CONTACT
Louise Despont is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York and IBID Projects in London.
For inquiries, please contact info@nicellebeauchene.com or louise.despont@gmail.com
LOUISE DESPONT
Born in 1983 Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2006 BA Art Semiotics, Brown University, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Long Distance Gardening, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India
2012 Tide Fulcrum & The Motion of Fixed Stars, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York
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
2012 Rorschach, curated exhibition, Phillips de Pury & Co., New York
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
2013 It’s all symbolic, Marie Claire India, February 2013
Vepa, Shweta. Sacred Spaces, Luxpresso, March 2013
Ghose, Deepika. Artistic Musings, L’Offciel India, March 2013
Mogali, Roshan Kumar. In the Garden of Fate, Imperia, March 2013
Chakrabarti, Priyanka. Drawing the Intangible, Atelier, March 2013
Arslan, Zaira. Geometry in Art, The Indian Express, March 10, 2013
Chande, Jerusha Ratnam, When art meets accountancy, Vogue India, March 7, 2013
Naik, Varsha. A good drawing hums: Louise Despont, DNA India, March 7, 2013
International artist Louise Despont to showcase this month, The Times of India, March 5, 2013
Louise Despont, Vitamin D2, Phaidon Press
Valli, Marc. Showcase: Louise Despont, Elephant Magazine, Winter 2012/2013
Just Added: Louise Despont @ Nicelle Beauchene, 2% the two percent, January 8, 2013
Louise Despont, The New Yorker, January 10, 2013
Rosenberg, Karen. Louise Despont: ‘Tide Fulcrum & the Motion of Fixed Stars’, The New York Times, January 10, 2013
Wolf, Alex. Louise Despont, The Last Magazine, January 9, 2013
Heinrich, Will. ‘Louise Despont: Tide Fulcrum & The Motion of Fixed Stars’ at Nicelle Beauchene, The New York Observer, January 8, 2013
2012 Kleinberg Romanow, Joanna. Louise Despont: Tide Fulcrum & The Motion of Fixed Stars at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, Drawing Center Blog, December 11, 2012
Louise Despont’s Antique Ledger Pages, Juxtapoz, April 6, 2012 Oliver, William. Devendra Banhart Selects Louise Despont: Architectural Precision on Ancient Parchments, Dazed and Confused, January 2012
2011 Dessanany, Margherita. Louise Despont: The Fool, FrameWeb.com, November 27, 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