Process & Practice: LaKela Brown, Holly Coulis, & Matthew Kirk in conversation with John Shorb

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT

In this virtual talk, join artists LaKela Brown, Matthew Kirk, and Holly Coulis to learn about their recent artwork made in collaboration with Dieu Donné for our annual Paper Variables series, moderated by John Shorb. The artists will discuss their experiences translating their artistic practices in the hand papermaking studio. Working across different papermaking techniques from casting to pulp painting and stenciling, each artist employed symbolism and abstraction to develop a unique body of work.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

LaKela Brown is a New York City-based artist born and raised in Detroit. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. Her work has been exhibited around the world in galleries including solo presentations at Lars Friedrich in Berlin and 56 Henry in New York City. Brown's work has been collected by several museums including The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Fine Art Boston, and the Mint Museum. Brown recently debuted her first solo museum presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit.

Matthew Kirk (b. 1978, Ganado, AZ) lives and works in Queens, NY. He has recently had exhibitions at Fierman Gallery, New York, NY; Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR; Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL; Louis B. James, New York, NY; Exit Art, New York, NY. His work has been published in The New York Observer, Modern Painters, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

Holly Coulis was born in Toronto, Canada. She received her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Recent exhibitions include Klaus von Nichtssagend in NYC, Cooper Cole in Toronto, SOCO Gallery in Charlotte, Simon Lee’s Viewing Room in London. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, Artforum, Hyperallergic, the New Yorker, Art in America, the Los Angeles Times, and the Brooklyn Rail. Her work is represented by Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles and by Klaus von Nichtssagend in NYC. The Blanton Museum of Art in Texas and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas include Holly Coulis’s work in their collections. She currently lives in Athens, GA after 17 years in Brooklyn, NY

John Shorb is an artist and currently serves as Strategic Advisor to Dieu Donné. He was previously the Executive Director at Dieu Donné and has worked for non-profits for the past 20 years. He first took an introductory class years ago at Dieu Donné, experiencing the expertise and excitement of Dieu Donné’s studio first-hand. As an artist, John has had residencies at Blue Mountain Center and Penland School of Craft as well as solo shows at Golestani Gallery in Düsseldorf and Tops Gallery in Memphis.

Hidden Labor in the Art and Craft of Papermaking

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2024 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT

In this talk, artists Aimee Lee and Velma Bolyard will discuss their creative work in and with handmade paper and the traditions they draw on, based on their recent essays in Papermaker’s Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Papermaking, Volume 2. In conversation with the series editor Tatiana Ginsberg, Dieu Donné Director of Artistic Projects, Aimee and Velma will discuss their research and personal experiences of keeping traditions alive through use. Aimee Lee writes about toolmakers Ronald MacDonald and Howard Clark, whose handmade tools have allowed generations of papermakers to beat pulp and form sheets. Velma Bolyard’s essay traces her personal journey of discovering shifu, woven paper cloth, and teaching it to others. Both artists make, spin, dye, and weave paper into dimensional forms and books, and draw upon traditional and contemporary practices. 

“What is a papermaker’s tear? When a sheet of paper is freshly formed and still fragile, the pulp is easily disturbed. A droplet of water from the papermaker’s hands or from the deckle as it is being removed can easily fall onto the newly formed sheet, leaving a little crater. If not repaired, this will be a thinner part of the sheet, and like a watermark, it will be visible when the sheet is backlit. This is called a papermaker’s tear, or vatman’s tear. Though technically defects, papermaker’s tears are beloved by bibliophiles and paper enthusiasts because they are marks of the maker, little imperfections that remind us of the person behind the sheet.”

You can learn more about the new volume of Papermaker’s Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Papermaking here.

