10 Facts About Carolyn Lazard

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Carolyn Lieba Francois Lazard was born on 1987 and is an American artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Carolyn Lazard expresses their ideas through a variety of mediums including performance, filmmaking, sculpture, writing, photography, sound; as well as environments and installations.

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Carolyn Lazard is a 2019 Pew Foundation Fellow and one of the first recipients of The Ford Foundation's 2020 Disability Futures Fellows Awards.

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

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Carolyn Lazard's work has been exhibited internationally including at the Kunsthal Aaruhs, Denmark; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and The Camden Art Centre, London.

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Carolyn Lazard was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta.

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Carolyn Lazard was a participant alongside 75 other artists including fellow Philadelphia-based artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden.

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Carolyn Lazard's published works include a 2019 work commissioned by Recess titled Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice and The World is Unknown, published by Triple Canopy as a part of their Immaterial Literature project area.

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In March 2017, Carolyn Lazard co-signed an open letter written by Hannah Black demanding the Whitney Biennial remove the Open Casket painting by Dana Schutz.

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In 2021, the Pew Center for Arts asked Carolyn Lazard to cite a queer work that shaped their practice, Carolyn Lazard named Artist Panteha Abareshi's video work, For Medical Use Only.