Artist`s biography

 Valéry Grancher
Born in 1967, Valéry Grancher is a French artist,
theorist, curator and lecturer, living and working in
Hong Kong.
He first became well know in the mid-1990s for his
‘Google paintings’ but his artistic practice is vast
and covers internet art, video, photography,
painting and installation.
Valéry Grancher is an explorer. His curiosity leads
him to investigate all kinds of territories such as
the intimacy of AIDS patients, orbital space
stations, the daily life of a Jivaro tribe in Amazonia,
or the North Pole.
Last year, the French public collection National
Fund for Contemporary Art, National Centre for
Visual Arts (FNAC) acquired his video installations
Geopol (a 24-hour tracking shot of the horizon at
the North Pole) and Tanguntsa (a 6-hour shot in
deep Amazonia).
Valéry Grancher has exhibited and given
performances in institutions worldwide, and his
work is in numerous private and public collections.
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Education I
1995
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Master in Hypermedia and Visual Arts
Paris Academy of Fine Arts (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris)
Solo Exhibitions & Performances I
2015
Regression, Exhibition & Performance, Mur Nomade, Hong Kong
2014
Valéry Grancher, curated by Mehdi Hadj Khalifa, GVCC Galerie, Casablanca, Maroc
2012
Translations, curated by Pascale Cassagnau and Françoise Gaudin, Galerie des Nouvelles
Images, Hôtel Scribe, Paris, France
2011
Video as haïkus and Ny Alesünd Pole 0, Show OFF art fair, Paris, France
2009
Geopol, TV performance, Souvenirs from Earth TV, Paris, France
2008
New!, Galerie Incognito, Paris, France
Internet Paintings, Lincart Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2007
Art aux Pôles, Nikon online, France
Skype performance in Exploratorium V 0.2 of Feria and Vincent, Venezuelan pavillon,
Venice Biennale 2007, Venice, Italy
2006
Google Paintings Show, Nuit Blanche 2006, Salle d'honneur de Paris IV, Paris, France
Tanguntsa Amazonie 0, performance, Tropico Vegetal Lost in Paradise, Fifth Tropical Night,
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2005
The Shiwiars Project, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
The Shiwiars Project, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2004
Google Pataphysics, Art Cart Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Webpaintings, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC library, Paris, France
2003
Google pataphysics, Art Cart Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Global Landscape, performance, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Webpaintings, Galerie Incognito, Paris, France
Fotofest Biennial, live performance, commissioned by Wendy Watriss et Fred Baldwin,
Houston, U.S.A.
2001
Verbal, curated by Miltos Manetas, Electronic Orphanage, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2000
Solo Show, Chez Valentin gallery, Paris, France
Inside Out Bangkok, curated by Luckana Kunavichyanont, Tadu Contemporary Art Gallery,
Bangkok, Thailand
1999
Someone You Know May Be Art, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of Art and Anthropology,
Berkeley, U.S.A.
White Cube, curated by Richard Turner, Gugghenneim Gallery, Chapman University, Los
Angeles, U.S.A.
24h00, curated by Constance Lewallen, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive,
Berkeley, U.S.A.
1998
Surveillance, curated by Nicholas Tsoutas and Adam Boyd, Artspace of Australia,
Wooloomooloo, Sydney, Australia
Self, online exhibition, curated by Hélène Kelmachter and Hervé Chandès, La Fondation
Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Neoart 1st Anniversary, curated by Virginia Freeman, Athens & New York, Greece & U.S.A.
