ELLEN LESPERANCE

Hauser & Wirth
New York, 69th Street
September 7 - November 4 2023
LACMA
curated by Lynne Cooke
Los Angeles, CA
September 17, 2023 - January 21, 2024
Art & Industry Triennial
Frac Grand Large
Dunkirk, France
June 10 - January 7, 2023
MoCA
Los Angeles, CA
January 15 - December 3, 2023
Solo, Hollybush Gardens
London, England
March 2024
Ivory Tars
Glasgow, Scotland
April 2024
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
On the occasion of the Hauser & Wirth exhibition “Exemplary Modern: Sophie Taeuber-Arp with Contemporary Artists,” organized by Tanya Barson, artists Leonor Antunes, Ellen Lesperance and Nicolas Party speak about the ways in which Taeuber-Arp’s exuberant multidisciplinary experimentation has influenced their own work.
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
"Celebrating the knitwear of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, artist Ellen Lesperance knits together a tribute to the tenacity and creativity of the anti-nuclear protestors" by Rosalind Jana
"Unexpected Vernacular: Ellen Lesperance Interviewed by Jared Quinton" is published in July, 2021 in conjunction with solo exhibition at Hollybush Gardens, London
Ellen Lesperance's "Together we lie in ditches and in front of maxhines" reviewed by R.H. Lossin
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 an essay and introduction by Ellen Lesperance.
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