After growing up in the Caribbean Jessica Lajard moved to Paris to pursue her art studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris where she recieved her diploma in 2010. Jessica Lajard’s work is a repertoire of shapes freely inspired by popular imagery which are often combined with sexual illusions that flirt with the grotesque. Sometimes thought out in advance through drawing, her installations spread out in space just like they did during the 59th Salon of Montrouge (2014) where the artist plunged us into a textured post-card scenery, where she blended textile, ceramic elements and marble in a fizzy, pop and surreal atmosphere of shells and crustaceans. For her nomination at the Révélations Emerige 2015 she captured us in a more intimate and domestic installation with Somewhere Where the Grass is Greener.
She has participated to many group shows and fairs, and, after her residency at Ensa Limoges, her work was shown at the Musée National Adrien Dubouché – Cité de la céramique Sèvres & Limoges. In 2016 she had two major solo shows, Soft Spot at La Traverse, the Contemporary Art Centre of Alfortville (FR) and Out of the Blue at the François Mitterrand Cultural Centre in Beauvais (FR).
Blake Byrne Collection (US)
Tempted to touch, Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
D’Elles Mêmes, La Borne du POTCB, Vatan (FR)
Dans les Cartons, Biennale Émergence de Pantin, Le Pavillon, Pantin (FR)
Soft Spot, CAC La traverse, Alfortville (FR)
Out of the Blue, Centre culturel F. Mitterand, Beauvais (FR)
Scrambled, Galerie Bendana-Pinel, Paris (FR)
Tea Time, Atelier Jean Luc Vilmouth, ENSBA, Paris (FR)
Ενηλικίωση, curated by Nikos Giavropoulos, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens (GR)
Politics of Discontent, cur. by Jonathan Sullam, Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
L’arbre de Darwin, FRAC / Artothèque du Limousin – Nouvelle Aquitaine, Limoges (FR)
KeramiK, Galerie Steinek, Wien (AT)
Tête à tête, Le Safran, Amiens (FR)
Constellation Pyrrhon, Espace Quark, Geneva (CH)
The Collection, Irène Laub Gallery (FEIZI), Brussels (BE)
Kao Export LTD Global Tour #3, Museum Adrien Dubouché, Cité de la Céramique Sèvres & Limoges, Limoges (FR)
Programme Kaolin, Ensa, Limoges (FR)
Empiristes, bourse Révélations Emerige, Paris (FR)
Transit, Bazaar Compatible Program, Shanghai (CN)
1320°, JCI exhibition space, Jingdezhen (CN)
Round The Rugged Rocks, Galerie Plateforme, Paris (FR)
Journées du Patrimoine, Manoir de Soisay, La Perrière (FR)
Pavillon Mais Presque, Le Pavillon, Pantin (FR)
Fifth Anniversary Show, Galerie Bendana-Pinel, Paris (FR)
Bonus, Espace des Arts sans Frontières, Paris (FR)
Fonctions Obliques, Espace Eugène Beaudouin, Anthony (FR)
Dialogues, Musée de Gargilesse (FR)
Fairy Tales, La Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Paris (FR)
Grand Huit, l’Entre Deux, Pantin (FR)
Le Vent d’Après, Conservateur Jean de Loisy, Quais Malaquais, Paris (FR)
Le Jardin Éphémère, Jardin des Puces de Saint-Ouen, Saint-Ouen (FR) Parade, Abbaye Notre-Dame De Quincy, Centre d’Art de l’Yonne (FR)
Spectral Lines, Galerie Bendana-Pinel, Paris (FR)
Winter Story, La kommune, Paris (FR)
Carte Blanche à un collectionneur, Galerie Bendana-Pinel, Paris (FR)
Corridor, Central Saint Martin’s, London (UK)
Première Vue, Passage de Retz, Paris (FR)
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
Yia Art Fair, Brussels (BE)
Yia Art Fair, Paris (FR)
Salon de Montrouge, cur. by Stéphane Corréard, Le Beffroi, Montrouge (FR)
CAC La traverse, Alfortville (FR)
Résidence « Terre/ Céramique », École d’Art de Beauvais (FR)
Programme Kaolin, Jingdezhen (CN)
July – Manoir de Soisay, La Perrière (FR)
Finalist of the contest “Contemporary Talents”, François Schneider Foundation, Wattwiller (FR)
Nominated for the Bourse Révélations Emerige, Paris (FR)
Bourse Diane de Polignac (FR)
Prix des Amies des Beaux Arts (FR)
Prix Kristal, 59th Salon de Montrouge (FR)
Prix de sculpture de la Fondation Joseph Epstein (FR)
