About

Judy Giera (she/her) is a Brooklyn, NY-based artist and arts worker. Working across painting, sculpture, and sometimes installation and video, Giera makes work about embodiment and gender through a transfeminist lens. Utilizing abstract self-portraits and theatrical materiality, Judy infuses her work with joy and humor. These are both concepts that she feels are often erased from the lives and stories of trans women like her.

Judy has presented solo exhibitions at SPANTZO (NY, NY), Waterloo Arts Center (Cleveland, OH), haul gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and forthcoming in 2025 at the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY). Her work has appeared in group and two-person exhibitions at HERE Arts Center, Bronx Art Space, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, Gallery Aferro, and Amos Eno Gallery, among others. She has been included in museum survey exhibitions at The Hudson River Museum and, most recently, in Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Judy was a 2022 AIM Fellow with the Bronx Museum of the Arts and was awarded the Davyd Whaley Memorial Scholarship Award for Abstraction from the Art Students League of New York. She has participated in residency programs with the School of Visual Arts, NYC Crit Club/Plum Lime Residency, and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts/EFA North Shore Residency.

Giera’s performance work has been presented at venues in New York City and nationwide. Her hour-long performance with soundscape, ‘Blanche on a Winter’s Eve,’ was presented at the NYC Fringe Festival and the United Solo Theatre Festival. This latter performance earned her a Best Performance award at the United Solo Theatre Festival’s 2016 season.

Judy holds an MFA in Art (Painting) from Lehman College/City University of New York and an MFA in Theatre from Pace University. She also spent a year in a graduate Performance Studies program previously offered at Pratt Institute. Judy is also the Associate Director of Collections for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City. Leslie-Lohman is the only collecting institution in the world focused solely on LGBTQIA+ art and artists. She co-curated the museum’s 2024 exhibition ‘I’m A Thousand Different People, Every One Is Real’. Judy resides in Brooklyn, NY, with two cats, her wife, and many houseplants.