Julie Ault is an artist, writer, editor who often assumes curatorial and editorial roles as forms of artistic practice. Her work emphasizes interrelationships between cultural production and politics. Ault is one of the cofounders of the artists’ collaborative Group Material (1979–1996). She has lectured at numerous institutions including: l’École Supérieure d’Art Visuel, Geneva; University of California, Los Angeles; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson; and Malmö Art Academy, Malmö. Recent exhibitions include: No-Stop City High-Rise: a conceptual equation, in collaboration with Martin Beck, 29th São Paulo Biennial, 2010; Changing Channels: Art and Television, 1963–1987 (exhibition design in collaboration with Martin Beck), MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, 2010; and Wet and Wild: The Spirit of Sister Corita, Signal, Malmö, 2007. Her edited and authored publications include: Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material (2010); Where the Lions Are (2009), in collaboration with Danh Vo; Felix Gonzalez-Torres (2006); Come Alive: The Spirited Art of Sister Corita (2006); and Alternative Art New York 1965–1985 (2002). Ault lives and works in New York. [Last updated 2010]
