Julie Ault | |
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Born | 1957 (age 66–67) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Hunter College |
Known for | Collaborative artist, curator |
Spouse | Andres Serrano (m. 1980, div. unknown) |
Awards | MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2018 |
Julie Ault (born 1957) is an American artist, curator, and editor who was a cofounder of Group Material, a New York-based artists' collaborative that has produced over fifty exhibitions and public projects exploring relationships between politics and aesthetics.[1] She was awarded a MacArthur Fellows Program grant, commonly referred to as a MacArthur Genius Grant, in 2018 in recognition for her achievements "redefining the role of the artwork and the artist by melding artistic, curatorial, archival, editorial, and activist practices into a new form of cultural production."[2]