Ellen Lesperance

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2022 Fulbright Global Scholar

2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

2022 Ocula Magazine Interview

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.

2022 Ocula Magazine Interview

2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

2022 Ocula Magazine Interview

"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

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2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

"Celebrating the Knitwear of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, Ellen Lesperance Knits Together a Tribute," by Rosalind Jana

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BOMB Magazine Interview

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

2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

"Unexpected Vernacular: Ellen Lesperance Interviewed by Jared Quinton" is published in July, 2021 in conjunction with solo exhibition at Hollybush Gardens, London

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

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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2020 Solo at Derek Eller Gallery NYC Reviewed in Art-Agenda

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

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

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Recent Exhibition Archive

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Solo exhibition: ICA Miami

Miami, FL

November 2021- March 2022

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Will There Be Womanly Times?

Solo exhibition: Hollybush Gardens

London, UK

July- September 2021

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Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Solo exhibition: Derek Eller Gallery,

New York, NY

October - November 2020

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Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist

Baltimore Museum of Art,

Baltimore, MD

February - September 2020

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Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Frye Art Museum,

Seattle, WA

August 2019 - January 2020

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Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Group exhibition: De La Warr Pavilion,

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

2018 - 2019

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Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

Group exhibition: The New Museum,

New York, NY

September 2017 - January 2018

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ELLEN LESPERANCE

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News

2022 Fulbright Global Scholar

2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

2022 Ocula Magazine Interview

2022 Ocula Magazine Interview

2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

2022 Ocula Magazine Interview

2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

BOMB Magazine Interview

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

2021 Feature in Elephant Magazine

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

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

2020 Solo at Derek Eller Gallery NYC 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

Recent Exhibition Archive

Ellen Lesperance: Amazonknights

Will There Be Womanly Times?

Together we lie in ditches and in front of machines

Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist

Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson

Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon

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