Elad Lassry

Elad Lassry was born in Tel Aviv in 1977; he lives and works in Los Angeles.


Elad Lassry creates or rediscovers images from a vast array of sources, redeploying them in a variety of media, including photography, film, drawing and sculpture.


Lassry describes his pictures, which are all exactly the same scale, as ‘something that’s suspended between a sculpture and an image’. The artist achieves this through a play of virtual and actual space. The image in each picture proposes a virtual space, while the frame, which is not a supplement to the image but an extension of it, carves out an actual space for the object to occupy. Lassry then deploys the image as an ambiguous, free-floating signifier, which combines with the frame to create a new set of conditions. This hybrid entity becomes a kind of epistemological puzzle, engaging the viewer’s perceptual faculties. How does its objecthood affect our reading of the image? How does the subject matter of the image affect our perception of the object? 


Lassry’s work is in the permanent collections of the the MoMA – Museum of Modern Art of New York; Guggenheim, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

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Biography

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2020
USA, Elad Lassry, SF Moma, San Francisco
2019
USA, Elad Lassry, 303 Gallery, New York
2018
F, Elad Lassry Curated by Xavier Franceschi, Le Plateau, Frac île‑de‑France, Paris
2017
CDN, Elad Lassry Curated by Jeff Wall, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
CH, Solo Show, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich
2016
F, Systematically Open?, LUMA Foundation, Arles
2015
USA, Elad Lassry, David Kordanski Gallery, Los Angeles
I, Elad Lassry, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2014
NL, Sensory Spaces 3, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2013
USA, Elad Lassry, 303 Gallery, New York
CH, Elad Lassry, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich
2012
I, Elad Lassry, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano
N, Elad Lassry, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
J, Elad Lassry, Rathole Gallery, Tokyo
USA, Elad Lassry: Untitled (Presence), The Kitchen, New York
HK, Elad Lassry, White Cube , Hong Kong
USA, Elad Lassry, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2011
UK, Elad Lassry, Tramway, Glasgow
UK, Elad Lassry, White Cube, London
CH, Elad Lassry, Francesca Pia, Zürich
2010
USA, Elad Lassry, Luhring Augustine, New York
USA, Elad Lassry: Sum of Limited Views, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
I, Elad Lassry, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2009
USA, Elad Lassry: Three Films Curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2008
USA, Elad Lassry, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
UK, The Artist Moving Image Exhibition, Bath Film Festival, Bath
2007
USA, Driving up the Canyon She Saw a Dog, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
USA, She Takes These Pictures of His Wife Silhouetted on a Hillside, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
2003
USA, New Photos, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2022
I, Balancing Act, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
I, Winter Wunderkammer, MASSIMODECARLO, VSpace
F, LE BISCUIT À SOUPE, High Art, Arles
2018
RUS, You Are Looking At Something That Never Occurred, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
USA, Image World: In and About Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2017
F, Back to Mulholland Drive. Minimal Fantasy, La Panacée - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Montpellier
USA, Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
CH, Hans-Peter Feldmann / Elad Lassry, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich
2016
USA, Photo Poetics, Guggenheim Museum, New York
UK, You Are Looking At Something That Never Occurred, Zabludowicz Collection, London
CO, Camera of Wonders (Reprint), Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin
USA, Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
I, L’image voleé Curated by Thomas Demand, Fondazione Prada, Milano
2015
B, Rio, Office Baroque, Brussels
UK, The Art Club, London
USA, Aesthetic Decisions, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
NL, Dancing Light / Let it move you, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
USA, Photo Poetics: an Anthology, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
CH, Beastly / Tierisch, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
USA, Perfect Likeness, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
USA, An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Across Media, The College of New Jersey, Ewing
D, Photo Poetics, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin
CDN, Part Picture, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
I, Arts & Foods: Rituals since 1851, La Triennale di Milano, Milano
P, Under the Clouds: from paranoia to the digital sublime, Fundação de Serralves, Porto
I, Still Life Remix Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, Antinori Art Project, San Casciano Val di Pesa
CH, Collecting Lines: Drawing from the Ringier Collection, Villa Flora, Winterthur
USA, Photo Poetics, Guggenheim Museum, New Yrok
CDN, Depth of Focus, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
2014
USA, A World of Its Own: Photographic Practises in the Studio, Museum of Modern Art, New York
UK, A Sense of Things, Zabludowics Collection, London
CDN, Dream Location, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver

Bibliography

Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2020
Boggio, Sara, Arte, February
2018
Hatt, Étienne, Artpress, December
Mercier, Clémentine, Libération, 8 October
Azimi, Roxana, Le Monde, September
2014
Williams, Gilda, How To Write About Contemporary Art
McGarry, Kevin, Artforum.com, 17th January
GoSee.de, 22nd January
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, 6th February
Pollack, Maika, GalleristNY.com, February
Rabottini, Alessandro, Elad Lassy, Exhibition Catalogue. Milano, PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
Tylevich, Katya, Elephant, autumn
L'Espresso
2013
Indrisek, Scott, BlackBookMag.com, 25th October
ArtDaily.org, 16th September
Byrne, Rose, Style.com, 18th September
Smith, Shannon Elinor, Opening Ceremony New News, 25 settembre
Creahan, Daniel, ArtObserved.com, 1st October
Cécile, Michel, Les Echos, 15th October
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, 18th October
de la Héronnière, Lucie, SLATE.fr, 17th November
Kennedy, Randy, The New York Times, 8th September
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Kirsch, Corinna, ArtFagCity.com, 20th November
ELLE.com, 21st February
Stoppani, Bianca, Kaleidoscope, Fall
IMA Living with Photography, Winter
Art in America, December
One Torino: Edition #1, Exhibition Catalogue.
Fox, Charlie, Frieze, November-December
Crimp, Douglas, ARTFORUM, January
Young, Gillian, Art in America, November
Pollack, Barbara, Architectural Digest, September

Public collections

Country
Location
Austria
Pomeranz Collection, Wien
Canada
Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Italy
Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino
Switzerland
FotoMuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Ringier Collection, Zürich
United Kingdom
The Zabludowicz Collection, London
United States of America
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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