Ellen Lesperance

Current and Upcoming

Art Basel 2021

Confessions of the Century

Staying with the Trouble

Hollybush Gardens Booth

Basel, Switzerland

09.20-21 - 09.26.21

Staying with the Trouble

Confessions of the Century

Staying with the Trouble

Tufts University Art Galleries

Boston, MA

08.30.21 - 12.05.21

Confessions of the Century

Broodthaers Society of America

New York, NY

10.03.21 - 12.05.21

Art on Paper 2021

Lithography Editions

Confessions of the Century

Weatherspoon Art Museum

UNC Greensboro

Greensboro, NC

07.24.21 - 11.27.21

Amazonknights

Lithography Editions

Solo, ICA Miami

Miami, FL

11.30.21 - 03.27.22

Lithography Editions

Spring 2021 Releases:

3 new lithography editions through the Tamarind Institute.

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News

BOMB Magazine Interview

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

Summer 2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

"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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Summer 2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

Summer 2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

"Celebrating the Knitwear of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, Ellen Lesperance Knits Together a Tribute," by Rosalind Jana

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Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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Velvet Fist

$20.00

($5.00 shipping)

This 100-page, soft-cover book was published on the occasion of the solo exhibition Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2020). It contains an introductory essay by Lesperance, over eighty examples from Lesperance's archive of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp protest knitwear, and an illustrated glossary of symbolism. Printed by Creative Print Group, Baltimore, MD, and available in a limited edition of 500.

Please contact me below for International shipping costs.

Recent Exhibition Archive

Will There Be Womanly Times?

Solo exhibition: Hollybush Gardens

London, UK

July- September 2021

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Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery,

New York, NY

October - November 2029

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Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist

Baltimore Museum of Art,

Baltimore, MD

February - September 2020

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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

Group exhibition: De La Warr Pavilion,

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

2018 - 2019

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Lily of the Arc Lights

Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery,

New York, NY

September 2018

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Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Group exhibition: The New Museum,

New York, NY

September 2017 - January 2018

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Ellen Lesperance

Current and Upcoming

Art Basel 2021

Confessions of the Century

Staying with the Trouble

Staying with the Trouble

Confessions of the Century

Staying with the Trouble

Confessions of the Century

Confessions of the Century

Confessions of the Century

Art on Paper 2021

Lithography Editions

Confessions of the Century

Amazonknights

Lithography Editions

Lithography Editions

Lithography Editions

Lithography Editions

Lithography Editions

News

BOMB Magazine Interview

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

Summer 2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

Summer 2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

Summer 2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

Ocula Profile - Ellen Lesperance: Patterns for Protest

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 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

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

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

Velvet Fist

Recent Exhibition Archive

Will There Be Womanly Times?

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Lily of the Arc Lights

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

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