Born in Toronto in 1964, Scott Lyall studied Commerce at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON) and Law at the University of Toronto before enrolling in art school. In 1993, he received a Masters Degree from CalArts (Los Angeles). Since then, he has exhibited in Canada and internationally, most recently at The Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto). Other exhibitions include Ok!lahoma at York University (Toronto, 2002), and Washington Square and Plugged/Unplugged at Greene Naftali (New York, 1996 and 1998). He was the recipient of a PREA research award from the University of Waterloo (Canada, 2004) for a paper proposing his approach to the subject of abstraction. Named the episcene, this subject informs his participation in the current show, and culminated in a lecture for Scorched Earth (New York, 2005) to be published in Fall 2006 as a retrospective edition. Elements from a new project of work called an aaliyah are currently on display at the Susan Hobbs Gallery.