Wire watermarks by the late Ron Macdonald in the collection of Serge Pirard (Brussels)

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Aimee Lee is an artist who makes paper, writes, and advocates for Korean papermaking practices. Designated as an Ohio Arts Council Heritage Fellow, she is a two-time Fulbright scholar to Korea, where she learned about making hanji, its applications, and its tools, and has studied with various Korean national and provincial holders of intangible cultural heritage since 2009. Her research led to the first hanji studio in North America, an award-winning book, Hanji Unfurled, and an active studio practice that includes jiseung, joomchi, paper textile, botanical paper, book art, and natural dyeing techniques. She has shared these techniques and stories across the world and from her private hanji studio east of Cleveland. Website

Velma Bolyard is a mother, artist and teacher. Living north of the Adirondacks, she forages for and cultivates fibers, dye and papermaking plants. She makes paper, threads, spins kami-ito, weaves shifu and most recently makes fish skin parchment and spins and cultivates wild silks for her artists’ books. A papermaker since 1977, her specialty is local plant papers and flax which she colors with plants and earth pigments. She delights in edges, selvedges, deckles, and ecotones where the woods meet open land; that’s where she finds the material and stories for her work. Small adventures, stories, sometimes show up as poems in her books. Velma retired from teaching special education and now focuses on making paper, shifu and artists’ books. She teaches papermaking and book arts at St Lawrence University and has travelled in North America and Australia to teach workshops and master classes, and recently returned from the CODEX Book Fair. Website

Tatiana Ginsberg studied papermaking and book arts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and received her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In between she spent two years in Japan researching naturally dyed papers under a Fulbright grant. Returning to the U.S. she taught papermaking, printmaking, book arts, and drawing in universities for more than a decade. As Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator at Dieu Donné she works with other artists to make new work in handmade paper. She also edits the series Papermaker’s Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper for The Legacy Press. Her own work combines traditional and contemporary methods of papermaking and is exhibited nationally and internationally. Website

Process & Practice: Shervone Neckles in conversation with Tatiana Ginsberg

TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2024 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT

For nearly two decades, interdisciplinary artist Shervone Neckles has undertaken an intimate exploration of her Grenadian-American family's history. Revisiting her family archives, collecting oral narratives, and traveling to her homeland has unearthed a lineage of knowledge production that serves as a continuous wellspring of inspiration for her studio practice. Through her artwork she weaves together primary source materials with mixed media techniques that includes printmaking, sculpture, textiles, and installation. Her work reconstructs narratives that illuminate her own interiority, exploring her relationship to selfhood, memory and home, as well as her family's migration narrative from Grenada to the United States. During her Workspace Residency at Dieu Donné in 2021, Neckles created Memory Works, handmade paper artworks that contain ingredients from Grenadian family recipes. Considering recipes as matrilineal heirlooms, Neckles’s artworks form an archive of family traditions narrating a story of global migration and family history. In conversation with her collaborator at Dieu Donné, Director of Artistic Projects Tatiana Ginsberg, she will discuss papermaking within the context of her multifaceted artistic practice and the process of creating Memory Works.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
As an interdisciplinary artist, Shervone Neckles makes embellished textiles, prints, sculptures, installations, and public art to retell Afro-Caribbean histories and mythologies. Her multimedia installation—an examination of selfhood and memory—was featured in the 2019 Venice Biennale’s Grenada Pavilion. She also recently created an outdoor installation at the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum (Flushing, Queens) to commemorate the life and legacy of the African-American inventor, which has traveled to Downtown Brooklyn (NY), Museum of Science (Boston, MA) and Chelsea City Hall (Chelsea, MA). In 2022-2023, her work was presented in a solo exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art (Jacksonville, FL), a group exhibition at Moore College (Philadelphia, PA), and she participated in a residency Dieu Donné (Brooklyn, NY). She recently debuted a permanent public art installation, The Lunar Portal, at the University of Pittsburgh Mercy Pavilion Plaza (Pittsburgh, PA). In 2024, she has a forthcoming public art installation with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Bronx, NY.

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A Cosmology of Inclusions with Jaz Graf

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2024 1:00 - 2:00 PM EDT

Mixed-media artist, Jaz Graf, explores how materials collide and synthesize to convey embodied and metaphorical stories. Her love of inclusions in the papermaking process has been essential in the development of her ongoing personal mythology. Graf plays with materials and their inherent and potential meanings. She considers Thai mulberry as plantcestor, offering remedy, rumination, and reverence. Graf will talk about a new body of work created at Dieu Donné’s paper studios during her West Bay View Foundation Fellowship in 2022-23. She delves into her iterative projects inspired by textiles, ancient manuscripts, and design motifs of her cultural heritage.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jaz Graf’s transdisciplinary practice ruminates on our connection to place, the location of identity, and the paradox of presence. Her work delves through the meaning of familial roots, reimagining humanity’s relationship to earth. Graf is a recipient of a West Bay View Foundation Fellowship, Newark Creative Catalyst Grant, Salzberg Book Arts Residency and Civil Society Institute Fellowship. Her work has been featured at The Newark Museum of Art, NJ as well as published in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, AM New York News, and on NJ-PBS television news. Graf holds a Master of Arts degree in Studio Art Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the University of Iowa.

