Julie Pelaez

Julie Pelaez is a multidisciplinary artist combining a variety of mixed media to create abstract artworks inspired by mindfulness and empowerment. Her practice includes exhibitions, commissions, a growing line of wallpaper designs, corporate installations with Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, United Heritage Credit Union, ERS of Austin, Longhorn Village, and Kendra Scott, as well as print collaborations with national retailers such as Wexel Art, Four Hands Art Studio, and Perigold. She has participated in dozens of exhibitions nation-wide, and in 2023 opened a dedicated gallery showroom in Canopy, an arts hub in Austin. She received her BFA from The University of Delaware in 2000 and spent a decade as an Advertising Art Director, followed by a break for motherhood before becoming a full-time artist in 2017. Pelaez passionately soaks up life and squeezes out color from her home studio in Austin where she lives with her husband and 2 sons.