Chrysanne Stathacos
Art Basel Kabinett

The Breeder presents a solo exhibition of Chrysanne Stathacos (b. 1951) for the Kabinett sector, showcasing the artist’s deeply spiritual and feminist practice. A radical voice of her time, Stathacos has continuously pushed boundaries with her multidisciplinary work, blending painting, installation, and performance to explore themes of loss, body politics, and transformation. With a strong institutional presence worldwide, she integrates materials like roses, hair, and ivy into works that evoke cycles of decay and renewal. The presentation features key pieces, including a 1990s Condom Mandala painting, intricate Rose Petal drawings, a scroll piece, and a floral mandala installation, creating a spacefor contemplation and empowerment.

Chrysanne Stathacos (b. 1951, Buffalo, NY, USA) has exhibited for over 40 years in museums, galleries and public spaces internationally. Selected solo shows: Chrysanne, Cooper Cole, Toronto (2024/2025); The Re-Turn, Anonymous Gallery, New York (2023), The Breeder Studyroom, The Breeder, Athens (2023), Cooking with Roses, Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art, New York (2022), The Great Void. The Gold Rush, Cooper Cole, Toronto (2018), Do I still yearn for my virginity, Situations Gallery, New York (2018), Pythia, The Breeder Gallery, Athens (2017), The Banquet: Ephemera Office Enterprise – with Hunter Reynolds, Participant Inc., New York (2017), Flower Power, Fiendish Plots, Lincoln, Nebraska (2014), Night Garden, Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt (2008), Lady Day Lord Night (with Andrew Zealley), Art Metropole, Toronto (2007), Rose Mandala (of Three Reflections), Anderson Gallery, University of Buffalo New York (2006), and so beautiful (again) 1990-2004, Open Studio, Toronto (2005), another change, PS 122 Gallery, New York (2005), another change, Nature Morte, New Delhi (2005), biCHANCE, Participant Inc., New York (2004), Cross Your Fingers, Frankfurt (2003), Rose Wishes, India International Centre, New Delhi (2001), Wish, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York (1997), 1852-2063, Gallery TPW, Toronto (1997), A Rose and a Hair, Onassis Center, New York University, New York(1996), …and so beautiful, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York (1995), 1-900 Mirror Mirror, Art Metropole, Toronto (1995), Pop Pop Pop; Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto (1993), The Abortion Project collaboration with Kathe Burkhart, Artists Space, New York (traveling Simon Watson Gallery, NY, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn and New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California) (1990).

Her works have also been included in many public art projects & sculpture parks among which:13th Gwanju Biennale, Gwanju, South Korea (2021), Oracle Drawings, Parliament of Bodies, documenta 14, Athens (2017), Natural Wishing, Textile Museum, 5×5 Initiative, Washington (2012), Commission of the Arts, Washington DC (2012), Three Wishing Trees, Bungesgartenshau, Koblenz, Germany (2011), True Patriot Love, Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2011), 48*C, Public, Art, Ecology, Khoj and Goethe Institute, Delhi (2008), Into the Street, Art Omi/ The Fields, New York (2008), Treelines, Abingdon Art Center Philadelphia (2006), Wade, Wade Collective, Toronto (2006), Float, Socrates, Sculpture Park, New York (2005), The Wish Machine, Krichentag, Frankfurt (2001), Landesgarstenshau, Grossenhaim, Germany (2001).

Works by Chrysanne Stathacos are in the collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Art Bank, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Guelph, Art Gallery of Peel, Art Gallery of Victoria, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Burchfield Penny Art Center, Cambridge Art Gallery, Castellani Art Museum, Cape Breton University, Fales Library NYU, Government of Ontario, Hamilton Art Gallery, MOMA – Artist Book Collection, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, Moving Collection, AIT Hour Museum, Tokyo, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Tom Tomson Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, Archive/Library, Walker Art Center, Artist Book Collection, among other distinguished international collections.