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Papermaking for a Livable Future with Hannah Chalew

TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2024 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST

Drawing on the history of her South Louisiana landscape, Hannah Chalew creates artwork using “plasticane” paper: an amalgamation of bagasse, the waste product of sugarcane production, and shredded disposable plastic waste, the byproduct of fossil fuel extraction. Examining the influences of capitalism and racism on the exploitation of Louisiana’s people and ecologies, including the legacy of forced labor plantations and fossil fuel extraction, burning and refining, Chalew uses “plasticane” to hold the history of how we got to this moment in time and to create visions of a future our descendants might inherit if we do not change course. 

In this talk, Chalew will describe her artistic practice in traditional drawing and dimensional papermaking as a means towards imagining a different future through art. By using renewable materials from her local ecosystem, Chalew offers an alternate perspective on how we can relate to our world, inviting viewers to rethink how we can break the cycles we are stuck in and imagine a livable future for Louisiana and beyond.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Hannah Chalew is an artist, educator and environmental activist raised and currently working in New Orleans. She received her BA from Brandeis University in 2009, and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. Chalew has exhibited widely around New Orleans and has shown around the country at the Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY; Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Dieu Donné, New York, NY; Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC, and other venues. Her work has been featured in American Craft, Hand Papermaking, the New York Times, BOMB, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, and more. Her work is held in the collections of the City of New Orleans and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She is the 2022 South Arts Southern Prize winner as well as the South Arts Louisiana State Fellow.

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Process and Practice: Cannupa Hanska Luger in conversation

VIRTUAL | WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6, 6:30 - 7:30 PM ET

Join Dieu Donné virtually on Wednesday, December 6th from 6:30 - 7:30 pm ET for Process & Practice: Cannupa Hanska Luger in conversation with Apsara DiQuinzio and Tatiana Ginsberg.

In this virtual talk, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger will discuss his exploration of papermaking in the context of his multidisciplinary artistic practice with Apsara DiQuinzio, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nevada Museum of Art, and Tatiana Ginsberg, Dieu Donné Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator. Rooted in generational knowledge of Indigenous craft and art, Luger creates monumental artworks utilizing repurposed materials, ceramics, textiles, steel, and digital media. In an ongoing collaboration with Dieu Donné, Luger has created handmade paper feathers and bustles to replicate and reinterpret customary regalia of Northern Plains tribes as part of a larger body of new work, Speechless, currently on view at the Nevada Museum of Art. Join us to learn more about his creative process to reclaim and reframe 21st century North American Indigeniety and its powerful global relevance, addressing the legacies of cultural appropriation and colonization.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Cannupa Hanska Luger (b.1979) is a New Mexico-based multidisciplinary artist creating monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota. Luger’s bold visual storytelling presents new ways of seeing our collective humanity while foregrounding an Indigenous worldview. His work has been exhibited at The National Gallery of Art, DC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gardiner Museum, Toronto and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Georgia. Luger has been awarded fellowships from Guggenheim, United States Artists, Creative Capital, Smithsonian and Joan Mitchell Foundation. Website

Apsara DiQuinzio is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nevada Museum of Art. Since joining the Nevada Museum of Art in 2021, she initiated and leads the institution's first Green Team, which works to increase sustainability awareness and policy changes within the institution. She recently organized Cannupa Hanska Luger: Speechless, as well as Elisheva Biernoff: Reservoirs of Time, currently on view at the Museum. Previously she was the Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phylllis C. Watis MATRIX Curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where she organized over 40 exhibitions. She has also held curatorial positions at SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art. DiQuinzio has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs and publications, including Artforum, Mousse, The Exhibitionist, and Cura.

Tatiana Ginsberg studied papermaking and book arts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and received her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In between she spent two years in Japan researching naturally dyed papers under a Fulbright grant. Returning to the U.S. she taught papermaking, printmaking, book arts, and drawing in universities for more than a decade. As Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator at Dieu Donné she works with other artists to make new work in handmade paper. She also edits the series Papermaker’s Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper for The Legacy Press. Her own work combines traditional and contemporary methods of papermaking and is exhibited nationally and internationally.

