ELIZABETH LENNARD

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Born in New York City.  Lives in Paris, France

 

Education: San Francisco Art Institute; U.C. Santa Cruz; UCLA Motion Picture Film Department.

 

 

SOLO PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS  (a selection)

2008  India, Dinter Fine Art, New York January-March

2007  Berkeley Girls, Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamot Station!, Los Angeles, July-August

2006  What is the difference?  Espace Victor Hugo, Ploufragan

2005-6  Past Present, Pixi Marie Victoire Poliakoff Gallery, December – January

2004  India Marie Victoire Poliakoff Pixi Gallery, Paris, January - February

2002  Objects LieÉ FNAC Montparnasse, Nov-Jan, Paris

2002  Filles du Calvaire Gallery, May – June, Bruxelles

2000  Botanical Gardens and Objects Lie On a Table, Filles du Calvaire Gallery,    

            March/April, Paris,

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, N.Y. Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris

1995  New York, New York , M. 20 Gallery, Hamburg

1993  Turbulence Gallery, New York City

1992  Van Melle Gallery, Paris

1989  Viviane Esders Gallery, Paris

1986  Thackerey & Robertson Gallery, San Francisco

Facade Gallery, New York City

1981  Kunsthalle, Ingolstadt

1980  Bernd Lange-Irschl Gallery, Munich

1979  Centre Georges Pompidou, Musˇe d'Art Moderne, Paris

Thackerey & Robertson Gallery, San Francisco

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (a selection)

2008  Transparences, Imagerie, Lannion, opens January

2007  Common Objects, Dinter Fine Art, New York

2006  Art Paris, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, October, Grand Palais, Paris

2005  La Lˇg¸retˇ, Pixi Gallery, Paris

2003  Paris Photo,  Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Atelier Franck Bordas

2001  Prime Choice, Marie Victoire Poliakoff- Pixi Gallery, October, Paris 

2000  Art Paris, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, October, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

Paris Photo, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

Ē Histoires naturelles Č, Museum of Natural History, Nov-Jan, Paris

Le Dessin Autrement, lÕimagerie de Lannion, April-May

1999  FIAC, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, September, Paris

Paris Photo, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

Art Bruxelles, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Art Paris, Gallery Pixi, September

1998  100tth 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, Gallery les Filles du Calvaire

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  Dˇcouvertes 92, Gallery Van Melle, Grand Palais, Paris

         Photography in Pieces II, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1989  Architecture in the XIIIe arrondissement, Mairie du 13e, Viviane Esders Gallery

1985  Monuments in search of an Author, CNMH, H™tel 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  Thousand Eyes, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

 

VIDEO INSTALLATIONS

2007  A Play, 3 minute video based on Gertrude Stein with Geoffrey Carey and Juno Adams, 2006  The Revolt of Cairo, video room, with Guy Cogeval, commissioned by the Museum of

Fine Arts, Montreal for the Girodet Exhibition

1995  Plis d'Excellence, Post Office Museum, Paris, five part-video installation, on James Lee Byars, Estelle Cabannes, Michel Butor, Dominique Briffaut & Pisani/Charlemagne, Exhibition design: Denis Colomb

1994  Blois, Amphitheatre on the Loire, four part video installation: Views from the Bridge, Living in Blois, Religious Art, Lettrarium, Musˇe des Beaux Arts, Ch‰teau de Blois, September -January

 
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCES (Director, co-author, videos)

2006  Poetry and Painting, happening in the Girodet Exhibition, Louvre Museum,

Paris, adaptation and creation by Elizabeth Lennard, texts by Chateaubriand,      

Klossowski, Racine ; with Geoffrey Carey, Anne Priol and Christopher Ferveur,

October 7.

2005  Short Sentences, by Gertrude Stein. Adaptation: Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle

Mˇmoire, directed by Elizabeth Lennard.  Performance at the Halles de

Schaerbeek, Bruxelles, April 28.

2002  Accents in Alsace- video opera & For the Country Entirely, by Gertrude Stein,

music by Marc Olivier Dupin. Adapted by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mˇmoire,

directed by Elizabeth Lennard Musica Festival, Strasbourg Oct. 3, 2002, MC93

Bobigny, October 8-23.

2001  15 Days in the American Wilderness, multimedia performance adapted from Alexis de Tocqueville with Geoffrey Carey, (English version) Jean Paul Denizon, (French version) Museum of American Art at Giverny, Terra Foundation, July 15 Maison Fran¨aise of Columbia University, New York City,  - September 13 Co-Sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation.

2000  For the Country Entirely, Bonne Annˇe, Ladies Voices, Curtain Raiser,

by Gertrude Stein, multimedia performance in French and English with Geoffrey

Carey, Coralie Seyrig & Dominic Gould, adapted by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle

Mˇmoire, directed by Elizabeth Lennard, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris; Musˇe

dÕArt Amˇricain 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 with Geoffrey Carey & Coralie Seyrig, adaptation by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mˇmoire, directed by Elizabeth Lennard,  Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris.

1996  A List, by Gertrude Stein, multimedia performance by Elizabeth Lennard with Laura Benson, Dominic Gould, Coralie Seyrig, Geoffrey Carey, at the Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris.

 

BOOKS/CATALOGUES

2000  Objects Lie on a Table, play by Gertrude Stein, preface by Ulla Dydo

Botanical Gardens, preface by Gerard Durozoi

Paris Signs, Preface by Lisa Liebmann, Filigranes Editions, LecÕH Geffroy

1997  Le Jardin des Bambous, au parc de la Villette, photographs by Elizabeth   

Lennard, text by  Alexandre Chemetoff, Editions Hazan, Paris

1976  Women Sisters photos by Erica Lennard, poems and text by Elizabeth Lennard, post face by Marguerite Duras, Editions des Femmes, Paris

1973Sunday with Erica Lennard, childrenÕs book with photographs, Lustrum Press, N.Y.

 

COLLECTIONS (a selection)

Maison Europˇen de la Photographie, Paris

Biblioth¸que Nationale, Paris

James Lord Collection, Paris

Eleanor Briggs Collection, Hancock, New Hampshire

Musˇe National d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac Collection, Paris

Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris

Claude & Sidney Picasso Collection, Paris

Palais Benedictine, Fˇcamp

Mary Anne Tighe Collection, New York City

New York Public Library, New York City

 

FILMOGRAPHY  - (director- a selection) 

2004  Serge Poliakoff at close range, 52 minutes, DVD broadcast on France 5.

1985  Tokyo Melody, a film about Ryuichi Sakamoto, 16mm color, 62 min.

Produced by the National Audiovisual Institute and Yoroshita Music Inc. Shown at

the following film festivals: Rotterdam, London, New Directors /New Films MOMA

New York, Edinburgh, Locarno, Tokyo, Sidney ... Broadcast on FRANCE 3, NHK.

 1981  Meeting with Gisele Freund, 16mm, 14min. Also produced by Elizabeth Lennard & the Centre Pompidou; broadcast on Canal Plan¸te.

1979  Mardi Gras, based on a poem by Blaise Cendrars; 16mm, 9 min. Festivals: Lille, ICP New York  City, Musˇe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

1977  The Wonderful Travelers, based on a GrimmÕs Fairytale, with Erica Lennard; 35mm, 13min. Festivals: Cannes, San Francisco, Moscow, Odense, Mill Valley, broadcast on FR3 & WNET/13 New York.