Genesis Belanger

(Born) 1978 in MA, USA
(Based) New York, NY, USA
GBel@rj2020_12

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Genesis Belanger is known for her mysterious installations made from pastel-toned ceramics and cast-concrete objects. Her sculptures of everyday items take on human features, thereby making them alluring and slightly uncanny at the same time. Underneath all these soft pastel tones, Belanger’s work takes a darker turn. Recurring motifs in her work such as cigarettes, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics address the manipulative power and the feeling of dissatisfaction caused by capitalism and advertisement in our contemporary society.
— LVB

Selected solo exhibitions include: Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Mueum, Ridgefield, CT USA; François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA; New Museum, New York, NY USA; and an installation at the New Museum’s Storefront Window, New York, NY, USA.

Belanger has participated in group shows at Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark and Musée d’Art Naïf Anatole-Jakovsky, Nice, France.

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  • Genesis Belanger, Monkey bite
  • Genesis Belanger, Perfectly Plump
  • Genesis Belanger, Perfectly Plump
  • Genesis Belanger, Perfectly Plump
  • Genesis Belanger, Day Jobs
  • Genesis Belanger, Day Jobs
  • Genesis Belanger, Blow Out
  • Genesis Belanger, Blow Out
  • Genesis Belanger, Blow Out
  • Genesis Belanger, Fluffer
  • Genesis Belanger, We were never friends
  • Genesis Belanger, We were never friends
  • Genesis Belanger, We were never friends
  • Genesis Belanger, The Party’s Over
  • Genesis Belanger, We are done here
  • Genesis Belanger, Lost her shirt
  • Genesis Belanger, The Party’s Over
  • Genesis Belanger, The Party’s Over
  • Genesis Belanger, Same old song
  • Genesis Belanger, The Party’s Over
  • Genesis Belanger, The Party’s Over
  • Genesis Belanger, Regimen
  • Genesis Belanger, The Party’s Over
  • Genesis Belanger, Every move
  • Genesis Belanger, Checks and balances
  • Genesis Belanger, Checks and balances (detail)
  • Genesis Belanger, Through the Eye of a Needle
  • Genesis Belanger, A Fortress of Order and Generosity
  • Genesis Belanger, Through The Eye Of A Needle
  • Genesis Belanger, Abundantly Empty the Ceaseless Void
  • Genesis Belanger, Through the Eye of a Needle
  • Genesis Belanger, You Never Know What You're Gonna Get
  • Genesis Belanger, Through the Eye of a Needle
  • Genesis Belanger, Genesis Belanger: Holding Pattern
  • Genesis Belanger, Genesis Belanger: Holding Pattern
  • Genesis Belanger, Genesis Belanger: Holding Pattern
  • Genesis Belanger, Genesis Belanger: Holding Pattern
  • Genesis Belanger, A Strange Relative
  • Genesis Belanger, A strange relative
  • Genesis Belanger, Birthday suit
  • Genesis Belanger, Wiener
  • Genesis Belanger, Acquiesce
  • Genesis Belanger, un-biased observer
  • Genesis Belanger, Standard American Mouthful
  • Genesis Belanger, NADA Solo booth
  • Genesis Belanger, Stepford wife- sister wife
  • Genesis Belanger, Natural flush
  • Genesis Belanger, NADA Solo booth
  • Genesis Belanger, Ripe
  • Genesis Belanger, Double Cherry
  • Genesis Belanger, Cheap cookie and a tall drink of water,
  • Genesis Belanger, Pieta
  • Genesis Belanger, Cheap cookie and a tall drink of water,
  • Genesis Belanger, conversion
  • Genesis Belanger, Cheap cookie and a tall drink of water
  • Genesis Belanger, Cheap cookie and a tall drink of water,
  • Genesis Belanger, NADA Solo booth

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