Julia L. Kay is a painter, printmaker, photographer, muralist and digital artist who was born and raised in New York City. For three years she made a self-portrait every day. On completion of that project, she started "Julia Kay's Portrait Party" (JKPP), an international collaboration of 1000+ artists from 50+ countries. In the first 5 years of JKPP, the members created more than 50,000 portraits of each other.