Julia Dault

By devising expressive gestures through rules and reasoning indicative of Post-Minimal and Conceptual art, Julia Dault is part of a generation of artists invigorating abstract painting today. She explores notions of artistic labor, often through constraining, repeating, or mechanically producing her hand’s gestures. This is achieved in part 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.

Julia Dault lives and works in Toronto. She has presented solo exhibitions at White Cube Bermondsey (London), Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto), 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 Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw), 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 National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among other institutions.

Born in Toronto, Canada, 1977

Lives and works in Toronto, Canada