Julie Ault
Julie Ault is a curator, writer, editor, artist, and designer who began her career establishing the temporary exhibition as art form. This impulse originated with Group Material, a New York-based artists’ collective she co-founded in 1979. Collaborating with artists, orchestrating community exchanges, and formulating vital links between politics and art was of the utmost importance. Group Material placed art in unconventional spaces such as billboards, newspapers, subway cars, and train stations. Over 50 exhibitions and public projects were organized with Ault at the helm, working diligently with artists including Tim Rollins, Felix Gonzales-Torres, and Mundy McLaughlin. Group Material participated in the 1985 Whitney Biennial and organized exhibitions around the nation before fizzling out in 1996.
Since then, Ault has worked to consider the ways in which exhibitions and archives sculpt information. The omission of particular cultural practices and the ways in which the presentation of history formulates thoughts about the present have been of particular interest to her. She regularly collaborates with painter Martin Beck on curatorial endeavors and artworks. Ault is also been an active editor of volumes pertaining to artists from the 1980s and 1990s including Sister Corita and Felix Gonzales-Torres. She has exhibited at Secession in Vienna, …
Julie Ault is a curator, writer, editor, artist, and designer who began her career establishing the temporary exhibition as art form. This impulse originated with Group Material, a New York-based artists’ collective she co-founded in 1979. Collaborating with artists, orchestrating community exchanges, and formulating vital links between politics and art was of the utmost importance. Group Material placed art in unconventional spaces such as billboards, newspapers, subway cars, and train stations. Over 50 exhibitions and public projects were organized with Ault at the helm, working diligently with artists including Tim Rollins, Felix Gonzales-Torres, and Mundy McLaughlin. Group Material participated in the 1985 Whitney Biennial and organized exhibitions around the nation before fizzling out in 1996.
Since then, Ault has worked to consider the ways in which exhibitions and archives sculpt information. The omission of particular cultural practices and the ways in which the presentation of history formulates thoughts about the present have been of particular interest to her. She regularly collaborates with painter Martin Beck on curatorial endeavors and artworks. Ault is also been an active editor of volumes pertaining to artists from the 1980s and 1990s including Sister Corita and Felix Gonzales-Torres. She has exhibited at Secession in Vienna, the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mumok in Vienna, and the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
