RESUME
Lise Haller Baggesen (1969 DK/US) is a Danish raised, Amsterdam trained, Chicago based, interdisciplinary artist. Her hybrid practice includes painting, writing, performance, installation, sartorial, text- and textile-based work. She is the author of Mothernism, and exhibits internationally, most recently with the multi-media show A Space Where Your Voices Can Live (S/DK) and the solo exhibitions Apocalypstsick! & ChrOmAmOur (F). She is a 2015 nominee for The Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant, and a 2017 resident at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada. Exhibitions include Poetry Foundation; Chicago Cultural Center; 6018 North; DPAM; MCA, and Art Institute of Chicago (IL); A.I.R. Gallery, NYC (NY); The Contemporary Austin (TX); Southern Exposure, San Franciso (CA); Overgaden (DK); Roskilde Festival (DK); Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde (DK); Malmö Konstmuseum (SE); MoMu Antwerpen (B); Centraalmuseum Utrecht (NL); Bicolore, Paris; Confort Moderne, Poitiers; Villa Arson, Nice; and Théatre de la Ville de Paris (F).
She will be in residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2027.
Upcoming (2026/2027)
Persephone: Extraction and Metamorphosis 6018 North, Chicago (IL)
Residency Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Education
2011-13 MA Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL)
1996-97 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (NL)
1992-95 BFA Painting, AKI Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Enschede (NL)
Residencies
2025, 2022 & 2021 Danish Arts Workshops/SVFK (DK)
2023 & 2018 Le Confort Moderne (F)
2017 Banff Centre for Arts an Creativity (CAN)
Books
2024 APOCALYPSTICK! Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (F)
2017 Poor & Needy Poor Farm Press/Krabbesholm Milwaukee (WI) /Skive (DK)
2014 Mothernism Green Lantern Press/Poor Farm Press Chicago (IL)
Solo Exhibitions/Performances
2025 Lille Solstråle sad og så på Månen Roskilde Festival & Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde (DK)
2025 ChrOmAmOur: Une Métamorphose Le Bicolore Paris (F)
2023 APOCALYPSTICK! Le Confort Moderne Poitiers (F)
2023 A Space Where Your Voices Can Live Roskilde Festival (DK) & Malmö Konstmuseum (SE)
2022 The Painted Book of the City of Ladies Wear RUSCHWOMAN Chicago (IL)
2021 THE MUSEUMS OF FUTURE PAST TIMES PRESENT: HATORADE RETROGRADE: THE MUSICAL Gallery 400, UIC Chicago
2019 HATORADE RETROGRADE: THE MUSICAL Southern Exposure San Francisco (CA)
2016 HATORADE RETROGRADE Threewalls Chicago (IL)
2016 Mothernism The Contemporary Austin (TX)
Group Exhibitions
2025 Kaååråålines Vers Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde (DK)
2025 Good Mom/Bad Mom Centraalmuseum Utrecht (NL)
2024 Super High End Underground Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen (DK)
2020 The Long Dream MCA Chicago (IL)
2020 In-Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration Chicago Cultural Center (IL)
2019 New Age, New Age DPAM DePaul Art Museum Chicago (IL)
2019 Tainted Love (Le Club Mix) Villa Arson Nice (F)
2018 Living Architecture 6018 North Chicago (IL);
2018 Splitsville Smells Like Irises Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York (NY)
2017 TRINITY The Suburban Milwaukee (WI)
2017 Tainted Love Le Confort Moderne Potiers (F)
2016 Do You Hear What I Hear? A.I.R. Gallery New York (NY)
2016 Pegasus and Mermaid The Poetry Foundation Chicago (IL)
2015 EAM Biennial Elmhurst Art Museum Elmhurst (IL);
2015 Pleasure Zone Théâtre de la Ville Paris (F)
Collaborations:
Boulevard Dreamers (with Kirsten Leenaars)
6018North (2022) Art Institute of Chicago (2018) Poetry Foundation (2016) MCA (2014) The Franklin (2013) all Chicago (IL)
The Mothernists (with Deirdre Donoghue)
Upominki, Rotterdam (2015) Royal Danish Art Academy/ANA, Copenhagen DK (2017)
Grants & Awards/Acquisitions and Commissions
Illinois Arts Council (IL); SAIC, (IL); MCA, Chicago (IL); The Contemporary Austin (TX); The Joan Mitchell Foundation (Nomination), New York (NY); Målmö Konstmuseum (SE); Roskilde Festival (DK); FRAC Grand Large (F); Danish Arts Foundation (DK)