arthere ongoing representation w/ Sandy Edwards, Director

2020 - 2024 WAYOUT Artspace Artist Run Initiative, Co-founding Committee Director, Kandos
2021 Mullins Australian Conceptual Photography Prize Award Judging w/ Jacquie Dean and Judith Crispin; Australian Photographic Society and Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre
2020 Mullins Australian Conceptual Photography Prize, Judging w/ Jacquie Dean and Judith Crispin; Australian Photographic Society and Magnet Galleries Melbourne
2019 - 2024 Women with Knives catastrophic collage collective formation; Julie Williams; Edwina McEgan; Jo Albany; Deborah Kelly and Wendy Williams
2013 Art Unlimited Art Prize, Photography Award Judge, Dunedoo
2010 International Women’s Day Art Exhibition, Committee Member 2010 - 2011 Eskbank House Museum, Lithgow
2009 Lithgow Women and Children’s Crisis Centre 21st Anniversary Calendar, Photography Commission by Lithgow Community Projects
2009 - 2011 Lithgow Ironfest Arts Festival Committee 
2005 - 2007 Women’s Refuge Art Projects Committee, Lithgow Community Projects, Lithgow

2023 Hejlskov, Andrea. The Loss of Function Dark Mountain Project online showcase, January 11th
2022 McInerney, Sally. The Return of Jessie Hickman, essay for Smother exhibition
2021 Wisser, Alex. The WAYOUT gang goes to Carriageworks for NO SHOW with The Bitter Crust Cementa Blog
2020 Du Cann, C; Chapman, C; Inglenook, N; Robertson, E; Wheeler, S:(Editors) Dark Mountain #17 Spring Restoration ‘Photographer Unknown’ Editorial viii; ‘Sculpting in the Pyrocene: A Disappearing Act’ c2-3
2018 Chapman, Cate; Du Cann, Charlotte; Robertson, Eric; Smith, Tom: Editors, Dark Mountain #13 Spring Being Human in the Thick of the Present 'Deuce' Julie Williams pp 148-149
2011 Parry, Naomi. When First I Knew This Place catalogue essay 
1993 Thomas, Martin. No Place Like Home, some notes on Deciphering the Unseen catalogue essay

2023 'One roll of film what a test!' The 400TX project - in pictures, Art & Design / The Guardian
2022 Julie Williams & Sally McInerney in conversation with Fiona MacDonald: The Life and Times of Jessie Hickman, Kandos Museum, Kandos NSW 
2022 H.R. Hyatt-Johnson. Cementa22, Review, Artist Profile, Issue 60, pp 158-160
2022 Rope, Brian.Canberra Critics Circle Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize 2022 Photography Review
2022 Rope, Brian. Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize 2022 Exhibition Review, Brian Rope Photography 
2022 Inside Imaging: Sammy Hawker wins Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize
2022 Australian Photography: 30 Finalists announced in 2022 Mullins Photography Prize
2021 Arts Outwest news, Micro Grant Stories: Julie Williams' Smother project
2020 Randall, Jonny. Waiting in the Dark The Picture Show at the End of the World
2016 Baxter, Virginia. A Regenerative Dreamscape review RealTime Arts #133 July 27
2014 ABC Central West, Julie Williams Interview RCAN #bringtolightproject live to air at Old Lithgow Pottery w/ Angela Owens, 13/8
2014 Eastside Radio Thursday Arts, Curator Sandy Edwards live to air, Angel Stretch discussing HeadOn exhibitions by Julie Williams / Sally McInerney / Olive Cotton
2012 Australian Photography. Profile: Julie Williams
1994 Skinner, Carolynne. Deciphering the Unseen  Oz Arts, Issue 11, pp108-110
1994 The Australian Weekend Review, Robert Rooney ‘Absence makes an odd appearance’ August 6-7 p11
1994 The Age, Stephanie Bunbury, ‘Deciphering the Unseen’ July 15 p15
1993 ABC Radio Hunter Valley, Julie Williams w/ Ruth Thompson: Deciphering the Unseen, Interview with Mike Pritchard, September 3