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

2022

Blow Out, Perrotin, Paris, France

2021

Another Man’s Treasure, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan

We were never friends, curated by Eric Troncy, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

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

2023

Day Jobs, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (forthcoming)

Funk You Too!: Humor and Irreverence in Modern and Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA (forthcoming)

2022

Mirror Mirror, MoMu Fashion Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

Finger Bang, Co-curated by Genesis Belanger and GaHee Park, Perrotin, Paris, France

Les Fleurs du Mâle, Musée d’Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky, Nice, France

Sausage Party, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2021

L’Almanach, The Consortium Museum, Dijon, France

Clay Pop, Jeffrey Deitch Inc, New York, NY USA

The Shoo Sho, curated by Julie Curtiss, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY USA

Bitter Nest, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan

Neue Sachlichkeit, CFA, Berlin, Germany

Time Takes a Cigarette, Josh Lilley, London, UK

2020

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