Ellen Lesperance

Current and Upcoming

Active Threads

Tamarind Institute Lithography Editions

Will There Be Womanly Times?

KAI 10 / ARTHENA FOUNDATION

Düsseldorf, Germany

04.25.21 - 07.25.21

Will There Be Womanly Times?

Tamarind Institute Lithography Editions

Will There Be Womanly Times?

Solo, Hollybush Gardens

London, England

04.15.21 - 05.15.21

Tamarind Institute Lithography Editions

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond

Forthcoming

3 Editions of new color lithographs

Spring 2021

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond

Tang Teaching Museum

Skidmore College

Saratoga Springs, NY

09.17.20 - 06.06.21

Art on Paper 2021

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond

Staying with the Trouble

Weatherspoon Art Museum

UNC Greenboro

Summer 2021

Staying with the Trouble

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond

Staying with the Trouble

Tufts University Art Galleries

Boston, MA

Fall 2021

News

2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in Visual Arts

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2020 Solo at Derek Eller Reviewed in Art-Agenda

I am thrilled to announce my 2020 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts.

2020 Solo at Derek Eller Reviewed in Art-Agenda

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2020 Solo at Derek Eller Reviewed in Art-Agenda

Ellen Lesperance's "Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines" by R.H. Lossin

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2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

Interview in Bmore Art magazine: "Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance"

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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Interview in Bmore Art magazine: "Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance"

Suzy Kopf interviewed me about my solo exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art "on the relevance of craft, the beauty of mistakes, creative direct action, and more."

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

Interview in Bmore Art magazine: "Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance"

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

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

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Feature: "Pattern Recognition" in FRIEZE issue 189

Interview in Bmore Art magazine: "Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance"

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

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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Recent Exhibition Archive

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery,

New York, NY

October - November 2029

Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Baltimore Museum of Art,

Baltimore, MD

February - September 2020

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

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Group exhibition: De La Warr Pavilion,

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

2018 - 2019

Lily of the Arc Lights

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery,

New York, NY

September 2018

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Group exhibition: The New Museum,

New York, NY

September 2017 - January 2018

Ellen Lesperance

Current and Upcoming

Active Threads

Tamarind Institute Lithography Editions

Will There Be Womanly Times?

Will There Be Womanly Times?

Tamarind Institute Lithography Editions

Will There Be Womanly Times?

Tamarind Institute Lithography Editions

Tamarind Institute Lithography Editions

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond

Art on Paper 2021

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond

Staying with the Trouble

Staying with the Trouble

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond

Staying with the Trouble

News

2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in Visual Arts

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2020 Solo at Derek Eller Reviewed in Art-Agenda

2020 Solo at Derek Eller Reviewed in Art-Agenda

2020 Solo at the Baltimore Museum of Art Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

2020 Solo at Derek Eller 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

Interview in Bmore Art magazine: "Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance"

Interview in Bmore Art magazine: "Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance"

Interview in Bmore Art magazine: "Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance"

Interview in Bmore Art magazine: "Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance"

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

Interview in Bmore Art magazine: "Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance"

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

Feature: "Pattern Recognition" in FRIEZE issue 189

Interview in Bmore Art magazine: "Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance"

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

Velvet Fist

@congratulationsandcelebrations

Recent Exhibition Archive

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

Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Lily of the Arc Lights

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

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