Born in Bordeaux - France in December 1940
Lived in Metz (Lorraine) up to 1960 then Paris until1980
Resides currently in New York City
Studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn NY and Fraisse des Corbieres, south of France
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Education
École municipale des arts appliqués, Metz; Ecole nationale des beaux arts, Nancy; Graduated in 1965 from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts de Paris (atelier Chastel) Beaux-Arts de Paris | Bap
MFA City University of New York (1983)
Instructor at Ecole Normale Superieure de l'Enseignement Technique Paris Cachan
Full Professor of Art at CUNY (retired)
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
in the US
1993 - Berman Daferner gallery, NY
1991 - Yeshiva University gallery, NY
1986 - Ray Kerr gallery, NY
1985 - La Maison Francaise, Columbia University, NY
1983 - Amaury Taittinger gallery, NY
Abroad
2016 - "sur le mur/On The wall" retrospective/catalog/essays,( R. Bonaccorsi, C. Bouyeure, C. Neyenesch), Villa Tamaris centre d'art, La Seyne/Mer, France
2009 - association 379, Nancy, France
2006 - mas Genegal, Vingrau, France
1999 - espace Accaton, Paris, France
1992 - fondation Pernod, Paris, France
1989 - gallery Keeser Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany
1974 - galerie Jacomo-Santiveri, Paris, France
1972 - musee de la ville, Le Mans, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
in the US
2020 - Still Utopia: Islands, gallery mc, NY
2019 - Mana Decentralized, Jersey City, NJ
2013 - Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2005 - Visible in the Invisible, gallery Shapolsky,NY
1999 - Visual Artists Salute Harvey Lichtenstein, Feigen Gallery, NY
1997 - 1 sculptor, 3 painters, Shapolsky gallery, NY
1992 - In the Tradition II, Shapolsky gallery, NY
1990 - Architecture as Abstraction, Shapolsky gallery,
1988 - Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1987 - "Art Expo" Art fair, Chicago, IL
1985 - Ray Kerr gallery, NY
1984 - Sag Harbor Gallery. L.I. NY
Abroad
2014 - Anniversaire, mas Genegals, Vingrau, France
2010 - "Ensemble avant-tout", Musee des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
1997 - "L'empreinte", Musee national d'art moderne, Pompidou, Paris, France
1991 - Art Fair Basel, Switzerland
1990 - FIAC galerie Keeser Boboth, Paris, France
1989 - Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
1980 - Nouvelles Acquisitions, musee d'art moderne , Paris, France 16 parallélépipèdes en coin | Paris Musées
1977 - "Video Art" musee d'art moderne, Paris, France
1975 - Sieges/poemes, musee d'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
"L'homme et son empreinte" musee d'art moderne, Paris, France
1973 - "Modern French Sculpture" travelling exhibition around the world
1972 - "Impact II" musee d'art moderne, Ceret, France
1971 - "Art sans limites" musee d'art moderne, Quebec, Montreal, Canada
1970 - "Rencontres" Limoges, France
"100 artistes dans la ville" Montpellier, France
1969 - "Distances" musee d'art moderne, Paris,
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Snite Museum, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, In. US
The Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. US
The City University of New York Collection
Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris. France
La Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Musee les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Musee d'Art Moderne, Ceret, France
Villa Tamaris Centre d'Art, La Seyne/Mer, France
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