Julia Maria Künnap is a jewelry artist known for her mysterious and meticulous contemporary approach to gem cutting and stone carving. For more than ten years, she has used natural stones in her artwork, shaping them into touching pieces of jewelry that speak of time.

The conceptual core of Künnap's artistic practice lies in the contradiction between the persistence of a stone and the disappearance of a moment. Julia graduated in 2004 from the Estonian Academy of Arts, Jewellery Art Department under Prof. Kadri Mälk, having also studied at Konstfack, Stockholm, and Alchimia School of Contemporary Jewellery in Florence.

In 2013 Sienna Patti Contemporary hosted her first solo exhibition. Julia is a 2018 recipient of the renowned Herbert Hofmann Prize, and her work has been acquired by multiple museums, including New York's Museum of Art and Design.