Julia Dault

Julia Dault’s abstract paintings, sculptures, and mixed media works are composed through expressive gestures and reasoning indicative of Post-Minimal and Conceptual art. She explores notions of artistic labour, often through constraining, repeating, or mechanically producing her hand’s gestures. This is achieved through her use of non-traditional tools and supports: Dault scrapes and pushes paint across the canvas with combs, squeegees, and other implements that help her create pattern-like, but ultimately imperfect, compositions. Dault’s exploration of the handmade and the industrial continues in her sculptures, which she improvises on-site with hand-bent building materials, to create forms that are both delicate and robust. In Dault’s practice, abstraction is never purely about process, but also about discovery through action.

Julia Dault (b. 1977, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in Toronto, Canada. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto), White Cube Bermondsey (London), Bradley Ertaskiran (Montreal), and Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York). Notable group exhibitions have been staged at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Glasgow Print Studio, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, the 9th Gwangju Biennale, the Marrakech Biennale, and the New Museum Triennial (New York). Dault’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among other institutions.

Born 1977, in Toronto, CA

Lives and works in Toronto, CA