Scott Lyall

Biography

Scott Lyall (Toronto, CA, 1964) lives and works in Toronto and New York.

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

He has solo and two-person exhibitions including Scales, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (2023); Superstar, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2022); Scott Lyall & Rachel Harrison: Schnitte im Raum, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2011); Scott Lyall and Dan Flavin, Le Commissariat, Paris, curated by Damien Airault (2010). He also had a solo institutional exhibition at The Power Plant, Toronto in 2008 with an accompanying catalogue and participated in the Montréal Biennial (2011) and the 7th Santa Fe Biennial (2008).

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

His work was included in Ballistic Poetry, Hermès Foundation - La Verrière, Brussels (2016) and Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015).

Selected Works