- Born in New York City currently lives and works in Paris
SOLO EXHIBITIONS – altered photography (a selection)
2012 Berkeley Girls, Gallery Pixi, Marie Victoire Poliakoff Gallery Paris June - July
2011 Jelly Molds, Stairways and a few other things, Gallery Pixi, February-March
Portugal ’75, Pente10 Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2008 India, Dinter Fine Art, New York City, January-February
Paris-New York, le Coin des Arts, July- August, Paris
2007 Berkeley Girls, Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles
Berkeley Girls, video 3 min., Dinter Fine Art, Project room, New York City,
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, N.Y. 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, Ingolstadt
1980 Bernd Lange-Irschl Gallery, Munich
1979 Painted New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Thackerey & Robertson Gallery, San Francisco
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCES AND VIDEO OBJECTS
2012 Battle Scenes of Louis François Lejeune, 15 min, Chateau de Versailles,
Mirage Illimité in the exhibition Napoleon’s Wars, Louis François Lejeune General & Painter,
Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moo8xBQD0R4
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2012 & 2006 Short Sentences by Gertrude Stein, Grand Palais, Paris, 01-15-12 Adaptation: Elizabeth
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Lennard & Danielle Mémoire, directed by Elizabeth Lennard. also at the Halles de Schaerbeek,
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Brussels, 2004
2009 Pour faire une cordelière, video performance, collaboration with Danielle Mémoire, “le Nouveau
Festival”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Nov. 21; Institut Franco-Portugais, Lisbon, 25 October, 2010
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 & Christophe Ferveur, October 7
The Revolt of Cairo, video room, with Guy Cogeval, commissioned by the Museum of Fine Arts,
Montreal for the Girodet Exhibition
2002 Accents in Alsace- video opera & For the Country Entirely, by Gertrude Stein, music by Marc Olivier
Dupin. Adapted by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mémoire, directed by Elizabeth Lennard, Musica
Festival, Strasbourg Oct. 3, 2002, MC93 Bobigny, Oct. 8-23
2001 15 Days in the American Wilderness, multimedia performance from Alexis de
Tocqueville with Geoffrey Carey, (English version) Museum of American Art at Giverny, Terra
Foundation, July 15 Maison Française, Columbia University, New York City, - 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 in French and English with Geoffrey Carey, Coralie Seyrig & Dominic Gould, adapted by
Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mémoire, directed by Elizabeth Lennard, 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 with Geoffrey Carey & Coralie Seyrig,
adaptation by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mémoire, directed by Elizabeth Lennard, Gallery Filles du
Calvaire
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
1995 Plis d'Excellence, Post Office Museum, Paris, 5 part-video, on James Lee Byars, Estelle Cabannes,
Michel Butor, Dominique Briffaut & Pisani/Charlemagne, Design: Denis Colomb
Filmography - (director- a selection)
2011 The Stein Family, the making of Modern Art, 54 min, produced by Artline Films, broadcast on Arte,
Nov.12, shown at the Grand Palais Oct –Jan, ARTFIFA Montreal
2009 Wittgenstein’s Colours, 14 min, with Danielle Mémoire and Louise Corrado
2009 Casa Bronfman, 38 min., co-directed by Ermanno Corrado, ARTFIFA Montréal, 2010
ADFF Tribeca Cinemas, New York, 2010
2004 Serge Poliakoff at close range, 52 minutes, Artline Films, broadcast on France 5, shown at ARTFIFA
Montréal, Maillol Museum, Paris, Kunsthalle der hypokulturstiftung, Munich
1998 Edith Wharton, the Sense of Harmony, 52 min., "un siècle d'écrivains" France 3,
Maison Française, Columbia University, New York, France Amériques, Paris,
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, 14mn. Also produced by Elizabeth Lennard & the Centre
Pompidou; broadcast on Canal Planète
1979 Mardi Gras, 16mm 9 minutes, based on a poem by Blaise Cendrars
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (a selection)
2011 Arkhaiologia, Centre PasquArt, Sept. – Nov., 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, January 26- April 25
Consider the Oyster, curated by Ingrid Dinter, James Graham and Sons, N.Y.
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
2007Common Objects, Dinter Fine Art, New York City
2006 Art Paris, Marie Victoire Poliakoff-Pixi Gallery, October, Grand Palais, Paris
2005 La Légèreté, 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
« 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
Paris Photo, Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Carrousel du Louvre, 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, 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 Découvertes 92, Gallery Van Melle, Grand Palais, Paris
La Photographie en Miettes II, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1985 Monuments en quête d’auteur, CNMH, Hôtel de Sully, Paris
1984Images et Imaginaires d'Architecture, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Subject, Object or Pretext? DRAC Aquitaine
1981Hand Painted Photographs, De Sasset Museum, Santa Clara, California
The Self-Portrait, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1978 Thousand Eyes, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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2010 l’affiche N°53, poetry poster in collaboration with Danielle Mémoire, published by Editions Bleu du Ciel
and limited edition print of the same