Elizabeth Lennard – C.V.
SOLO SHOWS – altered photography (a selection)
2018 A short and incomplete history of the column, Galerie Gilles Peyroulet & Cie Paris
2015 Architectures & Friends, Galerie Pixi Marie Victoire Poliakoff, Paris, nov-dec
2014 Duras Films, Szabo Ervin Library, Budapest, October
2012 Berkeley Girls, Gallery Pixi, Paris, June-July
2011 Jelly Molds, Stairways and a few other things, Gallery Pixi, Feb-March
Portugal ’75, Pente10 Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 India, Dinter Fine Art, New York City, Jan-Feb
Paris-New York, le Coin des Arts, July-August, Paris
2007 Berkeley Girls, Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles
2005-6 Past Present, Marie Victoire Poliakoff Pixi Gallery, Paris
2004 India Marie Victoire Poliakoff Pixi Gallery, Paris
2002 Objects Lie… FNAC Montparnasse, Mois de la Photo, Paris
Objects lie on a table & Botanical Gardens, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Brussels
2000 Botanical Gardens & Objects Lie On a Table, Filles du Calvaire Gallery,
Paris Signs Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, November, Paris
1999 Botanical Gardens, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, April/May, Paris
1996 A list: Homage to Gertrude Stein and the French Landscape French Cultural
Services, New York/ Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris
1995 New York, New York, M. 20 Gallery, Hamburg
1992 Van Melle Gallery, Paris
1989 Viviane Esders Gallery, Paris
1986 Thackerey & Robertson Gallery, San Francisco
1981 Kunsthalle, Ingolstadta
1980 Bernd Lange-Irschl Gallery, Munich
1979 Painted New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Thackerey & Robertson Gallery, San Francisco
GROUP SHOWS (a selection)
2018 L'ennemi de mon ennemi, Neil Beloufa, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, feb - may
2016 HOW SHOULD WE LIVE? Museum of Modern Art, New York October - April 2017
2016 Zurcher Salon, New York with Gallery Pixi - May
2016 Les Années 1980, l’insoutenable légèreté, Centre Pompidou, feb - May
2016 Nos plus lointains souvenirs, galerie Episodique, Paris February
2015 C’est la vie ?, Occidental temporary, organisée par Neil Beloufa, Villejuif, Oct-nov
2014 Un regard I & II, Gallery Pixi, Paris, Sept – Dec
2013 Against Baudelaire, le Médicis, also curated by Elizabeth Lennard, Dec/Jan
Always Yours, des objets manqués, des monuments I & II Curated by Neil Beloufa,
Balice Hertling Gallery, Paris
2011 Arkhaiologia, Centre PasquArt, Sept. – November, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Summer Salt, curated by Ingrid Dinter, The Proposition Gallery, July 6 – August 7, N.Y.
2010 Versailles photographed 1850-2010, Château de Versailles, Jan - April
Consider the Oyster, curated by Ingrid Dinter, James Graham and Sons, New York City
2008-9 How to Cook a Wolf, Dinter Fine Art, New York City
2008 Des Jeunes gens modernes, Galerie du Jour Agnes B . Paris, Hong Kong
Transparencies, l’Imagerie, Lannion
2007 Common Objects, Dinter Fine Art, New York City
2006 Art Paris, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, October, Grand Palais, Paris
2005 La Légèreté, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery Pixi Gallery, Paris
2003 Paris Photo, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Atelier Franck Bordas
2001 Prime Choice, Marie Victoire Poliakoff- Pixi Gallery, Oct, Paris
2000 Art Paris, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, October, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
« Histoires naturelles », Museum of Natural History, Nov-Jan, Paris
Le Dessin Autrement, l’imagerie, Lannion, April-May
1999 FIAC, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, September, Paris
Art Brussels, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Art Paris, Gallery Pixi, September
1998 100th Anniversary of New York City, New York Public Library, New York
Recycling Art History, Pittsburg Center for the Arts, Pittsburg
ARCO 98, Madrid, Art Brussels, Filles du Calvaire Gallery
1997 Paris Photo, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
1996 Photographers and the snap cardigan Agnes b, Centre Georges Pompidou
1994 La Ville, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1992 Découvertes 92, Gallery Van Melle, Grand Palais, Paris
La Photographie en Miettes II, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1985 Monuments Looking for an Author, CNMH, Hôtel de Sully, Paris
1984 Images et Imaginaires d'Architecture, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Subject, Object or Pretext? DRAC Aquitaine
1981 Hand Painted Photographs, De Sasset Museum, Santa Clara, California
The Self-Portrait, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1978 A Thousand Eyes, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Cross-disciplinary performances & Video Objects
2015 E1027 Design for Living, Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici, performance, producede with grants from the Graham Foundation, Herman Liebmann Foundation, French Ministry of Culture; Performance: AIA/New York Center for Architecture, June 26 & June 11,12,13 Ecole Nationale Superieure of Architecture Paris Malaquais.
