Olivia Erlanger

b. 1990, United States

Olivia Erlanger (b. 1990, New York) works across sculpture, film, writing and performance to examine American dreams and delusions. Mining the myth of suburbia affords the artist a focus on the semiotics of the periphery, analyzing its architecture, infrastructures and ecosystems. Erlanger was awarded the 2024 International Sculpture Prize by Fondazione Henraux. Selected recent exhibitions include If Today Were Tomorrow at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas (2024, solo); Humour in the Water Coolant at ICA London, UK (2024, performance); Appliance at Kunstverien Gartenhaus, Vienna (2022, solo); Nonmemory at Hauser Wirth, Los Angeles (2023), Dream Journal at Company Gallery, New York (2023); On Failure, at Soft Opening, London (2023) and Shell at Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles (2022). Erlanger is the author of Appliance (Wild Seeds, 2022) and the co-author of Garage (MIT Press, 2018) with architect Luis Ortega Govela. Her writing has appeared in publications including Tank Magazine, PIN UP, Flash Art, and Harvard Design Magazine. Her work is in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; KADIST, San Francisco and X Museum, Shanghai. The artist lives and works in New York.

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Representation

Soft Opening
Soft Opening (Archive)