LOUISE DESPONT

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION

2006 BA Art Semiotics, Brown University, Providence, RI

2002 Studio Arts Center International, Florence, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 The Fool, IBID Projects, London

2010 House of Instruments, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, NYC

The Directory, IMO Gallery, Copenhagen

2008 The Plant Life of Saints, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, NYC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Night Scented Stock, curated by Todd Levin, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY

Quiet Like A Lake, 1/9 unosunove arte contemporanea, Rome

Entanglement, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY

Group Show, IBID Projects, London

Making a Mark: Drawings from the Contemporary Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

2010 The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York

Moving Paper Animation Festival, Museum of Arts and Design, NY

2010 Creeds, Colors and Combinations, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, NY

2009 Cutters, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ (catalogue)

Palm Beach Film Festival, Florida

2007 Element Editions, New York

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan

Athens International Film and Video Festival

Cucalorus Film Festival

CON-CAN Film Festival

Black Maria Film Festival

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011 Smith, Roberta. Night Scented Stock, Art in Review, New York Times, October 13, 2011

Marris, Kate. Louise Despont, Jutta Koether, Alicja Kwade, Anj Smith, Marianne Vitale, Unica Zurn, Frieze.com, July 5, 2011

Dziuba, Vanessa and Le Saout, Marine. Collection No.2

2010 Louise Despont- IMO, kopenhagen.de, December 22, 2010

Cotter, Holland, Louise Despont, New York Times, October 15, 2010

Howard, Christopher, Critics Picks, Art Forum

Codrington, Andrea, Holding Pattern, Modern Painters, February 2010

2009 Younger Than Jesus, New Museum (Exhibition Catalogue)

Open City, Birthmark

2008 Louise Despont, Art in America, December 2008

NADA Emerging Artist Page, L Magazine, Sept 3-9, 2008

Smith, Roberta, New York Times, June 13, 2008

Tillotson, Donna, The Globe and Mail, May 10, 2008

AWARDS AND HONORS

2009-2010 Fulbright Fellowship, travel grant for India

2007 Jury Citation, Black Maria Film Festival

2006 Weston Price Film Award, Brown University

2005 - 2005 Film Award and Grant, Princess Grace Foundation, New York, NY

RESIDENCIES

2009 Sanskriti Artist in Residence, Delhi, India

2008 Polli Talu Arts Center, Artist in Residence, Estonia

The MacDowell Colony, Artist in Residence, Peterborough, NH

PDFS

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