1997
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Obsessions, curated by Jean-Marc Avrilla, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux,
Bordeaux, France
Group Exhibitions
2015
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Both Side 2, curated Isaac Leung and Jamie Wyld, touring exhibition, Institute of
Contemporary Arts, London, U.K. ; Home Manchester and Centre for Chinese
Contemporary Arts, Manchester, U.K. ; Fabrica and Lighthouse, Brighton, U.K. ; Electric
Palace, Hastings, U.K. ; Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre, Leicester, U.K. ; Connecting
Spaces, Hong Kong
La Musique regardée : art and cinema, curated by Pascale Cassagnau (CNAP) and Anne
Laure Chamboissier, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
L’Origine de l’Amour, curated by Laurent Quenehen, Les Salaisons, Romainville, France
2014
Newpressionism, Swiss Institute, Milano, Italy
10 years, curated by Bonnie Tchien Hy, Miss China, Paris, France
Group Study, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2013
Ho my Gold!, Miss China, Paris, France
Where is Our Mind, Miss China, Paris, France
Hybrides 2, Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Anciens hôpitaux de Douai, France
Start up, Miss China, Paris, France
Art Paris, Miss China, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Cameleon, Miss China, Paris, France
Pop Up, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, French Institute, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Fêtes Joyeuses, Miss China, Paris France
2011
Show Off art fair, Alexander III bridge, Paris, France
2010
Carte Blanche CS1, curated by Michele Rebocchi, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva,
Switzerland
Hors Oeuvres, curated by Jean-Marc Avrilla, JTM Gallery, Paris, France
LaFiac.com, online exhibition, curated by Margherita Balzerani, Florent di Bartolo, Julien
Levesque, w.lafiac.com
Drifting Identity Station, Centre International d’Accueil et d’Echanges des Recollets, Paris,
France
Polars Expeditions, Verbeke Foundation, Belgium
2009
A Book about Death, curated by Matthew Rose, Queens Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
Six Feet Under, Glassbox, Fondation Avicennes, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris,
France
A Book about Death, curated by Matthew Rose, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York,
U.S.A.
Flamenco et Frog Legs, Lincart Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Splashback, online exhibition, curated by Brian Droitcour, Rhizome at the New Museum,
New York, U.S.A.
Version 01.B, curated by Jean-Marc Avrilla, Espace d'Art Contemporain Lieu Commun,
Toulouse, France
2008
Artist Book International, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Du Jardin au Cosmos, curated by Jean-Marc Avrilla, Espace d'Art Concret, Mouans
Sartoux, France
Voyages horrifiques et espovantables en réseaux numériques..., La Grande Dégelée
Rabelais, curated by Pascal Trarieux, Musée des Beaux Arts, FRAC Lanquedoc Roussillon,
Nîmes, France
SKANK BLOC BOLOGNA Number 2, New Langton Art Center, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2007
Biome, curated by Joanna St Claire, Lincart Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA, curated by Richard Rinehart, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film
Archive, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Second Night (second life project), Nuit Blanche 2007, curated by Jérôme Delormas,
Christophe Bruno and Danielle Balit, Hôtel D'Abret, Paris, France
Google Art, or How to Hack Google, curated by Ana Otero, Rhizome at New Museum, New
York, U.S.A.
On Fait le Mur!, curated by Jean Marc Avrilla, Espace d'Art Concret, Mouans Sartoux,
France
2006
Beatrice Wood mama of dada, Young men and chocolates, Lincart Gallery, San Francisco,
U.S.A.
SLICK 01 International Art Fair, Paris, Lincart Gallery , San Francisco, USA
Lights in the Black Box, curated by Marcus Graf, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum,
Istanbul, Turkey
A la Une, curated by Claude Closky, Centre National d'Art Contemporain Le Magasin de
Grenoble website, Grenoble, France
Global Groove, The Art Gallery of Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Web Biennial, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
FILE 2005 festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Ephermeral cities, Deptford festival, London, U.K.
Le Bureau des Délations, Nuit Blanche 2006, 4th District City Hall, Paris, France
Super!, 1st Visual Art, Fashion and Design Triennal, Hasselt, Belgium
Prog:me, Centro Cultural Telemar, Brasil
Summer Show, Galerie Incognito, Paris, France
Neen day, curated by Miltos Manetas, Sketch Gallery, London, U.K.
