Elisa Larvego

2009

Graduated from Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD), Geneva

2005

Graduated from School of Applied Arts, department of photography, Vevey, Switzerland

Awards / Grants

2013

Leenaards Grant

Résidency Shandynamiques, Cerbères, France

2012

Kiefer-Hablitzel Prize

Berthoud grant

2011

Residency at Fielwork : Marfa, Texas, USA

2010

Nationale Suisse Insurance Art Prize

Grant from FCAC (Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, Geneva)

2008

3rd prize VFG Young Talents for the series “Les protagonistes”

2007

4th prize VFG Young Talents for the series “Funny Holzes”

2006

Laureate Unesco-Aschberg grant for a residency at “Centro de la Imagen”, Mexico City, Mexico

Nominee for Mises à part at the Festival des Voies Off, Arles, France

Solo exhibitions

2013

Salt Cedar at Fieldwork, Marfa Gallery, Texas, USA

Mobile sculptures, Marfa Country Clinic, Marfa, Texas, USA

2012

Huerfano’s faces, Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland

Archeology, TMproject Gallery, Geneva

2010

Huerfano’s faces, TMproject Gallery, Geneva

Art Prize Nationale Suisse, Liste 15, The Young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

2006

Mises à part, Standard-Deluxe, Lausanne, Switzerland

Group exhibitions

2014

Dak'art Biennial, Theodor Monod Museum, Dakar, Senegal

Swiss Visual, Fondation Nishieda, Zuin-an, Kyoto, Japan

Jeune photographie Suisse, Curator Luc Debraine, Salon du Livre, Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland

2013

Weltbilder 5, Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland

I'm your neighbour !, Bromer Art Collection, Roggwil, Switzerland

2012

Etat des lieux, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, Geneva

Unter 30 VIII - Junge Schweizer Kunst - Kiefer Hablitzel Prize 2012, Kunsthaus Glarus

Swiss Art Awards, sélection Kiefer-Hablitzel, Basel

The Breath on our Back, Photoforum Pasquart, Biel

Bourses Déliées, Halle Nord, Geneva

2011

Bourses Ville-de-Genève, Contemporary Art Center, Geneva

reGeneration2, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Le cap, Afrique du Sud ; Aperture Foundation, New York, USA

Le sauvage et le baromètre, HEAD at Spoutnik, Geneva

Salle Crosnier Extra Muros, BAC-Le Commun, Geneva

2010

reGeneration2, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, Rencontres photographiques d’Arles, France

Aranka, film, Festival de Cinéma des Cinq Continents, Versoix, Switzerland

2009

Europ’art, Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva

Near Documentary, Festival Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland

Seminario de Fotografia Contemporanea 2007, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico-City, Mexico

2008

Jeunevois, Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva

Make believe, Biel Photo Days, Biel, Switzerland

2007

Reality Strikes Back, Leipzig, Germany

2006

Mises à part, film, Festival des Voies Off, Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, France

Publications

2011

Publication with the AHEAD foundation, Geneva

2010

Catalog reGeneration2, Musée de l'Elysée, Thames & Hudson

Portfolio Baboo Time Magazine, April-May

2008

Catalog Make Believe, Biel Photo Days

Mises à part, Picnic Magazine n°21, Mexico City, Mexico

Catalog of 12th VFG Young Talents Prize, Christoph Merian Verlag

Public collections

Geneva City Arts Council (FMAC)

Nationale Suisse Insurance

Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

Michaelis School of Fine Art, Capetown, RSA

City of Biel Visual Arts Found, Switzerland