By devising expressive gestures through rules and reasoning indicative of Post-Minimal and Conceptual art, Toronto-based artist Julia Dault (b. 1977) 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 first gained widespread notice with her inclusion in the 2012 New Museum Triennial in New York. Since then she has exhibited at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Toronto, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, London’s White Cube, the Perez Art Museum Miami, the AGO, the Saatchi Gallery London, and the 3:e Vâningen Göteborg Sweden. Her works can be found in numerous private and public collections.

COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

British Council, London (United Kingdom)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (Canada)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (Poland)
Pérez Art Museum, Miami (United States of America)
Saatchi Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (United States of America)

EDUCATION

2008
MFA in Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York (United States of America)

2001
BA in Art History, McGill University, Montreal (Canada)