Julian Harake is an artist and architect based in Bozeman, Montana, where he teaches at Montana State University’s School of Architecture.

He makes inkjet prints on translucent gampi paper through a process that merges intuition and machine logic—combining hand drawing, flatbed scanning, digital manipulation, and artificial intelligence. Before printing, he dampens the paper so the ink spreads in ways that are both controlled and unpredictable, producing thin, veil-like surfaces.

Each work begins from something small or fleeting—a shadow, a photograph, or the view outside his window—and evolves through hundreds of digital layers. The resulting images feel both familiar and indeterminate—a reflection of how perception and imagination shape what we see.

Recent exhibitions include By Appointment Only (Santa Barbara, 2025), BASEMENT at a83 (New York, 2025), Beyond Reality at the Livingston Center for Art and Culture (2025), and The New Salon: Arte Del Pueblo at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (2024). He has taught at Barnard College, Syracuse University, UC Berkeley, and other institutions. Harake received a 2023 Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Grant and was a resident at the Center for Art, Science, and Technology in Santa Barbara (2023–2024). His writing has appeared in The Montecito Journal, New York Review of Architecture, Dispatches, and LUM Art Magazine.

He holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and an M.Arch from Princeton University, where he received the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Thesis Prize.