Lolita Cros

September 1, 2024

We are thrilled to have facilitated the acquisition of Yasmine Nasser Diaz (b. 1977) "Reclining" and Minor White (1908-1976) "Ring and Roses" by The Columbus Museum, Georgia. Coming from esteemed East and West Coast private collection, Diaz’ work was previously on view at The Salon at The Wing, Los Angeles.

April - ongoing

On view now at LCLLC Viewing Room: Don Dudley’s #54, 2017.

January - March, 2024

Lolita Cros is turning her HQ into a viewing room with artworks rotating every few weeks. We were thrilled to have Martha Diamond’s “Pink Sky”, 1980 on view before it went back to her studio.

September 20, 2023

Lolita was featured and interviewed on French TV. France 3 followed her as she visited the studios of artists Thomas Vergne and Madeleine Roger-Lacan at Poush in Paris. The show aired on September 20th, 2023.

For more, see the France3 website here.

September 5, 2023

Lolita narrated a short video about late painter Marie Laurencin for Nahmad Contemporary in honor of her retrospective at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

Directed by Chiara Clemente

February 21, 2023

We are thrilled  to have facilitated the above loan for Christine Sun Kim “Oh Me Oh My”, the artist's first full-scale solo museum exhibition in North America, thanks to the generous support of Brookfield. The show has and will travel to the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.  

Before returning to its permanent home at Brookfield's upcoming residential building in the South Bronx, NY.

December 8, 2021

We are thrilled to have contributed to the donation of Grace Lynne Haynes’ “Bayou” to the California African American Museum (CAAM), Los Angeles. A huge thank you to Tschabalala Self for her generous gift and her constant support of emerging artists.

December 4, 2020

Join French perfume expert, publisher and aesthete Frédéric Malle, in conversation with famed French photographer Brigitte Lacombe and independent curator Lolita Cros, for a masterclass in beauty and total creative freedom to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Éditions de Parfums Frédéric Malle.

September 8, 2020

Lolita Cros gives us a tour of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, UK, where the distinctive collection of important 20th century art founded by Jim and Helen Ede is evocatively installed across an intimate space. Cros considers this exquisite, idiosyncratic array through the lens of the perfume Portrait of a Lady, a ‘portrait of modern grace’ created by Dominique Ropion for Edition de Parfums Frédéric Malle.

May 6, 2020

Art Collector Oliver Elst of Cuperior Collection in Talk in Instagram Live with curator Lolita Cros from NYC , who spoke about her curated shows, her art collection and how the pandemic scene could affect curating .

April 1, 2020

Lolita Cros will be part of The Other Art Fair Spring 2020 selection committee. Forthcoming

October 9, 2019

Lolita hosted a talk at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City as a part of Mana Decentralized. In this talk, Lolita spoke about how to put your best foot forward when hosting visitors, showing your work, and discussing your practice. More information can be found here.

October 9, 2019

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to announce its next online sale and exhibition of alumni artwork curated by Lolita Cros, a Paris-born New York-based curator, best known for curating The Salon, the permanent exhibition featured in all of women's club The Wing's spaces, featuring over 200 female identifying and non-binary artists.

Featuring over 50 works of painting, drawing and sculpture, the selling exhibition will run online September 25, 2019 – January 31, 2020.More information can be found here.

September 24, 2019

Lolita Cros recently participated in a conversation with Salon artist Alex Prager, alongside Lehmann Maupin Director Fionna Flaherty, previewing Prager’s new body of work, which includes a short film. Together, they discussed pushing boundaries, forging new territory, and the reality of being a working artist in the 21st century international art world.

August 9, 2019

Lolita Cros was featured on the Thrive Talks podcast talking about her experience as an independent curator. The interview can be found here.

June 18, 2019

Part of curator Lolita Cros' Salon Series at The Wing

Directed by: Myranda Mallenbaum

Tschabalala Self (b. 1990) combines painting, printmaking and assemblage to explore ideas surrounding the Black female body. Constructed with a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, her exaggerated depictions of bodies traverse a variety of artistic and craft traditions. She received her BA from Bard College and her MFA from Yale University and is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant. Her work has been included in solo and groups exhibitions at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, China; The New Museum, New York, NY and most recently the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, among others. She is currently an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and is part of a 3-person show this summer at MoMA PS1, New York, NY in collaboration with the Studio Museum.

May 3, 2019

This Moment Here Podcast

Season 4: Interview with Lolita Cros

An interview with NYC-based independent curator, writer, and collector, Lolita Cros.

May 2, 2019

Lolita Cros will be hosting a conversation on Thursday, May 2nd from 7-9pm at The Wing Flatiron with renowned artist Tschabala Self as part of The Salon's ongoing event series with Wing artists. Cros and Self will be discussing the artist's fast-expanding career with her recent solo show closing at the Hammer Museum, LA and her participation in an upcoming three-person show at MoMA PS1 in collaboration with The Studio Museum in Harlem.

