Sadie Laska
b. 1974, West Virginia Lives and Works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2014 MFA Bard College
1992 BFA West Virginia University
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Nudes, Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Étienne, France
2016 Rock Solid, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
Solo Presentation with CANADA at Independent Brussels
A Foot, Some Guns, A Boot, Some Hands, Some Lips, A Breast, & A Snail, 56 Henry, New York
2015 Plain Air, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
I Clouded, CANADA, New York
2014 Play it as it Lays, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Geneva, CH
2013 SAROJANE, Kerry Schuss, New York
2012 Left Hand, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Canada b/w Drag City, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL
2018 10 YEARS in Luxembourg, Ceysson & Bénétière, Koerich, Luxembourg
True Colours, with Helen Beard and Boo Saville, Newport Street Gallery, London
Inflatable Tear, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY
Paradise, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Animal Farm, curated by Sadie Laska, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
Unobstructed Views, Library Street Collective & MoCAD, Hawkins Ferry House,
Grosse Point Shores, MI
Based on a True Story, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR
Feed the Meter Vol. II, Ceysson & Bénétière, Koerich, Luxembourg
Sleeping on the Skin of a Nightmare, Romeo, New York, NY
UNDERCOVER BOSS, Reyes Projects, Birmingham, MI
Nude, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bluets, Burning In Water, New York, USA
10th Anniversary Show, James Fuentes, New York, NY
2016 IOWA, Gallery Bernard Ceysson, Paris, FR
What's Up 2.0, Curated by Lawrence van Hagen, London, UK
Fort Greene, Curated by Adrianne Rubenstein, Venus Over LA, Los Angeles, CA
Shapes, Halsey McKay Gallery, NY
Summer Flats, Shrine Projects, NY
Make Painting Great Again, CANADA, NY
Sexting, Kate Werble Gallery, NY
Looking Back / The 10th White Columns Annual - Selected by Matthew Higgs, White Columns,
New York, NY
2015 Justin Aidan/Sadie Laska/Leo Fitzpatrick, United Artists, Ltc., Marfa, TX
Feed the Meter, Curated by Wallace Whitney, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
Special Guest, Curated by Bernard Ceysson, Zürcher Gallery, New York , NY
Call and Response, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY
Slam Section, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2014 Sadie Laska and Sara Magenheimer, Which arbitrary thing are you?, Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, NY
Beware of the Stares, 246365, Brooklyn, NY
Sadie Laska and Jesse Littlefield, Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY
Café Dancer Pop-Up, Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Edge of Continuation, Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY
Bakerman, IUD collaborative exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, AZ
Summer: 2014, Kerry Schuss, New York, NY
2013 The Cat Show, White Columns, New York, NY
Greetings From Bitburg, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
2012 La Ligne Passée, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
Le Confort Moderne, Galerie Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Suggested Destination, Basilica, Hudson, NY
2011 Scruffy, KS ART, New York, NY
Dirt Don’t Hurt, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
STREET TRASH, Intersection of Commercial Street, Franklin Ave and Dupont St. Brooklyn
CANADA Paris, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris
READYKEULOUS, The Hurtful Healer, Invisible Exports, New York, NY
2010 Dirty Hands, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Clean Break, Charlie Horse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
In There, Out Here, Leo Koenig Projekte New York, NY
2009 Coco Loco, Stairwell Gallery, Providence RI
Spaced Out/On Time, CANADA, New York, NY
If The Darks Are Barking, Apartment Show, Artist Space, New York, NY
Circle of Friends, Vacant Gallery, Tokyo
A Dry Run, Charlie Horse, Brooklyn, NY
2008 The Dark Age, Stairwell Gallery, Providence RI
Gold is the New Metal, Stairwell Gallery, Providence RI
A Dry Run, Charlie Horse, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Red, White and Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
I Throw Herring to the Dog, Canada, New York, N
Selected Performances
2014 IUD performance, Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
2013 IUD performance with Kim Gordon, ISSUE Project Room, New York IUD performance, Kunsthalle, Zurich
IUD performance, Sunday Sessions, PS1 Contemporary Art Center
2012 IUD performance, EMERGENCY CHEESECAKE, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2011 IUD performance, Astrup Fearnley, Oslo Norway
2010 IUD performance Printed Matter Benefit, Deitch Projects, Long Island City, NY
2009 Sound Wreckage Volume 1, Gavin Brown, New York, NY
IUD performance for Constraction Show, Deitch Projects, New York, NY 2008
IUD performance for WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, PS1
Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
IUD performance in conjunction with Nick Relph and Oliver Payne, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
IUD performance for Jekyll Island, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 IUD performance, The Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Collections
Brant Foundation
Private Collection of Damien Hirst
Selected Bibliography
2018 The Art Newspaper "Damien Hirst commissions 21 works by emerging artists for new show." June 6.
2018 Artnet: "Here Are the 3 Emerging Artists Damien Hirst Tapped to Make Work for His Private Museum." June 6, 2018.
2016 New York Times Magazine Slideshow: "The Six Most Exciting Exhibitions at Independent Brussels." April 4, 2016.
2015 Indrisek, Scott. "5 Must See Gallery Shows: JJ Peet, Huma Bhaba, and More." BLOUIN ARTINFO. Jene 22, 2015.
2014 Boudreau, Alice. “Expositions, Sadie Laska” Go Out Magazine, Geneva, March, 2014 #19.
2013 Bollen, Christopher. “The New Abstract”, Interview Magazine, December, 2013
2011 Heinrich, Will. “Avoiding the Subject: ‘Scruffy’ at KS ART and ‘Walking Forward- Running Past’ at
Art in General”, New York Observer, November 1.
2010 Theme Magazine, issue 22, July, 2010
2009 “Spaced Out/On Time”, NY Times, September 25, 2009 “IUD”, ANP Quarterly Vol / No 2
“Womb and Doom”, New York Press, March 24, 2009
2008 “The Softer Sex Gets Hard”, USELESS Magazine, Fall 2008
“Next Wave New York”, Interview Magazine, September 2008 2007 Kelsey, John. “Top Ten”, Artforum December 2007
Publications
True Blue, Other Criteria Books, 2018
Catholic No. 1, Cats, Evil Twin, 2005