ELLEN LESPERANCE

Art & Industry Triennial
Frac Grand Large
Dunkirk, France
June 10 - January 7, 2023
Art Basel Switzerland
Hollybush Gardens, London Booth
June 15 - 18, 2023
Analog Diary
Hudson, NY
May 20 - July 23, 2023
Long Story Short
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA
January 15 - December 3, 2023
Hauser & Wirth
New York, 69th Street
September - November 2023
Published in conjunction with Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2020, this 96 page, full-color, soft cover bound book includes dozen of images of protest knitwear recovered from private and institutional archives, a glossary of symbolism, and a essay and introduction by Lesperance.
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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.
"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
"Unexpected Vernacular: Ellen Lesperance Interviewed by Jared Quinton" is published in July, 2021 in conjunction with solo exhibition at Hollybush Gardens, London
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."
Ellen Lesperance's "Together we lie in ditches and in front of maxhines" reviewed by R.H. Lossin
Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery
New York, NY
October 2022- November 2022
Solo exhibition: ICA Miami
Miami, FL
November 2021- March 2022
Solo exhibition: Hollybush Gardens
London, UK
July- September 2021
Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery,
New York, NY
October - November 2020
Baltimore Museum of Art,
Baltimore, MD
February - September 2020
Frye Art Museum,
Seattle, WA
August 2019 - January 2020
Group exhibition: De La Warr Pavilion,
Bexhill-on-Sea, UK; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2018 - 2019
Group exhibition: The New Museum,
New York, NY
September 2017 - January 2018
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