Web Biennial, Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2005
Arte.red 6.00 ARCO 2005 and El Pais, curated by Roberta Bosco et Stefano Caldana,
Madrid, Spain
A New Website for Le Magasin, curated by Claude Closky, Centre National d'Art
Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
2004
Google Pataphysics, 404 International Electronic Art Festival, Museo Castagnino, Rosario,
Argentina
Google Pataphysics, FILE 2004 exhibition, Galleria de arte do Sesi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ready to Shoot, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC, Paris, France
A New Website for Le Magasin, curated by Claude Closky, Centre National d'Art
Contemporain Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
f.2004@shangaï, 50 French Artists, curated by Henri Maurel, Christophe VixGras, Pierre
Yves Lochon, Pascale Cassagnau and Olivier Chouvet, Lifestyle Centre, Shanghai, China
Nuit Blanche, Metazone, 4th District City Hall, Paris, France
Summer Exhibition, Galerie Incognito, Paris, France
Troisième Oeil: Les Immatériaux Vingt Ans Après, Les Artistes Numériques, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Troisième Oeil: (Art et cultures électroniques) Tokyo / Frisco II: Docteur Dick, curated by
Mark Alizart and Géraldine Gomez, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2003
U_Topos, Tirana Biennale 2, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania
Global Landscape, Web Biennial 2003, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul,
Turkey
Visitation, Galerie Rachlin Lemarié, Paris, France
State of Net Art, curated by Arthur X Doyle, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Videorium 01, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2002
High Light, Refusalon Gallery and Culture Lounge, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Less Ordinary/ : a French Art Scene, curated by Sungwon Kim, Artsonje Center, Gwongjyu,
South Korea
Day Jobs, online exhibition, curated by Rick Rinehart, New Langton Art Center, San
Francisco, U.S.A.
Free Manifesta, curated by Sal Randolph, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Less Ordinary/ : a French Art Scene, curator Sungwon Kim, Artsonje Museum, Seoul, South
Korea
Videoformes 2002, new media and video festival, curated by Gabriel Soucheyre, Clermont
Ferrand, France
State of Net Art, curated by Arthur X Doyle, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Whitney Biennial Project, New York, U.S.A.
New Media Line, Vienna, Austria
2001
Multiple Personalities, curated by Amy Davila et Mario Hergueta, Haines Gallery, San
Francisco, U.S.A.
Biennale.net, curated by Miltos Manetas, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Texture, curated by Galit Eliat, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Digital ArtLab, Holon, Israel
biennale.net html show, Tirana Biennale, curated by Miltos Manetas, Tirana, Albanie
The Virtual Mine, online exhibition, curated by Fevzi Konuk, Germany
Webcast Lounge, Art Cart and Station Rose, Frankfurt art fair, curated by Mario Hergueta,
Frankfurt, Germany
2000
Lomo, Vues de Paris, curated by Samantha Barroero, Le Mois de la Photo, Galerie Gilbert
Brownstown, Paris, France
Net Congestion, Streaming Media Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
Art Outsiders, curated by Henry Chapier and Jean Luc Soret, Maison Européenne de la
Photographie, Paris, France
File, First electronic language festival, Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brésil
Channel, Video Biennal, curated by Robert Wienek and Malcolm Payne, University of Cape
Town, South Africa
On Air!, video performance, curated by Gilles Mora, Les rencontres internationales de la
photographie d'Arles, théâtre antique, Arles, France
Deptford X Festival, South London, curated by Paul Malone, London, Great Britain
Street TV, video show, curated by Takuji Kogo and Hidenobu Mori, Contemporary Art
Museum of Kita Kyushu Street, Kokura, Kita Kyushu, Japan
Opening of BF 15, curated by Claire Peillod, Lyon, France
Collective show, curated by Shmulik Krampf, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
1999
Oriental Bazaar, curated by Takuji Kogo and Kazunari Horiguchi, Yokohama, Japan
Try to connect, curated by Olga Kisseleva, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, Ptolémée
1999, La Villette, Paris, France
Carte Blanche FIAC 1999, curated by Pascale Cassagnau, Stand du ministère de la
Culture, Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain, Portes de Versailles, Paris, France
