Julianna Ly is the associate conservator of paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Since joining the CMA in 2021, Julianna has worked on several complex projects including Pintoricchio’s Virgin and Child (c. 1490–1500), Pier Francesco Foschi’s Portrait of a Woman as Saint Catherine (c. 1560), and more recently, Berthe Morisot’s Reading (1873). Julianna frequently collaborates with her curatorial and conservation colleagues on technical studies aiming to uncover artists’ materials and techniques. Notable recent technical studies have included Sandro Botticelli’s Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist (c. 1490), and Filippino Lippi’s The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret (c. 1495). Julianna received her MS from the Winterthur / University of Delaware Graduate Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC). She has held positions at institutions and private practices, including the Yale University Art Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and completed her third and final year of graduate study as the Fulbright / American Friends of the Mauritshuis intern at the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in the Hague, Netherlands. Julianna is a past assistant program chair (2023) and program chair (2024) of the Paintings Specialty Group of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).