Biography

Julian Mayor is a british based artist. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2000 with a MA in Design Products, Mayor kicked-off his design career as a product and interior designer for IDEO design consultancy.

 

His art takes inspiration in strides from mathematics and nature, and his designs allude to his expertise in high-tech design processes while simultaneously showing his craft-based techniques. We see triangulation and geometry ever-present in his works. With this distinct computer-generated style paired with his organic approach of creating each piece by hand, he then creates unique pieces.

 

His works have been exhibited in Milan, Switzerland, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. Most notably, his works were shown in the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, and shown in an installation with Naoto Fukasawa at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. He also has a permanent series of sculptural benches installed in the park behind the Tate Britain in Pimlico, London.

 

 

Born in 1976 in London, Britain.

 

Exhibitions

2019      Black and White, Singapore.

2016      ‘Raw Nature’ with Casa Vogue, Dilmos Gallery, Milan

2015      Design Miami Basel with Armel Soyer, Switzerland (gold glenda and creature

               sculpture)

2014      Pushkin Museum, Moscow (general dynamic and impression chairs)

               ‘Parallax’, Design Miami Basel with Armel Soyer, Switzerland

               ‘Parallax’ solo exhibition at Armel Soyer, Paris

               Gathering (general dynamic chair) Design Museum, Holon

2013      ‘Out of Hand’ (Clone chair) Museum of Art and Design, New York

               Interart, Holland (solo exhibition)

               Rossana Orlandi at Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan (clone chair)

2012      ‘White’ Westend gallery, Munich (general dynamic chair)

2011      Lik+Neon, London

2010      ‘Ospiti Inaspettati’ Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan (clone chair)

               ‘Now:Art of the 21st Century’ Phillips de Pury & Company, NY

2009      ‘Telling Tales’ V&A, London (clone chair)

2008      twentytwentyfirst, chelsea, NY (solo exhibition)

               FAT Galerie, Paris

2007      Modernground, London

               Rossana Orlandi, Milan

2006      ‘Displacement’ installation, ICFF, NY

2005      ‘clone’ group show, Nog Gallery, London

2004      ‘Moon over Water’ installation, TDW, Tokyo

               ‘Moon over Water’ installation, Taverna Especial gallery, London

2003      ‘migration’ video Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

2001      ‘Personal Skies’ installation with Naoto Fukasawa, MOMA, NY

2000      ‘like rain’ installation, RCA gallery, London

Works