2012 & 2006 Short Sentences by Gertrude Stein, adaptation: Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle
Mémoire, directed by Elizabeth Lennard. Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels & the Grand Palais, Paris, January 15, 2012
2009 & 2010 Pour faire une cordelière, video performance in collaboration with Danielle Mémoire
for “le Nouveau Festival”, Pompidou Center, Paris ; Franco-PortugesInstitute, Lisbon, October 25
2006 Poetry and Painting, happening in the Girodet Exhibition, Louvre Museum,
Paris, adaptation & creation Elizabeth Lennard
The Revolt of Cairo, video commissioned by Guy Cogeval & Sylvain Bellenger part of the Girodet Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
2002 Accents in Alsace- video opera & For the Country Entirely, adapted from Gertrude Stein by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mémoire, music by Marc Olivier Dupin, directed by Elizabeth Lennard. Musica Festival,
Strasbourg, Oct. 3 & MC93 Bobigny, Oct. 8-23
2001 15 Days in the American Wilderness, multimedia performance adapted from Alexis de Tocqueville with Geoffrey Carey, Museum of American Art at Giverny, Terra Foundation, July 15; Maison Française, Columbia University, New York, September 13; Co-Sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation
2000 For the Country Entirely, Bonne Année, Ladies Voices, Curtain Raiser multimedia performance from Gertrude Stein adapted by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mémoire directed by Elizabeth Lennard, with Geoffrey Carey, Coralie Seyrig & Dominic Gould, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris; Museum of American Art, Giverny, Terra Foundation.
1998 Counting her dresses, He Said It, Objects Lie On A Table, Every Afternoon, If I told him, a completed portrait of Picasso, by Gertrude Stein, multimedia performance adaptated by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mémoire, directed by Elizabeth Lennard, with Geoffrey Carey & Coralie Seyrig, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris
1996 A List by Gertrude Stein, directed by Elizabeth Lennard with Laura Benson, Dominic Gould, Coralie Seyrig, Geoffrey Carey, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris
FILMOGRAPHY - all films are directed by Elizabeth Lennard (a selection)
2016 Talking House: Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici, 43 min, voices Geoffrey Carey & Mathilda Kime, ADFF NY, Urbaneye Film fest Bucharest, Film Casino Vienna, Munich Film Museum
2012 Battle Scenes of Louis François Lejeune, 15 min, shown in the exhibition Napoleon’s Wars Louis
François Lejeune General & Painter at the Chateau de Versailles, production & DVD release: Mirage Illimité
2011 The Stein Family, The Making of Modern Art, 54 minutes, produced by Artline Films, broadcast on Arte, shown at the Grand Palais Oct – Jan 2012; 30th ARTFIFA; Lincoln Center, NY; Louvre Museum, Paris
2009 Casa Bronfman, 38 min., co-directed with Ermanno Corrado, FIFA Montreal, 2010, ADFF Tribeca
Cinemas, New York, 2010
2004 Serge Poliakoff at Close Range, 52 minutes, Artline Films, aired on France 5, shown at ARTFIFA
Montreal and The Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, 2013-14
1998 Edith Wharton, The Sense of Harmony, 57 min., France 3, Maison Française, Columbia University, New York; France Amériques, Paris, Berkshire Film Festival & Indiepix Films release 2014
1995 Plis d'Excellence, Post Office Museum, Paris. 5 part-video installation on: Michel Butor, James Lee
Byars, Estelle Cabannes, Dominique Briffaut & Pisani/Charlemagne.
1994 Blois, Amphitheatre on the Loire, four part video installation: Museum of Fine Arts, Blois Castle.
1990 Le Gisant, History of Henri de Triqueti’s Cenotaph of Ferdinand d'Orléans, 26min.
Co-written with Sylvain Bellenger; aired on Canal Planet
1985 Tokyo Melody, a film about Ryuichi Sakamoto, 16mm color, 62 min. Co-produced by National
Audiovisual Institute & Yoroshita Music Inc. Aired on the NHK and FRANCE 3. Film festivals:
Rotterdam, London, New Directors /New Films MOMA, NY; Edinburgh, Locarno, Tokyo, Melbourne,
Sidney, San Francisco, Filmex, Los Angeles...
1984 Duo with Katia & Marielle Labèque, 16mm, 26 min. also produced by E. Lennard
Cinematography: Nestor Almendros & Edward Lachman; Aired on A & E and France 2
1981 Meeting with Gisele Freund, 16mm 14mn. Also produced by Elizabeth Lennard & The Pompidou Center; broadcast on Canal Planet
1979 Mardi Gras, based on a poem by Blaise Cendrars; 16mm 9 mn. Showings: Lille Film Festival, ICP, NY
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
Books
2000 Objects Lie on a Table, play by Gertrude Stein, translated by D. Memoire
& E. Lennard, preface by Ulla Dydo published by Filigranes Editions, Lec’H Geffroy
Botanical Gardens, preface by Gerard Durozoi, Filigranes Editions, Lec’H Geffroy
Paris Signs, Preface by Lisa Liebmann, Filigranes Editions, Lec’H Geffroy
1997 Le Jardin des Bambous, photographs by Elizabeth Lennard, text Alexander Chemetoff, Hazan Editions,
1976 Women Sisters photos by Erica Lennard, poems & text Elizabeth Lennard, post face Marguerite Duras, Editions des Femmes, Paris
1973 Sunday with Erica Lennard, children’s book with photographs, Lustrum Press, N.Y.