Fabienne Lasserre


 

 

 

 



EDUCATION

2002-2004 MFA, Visual Arts, Columbia University
1999-2000 Institut de Création Artistique et de Recherche en Infographie, Montreal; digital animation
 1996-1997 Akademie Vytvarnych Umeni v Praze, Prague; Interdisciplinary Arts with Milan Knizak (Fluxus)
 1995-1996 Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City
 1992-1996 BFA, Concordia University, Montreal


 

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024           Listeners, Athenaeum, Athens, GA

2023           With What Eyes, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

2021            Eye Contact, TURN Gallery, New York, NY

2018 Make Room for Space, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Les Larmes, Parisian Laundry, Montreal
 To the Nothing, St-Gaudens National Historic Site, NH
 The Nervous Hand, Fabienne Lasserre and Ezra Tessler, 315 Gallery, New York
 2016 Fabienne Lasserre and Annette Wehrhahn, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 2015 Les approches, Parisian Laundry, Montreal
 2013 Here Like a Story Like a Picture and a Mirror, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
 2012 The Us and the It, Gallery Diet, Miami
 City of Seals, Kris Benedict and Fabienne Lasserre, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis
 2011 For the Partner, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
 2010 What is Found There, Gallery Diet, Miami
 Foreign Object: Yui Kugimaya and Fabienne Lasserre, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY
 Hace Mucho que No Te Veo, Christy Gast and Fabienne Lasserre, Espacio Matacuna 100, Santiago, Chile
 2008 The Split Wall, Hilary Harnishfeger and Fabienne Lasserre, South First Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
 2006 Others, Virgil de Voldère Gallery, New York
 2003 Metamorphoses and More, Luft Gallery, Toronto
 Les Métamorphoses, Galerie Clark, Montreal
 2002 Some Confused Creatures, Luft Gallery, Toronto
 2000 Dragons et dragonnes, La Centrale, Montreal
La caverne II, Bishops' University Art Gallery, Lennoxville
 1999 La caverne, Articule, Montreal
Mambo, Le lieu, centre en art actuel, Quebec city


 

GROUP SHOWS

 

2022           Magic Lantern, curated by Calvin Burton, Essex Flowers, New Yor

                   Holiday, ASR, Clinton Corners, NY

                   Ten Sentences: Ariel Dill, Fabienne Lasserre, Mason Saltarrelli, Turn Gallery, New York

                   Looking Back / The 12th White Column Annual, selected by Mary Manning, White Columns, New York

2021           Light Over Plaster Clouds,Fabienne Lasserre, Rosemary Mayer, Yamini Nayar, curated by Max Warsh, CPM, Baltimore, MD

                   Nicole Cherubini: Shaking the Trees, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2020            Painted Pidgin, St-Charles Projects, Baltimore, MD
2019            Family Show, Safe Gallery, New York
                    It Can Begin With Clouds, curated by John Ros, Decker Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2018 Intimate Immensity, curated by Alexis Gramwell, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
 Close Quarters, organized by NADA, Governors Island, NY
 Surface of a Sphere, curated by Daniel Gerwin, Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles
 Borderline, curated by Remix, Trestle Gallery, New York
 Crossings, Turn Gallery, New York  

2017            Feed the Meter vol. 2, curated by Wallace Whitney, Ceysson Benetiere, Luxembour
 Hot Mud Fest, curated by Jesse Greenberg, JAG, Hudson NY
 Four High, curated by Sun You, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, Brooklyn NY
 Monkey Riding Alligator, curated by Sacha Ingber and Lior Modan, Hometown, Brooklyn NY
 Will Duty, Cody Hoyt, Fabienne Lasserre, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY

