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Current and Upcoming

Fighting Amazon

Hollybush Gardens, Kabinett Sector

Art Basel Switzerland

June 16-21, 2026

100 Men or More

Memoir / long-form essay on the artist Sylvia Sleigh

Published with Some People Press

Fall 2026

Recent SOLO & 2-Person Exhibition Archive

I Am Woman Inflicted with the Burden of Bearing Mankind

I Am Woman Inflicted with the Burden of Bearing Mankind

I Am Woman Inflicted with the Burden of Bearing Mankind

A serene landscape with mountains, a river, and a clear blue sky.

Solo, Derek Eller Gallery

New York, NY

April 2025- May 2025

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Stay in the Centre of No-Man's Land

I Am Woman Inflicted with the Burden of Bearing Mankind

I Am Woman Inflicted with the Burden of Bearing Mankind

Solo, Hollybush Gardens

London, U.K.

March 2024- April  2024

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp with Contemporary Artists

I Am Woman Inflicted with the Burden of Bearing Mankind

Hauser &Wirth 

69th St., New York, NY

September 2023- November 2023

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The Land of Feminye

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Solo, Derek Eller Gallery

New York, NY

October 2022- November 2022

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Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Solo, ICA Miami

Miami, FL

November 2021- March 2022

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Will There Be Womanly Times?

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Solo, Hollybush Gardens

London, UK

July - September 2021

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Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Solo, Derek Eller Gallery

New York, NY

October - November 2020

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Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Solo, Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore, MD

February - September 2020

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Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Frye Art Museum

Seattle, WA

August 2019 - January 2020

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2026 Monograph

Ellen Lesperance

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Published on the occasion of Ellen Lesperance’s solo exhibitions Stay in the Centre of No-Man’s Land at Hollybush Gardens, London (2024) and I Am Woman Inflicted with the Burden of Bearing Mankind, Derek Eller Gallery, New York (2025), this new monograph offers the most comprehensive overview of the artist’s practice to date.  


The publication features newly commissioned essays by Laura Guy and author Jennifer Kabat, alongside an interview between Ellen Lesperance and Amy Tobin. 


Publisher: Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2026
Design: In the shade of a tree
31 x 23.5 cm, 192 pages, softcover

PRESS & Publications

Monograph

Ellen Lesperance, published by Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König in collaboration with Hollybush Gardens, London and Derek Eller Gallery, New York. Designed by intheshadeofatree, Lesperance's first, 2026 monograph contains essays by Laura Guy, Jen Kabat, and a conversation between the artist and Amy Tobin. 

Velvet Fist now at Printer Matter, NYC

Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 2020, this book contains an introductory essay by Lesperance, over eighty examples of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp protest knitwear, and a glossary of illustrated symbolism. 

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Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

Published on the occasion of a travelling exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven Histories, 2023, features more than fifty creators whose work crosses divisions and hierarchies formerly segregating the fine arts from the applied arts and handicrafts.

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2022 Ocula Magazine Interview

"Ellen Lesperance Merges Knitting with Paint to Extend Activist Archives," a conversation with curator Stephanie Seidel on the occasion of ICA Miami solo Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

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2021 BOMB Magazine Interview

"Unexpected Vernacular: Ellen Lesperance Interviewed by Jared Quinton" is published in July, 2021 in conjunction with solo exhibition at Hollybush Gardens, London

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2020 Solo at Derek Eller Gallery NYC Reviewed in Art-Agenda

Ellen Lesperance's "Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines," reviewed by R.H. Lossin

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