Elad Lassry in an Israeli-American artist born in 1977 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Lassry attended the California Institute of the Arts for film and visual art, receiving his BFA in 2003 and his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2007.
Starting with popular modes of production such as magazine advertising, Lassry uses silk-screening and photography to revive iconic art-historical arrangements, such as the pairing of mother and child or the arrangement of fruit, disrupting their original harmony with geometric displacements or a palette of bright colors. His chromogenic color prints, still life compositions, photocollages, and studio portraits of friends and celebrities, never exceed the dimensions of a magazine page or spread (35 x 28 cm) and are displayed in frames that derive their colors from the dominant hues in the photographs. Lassry often displays his photographs beside 16mm film projections in a continuous loop on the wall. In early 2012, Lassry staged a warm-up with dancers from the New York City Ballet at the Hayworth Theater in Los Angeles. In September of 2012, he debuted Untitled (Presence) at The Kitchen, an exhibition and corresponding performance under the same title.
One year after graduating from the University of Southern California, Lassry mounted a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the Film, Video and New Media gallery. The exhibition consisted of two films, Untitled (Agon), 2007 and Zebra and Woman, 2007. Solo exhibitions of Lassry’s work have since been held at, among others, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Tramway, Glasgow. His first major monographic exhibition in the United States, Elad Lassry: Sum of Limited Views, was on view at the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis and subsequently travelled to Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland. In conjunction with the 2010 show Sum of Limited Views, the Kunsthalle Zürich published the exhibition book, Elad Lassry. At the 54th Venice Biennale, Lassry debuted the film Untitled (Ghost), 2011, along with several photographs in the ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations exhibition at the Venetian Arsenale. For the High Line in 2012, Lassry created an alluring image of two young women, both dressed alike, gazing out of two small portholes into a sea of green.
Lassry was the winner of the 2007 John Jones Art on Paper Award. In 2010, he was nominated for the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award in France. In 2011, Lassry was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
Elad Lassry lives and works in Los Angeles.
Year | Exhibition Title | Gallery/Museum | Solo/Group | |
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2015 | Dancing Light - Let it move you… | Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam | Group | |
2014 | Sensory Spaces 3 - Elad Lassry | Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam | Solo | |
2014 | Pop Departures | Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA | Group | |
2014 | Today’s Specials | Pace London, London | Group | |
2014 | Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art | Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA | Group | |
2014 | Dream Location | Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver, BC | Group | |
2014 | A Sense of Things | Zabludowicz Collection London, London | Group | |
2014 | The Body Issue | Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Group | |
2013 | Elad Lassry | 303 Gallery, New York City, NY | Solo | |
2013 | Elad Lassry | Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich | Solo | |
2013 | Out Of The Blue | Cortesi Contemporary, Lugano | Group | |
2013 | Curiosity: Art And The Pleasures Of Knowing | Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich | Group | |
2013 | Rothfeld Collection Of Contemporary Israeli Art | American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC | Group | |
2013 | Lens Drawing | Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris | Group | |
2013 | The Cat Show | White Columns, New York City, NY | Group | |
2013 | Film as Sculpture | WIELS - Centrum voor Hedendaagse kunst, Brussels | Group | |
2013 | Jetztzeit (el tiempo del ahora) + La Espalda del ángel | Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida | Group | |
2013 | The System of Objects | Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens | Group | |
2013 | Beg, Borrow and Steal | Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA | Group | |
2013 | One Torino #1 -Repertory | Palazzo Cavour, Turin | Group | |
2012 | Elad Lassry | White Cube, Hong Kong | Solo | |
2012 | Elad Lassry: Untitled (Presence) | The Kitchen, New York City, NY | Solo | |
2012 | Elad Lassry - Women | High Line Art, New York City, NY | Solo | |
2012 | Elad Lassry | Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo | Solo | |
2012 | Elad Lassry | David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Solo | |
2012 | Elad Lassry | Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo | Solo | |
