Carolyn Lazard Explained

Carolyn Lazard
Birth Name:Carolyn Lieba Francois Lazard
Education:Bard College,
University of Pennsylvania[1]
Birth Place:Upland, California[2]

Carolyn Lieba Francois Lazard (born 1987) is an American artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lazard uses the experience of chronic illness to examine concepts of intimacy and the labor of living involved with chronic illnesses. Lazard expresses their ideas through a variety of mediums including performance, filmmaking, sculpture, writing, photography, sound; as well as environments and installations.[3] Lazard is a 2019 Pew Foundation Fellow and one of the first recipients of The Ford Foundation's 2020 Disability Futures Fellows Awards.[4] [5] In 2023, Lazard was selected as a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, colloquially known as the "genius grant."[6] [7]

Early life and education

Carolyn Lieba Francois Lazard was born in 1987 in Upland, California.[2]

Lazard graduated with a B.A. degree in 2010 from Bard College.[8] They earned their MFA degree in 2019 from the University of Pennsylvania.[9]

Art career

Lazard's work has been exhibited internationally including at the Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and The Camden Art Centre, London.[10] Nationally, they have exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; New Museum, New York; and had screenings at the Anthology Film Archives, New York.[11] Lazard was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta. Lazard was a participant alongside 75 other artists. Lazard's published works include a 2019 work commissioned by Recess titled Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice[12] and The World is Unknown,[13] published by Triple Canopy as a part of their Immaterial Literature project area.

In 2019, Lazard co-organized the ''I Wanna Be With You Everywhere'' festival celebrating disability arts in New York City.[14]

One of Lazard's works, Support System (For Park, Tina, and Bob), 2016, was featured on the cover of Art Papers' winter 2018/2019 edition. The work documents a 12-hour performance completed by the artist where they spent the day in bed.[15] For the 2017 New Museum exhibition "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" Lazard installed A Conspiracy (2017), 12 white-noise machines (the sort used in therapists' offices) installed in one of the elevators.[16]

Their installation from the 2019 Whitney Biennial is titled “Extended Stay”. For this installation, Lazard attached a TV on a hospital mount that extended from the wall. The TV was connected to a cable set to change channels every 30 seconds. The goal of this work was to connect regular museum goers to people with chronic illness and create a shared experience between the two. There is also a connection to the pandemic. The installation brings to light a sense of boredom that people with chronic illness have experienced their entire life that many other only began to experience during the pandemic.

Canaries collective

Alongside their studio practice they are a co-founder of Canaries, with Jesse Cohen and Bonnie Swencionis. Canaries is a network of cis women, trans people, and non-binary people living and working with autoimmune conditions and other chronic illnesses to create work. The members are artists, painters, actors, and writers who all experience bodily phenomena outside the frame of biomedical discourse. The group, originally based in New York City, has taken the form of a listserve, an art collective, and a support group with regular meetings.[17] As a collective they have exhibited at Recess, New York;[18] Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York;[19] and Franklin Street Works, Connecticut.[20]

Artistic practice

In March 2017, Lazard co-signed an open letter written by Hannah Black demanding the Whitney Biennial remove the Open Casket painting by Dana Schutz.[21] In 2021, the Pew Center for Arts asked Lazard to cite a queer work that shaped their practice, Lazard named Artist Panteha Abareshi's video work, For Medical Use Only (2019).[22]

Exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Project grants and faculty awards from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage . Penn Today . June 19, 2018 . en.
  2. Web site: Whitney Museum Announces 2019 Biennial Participants, But One Artist Withdraws . Hyperallergic . February 26, 2019.
  3. Web site: Roach . Imani . Carolyn Lazard on what happens in private . Artblog . en . October 17, 2017.
  4. Web site: October 2, 2019. Carolyn Lazard. live. November 3, 2019. The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20191103140049/https://www.pewcenterarts.org/people/carolyn-lazard . November 3, 2019 .
  5. Web site: Ford, Mellon Foundations Initiate Disability Futures Fellows, Awarding $50,000 to 20 Artists. 2020-10-25. www.artforum.com. October 14, 2020 . en-US.
  6. News: Kuo . Christopher . 2023-10-04 . When the Phone Rings and the Voice Says: You've Won a MacArthur Award . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-10-04 . 0362-4331.
  7. Web site: MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation . 2023-10-04 . www.macfound.org.
  8. Sutphin. Eric. November 2017. Carolyn Lazard. Art in America. 105. 27. Academic Search Premier.
  9. Web site: Graduate Fine Arts Weitzman School. design.upenn.edu. October 2, 2019.
  10. Web site: Essex Street. October 2, 2019. essexstreet.biz.
  11. Web site: May 3, 2016. Flaherty NYC Fall 2016. October 2, 2019. Flaherty. en-US.
  12. Web site: Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice. October 2, 2019. promiseandpractice.art. en.
  13. Web site: Triple Canopy. October 2, 2019. Triple Canopy. en.
  14. Web site: May 2, 2019. I Wanna Be With You Everywhere Festival. May 10, 2019. COOL HUNTING. en-US.
  15. Web site: Disability and the Politics of Visibility – Art Papers. October 2, 2019. artpapers.org. April 4, 2019 .
  16. DUBLON. AMALLE. Spring 2018. Girl Talk and Hold Music: On the Sculptural Poetics of Chat.. TDR: The Drama Review. 62. 2–3. 10.1162/DRAM_a_00714. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text. 57561237.
  17. Web site: We Are Canaries about. May 10, 2019.
  18. Web site: CANARIES: REFUGE IN THE MEANS. September 2016. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170421090040/http://www.recessart.org:80/canaries/ . April 21, 2017 .
  19. Web site: Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time. EFA Project Space. en-US. October 2, 2019.
  20. Web site: Initial Conditions: Artists Make Spaces. Franklin Street Works. June 10, 2017 . en-US. October 2, 2019.
  21. Web site: Black. Hannah. Artists and Critics Demand Whitney Biennial Remove Painting in Open Letter. Artforum. March 21, 2017 .
  22. Web site: 2021-06-16. Pride 2021: Seven Artists on the Queer Works that Shaped Their Practices. live. 2021-10-28. The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20211028201744/https://www.pewcenterarts.org/news/pride-2021-seven-artists-queer-works-shaped-their-practices . October 28, 2021 .
  23. Web site: Flaherty NYC Fall 2016. May 3, 2016. The Flaherty. en-US. March 1, 2019.
  24. Web site: Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. newmuseum.org. en. March 1, 2019.
  25. Web site: Karen Archey. Grrr.nl. stedelijk.nl. March 24, 2018 . en. March 1, 2019.
  26. Web site: "Post Institutional Stress Disorder" at Kunsthal Aarhus (Contemporary Art Daily). contemporaryartdaily.com. March 1, 2019.
  27. Web site: Screening: Carolyn Lazard – What's On. Camden Arts Centre. en. March 1, 2019.
  28. Web site: The Kitchen: Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental. thekitchen.org. March 1, 2019. January 2, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190102035315/https://thekitchen.org/event/julius-eastman-that-which-is-fundamental. dead.
  29. Web site: STL NY. Shoot The Lobster. en-US. October 2, 2019.
  30. Web site: Five Sculptures at Essex Street Gallery – ArteryNYC. Artery. April 6, 2018 . en-US. March 1, 2019.
  31. Web site: The Body Electric. March 6, 2019.
  32. Web site: Carolyn Lazard at Maxwell Graham / Essex Street, New York. 2022-01-15. Contemporary Art Daily. en.
  33. Web site: Walker Art Center Presents Carolyn Lazard, Newly Conceived Body of Work in Artist's First US Solo Museum Presentation. 2022-01-15. walkerart.org. en-US.

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