Crystalle Lacouture
Crystalle Lacouture is an artist based in Boston and North Adams, MA. She received her BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Skidmore College, where she received the Pamela Weidenman Award for Excellence in Printmaking. She is a recipient of a 2025 Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals and is the artist for the 2026 My Home Court project in Providence, RI. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work Center (Michael Mazur Printmaking Fellow), Kala Art Institute, Surf Point Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Lower East Side Printshop, and at the Aspen Art Fair. Her recent commission for the Worcester Art Museum’s “Wall at WAM” is a 70 foot long mural titled Correspondence (For Elizabeth Bishop). Her work is in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, TX, Boston Public Library, Worcester Art Museum, Tufts University Art Galleries, MIT, Google, Fidelity, Beth Israel Hospital and others. She has been profiled in Boston Art Review, and her work has been reviewed in the Boston Globe, Whitewall, and Art News. In addition to her full-time studio practice, Crystalle is a Co-Founder of Arrival, a biennial art fair in North Adams, MA. She exhibits her work throughout the country and is represented by Praise Shadows.
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Portable Coordinates: Crystalle Lacouture
Solo Exhibition 24 Apr - 6 Jun 2026Expanding on her printmaking, painting and installation practice, Lacouture unveils an entirely new body of work, comprising illuminated sculptures, paintings on paper and on board, woodblock prints, MAMA Drawings on scorekeeper shooting targets, and flags that are both artwork and wearable pieces. Also included is the newest iteration of Half Mast, a memorial for gun violence victims made from a compilation of drawings. The breadth of these materials and formats reflects Lacouture’s steadfast exploration of symbols and codes as forms of communication. Portable Coordinates is inspired by the book The Stars: A New Way to See Them, published in 1952 by H. A. Rey, which opened up and simplified the lay person’s understanding of the constellations. Lacouture’s show expands upon The Stars and her ongoing interest in elemental symbols to offer an interpretive experience of navigation, connections, memorials, and care.Read more -
Shaping Fragments
Group Exhibition 11 Jul - 10 Aug 2024Prints and multiples by Chloe Alexander, Polly Apfelbaum, Jeffrey Gibson, Yaron Michael Hakim, Crystalle Lacouture, Louise Nevelson, Yuri Shimojo, Frank Stella, Yu-Wen Wu.Read more
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Evening's Evening: Crystalle Lacouture
Solo Exhibition 20 Oct - 26 Nov 2023Evening's Evening by Crystalle Lacouture presents an entirely new body of work comprising unique block prints, oil on canvas paintings, and a new set of her highly praised MAMA Drawings...Read more -
A New Devotional: Crystalle Lacouture and Kevin Umaña
Two-Person Exhibition 7 Jan - 6 Feb 2022Boston-based Crystalle Lacouture and Kansas City-based Kevin Umaña maintain artistic practices that are rooted in abstraction, color, and memory. The exhibition features a series of Lacouture’s MAMA paintings: gouache and...Read more
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Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond
Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, May 6, 2026 -
Can Arrival, the Hotel Art Fair in the Berkshires, Change the Game?
Brian Boucher, artnet, June 18, 2025 -
New art fair Arrival brings collectors to the bucolic Berkshires
Barbara Reina, The Art Newspaper, June 13, 2025 -
An art fair of a different vibe opens in North Adams
Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, June 13, 2025 -
A New Art Fair, Arrival, Ditches the Basel Frenzy for the Berkshires’ Calm
Daniel Cassady, ArtNews, June 9, 2025 -
Are Prints Booming? Two New York Fairs Show the Medium’s Strength in the Market
Daniel Cassady, ArtNews, April 7, 2025 -
Art Spiel: Boston Exhibitions in October 2024
Andrew Fish, Art Spiel, October 17, 2024 -
A Summer Preview of the Arrival Art Fair Blossoms in the Berkshires
Erica Silverman, Whitewall Magazine, August 19, 2024 -
Artist Crystalle Lacouture Commissioned for New Wall at WAM Installation, Opening Fall 2024 at The Worcester Art Museum
Worcester Art Museum, August 6, 2024 -
Aspen Art Fair: Residencies, Prizes, and Programs
Maddy Brown, Flaunt Magazine, August 2, 2024 -
A Chic Berkshires Hotel Will Host an Invite-Only Art Fair Next Summer
Brian Boucher, Artnet News, July 12, 2024 -
A new art fair will arrive in the Berkshires in 2025
Douglas Mason, The Art Newspaper, July 8, 2024 -
Dallas Art Fair wraps up its 16th edition with strong sales
Maxwell Rabb, Artsy, April 9, 2024 -
Early sales at the Dallas Art Fair prove even a solar eclipse can't overshadow Texas's hot market
Carlie Porterfield, The Art Newspaper, April 5, 2024 -
Dallas Art Fair 2024: What to See
Angella D'Avignon, Wallpaper*, April 5, 2024 -
Crystalle Lacouture centers loss and care at Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Cate McQuiad, The Boston Globe, October 31, 2023 -
Visits and Vigils: Crystalle Lacouture’s Material Memories
Jessica Shearer, Boston Art Review, October 13, 2023 -
Praise Shadows Art Gallery Opens Its 2022 Program With a Duo Show
Eli Anapur, Widewalls, December 27, 2021