2012 | Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris | Group | |
2012 | The Castle in the Air. Séance of Imagination | Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan | Group | |
2012 | Fremde Überall – Foreigners Everywhere | Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Pomeranz Collection- Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna | Group | |
2012 | A Strangely Luminous Bubbles | Haute école d'art et design - Genève, Geneva | Group | |
2011 | Elad Lassry: Untitled | Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland | Solo | |
2011 | Elad Lassry | White Cube, London | Solo | |
2011 | Elad Lassry | Massimo De Carlo Milan, Milan | Solo | |
2011 | Elad Lassry | Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich | Solo | |
2011 | American exuberance | Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL | Group | |
2011 | Sociétés secrètes - Savoir, oser, vouloir, garder le silence | CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain,Bordeaux | Group | |
2011 | Beyond - International Curator Exhibition of Tallinn Month of Photography | Kumu Art Museum,Tallinn | Group | |
2011 | The Anxiety of Photography | Arthouse at the Jones Center - Contemporary Art for Texas,Austin, TX | Group | |
2011 | The Anxiety of Photography | The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX | Group | |
2011 | Untitled (evidence) - From Alternative Knowledge To Counter - Memories | The David Roberts Art Foundation, London | Group | |
2011 | Geheimgesellschaften | Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt | Group | |
2011 | Biennale di Venezia - 54th International Art Exhibition | La Biennale di Venezia, Venice | Group | |
2011 | Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011 | CO Berlin, Berlin | Group | |
2011 | The Anxiety of Photography | Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO | Group | |
2011 | Time Again | SculptureCenter, New York City, NY | Group | |
2011 | Everything You Can Imagine Is Real… | Xavier Hufkens, Brussels | Group | |
2011 | Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011 | The Photographers' Gallery, London | Group | |
2010 | Elad Lassry | Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY | Solo | |
2010 | Elad Lassry: Sum of Limited Views | Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO | Solo | |
2010 | Elad Lassry | Massimo De Carlo Milan, Milan | Solo | |
2010 | Elad Lassry | Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich | Solo | |
2010 | Videozone V: The 5th International Video Art Biennial in Israel | Videozone - International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv | Group | |
2010 | BigMinis - Fetishes of Crisis | CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux | Group | |
2010 | New Photography 2010 | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY | Group | |
2010 | Pivot Points Iv | Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL | Group | |
2010 | Triumphant Carrot - The Persistence of Still Life | CAG - Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery,Vancouver, BC | Group | |
2009 | Elad Lassry | David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Solo | |
2009 | Elad Lassry - Three Films | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY | Solo | |
2009 | The Perpetual Dialogue | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY | Group | |
2009 | Beg Borrow and Steal | Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL | Group | |
2009 | Reach of Realism | Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL | Group | |
2009 | Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, selected by Primary Information | White Columns,New York City, NY | Group | |
2009 | Berlin - Los Angeles. A Tale of Two (Other) Cities | Massimo De Carlo Milan, Milan | Group | |
2009 | Pete and Repeat - Works from the Zabludowicz Collection | Zabludowicz Collection London,London | Group | |
2009 | Dance with Camera | ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, PA | Group | |
2009 | Superficiality and Superexcrescence | Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA | Group | |
2009 | The Chef’s Theory | Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA | Group | |
2009 | The Generational Triennial: Younger Than Jesus | The New Museum Triennial, New York City, NY | Group | |
2008 | Elad lassry | John Connelly Presents (JCP), New York City, NY | Solo | |
2008 | 2008 California Biennial | California Pacific Triennial, Newport Beach | Group | |
2008 | Claudia Wieser and Andrew Falkowski and Elad Lassry | Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,Saint Louis, MO | Group | |
2008 | Past-Forward | Zabludowicz Collection London, London | Group | |
2008 | You, Whose Beauty Was Famous In Rome | Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Group | |
2007 | Elad Lassry: She Takes These Pictures of His Wife Silhouetted on a Hillside | Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | Solo | |
2007 | I Am Eyebeam | Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL | Group | |
2005 | Defence: Body and Nobody in Self-Protection | UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA | Group |