Educated at Concordia University in Montreal (B.F.A., 1996) and Columbia University, New York (M.F.A., 2004), Fabienne Lasserre lives and works in Brooklyn NY. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. In 2019 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. 

“I make abstract, free-standing, double-sided paintings. I can also describe them as 2-dimensional sculptures. This blurring of formal categories carries with it the promise of a related “blur” between other ontological classes and rigid models of understanding. My recent pieces are large, geometric shapes bearing openings and holes –windows of sorts- that crop or frame the space around them. Inviting or obstructing passage and sight, the pieces include “what they are not”: the area around them, the people looking at them, the other pieces in the room.”

Her most recent solo exhibition, Listeners, (2024,  the Athenaeum, Athens, GA) received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Other solo projects include With What Eyes, (2023, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto,), Eye Contact (2021, Turn Gallery, New York), Make Room for Space (2018, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY), and Les Larmes (2018, Parisian Laundry, Montreal). She has exhibited her work in group shows at Essex Flowers, White Columns (both 2022, New York); The Tang Museum (2021, Saratoga Springs, NY); CPM Gallery (2021, Baltimore); Ceysson de Bénétière (2017, Luxembourg); C.Ar.D Palazzo Costa Tretenerro (2015, Piacenza, Italy); Contemporary Arts Museum (2013, Houston, TX); Museo de Antioquia (2013, Medellin, Colombia); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2011), among others.

Lasserre was appointed as Co-Director of the program in 2020.