Voices, curated by Takuji Kogo, Candy Factory, Yokohama, Japan
1 monde réel, curated by Hervé Chandès and Hélène Kelmachter, Fondation Cartier pour
l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Project?, curated by Valéry Grancher and Takuji Kogo, Artspace of Australia,
Wooloomooloo, Sydney, Australia
1998
Project?, curated by Takuji Kogo, with Rainer Ganahl, Mouchette, GH. Hovagymian, Candy
Factory, Yokohama, Japan
Videothèque, curated by Raphaëlle Jeune, Bonn Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Young video art from France, curated by Inke Arnes, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin,
Germany
In Vitro, curator Gianni Motti, Glassbox Gallery, Paris, France
Sonar, curated by Natascha Carron, Barcelona, Spain
Videoformes, curated by Gabriel Soucheyre, Festival vidéo et multimédia, Clermont
Ferrand, France
Embrasser le futur, curated by Jacqueline Klugman and Jean Michel Ribette, Le Passage
de Reitz, Paris, France
1997
La Galeria de net art, Lima, Peru
Documenta X Debate, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
Fleshfactor, Ars Electronica net symposium, Ars Electronica center, Linz, Autriche
Re-figuraciones X-transfiguraciones, ACC l'Angelot, Barcelona, Spain
1996
Mutation 2, La Ferme du Buisson, Noysel, Marne la Vallée, France
Le cirque d'hiver, Paris, France
FIAC 1996, Espace d'art Yvonamor Palix, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris, France
Global Tekno2, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Galerie pour la vie, Bordeaux, France
Global Tekno2, Passage de Reitz, Paris, France
Basel Art fair 1996, Espace d'art Yvonamor Palix, Basel, Switzerland
Version 2.2, Centre d'art de St Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
SAGA 1996, Espace d'art Yvonamor Palix, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris, France
Fluctuations Fugitives, Espace d'art Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France
1995
6 e semaine internationale de la vidéo de St Gervais, Centre d'art de St Gervais, Geneva,
Switzerland
XY & Just from cynthia, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Ensayo General, Carillo Gil contemporary art museum, Mexico
Eletronie d'arte e altre scriture, Pecci Museum, Prato, Firenze, Italy
Cyber, Galerie Patrick Martin, Lyon, France
DIGI, Hong Kong
1994
Computer space, National Palace of culture, Sofia, Bulgarie
F.I.S.E.A, Moderna Museet, Helsinki, Finland
Art and new technologies, Contemporary Art Center, St Petersbourg, Russia
SIGGRAPH 1994, County convention center, Orlando, USA
Exposition, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bruxelles, Belgium
1993
Arts plastiques, Festival video, Hérouville St Clair, France
F.I.S.E.A, Mineapolis, U.S.A.
Biennale de Lyon, ateliers Gilbert Monin, Villeurbanne, France
Image en scènes, Art 3000, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The five senses, Brighton, Great Britain
Ateliers Gilbert Monin, Villeurbanne, France
1992
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Residency
1997
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Ars Technica, les arts au défi des technosciences, Pavillon tusquet, La Villette Cité des
sciences et de l'industrie, Paris, France
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Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
Selected Conferences
2011
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Contemporary Art and geopolitical, IEP (Sciences Po Paris), Paris, France
The aesthetics of the Present, ESBA Nantes, Nantes, France
2010
2008
2006
IPY (International polar year) & Aesthetics of the Poles Conference, Oslo, Norvège
The aesthetics of the Present, Complex Systems Institute FCSI - PIF, Paris, France
Thought World, Seminar organized by Pierre Paliard, School of Fine Arts, Aix en Provence,
France
Art at the poles, Duthion Conference with Laurent and Catherine Rannou, UHB Rennes 2
(University of Rennes), Rennes, France
Globalisation, the extreme territories and new media, Courses - Conferences, Cartier
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France
The End of Art: Disappearance of a modern and births of new positions, Courses Conferences, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France
New Media Landscape, Courses - Conferences, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art,
Paris, France
Artists entrepreneurs, Fabrice Hyber, Valéry Grancher, ENSBA, Paris, France
Extreme territories, globalization and new media, Courses - Conferences, Fondation Cartier
pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
