Carolyn Lazard
Carolyn Lazard (1987) is an artist and writer based in Philadelphia and New York. Lazard’s practice spans multiple media to address the relationship between care, labor, and value. Their videos and sculptural installations are works that unfold in radically different scales of time and perception: from the almost imperceptible hum of a white-noise machine to a video of the real-time labor of dispensing medications into a weekly pill organizer. Their work consistently probes the limitations of aesthetic perception as a ground for artmaking and questions the value of production in a society defined by exploitation and ability.
Carolyn Lazard received a BA (2010) from Bard College and an MFA (2019) from the University of Pennsylvania. Their work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at such national and international venues as the Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; MoMA PS1; Museum für Moderne Kunst. Lazard was included in the 2019 and 2024 Whitney Biennial, the 2022 Venice Biennale, and the 2023 NGV Triennial. Lazard is a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow, 2021 United States Artists Fellow, and 2023 MacArthur Fellow.
August 2023-October 2023
The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde
Capitalism and Disability, Marta Russell
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination, Alondra Nelson
Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic, Nirmala Erevelles
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Mel Y. Chen
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Corpus, Jean-Luc Nancy
A Dialogue on Love, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
The Normal and the Pathological, Georges Canguilhem
The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public, Susan M. Schweik
Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century, edited by Alice Wong
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, Sunaura Taylor