Michel GERARD Born in 1938 in Paris, lives and works in New

Michel GERARD
Born in 1938 in Paris, lives and works in New-York City
Education
Ecole des Arts appliqués, Paris
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Main exhibitions
2008
L'enfance de l'Art, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain / Galerie des
Ponchettes, Nice, France (solo)
Waiting for Ypudu, galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France
2007
The Power of Naming, Musée Pierre Noel, Saint Dié des Vosges, France (solo)
2006
Matières de mémoire : travaux sur papier 1975-2006, Musée départemental
d’art ancien et contemporain, Epinal, France (solo)
2005
Jet Lag, Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France (solo)
2004
Rue de Leningrad, with Marina Temkina, Museum of the City History, St
Petersburg, Russia (solo)
Place de la Bastille, Charles Riva Gallery, Chelsea, NY, USA (solo)
Porte du Champ, commision for Château de Dravert sculpture park, France
(solo)
2003
The American Decade, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France (solo)
2003 « Rue de Leningrad », with Marina Temkina, Art Center, Albi, France (solo)
Concepts and Materials, Musée National Centre Pompidou, Paris
Vingt ans d’acquisitions, Musée d’art ancien et contemporain, Epinal, France
2002
The American Decade, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, USA (solo)
Public Art : Realized-unrealized, The Sacred Heart University Gallery, Fairfield,
USA (solo)
The Pilot Hill Collection, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, USA
History and Nature, Ivam Institute, Valencia, Spain
2001
Reactions, Exit Art, NY, USA
Sculpture contemporaine, Frac Rhone-Alpes, Institut d’Art Contemporain/Les
Subsistances, Lyon, France
Art Chicago, Folin/Riva Gallery, Chicago, USA
Mois de l’estampe, Novotel collection, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris
Pour Bernard Noel, traveling show, Médiathèques, France
2000
Same & Different, Folin/Riva Gallery, NY, USA (solo)
1999
Paradise 8, Exit Art/The First World, NY, curated by Ingrid Schaffner, USA
Arcadia in Celle,GoriCollection,traveling show, The Kamakura Museum of Art,
Mie1999Prefectural Museum,Sapporo Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Fairy Tales, Centrum Pro Metamedia, Plasy, curated by D. Carvalho, Czech
Republic
1998
Stretching Possibilities, Alexander de Folin Gallery, NY, USA (solo)
Modular Composite, Central Fine arts Gallery, NY, USA
Chorus and Distorsion, Space Untitled Gallery, NY, curated by Eleanor Heartney,
USA
13, Alexandre de Folin Gallery, NY , USA
1997
Recycling Ashes, photography-Marina Temkina , Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, and
Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Köln, Germany (solo)
Schwartz Gallery, Köln, Germany (solo)
Heat, View Gallery, NY, USA
A Natural Selection, Z Gallery, NY, curated by Dominique Nahas, USA
Solo, The Museo de la Ciudad, Madrid, Spain
Made in France : 1947-1997, Georges Pompidou Center, National Museum of
Modern Art, Paris, curated by Germain Viatte, France
Contemporary Artists Explore The Book as Art, Robert McClain & Co Gallery,
Houston, TX, curated by Rachel Stella, France
1996
E.S. Vandam Gallery, NY, USA (solo)
The New Storytellers : One-of-a-kind Artists’ Books, Dept. Of Printing and
Graphic Arts, The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Boston, curated by Tony
Zwicker, USA
Till Spring Thaw, Aquamarine Sculpture Garden, NY, curated by Deirdre Scott,
USA
1995
Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, USA (solo)
Wheel of Fortune, Lombard/Freid Gallery, NY, curated by Amy Lipton, USA
Green Piece, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY, curated by Eric
Siegeltuch, USA
Art as Machine, Artrax Gallery, NY, USA
Logo Non Logo,travelingshow;Thread Waxing Space, NY, and The USF
Contemporary ArtMuseum,Tampa,FL,and The Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA ;
curated byPierreRestanyandRobert Morgan, USA
Pour un couteau, Centre National d’Art du Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
La collection Eva et Denys Chevalier, Meudon Museum, Meudon, France
Public collections (selection)
MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Musée de la Ville de Paris
Musée d’Ixelles, Belgium
Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Germany
Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
Bremen Kunsthalle, Germany
Galeria Degli Uffizi, Italy
Fattoria di Celle Pistoia, Italy
Everson Museum of Art Syracuse, New-York , USA
Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Yale University Art Museum, Connecticut, USA
Berkeley Art Museum, Pasadena, USA
School of Design Sculpture Park, California, USA