Carolyn Lazard

Carolyn Lieba Francois Lazard was born in 1987 in Upland, California.[1]

Lazard graduated with a B.A. degree in 2010 from Bard College.[6] They earned their MFA degree in 2019 from the University of Pennsylvania.[7]

Alongside their studio practice they are a co-founder of Canaries, with Jesse Cohen and Bonnie Swencionis, a network of cis women, trans and non-binary people living and working with autoimmune conditions and other chronic illnesses. The members are artists, painters, actors, and writers who all experience bodily phenomena outside the frame of biomedical discourse. The group, originally based in New York City, has taken the form of a listserve, an art collective, and a support group with regular meetings.[8] As a collective they have exhibited at Recess, New York;[9] Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York;[10] and Franklin Street Works, Connecticut.[11]

Artist Panteha Abareshi's video work, For Medical Use Only (2019) has been influential for Lazard in her own practice.[12]

Lazard's work has been exhibited internationally including at the Kunsthal Aaruhs, Denmark; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and The Camden Art Center, London.[13] Nationally, they have exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; New Museum, New York; and had screenings at the Anthology Film Archives, New York.[14] Lazard was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta. Lazard was a participant alongside 75 other artists including fellow Philadelphia-based artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden.[15] Lazard's published works include a 2019 work commissioned by Recess titled Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice[16] and The World is Unknown,[17] published by Triple Canopy as a part of their Immaterial Literature project area.

In 2019, Lazard co-organized the ''I Wanna Be With You Everywhere'' festival celebrating disability arts in New York City.[18]

One of Lazard's works, Support System (For Park, Tina, and Bob), 2016, was featured on the cover of Art Papers' winter 2018/2019 edition. The work documents a 12-hour performance completed by the artist where they spent the day in bed.[19] In March 2017, Lazard co-signed an open letter written by Hannah Black demanding the Whitney Biennial remove the Open Casket painting by Dana Schutz.[20] For the 2017 New Museum exhibition "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon"Lazard installed A Conspiracy (2017), 12 white-noise machines (the sort used in therapists' offices) installed in one of the elevators.[21]

• 2016 – Anthology Film Archives, New York City[22]
• 2017 – Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York City[23]
• 2018 – Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL[24]
• 2018 – Kunsthal Aarhus, Germany[25]
• 2018 – Camden Art Centre, London, UK[26]
• 2018 – the Kitchen, New York City[27]
• 2018 –Shoot the Lobster, New York City[28]
• 2018 – Essex Street Gallery, New York City[29]
• 2019 – Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN[30]

• Carolyn Lazard – Contemporary Art Daily
• Artist's Website
• Canaries