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Carolyn Lazard’s works explore the limits of aesthetic perception, asking viewers to engage preconceptions about where and how artworks are experienced and understood. Questioning ableist expectations of individual productivity and efficiency, Lazard’s practice seeks to temporally, visually and materially shift the execution and reading of art. Spanning the mediums of video, installation, sculpture, and performance, Lazard's work prompts a reassessment not just of how art circulates in society, but how society shapes our understanding of value, care, and dependency. Access is a central topic in their practice, serving as both a theme and material of their work. A solo exhibition by Lazard will open at Artists Space, New York on Friday, February 28. The exhibition delivers two films. Both consider black reproduction and performance; both were shot in the same location, a civic institution. Carolyn Lazard (b. 1987, USA) is an artist based in Philadelphia and New York. Over the past decade, Lazard has made exhibitions; organized programming, gatherings and performances; published texts, including Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice (2019), an accessibility guide for arts institutions; and served as a founding member of Canaries, a healing and arts collective and I Wanna Be With You Everywhere, a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers. Lazard has had solo exhibitions at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; and Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. Their work has been exhibited at institutions including Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; mumok, Vienna, Austria; Para Site, Hong Kong; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA. Their work was included in the 2019 and 2024 Whitney Biennial of American Art and the 2022 Venice Biennale. Lazard is a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow, a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. They hold a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. For more information, please contact us here.
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