Julia Bustos-Vasquez

Sculptural Jeweler

CV

Education

Precolombian Funeral Rites in the Andes — 2024

Museo Precolombino, Santiago Chile

Photogrammetry Course — 2024

TOPO – Digital Creation Centre, Montreal

Mayan Hieroglyphics Course — 2023

ABC de los Jeroglificos Mayas

Professional Jewellers Diploma (DEP) — 2021

École des Métiers du Sud-Ouest de Montréal

Edinburgh Etch Workshop — 2021

Montreal Metal Arts Academy

Lapidary Arts Certificate, Level 1 and 2 — 2020

École de Joaillerie de Montréal

Double Bachelors in Anthropology and Literature — 2010

Concordia University, Montreal

High school certificate – special training violin — 2001

Liceo Experimental Artistico, Santiago Chile

Grants/Exhibitions

Exhibition: Galeria Carlo Ludici — 2024

Original sculptural jewelry pieces                                             

Exhibition: Art Toronto with Plataforma Artbase — 2024

Original sculptural jewelry pieces

Replicating the Past — 2024

Research and Creation – Personal Project                                                              Canada Council for the Arts

Roots Run Deep — 2023

Research and Creation – Personal Project                                                          Canada Council for the Arts

Exhibition: Small Acts: the craft of subversion — 2022

Craft Desert, original piece “Astrolabe EZLN”    

Exhibition: Artifactual Remakes — 2021

Baltimore Jewelry Center, original piece “The Future is Ours” 

Grant — 2020-2021

Lise Watier Foundation

Exhibition: Academics in Pandemic — 2020

Ethical Metalsmiths, original piece “Novel Kinesis”                                                            

Member

Canada Council for the Arts

Artist

Commission des Métiers d’art du Québec

Artisan Member

Sur Gallery

Artist Member