Julia Scher was born in Los Angeles in 1954. Scher’s work across performance, video, installation, and sculpture conflates apparatuses of surveillance and technology with the politics of gender. Recent solo presentations include Maximum Security Society at Kunsthalle Zürich (2022–23) and Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany (2023), and American Landscape at Ortuzar Projects, New York (2024). Recent group exhibitions include those at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2018); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018); and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023). Scher has taught at Columbia University, New York; Harvard University, Cambridge; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, among others. Scher lives in Cologne.