About
Julian Mayor is a British artist and designer known for his sculptural works in welded sheet metal. Using high-tech design processes, the artist creates each piece digitally on a computer before building them by hand in his workshop. Born in 1976, Mayor graduated with a BA in Industrial Design from the University of Northumbria in 1998, followed by an MA from the Royal College of Art in Design Products. After graduating in 2000, he moved to Northern California and worked for a design consultant agency as a product and interior designer. By 2004, Mayor returned to London to work for UK-based agencies, including Pentagram, and collaborated with British designer Tom Dixon. The artist’s work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, the Museum of Arts and Design New York, Design Museum Holon and Sculpture at Goodwood, East Sussex. He has installed a permanent series of sculptural benches in a park behind the Tate Britain in Pimlico, London. Mayor lives and works in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
Exhibitions
2019 – Collaboration with Artnet and Dobel tequila shown at Art Basel Miami Beach
2019 – Solo Exhibition at ‘The New’ gallery, West Hollywood, LA
2019 – ‘Form.Print’ group show Towson University USA
2019 – ‘Matter of Stuff’ Kings Cross, London
2019 – ‘The Chair As Artwork’ Riga, Latvia
2018 – ‘Master Room’ Astrid Maillet-Contoz, Geneve
2018 – TEFAF Maastricht with Galerie Flore
2018 – ‘Keep Calm and Summer On’ Mazel Galerie Singapore
2018 – Gallery Elle, Zurich
2018 – Collectible NYC with twentyfirst gallery NY
2017 – Flore de Brantes, Brussels presents Julian Mayor and Richard Hoglund
2017 – ‘Holiday House’ St Johns Wood, London
2017 – PAD Paris with Armel Soyer
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)
2014 – ‘Parallax’, Design Miami Basel with Armel Soyer, Switzerland
2014 – ‘Parallax’ solo exhibition at Armel Soyer, Paris
2014 – Gathering (general dynamic chair) Design Museum, Holon
2013 – ‘Out of Hand’ (Clone chair) Museum of Art and Design, New York
2013 – Interart, Holland (solo exhibition)
2013 – 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)
2010 – ‘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)
2008 – FAT Galerie, Paris
2007- Modernground, London
2007 – Rossana Orlandi, Milan
2006 – ‘Displacement’ installation, ICFF, NY
2005 – ‘clone’ group show, Nog Gallery, London
2004 – ‘Moon over Water’ installation, TDW, Tokyo
2004 – ‘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
Featured Publications
2018 – Decoration Chalet by Marie-Christine Hugonot, Publisher: Glenat
2014 – Highlike yearly publication
2011 – 500x Art in Public by Chris van Uffelen, Publisher: Braun
2010 – Street Furniture by Chris van Uffelen, Publisher: Braun
2010 – Museo Poldi Pezzoli ‘unexpected guest’ catalogue, Publisher: Museo Poldi Pezzoli
2009 – Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design: Narrative in Design Art by Gareth Williams, Publisher: V & A Publishing
2009 – Sonhos – Dreams by Bernardo Senna, Publisher: Viana & Mosley
2009 – Bypass Yearly Publication
2009 – Limited Edition: Prototypes, One-Offs and Design Art Furniture by Sophie Lovell, Publisher: Birkhäuser GmbH
2009 – Once Upon a Chair: Design Beyond the Icon by Robert Klanten, Andrej Kupetz and Sven Ehmann, Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag
2008 – New Paris Interiors by Angelika Taschen Publisher Taschen GmbH
2008 – Virtual Aesthetics: Considering perception at the dawn of the 21st century by Simona Heuberger, Publisher: Kyrene Literaturverlag
2008 – Simply Material by Victor Cheung and Cherie Yip, Publisher: Victionary
2008 – Utopia by Emilie Sims, Publisher: Wright
2008 – Desire: The Shape of Things to Come by R. Klanten and S. Ehmann, Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag
2007 – Furnish: Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century by Sophie Lovell, R. Klanten and B. Meyer, Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag
2007 – Atmosphere by Hanneke Kamphuis and Hedwig van Onna, Publisher: Birkhäuser GmbH
Education
2000 – (MA) Royal College of Art, London
1998 – (BA) University of Northumbria, Newcastle