1977

born in Tel-Aviv, Israel

2007
2003

Masters of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Bachelors of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

Lives and works in Los Angeles

 

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

 

2020

SFMOMA, Elad Lassry, San Francisco

2019

303 Gallery, Elad Lassry, New York

2018

Le Plateau, FRAC Ile-de-France, Elad Lassry, curated by Xavier Franceschi, Paris 

2017

Vancouver Art Gallery, Elad Lassry, curated by Jeff Wall, Vancouver
Galerie Francesca Pia, Hans-Peter Feldmann / Elad Lassry, Zurich

2015

David Kordansky Gallery, Elad Lassry, Los Angeles
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Elad Lassry, Milan

2014

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Sensory Spaces 3, Rotterdam

2013

Galerie Francesca Pia, Elad Lassry, Zurich
303 Gallery, Elad Lassry, New York

2012

White Cube, Elad Lassry, Hong Kong
David Kordansky Gallery, Elad Lassry, Los Angeles
PAC- Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Elad Lassry. Verso una nuova
immagine, Milan
The Kitchen, Untitled (Presence), New York
Kunstnernes Hus, Elad Lassry, Oslo
Rat hole Gallery, Elad Lassry, Tokyo

2011

Galerie Francesca Pia, Elad Lassry, Zurich
Tramway, Screening of Untitled (Ghost), Glasgow
White Cube, Elad Lassry, London

2010

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Sum of Limited Views, St. Louis
Kunsthalle Zürich, Elad Lassry, Zurich
ar/ge kunst, Elad Lassry, Bolzano
Massimo De Carlo, Elad Lassry, Milan
Luhring Augustine, Elad Lassry, New York

2009

David Kordansky Gallery, Elad Lassry, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, Elad Lassry: Three Films, New York

2008

Art Institute of Chicago, Elad Lassry, Chicago
Bath Film Festival, The Artist Moving Image Exhibition, with Daria Martin, Bath

2007

Cherry and Martin, She Takes These Pictures of His Wife Silhouetted on a Hillside, Los Angeles
USC thesis exhibition, Driving up the Canyon She Saw a Dog, Los Angeles

2003

18th Street Arts Complex, New Photos, Santa Monica

 

Group Exhibitions (selection)

 

2022

High Art, Le Biscuit à Soupe, Arles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, Los Angeles

2019

303 Gallery, 303 Gallery: 35 Years, New York

2018

Multimedia Art Museum, You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred, Moscow
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Image World: In and About Photography, Los Angeles

2017

Zabludowicz Collection, You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred, London 
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Eternal Youth, Chicago
La Panacée, Back to Mulholland Drive, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Montpellier

2016

Luma Arles, SYSTEMATICALLY OPEN? New Forms for Contemporary Image Production, Arles
Walker Art Center, Ordinary Pictures, Minneapolis

2015

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Photo Poetics: An Anthology, New York
Centro de la Imagen, Camera of Wonders, Mexico City
Palazzo Antinori, Still Life Remix, San Casciano, Italy
The College of New Jersey, An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Across Media, New Jersey
Office Baroque, Rio, Brussels
Villa Flora, Collecting Lines – Zeichnungen aus der Sammlung Ringier, Winterthur
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Beastly/Tierisch, Winterthur
NSU Art Museum, Aesthetic Decisions, Fort Lauderdale
Triennale di Milano, Arts & Food: Rituals Since 1851, Milan
Fundação de Serralves, Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime, Porto
Hammer Museum, Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Los Angeles
Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Photo Poetics: An Anthology, Berlin
The Arts Club, Still Life, London
Fondazione Prada, Arts & Food, Milan
Huis Museum for Photography, Dancing Light/Let it move you, Marseille

2014

Museum of Modern Art, A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio, New Work
Zabludowicz Collection, A Sense of Things, London
Presentation House Gallery, Dream Location, North Vancouver
Royal Hibernian Academy, Curiosity: Art and Pleasures of Knowing, curated by Brian Dillon, Dublin; de Appel, Amsterdam
Seattle Art Museum, Pop Departures, Seattle
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Stars + Stripes: American Art oft he 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Bathurst
365 Mission, Another Cats Show, Los Angeles
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara
Pace, Today’s Specials, London
The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Potential Wilderness, Tel Aviv
Hannah Hoffman Gallery, The Body Issue, Los Angeles