2015 Around Flat, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY
 Drawing for Sculpture, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, NY
 Broken Colours, Nicholas Methivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
 C.Ar.D in città, Palazzo Costa Trettenero, Piacenza, Italy
 2014 We Should Speak To Each Other the Cloud and I, Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA
Happy Not Sappy, VisArts Gallery, Rockville, MD
 The Rhythm that Laughs You, curated by Javier Sanchez, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
 C.Ar.D, Pianello Val Tidone, Italy
Hearts Gymnastics, Outpost, New York
 Beyond the End, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
 2014 Brucennial, New York
 The Body Metonymic, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
 Mandala: Locus of Thought, Tibet House, NY
 2013 Building Materials, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Workspace Program 2013 Exhibit, Dieu Donné, NY
 The Beauty of Friends Coming Together I, curated by Phong Bui, Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
 Outside the Lines, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
 Saber Desconocer, 43 Salon (inter) Nacional de Artistas, Colombia, curated by Mariangela Mendez Prencke, Florencia Malbran,
Javier Mejia, Rodrigo Moura, Oscar Roldan-Alzate, Museo de Antioquia, Museo de Art Moderno de Medellin, Edificio Antioquia
Medellin, Colombia
 Summer in Paris, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, QC
 Palm Reader, curated by Sean Gertsley, So What Space, Brooklyn, NY
 2012 Building Material, curated by Lucas Blalock, Control Room, Los Angeles
Finite Infinity, curated by Diana Buckley and Irena Jurek, Greenwich House, New York
 Primary, curated by Jamillah James, Nudashank, Baltimore
 Three Points Determine A Circle, Lucas Blalock, Jim Hyde, Fabienne Lasserre, Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts,
 Woodstock, NY
Leave It To Beavers, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
 Pitch: Lonnie Holley, Fabienne Lasserre, Halsey Rodman, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
 Tops, Open Space, LIC, NY
 Make Up on Empty Space, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York
 Cheat Chains and Telephone, Kansas Gallery, New York
 2011 La triennale québecoise, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
Hard Poems in Space, Nektar de Stagni & Gallery Diet, Miami
 Becoming Something Found, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia
 2010 Come Through, Sikkema Jenkins & co., New York
Parts and Labor, Soloway, Brooklyn, New York
 Fell In Beside, Philly-Fringe, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia
 Dean, Lasserre, Smith, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia
 Weaving In and Out, No Longer Empty Projects, East Harlem, New York
 Word-less, curated by Felicity Hogan, Elizabeth Arts Foundation, New York
All This and Not Ordinary, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
 Redi-mix, curated by James Hyde, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York
 Housebroken, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
 In a Shadow Box, Crystal Ball Gallery, Berlin
 2009 3 obras, Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Mexico
 Party at Chris's House, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York
 Structured Simplicity, Dumbo Art Center, New York Trance, Chance, Dreams & The Unconscious, South First Gallery, New York
 Turn On, Slag Gallery, New York
 Arctic Book Club, Elizabeth Arts Foundation, New York
 2008 Hair Follies, Fofa Gallery, Montreal
 Paperworks, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York
 Once Upon a Time, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York
 The Grey House That Thinks Itself Into Your Head Without Asking, organized by Jessica Dickinson, Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace
 University, New York
 2007 Welcome to my World, curated by Matthew Day Jackson and Amy Davila, Alexandre Pollazzon Gallery, London
 The Line of Time, the Plane of Now, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York
 L.I.C., NYC, (with Flux Factory), Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
 Grizzly Project, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
2006 Emerging Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
 3rd Gongju International Art Festival: "The Original Nature of Human", Limlip Art Museum, Korea
 Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
 Possibly Being, Fabienne Lasserre, Will Villalongo, Larry Bamburg, Esso Gallery, New York
 The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York
 2005 Performa05- Performa Radio, curated by Anthony Huberman, NY
 The Muster, a project by Allison Smith, in collaboration with Anna Craycroft, Governor's Island, NY
 2004 Strange Animal, organized by Giovanni Jance and Andrea Zittel, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
 Free Radio HDTS, in collaboration with Christy Gast at High Desert Test Sites #4, Joshua Tree, California
 2003 Monster Tree, performance in collaboration with Christy Gast at High Desert Test Sites #2, Joshua Tree, California
 One Enemy vs. 25 Millions of Friends, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
 2002 XXX Testimonial, Mercer Union, Toronto
 2001 Projet Projo, MAI centre, Montreal
 2000 Prêts d'œuvres, Musée du Québec, Quebec city
 1999 L'état des sexes, MAI centre, Montreal
Love-Horror, La Centrale, Montreal
 1998 Points, lignes, surfaces, 20 ans, Belgo building, # 516, Montreal
 1997 Artichaud, Maison de la Culture du Plateau Mt-Royal, Montreal
 1996 Art ménager, Maison de la culture du Plateau Mt-Royal, Montreal
No soy fotografo, part of Foto Septiembre, Espacio Alternativo La Panadería, Mexico city


 

RESIDENCIES, LECTURES, AND GRANTS

2023            Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for Listeners, Athenaeum, Athens, GA

2019            John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
 2017 St-Gaudens Fellowship
 Marcella Brenner Faculty Development Grant, MICA
 2016 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
 2014 Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant to Visual Artists
 Fires also Burn in Paris, lecture and projection, Ciné 13, Paris
 2013 Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant to Visual Artists
 2012 Dieu Donné Papermill Workspace Program, New York
Visiting Artist Program, St-Cloud State University, Department of Art, St-Cloud, MN
Visiting Artists Lecture & Writers, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Visiting Artists Series, University of Oregon, Department of Art, Eugene, OR
 2011 Dialogos Criticos, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
 2010 Essay N1, Karunkinka, Tierra del Fuego, Chile
 2009 La Curtiduría, Oaxaca, Mexico
 2008 La Curtiduría, Oaxaca, Mexico
 2007 Special Editions Residency Program, Lower East Side Printshop, New York
Conseil des Arts du Québec, Creation/ Production Grants for professional artists
 1999 Canada Council for the Arts, Creation/Production Grants for professional Artists
 1996 Scholarship for the Perfecting of the Arts, Funds for Formation of Researchers and Aid to Research (Fonds pour la Formation de
Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche - F.C.A.R.)


 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2021-            Director, Low-Residency MFA in Studio Arts (MFAST), MICA

2007-21        Painting Department, MICA   
2005-07  Visiting Artist Faculty, Massachusetts College of Arts, Boston, FA2D, Painting and Drawing
2004-05        Brooklyn College, Department of Art, Painting
2004             Columbia University, Department of Visual Arts, Introduction to Painting

  


 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Reconfigured Bodies: Annette Wehrhahn Interviewed by Fabienne Lasserre", Bomb Magazine, October 2021
Bourland, Ian,"Critical Path Method Crystalizes the Creative Energies of Baltimore", Freize, September 2021

Hawley, Anthony, "Fabienne Lasserre: Eye Contact", Art Papers, p.63-65, June 2021

"Dean Daderko and Fabienne Lasserre in Conversation", Vimeo, 26 April

Sullivan, Jennifer, "Fabienne Lasserre", It's A Process, April 2021
Majumdar, Sangram, "Foraging and Landing: A conversation between Angelina Gualdoni, Fabienne Lasserre, and Sangram Majumdar", Two Coats of Paint, twocoatsofpaint.com, April 2021
Hart, Joseph, "Deep Color Podcast: Conversation with Fabienne Lasserre", deepcolorpodcast.com, June 2019
Isaacs, Susan, "Works by (mostly) women, sensual, whimsical, powerful, in 'Intimate Immensity' at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts", Artblog, March 2019
Newhall, Edith, "Last Call: Catch these Philly art exhibitions before it's too late", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2019
Charron, Marie-Éve, "Les pleurs colorés de Fabienne Lasserre", Le Devoir, June 2018
"5 Questions: Alex Ebstein & Fabienne Lasserre", the Remix, March 2018
Hammond, Alexandra, "Garden Dwellers", The Brooklyn Rail, August 8, 2017
Charron, Marie-Éve, "Apprivoiser l'autre", Le Devoir, November 21, 2015
Wesley, Susannah, "Fabienne Lasserre at Parisian Laundry", Akimbo, November 19, 2015
Campanini, Christiana, "Piacenza barocca si veste di Pop", La Repubblica, June 6, 2015
Hurst, Howard, "Gutsy Artists: Outpost's Heart Gymnastics" Hyperallergic, June 3, 2014
Micchelli, Thomas, "Tough, Raw and Paradoxical: Fabienne Lasserre's New Sculpture", Hyperallergic, November 16, 2013
Johnson, Paddy, "There's No Place Like Kansas" , The L Magazine, February 2012
Bock, Anja, "The Work Ahead of Us : The Quebec Triennial", Art Papers, Jan-Feb 2012
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Saltz, Jerry, "Yurts and Stalagmites", Village Voice, October 11-18, 2006, New York
Fry, Naomi, "EAF06: 2006 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition", Critic's Pick, ArtForum.com, September 2006
Cohen, David, "On Sculpture Today", The New York Sun, September 14, 2006, New York
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