Julian LaVerdiere is a Production Designer and Artist from Brooklyn New York.
LaVerdiere received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1993 and MFA from the YALE Graduate School of Art, Sculpture program in 1995.
In 1996, LaVerdiere co-founded a production design collective to conceive sets for fashion editorials, print advertising, trade shows, commercial television and feature film.
LaVerdiere Design LTD. is membered with I.A.T.S.E. United Scenic Artists Local 829.
LaVerdiere has exhibited in galleries and museums, including; Andrew Kreps Gallery, Deitch Projects, Lehmann-Maupin Gallery, EverGreene Gallery, PS1/MOMA, MOCA-Miami, MOCA-Cleveland, The Tang, The Queens Museum of Art, Musee de Elysee Lausanne Switzerland, The Library of Congress Washington DC, The United Nations NYC,
In September 2001, LaVerdiere was on the design team that collaborated to create The Tribute in Light, an annual light memorial for the victims of the World Trade Center collapse.
In 2002 LaVerdiere received the Cooper Union Urban Visionary Award, and the Municipal Art Society Brendan Gill prize
In 2010 LaVerdiere was invited by the National Capital Planning Commission to speak on the Beyond Granite: Global Approaches to Public Art, Placemaking, and National Commemoration Panel discussion at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in D.C.
In 2011 Art Directed, “The Dictator”, w/ Sascha Baron Cohen for Paramount Pictures.
In 2014 LaVerdiere received the Augustus Saint Gaudens Award for professional achievement.
In 2017 LaVerdiere spoke on Monuments Myth and Meaning, a panel for the removal of civil war monuments, held in Cooper Unions Great Hall.
In 2019 LaVerdiere received the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s “Building Brooklyn Award” for BEST ADAPTIVE REUSE, renovation & restoration of EMPIRE ENGINE 19, featured in NewYork Magazine as “The Little Black FireHouse” where he now lives and works.