2013

Museum Ludwig, Not Yet Titled: New and Forever at Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum of Contemporary Art, Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chain Reactions, North Miami
Palais des Beaux-Arts, COOKBOOK, art and the culinary process, Paris
Turner Contemporary, Curiosity: Art and Pleasures of Knowing, curated by Brian Dillon, Margate; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich
Marian Goodman Gallery, Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities
Department of Light Recordings Section IV, Lens Drawing, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Paris
Palm Springs Art Museum, Beg, Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs
The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, curated by Mark Leckey, the Bluecoat, Liverpool; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Film as Sculpture, Brussels
DESTE Foundation, THE SYSTEM OF OBJECTS, Athens
White Columns, The Cat Show, New York

2012

Zamek Culture Centre, Castle in the Air, curated by Adam Budak, Poznand (Poland)
Kunsthalle Zurich, LOOKING BACK TO THE FUTURE, Zurich
Kunstnernes Hus, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Elad Lassry, Joao Maria Gusmao + Pedro Paiva, Norwegen
Rubell Family Collection, American Exuberance, Miami
Museum of Art, Fremde Überall – Foreigner Everywhere, Baltimore
The Jewish Museum Vienna, Fremde Überall – Foreigners Everywhere, Vienna

2011

KUMU Art Museum, Beyond. International group show of Tallinn Month of Photography, Tallinn
54th Venice Biennale, International Pavilion, ILLUMInations, curated by Bice Curiger, Venice
Xavier Hufkens, Everything You Can Imagine Is Real..., Bruxelles
The David Roberts Art Foundation, Untitled (Evidence), London
The Photographers’ Gallery, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, London
Aspen Art Museum, The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Schirn
Kunsthalle, Secret Societies, Frankfurt, travelled to CAPC de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Dance with Camera
Scottsdale Sculpture Center, Time Again, New York

2010

MoMA, New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho, New York
CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, BigMinis: Fetishes of Crisis, Bordeaux
Les Rencontres d'Arles 2010 / Edition 41, Arles, travelled to Garage
Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Kunstverein, Paying A Visit to Mary Part 2, with Guy de Cointet, Sarah
Crowner, Elad Lassry, Willem Oorebeek, Alexandre Singh, Robert Wilhite, Amsterdam
Contemporary Art Gallery, Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, Vancouver
Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Photos and Phantasy: Selections from Fredrik R. Weisman Foundation, California Galleria Civica D'Arte
Moderna e Contemporanea, Permanent Mimesis. An Exhibition on Realism and Simulation, Turin
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Annandale-on- Hudson

2009

Andrea Rosen Gallery, The Perpetual Dialogue, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, Dance with Camera, Philadelphia
Rubell Family Collection, Beg, Borrow and Steal, Miami
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Berlin-Los Angeles: A tale of two (other) cities, Milano
Museum of Contemporary Art, The Reach of Realism, North Miami
176, Pete and Repeat, London
White Columns, Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, New York
Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Superficiality and Superexcrescence, Los Angeles
New Museum, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New York

2008

Contemporary Art Museum, Front Room, St. Louis
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Half-Life, Los Angeles
Orange County Museum of Art, 2008 California
Biennial, Newport Beach
John Connelly Presents, New York
Carnegie Art Museum, Photos and Phantasy, Oxnard
176, Past Forward, London
Mandarin Gallery, You, Whose Beauty Was Famous in Rome, Los Angeles

2007

Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, I am Eyebeam, Chicago

2006

LA25, Skadden, curated by Ilene Kurtz-Kretschmar, Los Angeles

2005

Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Defense- Body and Nobody in Self Protection, Riverside

2002

Wedge Gallery, You'll Be My Footage, Los Angeles

 

Curatorial Projects

 

2000

Stevenson Blanch Gallery, Other Victorians, Valencia
Studio 18, Yesterday There Was A Disaster, Today Is Okay, Valencia

 

Awards

 

2007
2006

John Jones Prize, London
Fotokem Filmmaking Grant, Burbank

 

Artists Projects

 

2010
2009

Frieze, Issue 132, Summer 2010
X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 12, Winter 2009

 

Selected Collections

 

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Toriono
Foto Museum Winterthur, Winterthur
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Swiss Re, Zurich
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York