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Elad Lassry (Israeli, born 1977) studied art and film at the California Institute of the Arts then earned an MFA from the University of Southern California. Tapping the visual culture of still and motion pictures, he engages traditions of story-building with images and the ghosts of history that persist in images long after they have been lifted out of their original contexts.

 

Lassry has exhibited internationally including solo shows at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2020); Le Plateau, Paris (2018); Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, curated by Jeff Wall (2017); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2014); Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2012); and Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2010). Group exhibitions include Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014); Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2013); The Jewish Museum, Vienna (2012); 54th Venice Biennale (2011); The Photographers Gallery, London (2011); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2011); Sculpture Center, New York (2010); and New Museum, New York (2009).

 

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2020     San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

2018     Le Plateau, Paris, France

             Image World: In and About Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2017     Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Jeff Wall

2016      Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2015      Photo Poetics, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

2014      Museum Bojimans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2013      Film as Sculpture, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium

2012      Untitled (Presence), The Kitchen, New York, NY

 Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway                  

2011      American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL

Off the Wall, organized by Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

2010      Sum of Limited Views, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

               New Photography 2010, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2009      Elad Lassry: Three Films, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Beg, Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL

The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

 

SELECTED ARTISTS PROJECTS

2012      Women (065, 055), 2012, High Line Billboard, High Line Art, New York

2010      Frieze, Issue 132, Summer 2010, cover

 

AWARDS

2007      John Jones Prize, London, England

2006      Fotokem Filmmaking Grant, Burbank, CA

 

SELECTED PUBLIC AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy

Foto Museum Winterthur, Switzerland

Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Museum Ludwig, Germany

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY