Scott Lyall

Scott Lyall (Toronto, CA, 1964) lives and works in Toronto and New York.
Scott Lyall combines drawing, painting, sculpture, and found objects into what he describes as a ‘scenography without actors,’ or ‘plastic supports for an almost clientless sense of design.’ His production revolves around issues related to sculptural display, the relationships between graphic processes, and the design legacies of conceptualism.

Lyall’s work is part of the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Pinault Collection in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto and the Walker Art Center.

UPCOMING: The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies 1970-2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, (November 9th 2024 to April 13th 2025)

Last year, in 2023, Lyall had two solo exhibitions , one titled Scales at the Green on Red Gallery in Dublin and the other one titled Superstar at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York.Prior to this the artist had several exhibitions such as Scott Lyall & Rachel Harrison: Schnitte im Raum at the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen (2011), Scott Lyall and Dan Flavin curated by Damien Airault in Paris (2010). He also had a solo institutional exhibition at The Power Plant in Toronto in 2008 with an accompanying catalogue and participated in the Montréal Biennial (2011) and the 7th Santa Fe Biennial (2008). His work has been showcased in several group exhibitions including For the People of Paris at Campoli Presti in Paris and The Painter’s New Tools at Nahmad Contemporary in New York both in 2022, The Poet-Engineers at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York in 2020 , and, something like fire dancing at Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto in 2016, in 2015 Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Light Falls at the Green On Red Gallery in Dublin, Signal Failure at Pace London in London and Works on Paper at Greene Naftali in New York , and others.