#LoveME?
#MeetLard My name is LardEian Alexander Kouri—Lard, for short. Welcome to my lab and the birthplace of Lardverse—the only volcano in EAV. I—Lard, am an anti-capitalist-capitalist, financial alchemist, and sapiosexual sadist operating at the intersections of art, power, and myth. I built LardLabs, LLC. as a visual think tank and immersive enterprise performing the rituals of value itself. What began as an experiential transaction facilitating happenings between atoms has transmogrified into a living system: part oracle, part troll, part erotic trap. I do not sell art. I auction access. I do not ask for money. I magnetize it.
#ReadLard is my open vault—home to the transmissions, blueprints, and conceptual seductions of a mind obsessed with capitalism, aesthetics, terrorism, and everything too volatile for the gallery cube or academic journal.
LoveMe? is my private market. A password-protected mindfuck dripping with devotion. If you want in, you’ll have to pay for it. But first—crack my code:
“I Love Lard.” Consent is non-negotiable. Impress me.
For I, Eian, #Gein, em an absurdist-philosopher with two masters: money and geometry, and my ploy is to comprehend infinity to be reunited with my invisible twin.
Worship me.
#Spirit
Gym Rat, Trench Digger,
DeathWalker,
Non-practicing Kundalini Yoga Instructor,
Quantum Poet,
Gargoyle, Object-Collector,
“Toothy” Terrorizer,
Prophet, and Garble-Antenna.
#Knowledge
2021 Masters in Philosophy, Art Theory & Aesthetics,
Concentration: Terrorism, Global Capitalism, & Aesthetics.
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
2017 200 Hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher,
Concentration: The Science of Consciousness.
Shiva Tattva Yoga School, Rishikesh, India
2015 Masters in Painting, Concentration:
Non-Conceptual-Conceptual-Art,
Savannah College of Art & Design Atlanta, GA
2008 Bachelors in Fine Arts, Inter-media,
Concentration: Mixed Media, Installation, & Performance Art,
Arizona State University Tempe, AZ
#Exhibitions
2025 “Story Time w/ Lard,” (forthcoming) Charging Bull, New York, NY
2024 “Lard Does LizardHead,” Whiskey Creek,” Silver City, NM
“A Bizarre Ride on the Lard Slide,” #EavMuseum, Atlanta, GA
“Kaleidoscope Eyes,” Colorblends House, Bridgeport, CT
2023 “Goofy Garbage: an unsanctioned tour,” NOT Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
“A Museum Lawn Drop for Strut,” #EavMuseum, Atlanta, GA
2022 “The [No]Museum in honor of the Low Museum,” #EavMuseum, Atlanta, GA
“Looking for Crabs,” #EavMuseum, Atlanta, GA
“#Selfie,” #EavMuseum, Atlanta, GA
2021 “Unicorn Summer,” Pop-up Airbnb Venue, Phoenix, AZ
“444 in The Bardo,” Sassy Grass Juice Bar, Las Cruces, NM
“A Ufo Crashed into the EavVolcano,” #EavMuseum, Atlanta, GA
“A Volcano in EAV,” #EavMuseum, Atlanta, GA
“Remote Residue,” Doppler Projects, Athens, GA
2020 “Plague Art,” A-HA Barbers, Atlanta, GA
“& so it begins… a Dragon Head,” East Atlanta Strut, Atlanta, GA
2019 “A #BananaLard & Nextstep Fitness Collaboration,” Atlanta, GA
2018 “Genesis,” Made Again, Atlanta, GA
“The New South III,” Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA
2017 "Diapason," Midtown Players Club & The Hambidge Center for the Arts and
Sciences, Colony Square, Atlanta GA
"Art House," Minkewicz House, Curated by Jenny Jensen, Atlanta, GA
2016 "Oversaturated," SCAD Savannah, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA
"I'm Feeling Myself," The Downtown Players Club, Atlanta GA
2015 “BaloonLagoon,” The Low Museum, Atlanta, GA
“Mode/Code,” Contemporary Art Gallery, GSU, Statesboro, GA
“Alternate|Alternate,” Doppler Projects, Atlanta, GA
2014 “Open Studios,” SCAD Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
“Mysterious Worlds,” Further Art, Atlanta, GA
“Something Else,” Further Art, Atlanta, GA
“Double Take,” Sycamore Place Gallery, Decatur, GA
2013 “L’Exposition,” SCAD Lacoste, Lacoste, FR
2012 “Open Studios,” SCAD Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
2011 “Rosendale Street Festival,” LoveBird Studios, Rosendale NY
2010 “Art Invasion D-Day,“ Shirt Factory, Kingston, NY
2009 “Inherited Desire,” Ecosa Institute, Prescott, AZ
2008 “Into The Blue,” Gallery 100, Tempe, AZ
2006 “ASU Intermedia Show,” The Trunk Space, Phoenix, AZ
2005 “Kontrive Group Show,” Kontrive, Tempe, AZ
2004 “3 Small Works,” Crisis Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
“Provocative, Political, Preposterous,” The Paper Heart, Phoenix AZ
#Projects
2024-Present “Lardverse AR edition,” Experience Lard’s world simply by walking down the street—hiding in plain sight is your next immersive art destination. Free to all, East Atlanta Village, GA. (Forthcoming)
2023-2024 “Let’s Eat Bananas & Talk Philosophy,” #ExperienceLard for Airbnb, a one of a kind opportunity to meet the artist & take a private tour of the #EavVolcano, Atlanta, GA.
2022-2024 “Planet #644,” a cross-platform writing collaboration between LardLabs, LLC., House of Bedlam Chic, and MuXisHere, Atlanta, GA, Silver City, NM, Phoenix AZ.
2021-Present “Welcome to the Lardverse,” #EavMuseum, an ongoing immersive pop-up museum-like performance space dedicated to all things absurd, Atlanta, GA.
2020-Present “#PM Gardens, a Weed garden,” #EavMuseum, an in-process backyard-sized earthwork and active meditation space, Atlanta, GA.
2019-2021 “BananaLard Fitness performance,” a collaboration between LardLabs, LLC. and NextStep Fitness, a non-profit providing life-changing rehab to those with paralysis, Online campaign.
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