Karolina Lavergne
Los Angeles, CA
b.1990
 
Education:
MFA Art Center College of Design 2017

Sreenings:
Other Animals, a publication and screening organized by Ren Ebel with editorial support from Juliana Halpert. Gatto Pardo, Los Angeles, CA, January 8, 2022

NOTES ON WORKING FROM HOME. A SCULPTURE THAT ALLOWS MY FAMILY TO LIVE  an audiovisual programme and installation by artist film makers Laida Lertxundi and Ren Ebel, that reflects on domestic life as a fundamental subject and source for artistic practice. Bilbao, Spain, June 5, 2021, 12:00 a.m. and 06:00 p.m.

2018 Screenings in Honor of Sophie Podolski, Organized by Chris Kraus in conjunction with exhibition: Le pays où tout est permis., Wiels Museum, Brussels, March 7, 2018

Solo: 
"Madame Bovary and Pen", Thesis Exhibition, Ahmanson Foundation Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, December 11, 2017-January 26, 2018

Performance:
2022 (m)otherbody with Jessica Dillon for One of the Dozens Praxinoscope Beyond Baroque / Venice, CA
2022 Live Life, Watermelons, A.F. with Jessica Dillon for Hours of the Day by Praxinoscope at Poetic Research Bureau / Los Angeles, CA

Group:
2022 Searching the dead brush / Arrangement of flowers for Creaturely at Scranch in Wonder Valley, 29 Palms, CA/ April 2, 2022 
2021 The All Else at OPaf in San Pedro CA, with Alexa Almany and Jessica Dillon, Sep 11-12, 2021
2021 Nausicaä or painting over the Atlantic at Clages Gallery with Carlotta Drinkewitz, Delia Jürgens,  Jessica Dillon, Karolina Lavergne, Tarik Kentouche, Haris Giannouras; Opening TBD March 2021; Cologne, Germany
2020 Other Places Art Book Fair (OpaBf), OPAF, September 19 and 20, 2020, 12-6PM. Battery Leary-Merriam / Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, 90731
2020 The Day That Dawns For You, Will Also Dawn For Me, Morning Start Camp, Wonder Valley, CA, May-July, 2020, (site specific 24 hour desert installations, one artist at a time)
2020 Creaturely, SCRANCH, Wonder Valley, CA, April 4, 2020 -- *POSTPONED due to pandemic*
2020 Everything I want to say to the world right now, Meridian Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, February 8, 2020
2020 House of Sleep, DIS-PLAY with the coming community, The Braunschweig University of Art (HBK), invited by Nicole Von Schleggel, February, January 30, 2020 - February 2, 2020
2019 [when you extend your hand, you touch] SCREEN, Curated by DIS-PLAY at Billy’s Place, Hanover, Germany, August 30, 2019
2019 And I was feeling alive, Meridian Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, July 29, 2019
2019 TOUCH, Curated by DIS-PLAY at OPaf (Other Places art fair) in San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA, March 16-17, 2019
2017 One Woman Shows, Initiated by Cindy Rehm, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA, April 2017
2016 Kenospia, Far Bazaar Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA, December 2016
2016 Refresh, Galerie La Croix, Pasadena, CA
 
Publications:
2022 Dream House contributor with Jessica Dillon to Dreamhouse a zine organized and edited by Cindy Rehm in celebration of the 50th anniversary of WOMANHOUSE, published by Hexentexte
2021 Body Threads with Jessica Dillon ti-TCR 19 on ritual  The Capilano Review / Vancouver, Canada 
To Spring From You Divine by Aimée Keeble  and Karolina Lavernge; Published January 2022 by QuorumQuorum, ISBN: 978-1-7378400-0-8, First edition print of 50
2021 DIS-PLAY: DIS-PLAY Catalog / Los Angeles, CA - Berlin, Germany
2021 Fish Tank Soul photo/poetry collaboration with Aimée Keeble , Ogma Magazine
2019 Blue Lace by Karolina Lavergne, Los Angeles / Berlin 2019, 8,5 x 6'', 118 pages, 4-color DPP, perfect binding, in English
ISBN: 978-3-9821051-1-6, Published on November 20, 2019 by DIS-PLAY.xyz
2017 Thesis (Vomit), Graduate MFA Thesis, ArtCenter College of Design, December 2017
2017 Public I, Contributor to Public I, a zine publication edited by Chris Kraus and Annette Weisser, April 2017

Curatorial:
2023 A Room of Ones Own? silent video/live music event, with QuorumQuorum / San Pedro, CA
2022 Onseeming Upon, curated with Jessica Dillon - featuring Taylor Zepeda and Reuben Merringer - for OPaf 5
2022 When I consider everything that grows group exhibition QuorumQuorum / San Pedro, CA
2020 I didn't know about the inside of me, for Meridian Exhibitions, live-streamed readings event / Los Angeles, CA - worldwide

Speaking:
2022 Dream House zine launch at Nomadic Division with readings by contributors Claressinka Anderson, Sarah Green, Jennifer Pilch, Jessica Dillon, and Karolina Lavergne, February 19, 2022, 2-4 pm.
2020 Invited as guest to speak to writing class taught by Chris Kraus at ArtCenter College of Design, February 11, 2020
2019 "Meet Karolina Lavergne" -Interview with Voyage LA

Workshops:
2021 Homeworks with Ren Ebel & Laida Lertxundi Polar Films Lab / Trosmø, Norway

QuorumQuorum  making sensitive imprints with Jessica Dillon