Genesis Belanger
Genesis Belanger is known for her mysterious installations made out of 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.
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BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1978
Lives and works in New York, NY USA
Education
2012
Master of Fine Arts, Combined Media, Hunter College, New York, NY USA
2004
Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts coursework, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI USA
Solo and two person exhibitions
2021
Académie Conti, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (forthcoming)
Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan (forthcoming)
2020
The Party's Over, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Through the Eye of a Needle, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT USA
2019
Coins for the Ferryman, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA USA
Genesis Belanget: Holding Pattern, New Museum, New York, NY USA
2018
A Strange Relative, Genesis Belanger and Emily Mae Smith, Perrotin , New York, NY, USA
2017
Cheap cookie and a tall drink of water, Mrs gallery, New York, NY USA
Group Exhibitions
2021
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX USA (forthcoming)
L’Almanach, The Consortium Museum, Dijon, France (forthcoming)
2020
Josh Lilley, London, UK (forthcoming)
Artist for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY USA
Good Pictures, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY USA
A Love Letter to a Nightmare, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY USA
2019
Group Show, Howard’s, Athens, Greece
Dark Laughter, Pippy Houldsworth, London, UK
Alternate Realities, Arsenal Contemporary, Montreal, Canada
The Magnetic Fields, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy
No Patience for Monuments, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
2018
Distortions, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY USA
Objects Like Us, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart and David Adamo, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT USA
Uncanny Memories, Sophia Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
Body So Delicious, Reyes Projects, Birmingham, MI USA
2017
GENESIS BELANGER, MELISSA BROWN, ROY DE FOREST, MIMI GROSS, Derek Eller Gallery, New york, NY USA
2016
Scarlet street, lucien terras, New York, NY USA
Happiness and other forms of self delusion, Pioneer works, Brooklyn, NY USA
Frida Smoked, Invisible Exports Gallery, New York, NY USA
Nature/gesture, Project Art Space, New York, NY USA
Spring break/art fair, New York, NY USA
2014
Still life, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY USA
2013
Fresh!, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY USA
2012
Thesis Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY USA
2011
New Insight, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
CAA MFA Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY USA