Elad Lassry (Israeli, born 1977) defines his practice as consumed with “pictures”—generic images culled from vintage picture magazines and film archives. Lassry studied 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.
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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