Artist Statement

Work in the studio is an attempt to impose my wishes and politics on materials: to make them do what I think and want. This stubborn hope is offset by a forced and learned flexibility toward their rebuke of my intentions. The messy and mutual tuning of the subjective and the practical leads me to embrace the uncontrolled, both in process and outcome. This opens onto a related “blur” in formal disciplines. Working between, around, and across sculpture and painting, I mine the “excluded middle”, what is left out when we divide into categories.

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 & TWO-PERSON SHOWS

2022 • Listeners, Athenaeum, Athens, GA

2021 • Eye Contact, TURN Gallery, New York, NY

2018 • Make Room for Space, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

2018 • Les Larmes, Parisian Laundry, Montreal

2018 • To the Nothing, St-Gaudens National Historic Site, NH

2018 • 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

2012 • 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

2010 • Foreign Object: Yui Kugimaya and Fabienne Lasserre, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY

2010 • 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

2003 • Les Métamorphoses, Galerie Clark, Montreal

2002 • Some Confused Creatures, Luft Gallery, Toronto

2000 • Dragons et dragonnes, La Centrale, Montreal

2000 • La caverne II, Bishops' University Art Gallery, Lennoxville

1999 • La caverne, Articule, Montreal

1999 • Mambo, Le lieu, centre en art actuel, Quebec city

GROUP SHOWS

2022 • 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

2021 • 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

2019 • 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

2018 • Close Quarters, organized by NADA, Governors Island, NY

2018 • Surface of a Sphere, curated by Daniel Gerwin, Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles

2018 • Borderline, curated by Remix, Trestle Gallery, New York

2018 • Crossings, Turn Gallery, New York  

2017 • Feed the Meter vol. 2, curated by Wallace Whitney, Ceysson Benetiere, Luxembour

2017 • Hot Mud Fest, curated by Jesse Greenberg, JAG, Hudson NY

2017 • Four High, curated by Sun You, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, Brooklyn NY

2017 • Monkey Riding Alligator, curated by Sacha Ingber and Lior Modan, Hometown, Brooklyn NY

2017 • Will Duty, Cody Hoyt, Fabienne Lasserre, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY

2015 • Around Flat, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY

2015 • Drawing for Sculpture, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, NY

2015 • Broken Colours, Nicholas Methivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2015 • 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

2014 • Happy Not Sappy, VisArts Gallery, Rockville, MD

2014 • The Rhythm that Laughs You, curated by Javier Sanchez, Flux Factory, Queens, NY

2014 • C.Ar.D, Pianello Val Tidone, Italy

2014 • Hearts Gymnastics, Outpost, New York

2014 • Beyond the End, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris

2014 • Brucennial, New York

2014 • The Body Metonymic, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI

2014 • Mandala: Locus of Thought, Tibet House, NY

2013 • Building Materials, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2013 • Workspace Program 2013 Exhibit, Dieu Donné, NY

2013 • The Beauty of Friends Coming Together I, curated by Phong Bui, Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2013 • Outside the Lines, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX

2013 • 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

2013 • Summer in Paris, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, QC

2013 • Palm Reader, curated by Sean Gertsley, So What Space, Brooklyn, NY

2012 • Building Material, curated by Lucas Blalock, Control Room, Los Angeles

2012 • Finite Infinity, curated by Diana Buckley and Irena Jurek, Greenwich House, New York

2012 • Primary, curated by Jamillah James, Nudashank, Baltimore

2012 • Three Points Determine A Circle, Lucas Blalock, Jim Hyde, Fabienne Lasserre, Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY

2012 • Leave It To Beavers, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL

2012 • Pitch: Lonnie Holley, Fabienne Lasserre, Halsey Rodman, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York

2012 • Tops, Open Space, LIC, NY

2012 • Make Up on Empty Space, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York

2012 • Cheat Chains and Telephone, Kansas Gallery, New York

2011 • La triennale québecoise, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

2011 • Hard Poems in Space, Nektar de Stagni & Gallery Diet, Miami

2011 • Becoming Something Found, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia

2010 • Come Through, Sikkema Jenkins & co., New York

2010 • Parts and Labor, Soloway, Brooklyn, New York

2010 • Fell In Beside, Philly-Fringe, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia

2010 • Dean, Lasserre, Smith, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia

2010 • Weaving In and Out, No Longer Empty Projects, East Harlem, New York

2010 • Word-less, curated by Felicity Hogan, Elizabeth Arts Foundation, New York

2010 • All This and Not Ordinary, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York

2010 • Redi-mix, curated by James Hyde, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York

2010 • Housebroken, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY

2010 • In a Shadow Box, Crystal Ball Gallery, Berlin

2009 • 3 obras, Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Mexico

2009 • Party at Chris's House, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York

2009 • Structured Simplicity, Dumbo Art Center, New York Trance, Chance, Dreams & The Unconscious, South First Gallery, New York

2009 • Turn On, Slag Gallery, New York

2009 • Arctic Book Club, Elizabeth Arts Foundation, New York

2008 • Hair Follies, Fofa Gallery, Montreal

2008 • Paperworks, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York

2008 • Once Upon a Time, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York

2008 • The Grey House That Thinks Itself Into Your Head Without Asking, organized by Jessica Dickinson, Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, NY

2007 • Welcome to my World, curated by Matthew Day Jackson and Amy Davila, Alexandre Pollazzon Gallery, London

2007 • The Line of Time, the Plane of Now, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York

2007 • L.I.C., NYC, (with Flux Factory), Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY

2007 • Grizzly Project, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY

2006 • Emerging Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY

2006 • 3rd Gongju International Art Festival: "The Original Nature of Human", Limlip Art Museum, Korea

2006 • Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

2006 • Possibly Being, Fabienne Lasserre, Will Villalongo, Larry Bamburg, Esso Gallery, New York

2006 • The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York

2005 • Performa05- Performa Radio, curated by Anthony Huberman, NY

2005 • 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

2004 • 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

2003 • 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

1999 • 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

1996 • No soy fotografo, part ofFoto Septiembre, Espacio Alternativo La Panadería, Mexico city