The Baltimore Museum of Art, 

Baltimore, MA

01.26.20 - 06.26.20

Published in conjunction with the solo exhibition, Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist at the Baltimore Museum of Art, with help from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation. 

MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), 

Los Angeles, CA

02.07.2020, 7pm

Lewis and Clark College, Hoffman Gallery

Portland, OR

01.23.20 - 03.15.20

SMFA/Boston, Tufts University Galleries

Boston, MA

Curated by Kate McNamara

08.01-20- 10.31.20

Solo, Derek Eller Gallery

New York, NY

September 2020

"'We Were White and Sleepy Before' -- the Baltimore Museum of Art's Radical Makeover" by Kelly Crow announces the museum's 2020 initiative to exhibit and purchase works only from women artists.

Sarah Cascone's list of "21 Highly Anticipated, Mind-Expanding, Museum Exhibitions to Seek Out Across the US in 2020."

I am honored to have been selected as the 2020 Frederick Hammersley Artist-in-Residence at the Tamarind Institute, and look forward to a summer of lithography in Albuquerque.

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

A multigenerational survey of strategies of pattern and decoration in art and design with a foreword by Jill Medvedow and texts by Jenelle Porter, Elissa Auther, Amy Goldin.

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."

Frye Art Museum, 

Seattle

August 2019 - January 2020

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

June - September 2019

Group exhibition: De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

2018 - 2019

Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

September 2018

Group exhibition: Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

September - November 2018

Group exhibition: The New Museum, New York, NY

September 2017 - January 2018