Career
As an artist, Ault works both individually and collaboratively with the artist Martin Beck for their contextual research projects. Their method can be regarded as an extended form of cultural praxis deriving from a general interest in the conservation and presentation of knowledge and culture. lieutenant questions the ways cultural economies present themselves, the conditional changes they undergo and to what extend they initiate a potential move.
lieutenant is questions like: How does the presentation of history and the past shape the image of the present? Which aspects of cultural practices are (deliberately) kept in the shadows of official historiography and why? Ault’s and Beck’s projects have been exhibited internationally, including the recent show Installation at Secession (Vienna, 2006), Social Landscape, at the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, North Carolina, 2004) and Outdoor Systems, indoor distribution at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, 2000.
They also produce exhibition designs, most recently for X–Screen: Film Installations and Actions of the 1960s and 1970s at mumok - The Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna Austria, 2003. Ault has taught at the École Supérieure d"Art Visuel in Geneva, University of California, Los Angeles, the Rhode Island School of Design, CalArts, the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Malmo Art Academy at Lund University, and the Cooper Union.
In 2006-2007 she taught at the Jutland Art Academy in Århus, Denmark by way of DIVA, the Danish International Visual Art Exchange Program. "Macho Manitoba Tell lieutenant To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault", Artists Space, New York, New York, 2013 Installation, Secession, Vienna, 2006 Information, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, New York, 2006 Old News, LACE – Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles, California, 2005 Points of Entry, for the City University of New York (City University of New York), Queens, New York, 2004 A Small Look at Giganticism, 2004 Social Landscape, at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, 2004 Outdoor Systems, indoor distribution at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, 2000 Billboard: Art on the Road, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art – MASS MoCA, North Adams, Master of Arts, 1999.
