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Art Basel Miami Beach

To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

Derek Eller Galley  

Miami, FL

December 7 - 10, 2023

To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

El Espacio 23 

Miami, FL

November 2, 2023 - August 2024

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

LACMA 

curated by Lynne Cooke

Los Angeles, CA 

September 17, 2023 - January 21, 2024

Chaleur Humaine

Stay in the Centre of No-Man’s Land

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

Art & Industry Triennial

Frac Grand Large

Dunkirk, France

June 10 - January 7, 2023 

Stay in the Centre of No-Man’s Land

Stay in the Centre of No-Man’s Land

Stay in the Centre of No-Man’s Land

Solo, Hollybush Gardens

London, England

March 2024

Ellen Lesperance & Evelyn Roth

Stay in the Centre of No-Man’s Land

Stay in the Centre of No-Man’s Land

Ivory Tars

Glasgow, Scotland

March 2024

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2023 Short Film: Composition, Color and Value: Sophie Taeuber Arp’s Liberties of Form

2023 Short Film: Composition, Color and Value: Sophie Taeuber Arp’s Liberties of Form

2023 Short Film: Composition, Color and Value: Sophie Taeuber Arp’s Liberties of Form

On the occasion of the Hauser & Wirth exhibition “Exemplary Modern: Sophie Taeuber-Arp with Contemporary Artists,” organized by Tanya Barson, artists Leonor Antunes, Ellen Lesperance and Nicolas Party speak about the ways in which Taeuber-Arp’s exuberant multidisciplinary experimentation has influenced their own work.

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2022-23 Fulbright Global Scholar

2023 Short Film: Composition, Color and Value: Sophie Taeuber Arp’s Liberties of Form

2023 Short Film: Composition, Color and Value: Sophie Taeuber Arp’s Liberties of Form

Awarded a 2022-2023 Global Scholar Fulbright Award to research 1980s-era International Peace Movement Knitwear and Creative Direct Action Textiles in Australia, Italy and the U.K.

2022 Ocula Magazine Interview

2023 Short Film: Composition, Color and Value: Sophie Taeuber Arp’s Liberties of Form

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

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

2022 Ocula 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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2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

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

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

"Celebrating the knitwear of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, artist Ellen Lesperance knits together a tribute to the tenacity and creativity of the anti-nuclear protestors" by Rosalind Jana

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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 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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Recent Exhibition Archive

The Land of Feminye

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery

New York, NY

October 2022- November 2022

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Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Solo exhibition: ICA Miami

Miami, FL

November 2021- March 2022

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Will There Be Womanly Times?

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Solo exhibition: 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 exhibition: 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

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

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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Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Group exhibition: De La Warr Pavilion, 

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

2018 - 2019

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Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Group exhibition: The New Museum, 

New York, NY

September 2017 - January 2018

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