April 2019

Excited to announce that the exhibition catalogues of The Salons of Dumbo, DC, and SF are now available in each of the spaces.

March 9, 2019

Lolita Cros was featured on a panel at The Arlo Hotel entitled “Breaking Through the Canvas”, moderated by curator Andrea Delph. Cros spoke alongside of visual artists Genesis Tramaine and Hiba Schahbaz.

February 26, 2019

This is the first of a video series by curator Lolita Cros which follows artists inside their studios to walk the viewers through their process and provide an intimate look into their practice.

Erin O’Keefe received a BFA from Cornell University and MA in Architecture from Columbia University. She is represented by Denny Dimin Gallery in New York, NY. Her most recent solo exhibition, “Book of Days”, was exhibited at Denny Dimin Gallery in 2017. She’s shown works around the country internationally in Vancouver, London and Amsterdam. She will be inaugurating Denny Dimin’s Hong Kong gallery, opening March 29 with a two person show with Matt Mignanelli. And will be in a group show opening next week at Morgan Lehman Gallery as well as at Seventeen Gallery in London this April.

February 25, 2019

The Female Gaze Podcast

Episode 12: Art Curator Lolita Cros Examines the Gaze of Female-Identifying Visual Artists

Lolita Cros joins us this week to help unpack what the female gaze looks like in the fine arts, and the joys and challenges of curating work only made by female-identifying artists as the current art curator for the women-only collective The Wing. Plus, a boat for Obama, a bee for Bernie, and a healthy debate on the benefits of astrology!

February 19, 2019

Lolita Cros led a panel at The Wing San Francisco with four of the artists featured in the space: Maryam Yousif, Marcela Ariza Pardo, Maria Capron, and Jay Katelansky.

January 27, 2019

Chase Hall was born in 1993 and raised across Minnesota, Chicago, Las Vegas, Colorado, Dubai and Los Angeles, Chase lives and works out of his studio in the East Village of New York. He has been included in exhibitions with: ICALA in Los Angeles, IMMA Project Space in Ireland, Kuntsthalle Basel in Switzerland, Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, Depart Foundation in Los Angeles, Curateaur Collective in New York, Cob Gallery in London and Drawing A Blank in Harlem among others. Hall recently attended The Mountain School of arts in Los Angeles and the Macedonia Institute in Hudson Valley, NY. He has released the publications: Gaucho, Come, Irie Jesus, Mug, Milk and Honey, Milk and Honey II. His work was awarded “The Best VICE Photos of 2016” and his artwork has been featured in: Vice, Vogue, ID, Dazed, Purple, MILK, Office, Garage, New York Times and New York Times T magazine.

September 19, 2018

Lolita Cros and Chase Hall were featured on a panel at The Norwood Club in anticipation of Hall’s solo presentation at The Affordable Art Fair, curated by Cros. The panel was moderated by Vanessa Seis, director of The Affordable Art Fair.

May 1, 2018

Part of curator Lolita Cros' Salon Series at The Wing

Directed by: Chloe Jones

Born in New York City in 1945, Barney turned her concentration to photographing in color with a large format view camera in 1982 – an analogue process she steadfastly continues today. The artist was included in the 1987 Whitney Biennial, and significant solo exhibitions have since been held at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, in 1990 and The Barbican Art Gallery, London, in 2005. Barney’s works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, among many others.

December 18, 2017

June 27, 2017

Peter Saul (b. 1934) is an American painter. Often considered one of the fathers of Pop Art, he is known for his distinctively colorful and cartoonish paintings which satirize American culture. Since his first solo exhibition, in Chicago in 1961, Peter Saul has exhibited his work throughout the United States and internationally. His works are found in numerous museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Peter Saul lives and works in New York.

March 13, 2017

Duane Michals, is a self-taught photographer and one of the most influential artist of the 20th century. Born in 1932, he started talking pictures in the late 50s/ early 60s before having his first solo exhibition at the MoMA in 1970. Duane Michals is known for handwriting notes on his photographs, for his photo sequences and his unique portraits. The talk is about what he calls “expressionism”, but also the ephemeral and his more recent work.

December 12, 2016

In light of McDermott & McGough upcoming mid-career retrospective at Dallas Contemporary, Peter McGough will be discussing their overall body of work with curator Lolita Cros. Starting from their early works in the 80s to the Oscar Wilde chapel they are now building at the Studio Voltaire in London, he will reflect on their relationship with time both conceptually and historically.

July 14, 2014

Know-Wave celebrates Bastille Day with Salon 94 curator Fabienne Stephan, artist Antoine Catala, writer Alexandre Stipanovich, florist Audrey Stipanovich and curator Lolita Cros.

http://listen.know-wave.com/episode/fabienne-w-alexandre-antoine-audrey-lolita-july-14-2014