Born in Hollywood, California in 1954, Julia Scher lives and works in Cologne, Germany. She has exhibited solo installations and projects at The Collective for Living Cinema, New York (1988); The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (1990); Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo (1992); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (1994); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998); and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (2018). Her work has featured in multiple survey exhibitions including NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York (2013), The Condition of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co., The Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2018), and Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018). Scher has been Professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne since 2006.