10 years of activity, Valéry Grancher FNAC Digitale, Paris, France
Extreme territories, globalization and new media, Courses - Conferences, Fondation Cartier
pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
The end of art: Disappearance of modernity and creation of new positions, Courses Conferences, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Landscape of the new media contexts and economic, cultural upheavals, Courses conferences, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
The digital arts and art institutions do they mix?, Debate, Laurence Dreyfus (exposure
Comissioner), Stéphane Mauguet (numeris causa), Valery Grancher (artist), ENSBA, Paris,
France
2005
The Shiwiars project, Roundtable with Anne Christine Taylor, Jean Patrick Razon, Pascual
Kunchicuy Carasco, Pascal Languillon and Mark Sanchez, Palais de Tokyo, site for
contemporary creation, Paris, France
Net art history?, Centre Georges Pompidou Museum of Modern Art, FlashFestival, Paris,
France
Tokyo Ozone & Art and wifi, Palais de Tokyo contemporary creativity, Paris, France
The Cube multimedia culture, Issy les Moulineaux, France
2004
Valéry Grancher 1994 -2004, Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, Paris, France
Cycle 'third eye': The immaterials twenty years later, digital artists, Museum of Modern Art
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2003
The network is too much of the art, Conference with Christophe Bruno and Loz, Metz
University of Genêve Laboratory of Human Ecology, Genêve, Switzerland
CRDP of Grenoble, the invitation of Centre for Contemporary Art Store, Grenoble, France
Net Art History, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France
French Cultural Centre, Douala, Cameroon
2002
Mediacité, Bordeaux, France
2001
Soros Fundation, Bucharest, Romania
2000
University of Paris IV Sorbonne, Paris, France
Silipakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
1999
The Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium (Ken Goldberg), UCLA Berkeley, Berkeley,
USA
Seian University, Kyoto, Japan
1995
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ENSBA Lyon, Lyon, France
Grants and Awards
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2007
IPEV (French Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor): residence of one month to the Arctic station
Rabot Ny Alesund, International Polar Year, Spitzberg
2003
DICREAM, CNC, Ministry of Culture and Communication, France
2001
DICREAM, CNC, Ministry of Culture and Communication, France
2000
FIACRE (editing help), National Center of Plastic Arts, Ministry of Culture and
Communication, France
The mission of the Year 2000, the Ministry of Culture and Communication, France
2000
Grant for the development of a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery Tadu,
Alliance Française
1999
AFAA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
The French-American Fund for contemporary art, U.S.A.
UC Berkeley Consortium for the Arts, U.S.A.
1998
Winner of Villa Médicis for Japan, AFAA (video board, new technologies), France
1995
Internationaler videokunstpreis, finalist for the International Awards for the video Memory,
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Public collections
2014
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2012
GEOPOL and Tanguntsa, video works (installations), National Fund for Contemporary Art,
Centre National des Arts Plastiques
Pop up, USB, National Fund for Contemporary Art, Centre National des Arts Plastiques
2004
Prints and Drawings, Museum of Art and History from Geneva, Switzerland
2002
Rhizome ArtBase Net and media collection New Museum, New York, U.S.A.
2001
heart time / time heat, website, European House of Photography, Art Outsiders, Paris,
France
2000
Screen Reposoirs and On Air, National Fund for Contemporary Art, FNAC, Paris, France
1999
24:00, website, Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Longitude 38, website, The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France
1998
Self, website, The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France
1996
Ulysses, video, Contemporary Art Centre of St Fons St Fons, France
1994
Memory, video, ZKM Media Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
Memory, video, Carillo Gil Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
U-Topos, Virtual Reality installation, Carillo Gil Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City,
Mexico
1993
Epridemik Remix, video co-produced with Benedict Berry, The new museum, the Institute of
Contemporary Art, Villeurbanne, France