Smith College
Artist Talk
Departemnt of Visual Arts 
2023

Contango Journal
Issue #3: Crime
Designed and Printed in Chicago, IL
Available at The Graham Foundation + The New Museum  

Screening of Canine Unit 341
4.19.2017
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Curated by Kiyoto Koseki

​The Emperor Is Naked
Curated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm
Showing works by Annesofie Sandal (Copenhagen, DK), Spencer Elias and Lucas Briffa (Chicago, IL), artists duo Hesselholdt and Mejlvang (Copenhagen, DK), Ana Hansa-Ogren (Milwaukee, WI) and Tia-Simone Gardner (Minneapolis, MN).

​WorkRoom
2205 California ST NE #605
Minneapolis 
Mar 3rd - Mar 25th, 2017

The Emperor Has No Clothes
Annesofie Sandal, Ana Hansa-Ogren, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Spencer Elias and Lucas Briffa
Curated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm
Ski Club Milwaukee
3172 North Bremen Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212

​The project is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation

Acts 12: 6-9
Lucas Briffa, Spencer Elias
Laura (Chicago)
1535 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

​It Was a Low-lying Foglike Floating
Curated by Ian Breidenbach
TSA - Philadelphia 
319A North 11th St #2H

​June 5 - June 28
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 2015, 6-10 pm

WUT MAG
interview

Paul Makris
Chicago Artists Coalition - Bolt Residency Exhibition Space
217 N Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60607 
Friday, May 1 to Thursday, May 21
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 6-9 PM

FRONTROOM 
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 3, 6-9 PM
1839 W Thomas St.
Apt. 3
Chicago, IL
60622
by appointment

Transforming Accessory
Benjamin Barretto, Clare Grill, and Spencer Elias
LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622


​Prismatic Nature
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Canine Unit 341
    2017 | 00:10:40 | United States | Czech (Eng Subs) | Color
    Stereo | 16:9

    Generously made possible by: 
    The Edes Foundation
Harvard Film Archive


    "One of us, product of a vast genetic mixture, is
    called ‘purebred.’ One of us, equally a product of
    names designates a different radical discourse, and
    we,both inherit their consequences in our flesh.”

    -Donna Haraway




    "He told the hound where he wanted to go.
    'jump off me and go through this stone wall,
    There is a garden behind the wall, 
    in that garden the Bird of Light is sitting in a goldenm cage.'
    'Why should I take the Bird of Light without the cage?'
    You might have slept for ever if I had not been there.”

    - Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf 
    Collected in Aleksandr Nikolaevic Afanasev’s Народные Русские Сказки,1855