Biography

Julie Umerle is a contemporary abstract painter who  lives and works in London. Graduating with a  1st class Hons degree from  Falmouth University, Cornwall, she earned her MFA (painting) at Parsons School of Design, New York City, in 1998. 

 

Umerle  has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Her work is represented in public and private collections  including Deutsche Bank, The Connaught and Pinsent Masons, as well as a number of museum collections. She  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 explore the parameters of geometry, colour and space.

 

Her memoir 'Art, Life and Everything' was published in 2019 to critical acclaim.

 

For collaborations, commissions, sales or general  enquiries  please feel free to reach out any time.

 

Education:

1998 

MFA (Painting), Parsons School of Design, New York City

 

Selected solo exhibitions:

2021   

Recent Paintings, Bermondsey Project Space, London

2019   

Art, Life and Everything, studio1.1, Shoreditch, London

2018   

In Residence, The Marriott, Canary Wharf, London

2016   

Rewind, Bermondsey Project Space, London

2010   

Cosmos or Chaos, studio1.1, Shoreditch, London

2008  

Ten Paintings, DMH Stallard LLP, London

1995   

Recent Paintings, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry

1988   

Ten Years of Painting, Barbican Centre, London

 

Selected group exhibitions:

2025

GAZAGAZAGAZA, studio1.1, Shoreditch, London

2024   

Artist Fundraiser for Médecins Sans Frontières, London

2023   

Benefiz-Kunstauktion, Sotheby's, Cologne 

2022   

Five Needle Five Wire, Thameside Gallery, London 

2021   

Make It Blue, W1 Curates, Flannels, Oxford Street, London

2019   

Future Now, Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York

Made in Britain, National Museum of Poland, Gdansk

A Book About Death, Islip Art Museum, New York

Attract, curated by Cultivate Gallery, London 

2018   

Another World, curated by Tracey Emin, Deutsche Bank Lounge, Frieze London 

Beyond The Surface, The Crypt, Marylebone, London

Intent, curated by Cultivate Gallery, London

2017   

Contemporary Masters from Britain, Yantai Art Museum, China (touring)  

Creekside Open, selected by Alison Wilding, APT Gallery, London

Red, curated by Cultivate Gallery, London

2016   

Scope Art Show, Miami Beach, Florida

2015   

DACS Foundation Auction, Londonnewcastle Project Space, London

Contemporary British Watercolours, Maidstone Museum, Kent (touring)

Present Tense, Swindon Art Gallery and Museum, Wiltshire

British Intelligence, Madison Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia  

2014   

Contemporary British Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Yorkshire

Art Converters, studio1.1, Shoreditch,  London

2012   

Art of Angel, Angel Underground Station, Islington, London

2011   

Unearthed, Warton House, Stratford, London

Fire Station Centenary, Acme Studios, London

2010   

Art Miami, Caridi Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida

2009   

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

London Art Fair, Contemporary Art Projects, London

Postcards from the Edge, Metro Pictures, New York, NY 

2008   

Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, Shoreditch, London

00 Nature, Contemporary Art Projects, Shoreditch, London

2007   

Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London

Art  for Life, Cancer Research UK, Christie's, London

Arts Unwrapped, Acme Fire Station, London

2006  

Art for Life, Cancer Research UK, Christie's, London

Below the Radar, Mantra Art, London

2005   

Art for Life, Cancer Research UK, Christie's, London

2004   

Art for Life, Cancer Research UK, Christie's, London

2003   

Four Artists, Woolff Gallery, London

Art for Life ,Cancer Research UK, Christie's, London   

2003   

Summer Show, Woolff Gallery, London

2002   

Art4lilfe, Charity Art Auction, Christie's, 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

MFA exhibition, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York

Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Mall Galleries, London

1997 

Night of 1000 drawings, Artists Space, New York

Generations, AIR Gallery, New York

1996 

Cabinet show,  Blue Gallery, Chelsea, London

PICACOC 3, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia

British Abstract Art: III, Flowers East Gallery, London

1995 

The London Group, Barbican Centre, London

Fear of Flatness, Atlantis Gallery, London

Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Christie's, London

 

Selected Awards

2021   

Arts Council England Award

Acme Studio Practice Fund

2020 

Arts Council England ‘COVID-19 Support Grant' 

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

1996   

London Arts  Board

1988   

Greater London Arts Award

1983   

Greater London Arts Award