Biography
American-born artist Julie Umerle lives and works in London's East End. She studied painting at Falmouth University before gaining her MFA at Parsons School of Design in New York City, where she graduated in 1998.
Umerle is an award-winning artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Her work is represented in public and private collections worldwide including Deutsche Bank, The Connaught and Pinsent Masons, as well as a number of museum collections. Umerle makes work that explores the processes of abstract painting. Her practice is an investigation of materials and perception of the image.
She paints in series that are consistently open-ended, exploring similarity, repetition and difference within each group of work. Her recent collection of paintings, an ongoing series, explores contemporary geometric abstraction through the parameters of space, colour and scale. She has been artist-in-residence at The Marriott Hotel in Canary Wharf, London since 20`17. Her memoir 'Art, Life and Everything' was published in 2019 to critical acclaim.
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Selected exhibitions
2023 Sotheby's, Palais Oppenheim, Cologne (forthcoming)
2022 Five Needle Five Wire, Thameside Gallery, London
2021 Recent Paintings, Bermondsey Project Space, London (solo show)
2021 Make It Blue, W1 Curates, Flannels, Oxford Street, London
2019 Future Now, Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York
2019 Made in Britain, National Museum of Poland, Gdansk
2019 A Book About Death, Islip Art Museum, New York
2019 Attract, curated by Cultivate Gallery, London
2018 Another World, curated by Tracey Emin, Deutsche Bank Lounge, Frieze, London
2018 In Residence, The Marriott Canary Wharf, London (solo show)
2018 Beyond The Surface, The Crypt, Marylebone, London
2018 Intent, curated by Cultivate Gallery, London
2017 Contemporary Masters from Britain, Yantai Art Museum, China (touring)
2017 Creekside Open, selected by Alison Wilding, APT Gallery, London
2017 Red, curated by Cultivate Gallery, London
2016 Rewind, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London (solo show)
2016 Scope Art Show, Miami Beach, Florida
2015 Dacs Foundation Auction, Londonnewcastle Project Space, London
2015 Contemporary British Watercolours, Maidstone Museum, Kent (touring)
2015 Present Tense, Swindon Art Gallery, Wiltshire
2014 Contemporary British Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Yorkshire
2014 Art Converters, studio1.1, London
2012 Art of Angel, Angel Underground Station, Islington, London
2011 Unearthed, Warton House, Stratford, London
2011 Fire Station Centenary, Acme Studios, London
2010 Cosmos or Chaos, studio1.1, Shoreditch, London (solo show)
2010 Art Miami, Caridi Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
2009 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2009 London Art Fair, Contemporary Art Projects, London
2009 Postcards from the Edge, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
2008 Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, Shoreditch, London
2008 Ten Paintings, DMH Stallard LLP, London (solo show)
2008 00 Nature, Contemporary Art Projects, Shoreditch, London
2007 Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London
2007 Arts Unwrapped, Acme Fire Station, London
2006 Below the Radar, Mantra Art, London
2005 Art4life, Christie's, King Street, London
2003 Four Artists, Woolff Gallery, London
2003 Summer Show, Woolff Gallery, London
2002 Art4lilfe, Christie's, King Street, London
2001 Summer Show, Blue Gallery, Shoreditch, London
1999 14th Street Painters, Earl Gallery, New York
1998 a to b drawing salon, Cameron Weiland, New York
1998 MFA exhibition, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York
1997 Night of 1000 drawings, Artists Space, New York
1997 Generations, AIR Gallery, New York
1996 Cabinet show, Blue Gallery, Chelsea, London
1996 PICACOC 3, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
1996 British Abstract Art: Part 3, Flowers Galleries, London
1995 Recent Paintings, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry (solo show)
1995 The London Group, Barbican Centre, London
1995 Fear of Flatness, Atlantis Gallery, London
1995 Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Christie's, London
Selected Awards
2021 Acme Studio Practice Fund
2021 Arts Council England Award
2015 Arts Council England Award
2008 Arts Council England Award
2007 Arts Council England Award
2005 Arts Council England Award
2001 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award