Ellen Lesperance

Current and Upcoming

Will There Be Womanly Times?

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Times

Will There Be Womanly Times?

Solo, Hollybush Gardens

London, England

07.01-21 - 07.31.21

Active Threads

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Times

Will There Be Womanly Times?

KAI 10 / ARTHENA FOUNDATION

Düsseldorf, Germany

05.08.21 - 09.05.21

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Times

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn, NY

05.14.21 - 03.20.22

Art on Paper 2021

Staying with the Trouble

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Times

Weatherspoon Art Museum

UNC Greensboro

Greensboro, NC

07.24.21 - 11.27.21

Staying with the Trouble

Tufts University Art Galleries

Boston, MA

Fall 2021

Amazonknights

Staying with the Trouble

Solo, ICA Miami

Miami, FL

11.30.21 - 03.27.22

News

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

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

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest, artist profile published in anticipation of my first U.K. solo exhibition at Hollybush Gardens, London.

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BOMB Magazine Interview

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

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

"Unexpected Vernacular: Ellen Lesperance Interviewed by Jared Quinton" is published in July, 2021.

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

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

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

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2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

Elizabeth Buhe reviews my current exhibition, writing: "Lesperance’s generous engagement with these symbols, and her citation of their past, encourages their continued use as mighty tools of potentially subversive expression."

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2018 solo exhibit: "Lily of the Arc Lights" Reviewed in Artforum

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2018 solo exhibit: "Lily of the Arc Lights" Reviewed in Artforum

Claire Lehmann reviews my NYC solo exhibition at Derek Eller Gallery in the magazine's December 2018 issue.

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Feature: "Pattern Recognition" in FRIEZE issue 189

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2018 solo exhibit: "Lily of the Arc Lights" Reviewed in Artforum

Jen Kabat wrote a features about my work in the September 2017 issue of frieze magazine: "...Lesperance transmits messages about history, feminism and labour through the art of knitting."

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Recent Exhibition Archive

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery,

New York, NY

October - November 2029

Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Baltimore Museum of Art,

Baltimore, MD

February - September 2020

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

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Group exhibition: De La Warr Pavilion,

Bexhill-on-Sea, UK; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

2018 - 2019

Lily of the Arc Lights

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery,

New York, NY

September 2018

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Group exhibition: The New Museum,

New York, NY

September 2017 - January 2018

Ellen Lesperance

Current and Upcoming

Will There Be Womanly Times?

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Times

Will There Be Womanly Times?

Active Threads

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Times

Will There Be Womanly Times?

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Times

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Times

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Times

Art on Paper 2021

Staying with the Trouble

The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Times

Staying with the Trouble

Staying with the Trouble

Staying with the Trouble

Amazonknights

Staying with the Trouble

Staying with the Trouble

News

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

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

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

BOMB Magazine Interview

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

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

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

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

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2018 solo exhibit: "Lily of the Arc Lights" Reviewed in Artforum

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2018 solo exhibit: "Lily of the Arc Lights" Reviewed in Artforum

Feature: "Pattern Recognition" in FRIEZE issue 189

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2018 solo exhibit: "Lily of the Arc Lights" Reviewed in Artforum

Velvet Fist

@congratulationsandcelebrations

Recent Exhibition Archive

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

Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Lily of the Arc Lights

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

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