Julia Haft-Candell (b. 1982, Oakland, California) received a BA from the University of California, Davis, before graduating from the MFA program at California State University, Long Beach, in 2010. She was a summer resident in 2016 at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, Maine, and has been awarded multiple grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation and most recently the California Community Foundation Fellowship in 2019. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.