Louise Bonnet and Elizabeth King: De Anima

May 07 - Sep 07 2025

Louise Bonnet (b. 1970, Geneva) lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MAMCO, Geneva; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; and Long Museum, Shanghai, among numerous others. Her work has been subject of a solo exhibition at the Hollyhock House, and was included in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams; as well as in group exhibitions at The Warehouse, Dallas; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, among others.

Elizabeth King (b. 1950, Ann Arbor) lives and works in Richmond. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, among others. Awards for her work include Anonymous Was a Woman, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute (now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University). She was inducted as a member of the National Academy of Design in November 2017. She is the co-author (with W. David Todd) of Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend (Getty Publications, 2023). Her work has been the subject of a solo exhibition at MASS MoCA, among others; and group exhibitions at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein; Flag Art Foundation, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Image: Elizabeth King and Richard Kizu-Blair, What Happened, 1991. Courtesy of the artist.