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.

His work is currently on view at The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies 1970 – 2020, curated by Jamillah James at the MCA in Chicago through March 16, 2025.

Scott Lyall has several solo 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); DRAGONS at Campoli Presto on London (2017); The Color Ball at The Power Plant in Toronto (2008);

His work has been showcased in several group exhibitions including For the People of Paris at Campoli Presti in Paris (2022); The Painter’s New Tools at Nahmad Contemporary in New York (2022); The Poet-Engineers at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York (2020); and, something like fire dancing at Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto (2016); Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2015); Light Falls at the Green On Red Gallery in Dublin (2015); Signal Failure at Pace London in London (2015);Works on Paper at Greene Naftali in New York (2015); La Tentation du hasard in occasion of the Montreal Biennial (2011); 7th SITE Santa Fe Biennial (2008).