HANJI EDITION: CONTEMPORARY WORKS ON KOREAN HANDMADE PAPER

ONLINE WEBINAR | OCTOBER 25, 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST

Hanji Edition is a producer of limited edition books, prints, and objects made with hanji, Korean handmade paper. In this talk, co-founders Steph Rue and Lars Kim will discuss their collaborative approach and what motivates them to publish books and prints on hanji. The talk will include a survey of past projects as well as a discussion of their current project, a collaborative book featuring prints by Korean American artists, to be released in 2024.

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ABOUT STEPH RUE & LARS KIM

Steph Rue is an artist working primarily with handmade paper and books as her medium. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book and BA from Stanford University. In 2015-2016 she studied Korean books, paper, print, and textiles through a Fulbright Research Grant to South Korea. Her works are held in private and public collections, including Yale University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, and the Asian Art Museum. Steph is a co-founder of the Korean American Artist Collective and a co-founder of Hanji Edition, a publisher of fine art and print works on hanji. She is a member of the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective and serves on the board of Hand Papermaking. Steph has taught at Mills College, Penland School of Craft, and the San Francisco Center for the Book. She lives and works out of her home studio in Sacramento, CA.

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Lars Kim is a designer, printmaker and educator based in Portland, Oregon. After completing studies at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Copenhagen, she worked in architecture and new media before managing creative production at Logos Graphics in San Francisco. Her print work frequently blends multiple processes (offset, letterpress, screen print and intaglio) with Eastern, Western and experimental forms of hand papermaking and bookbinding.

Lars teaches at the San Francisco Center for the Book, where she created an artist’s book called Shipjangsaeng in 2017. She is also a member of From Jikji to Gutenberg, a UNESCO-supported transnational project which seeks to promote cultural democracy and understanding within historical printing narratives for a global audience. As an independent scholar, Lars investigates East Asian typography and the transmission of early printing technologies along the Silk Road. Her current research involves analysis of the Korean movable type collections at the Newberry Library and the Library of Congress. 

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Paper, Plants, and Identity with May Babcock

APRIL 27, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM

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May Babcock's artwork uses foraged plant fibers for papermaking to engage with both the materiality of place and discovery of multiracial identity. In this talk, the artist will take a deep dive into how we collectively talk about plants from other places (think of the words 'invasive' or 'native') and her work towards an ecocentric way of thinking about problematic plants, humans, and nature.

May Babcock is an interdisciplinary American artist whose work is rooted in hand papermaking and place, and involves turning plants and seaweed into paper. Her practice reconnects people to the voice of the land and waters, transforming plant fibers, sediment, and site materials into expansive installations, organic sculptures, analog photos and prints on paper, and textured two-dimensional works of paper.

Her artwork intersects the fields of hand papermaking, contemporary craft, book arts, ecological art, gardening, public art, community building, sculpture, installation art, printmaking, and analog photography. The artist teaches and exhibits widely, and has been the recipient of numerous artist residencies, grants, and fellowships. Babcock is a Certified Invasive Plant Manager and a Master Gardener.

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Join Dieu Donné on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 6:30pm for a conversation with artists Abby Leigh, Susan Gosin, and Nazanin Noroozi in an exploration of Gosin and Leigh’s work combining printmaking and hand papermaking in the form of artists’ books. As the inaugural Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow, Nazanin selected two key works dealing with materiality, tactility, and literature: One Evening, (2011) by Abby Leigh, held in the collections of MoMA and the Whitney Museum of Art, and Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems, (1980) by Susan Gosin, held in the collections of Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Michigan. Both books approach the combination of handmade paper, intaglio, and poetry with distinctive artistic perspectives and exceptional craftsmanship. In this webinar, the artists will discuss the creative and collaborative process behind these works, as well as the history of artist’s books at Dieu Donné. Special thanks to the IFPDA Foundation for their generous support of this program.

About the Artists

Abby Leigh is an American artist based in New York City. Abby Leigh's work examines the relationship of order and randomness; microcosm and macrocosm; and what lies beneath the surface, both literally and conceptually. Her work is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; among others. Leigh has exhibited extensively across Europe and the United States, most recently at Tennis Elbow at the Journal Gallery, in Tribeca.

