Ellen Lesperance

Solo, Hollybush Gardens
London, England
05.06.21 - 06.05.21
KAI 10 / ARTHENA FOUNDATION
Düsseldorf, Germany
05.25.21 - 08.25.21
Forthcoming
3 Editions of new color lithographs
Spring 2021
Tang Teaching Museum
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
09.17.20 - 06.06.21
Weatherspoon Art Museum
UNC Greenboro
Summer 2021
Tufts University Art Galleries
Boston, MA
Fall 2021
Available April 2021, three limited editions of color lithographs will be available through the Tamarind Institute. Follow the link below to preview the prints and read an essay about the project by Tamarind Director Diana Gaston and art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson.
Ellen Lesperance's "Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines" by R.H. Lossin.
I am thrilled to announce my 2020 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts.
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."
Claire Lehmann reviews my NYC solo exhibition at Derek Eller Gallery in the magazine's December 2018 issue.
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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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. It contains an introductory essay, over eighty examples of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp protest knitwear, and a glossary of symbolism. Printed in January 2020 by Creative Print Group, Baltimore, MD, and available in an edition of 500.
Currently this book is not available for International shipping
Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery,
New York, NY
October - November 2029
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
Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery,
New York, NY
September 2018
Group exhibition: The New Museum,
New York, NY
September 2017 - January 2018
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