Susan Gosin co-founded Dieu Donné in New York in 1976, collaborating with artists and writers as designer and publisher of two and three-dimensional art and limited editions of artist’s books. Her artist’s books have been exhibited and collected by numerous institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Yale University, and The American Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. Gosin has been awarded grants from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Tiffany Foundation and in 2006 received the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphics Council. As a teacher and educator, she has developed curricula and designed studio programs for The New School, Rutgers University, Amagansett Applied Arts, The Phumani Archival Mill, Johannesburg, South Africa, and The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt. 

Nazanin Noroozi is the inaugural Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow. She is a multi-media artist incorporating moving images, printmaking and alternative photography processes to reflect on notions of collective memory, displacement and fragility. Nazanin’s work has been widely exhibited in both Iran and the United States, including the Immigrant Artist Biennial, Noyes Museum of Art, NY Live Arts, Prizm Art Fair, and Columbia University. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from New York Foundation for the arts (video & film) Artistic Freedom Initiative, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYFA IAP 2018, Mass MoCA Residency, and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She is an editor at large of Kaarnamaa, a Journal of Art History and Criticism. Nazanin completed her MFA in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute. Her works have been featured in various publications and media including BBC News Persian, Elephant Magazine, Financial Times, and Brooklyn Rail. 

How to Attend

This online event will take place on Tuesday, October 25th from 6:30 PM—7:30 PM EST. The conversation will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by questions. To attend, register via Eventbrite. This program is pay-as-you-wish, with a suggested donation of $5.00. Attendees can access the live event through Eventbrite’s Online Event Page.

All Dieu Donné virtual events include the option of live virtual captioning. A recording of this event will be posted later this fall. If you have any questions, please contact our Grants & Education Manager, Hannah Katz, at hkatz@dieudonne.org.

Thursday, September 29, 2022 1—2 PM ET via Zoom

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Join us on September 29, 2022 for our next lunchtime webinar with Workspace Residency alumni Juan Hinojosa, Melissa Joseph, and Fanny Allié in conversation with Eliana Blechman, Dieu Donné Archive and Collection Fellow. Learn more about each artist’s practice, their exploration of paper as a medium, and their time working in the Dieu Donné studio.

This online event will take place on Thursday, September 29, 2022 from 1 PM—2 PM EST via Zoom. The conversation will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by questions.

About the Artists
Juan Hinojosa is a mixed-media artist who currently lives and works in New York. Constructed from found objects, his complex collage-drawings intimately challenge greed, obsessive consumption, and the social stratification of American culture. His conflicts have resulted in a series of work that put on display his own bad habits, desires, and classic American greed. Hinojosa attended Parsons School of Design and was awarded residencies at Material for the Arts (New York), the Vermont Studio Center (Vermont), and LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Governors Island COVID-19 Response Residency program). His work has been featured in The New York Times, the Woodside Herald, and Open House New York. Hinojosa’s first solo exhibition was at Allegra LaViola Gallery (2012). Since then he has had solo exhibitions at Materials for the Arts (New York), Union College, Schenectady, and he was part of the Biennial at El Museo del Barrio (New York).

Melissa Joseph is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist. Her work addresses themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. She intentionally alludes to the labors of women as well as experiences as a first generation American and the unique juxtapositions of diasporic life. Her work has been shown at the Delaware Contemporary, Woodmere Art Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, and featured in Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, Zyzzyva. She has participated in residencies at the Textile Arts Center, BRIC, Dieu Donné, and soon at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts.  

Fanny Allié graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, in Arles, France in 2005. Princeton University, Equity Gallery, Hyatt Centric (Philadelphia), DOT Art, A.I.R Gallery, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, Fresh Window, and St Eustache Church (Paris, France) have organized solo and public installations of her work. Owen James Gallery, NYU/Gallatin Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, Freight + Volume, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Pratt Institute and The Bronx Museum, among others have featured her work in group exhibitions. Fanny is the recipient of various fellowships and residencies including AIM (Bronx Museum), BRIC Arts | Media, Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, A.I.R. Fellowship Program, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Fellowship, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, Yaddo Residency, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship (Craft/Sculpture) and MacDowell Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Artnews, NY Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Hyperallergic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Blouin Art Info, DNA Info, Marie Claire Italy, among others.

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