Jerome HAVRE

Jerome HAVRE
Email: [email protected]
Biography
Jerome HAVRE is French artist based between Canada and Germany. He completed his studies
at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During his time at the School of Fine
Arts he was awarded three scholarships that enabled him to pursue different art practices: silk
printing techniques in New York (Cooper Union), printing techniques in Barcelona (Bellas Artes)
and painting and video in Berlin (Universität der Künste Berlin - HDK) in the workshop of
Marwan Kassab Bashi.
His work interrogates issues of identity, territory and community through the representation of
nature. That is, the manner in which it is presented and yet can be more readily perceived through
our cultural filters. According to Havre, “nature is deliberately altered in order to deceive us and
keep order.”
He develops in his creation reflexive spaces through immersive processes. He looks for ways to
do this through presentation, creation of situations, or setting the stage with his sculptures and
inviting the public to take part “in the show.”
He is inspired by the production of natural history dioramas in museums and zoos and
reappropriates their method in his artistic work. He thus presents “a second nature” which
encourages a careful reading.
To design these “shelters,” Jerome HAVRE uses textiles, sculpture, digital prints, photographic
images, murals, sound recording, and videos to create scenographic installations.
For him, the use of a technological process is not only to accomplish a specific task, but a
necessary form of expression itself.
Since 2001 Jerome HAVRE has exhibited his works in Europe, Africa and North America. He is
represented by the Donald Browne Gallery in Montreal.
Upcoming
“Land Marks” Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Curators: Andrea Fatona,
Katherine Dennis. Group show. (Avril 2014)
2013
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, (November 2013)
Art Fair, Donald Browne Gallery,Toronto (October 2013)
Qouleur/Collective-Galerie Rat’s, Montreal, curated Jenny Lin (August 2013)
2013
That’s so Gay, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada. Curator: Elisha Lim. Group show.
Thames Art Gallery, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada. Curators: Andrea Fatona,
Katherine Dennis. Group show. (June 2013)
2013
Scope Fair, Donald Browne Gallery with the Association des Galeries d’Art
Contemporain. New York, United States.
Territorial Re-Marks, The Front Room, Brooklyn, United States. Group show.
Territorial Re-Marks, Articule, Montreal, Canada. Group show.
2012
Gala des Arts Visuels, Finalist best exposition in private gallery.
Art Toronto, Donald Browne Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Field Trip Project, Japan. Curator: Daisuke Takeya. Group show.
Papier 12 (Contemporary Art Fair of Works on Paper), Donald Browne Gallery,
Montreal, Canada.
Who’s Paying You? Donald Browne Gallery, Montreal, Canada. Group show.
Illusory Contours, Montreal Nuit Blanche, MAI (Montreal Arts Interculturels),
Montréal, Canada. Solo show.
Domestiquer (To Domesticate), Donald Browne Gallery, Montréal, Canada. Solo
show.
Change, Articule, Montréal, Canada. Members show.
2011
Sobey Art Award, Long list.
J’ai vu le renard, le loup, le lièvre, Maison des Arts de Laval, Laval, Canada. Curator :
René Viau. Group show.
Peux Mieux Faire, L’Oeil de Poisson, Québec, Canada. Group show.
Fibred Optics, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada. Curator: Andrea Fatona.
Group show.
Je me souvenir, Articule, Montréal, Canada. Members show.
2010
Insula Reflexions, MAI (Montréal Arts Interculturels), Montréal, Canada. Solo show.
Do you see what I mean? X Ottawa Photography Festival, Ottawa, Canada. Canada
Council Art Bank
The Night Watch, Toronto Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada. Curator: Christopher
Regimbal.
Supermarket 2010, Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweeden. Participated with Articule.
Drift Lines, Articule, Montréal, Canada. Special project.
2009
Fibred Optics, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada. Curator: Andrea Fatona. Group
show. Catalogue.
Peux Mieux Faire, Atelier Punkt, Montréal, Canada. Group show.
CALQ (Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec) grant, Québec, Canada.
MAI Mentoring grant, MAI, Montréal, Canada.
2008
Eux, miroir sans teint (Them, a mirror without tint). Preparation of project.
2007
Visual festival of the arts of Abidjan, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Bibliography:
2014
Land Marks publication – Thames art Gallery - Essays: Katherine Dennis, Andrea
Fatona, Caoimhe Morgan-Feir.
2013
Toronto star “Fictions and Legends at the Textile Museum of Canada »
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2013/12/14/heather_goodchild_and_jr
me_havre_fictions_and_legends_at_the_textile_museum_of_canada.html
2013
Uprising contemporary Caribbean Art “Land Marks” http://blog.uprising-art.com/landmarks-show-features-six-degrees-of-separation-a-new-artwork-by-jerome-havre/
Uprising contemporary Caribbean Art “Territorial Re:Marks avec Jérôme Havre ».
January 2013, Web. http://www.uprising-art.com/portfolio/jerome-havre-martinique/
Céline Piettre, Art Info France « Jérôme Havre, « Détisseur » de Cultures » janvier
2013, Web. <http://fr.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/853921/jerome-havre-detisseur-decultures>
Céline Piettre, Art Info International « Montreal-Based Jérôme Havre's "Unwoven"
Sculptures Come to NYC's Front Room » janvier 2013, Web.
<http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/854133/montreal-based-jerome-havres-unwovensculptures-come-to-nycs>
Contributor to the 9th Calendar published by the Atelier Graff.
2012
Geneviève Wallen – EAHR (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research) « Territorial ReMarks», dec.2012, Web. <http://ethnoculturalarts.blogspot.de/p/exhibitionreview.html>.
Eric Clément – La presse « Re-marquer le territoire à Articule: topographie
identitaire » oct. 2012, Web. http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/201210/25/014587088-re-marquer-le-territoire-a-articule-topographie-identitaire.php
2012
Nazywalskyj, Stephanie - ARC “Stephanie Nazywalskyj on Jerome Havre’s practice:
When Hard Work Pays Off”, August 2012, Web.
<http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2012/08/stephanie-nazywalskyj-on-jerome-havrespractice-when-hard-work-pays-off/>.
Roy, Christian - Africultures “Du Fait Social à l’État Sauvage” Africultures 2012,Web
<http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=article&no=10588>.
Delgado, Jérôme - Le Devoir "Dans La Cage d'une Galerie" 21 January 2012, sec.
Culture / Arts visuels. Print + Web, <http://m.ledevoir.com/culture/artsvisuels/340714/dans-la-cage-d-une-galerie>.
Radio Interview, Temps libre with Dr. Cornett. Radio Ville-Marie. January 20.
Video Interview, Un Show de Mot’arts. http://www.unshowdemotarts.net/?p=3599
2011
Kalibre - Artère "Artiste du Mois de Décembre 2011: Jérôme Havre" (2011),
http://www.artere.qc.ca/fr/repertoire-des-artistes/artiste-du-mois.php?idArtisteMois=67
Nimis, Erika - Africultures "À Propos d’Insula: Réflexions." (2011), Print N-85, Web.
<http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=article&no=9992>.
Bélanger, Gentiane - ETC 92 "Les Multiples Versants du Folk." (2011): 6 - 12. Print.
2010
Chalifour, François. "Jérôme Havre Puppet-Sculptures: Nostalgia, a Centaur, Waiting."
Espace Sculpture 93 Fall (2010): 16-19. Print.
"DIASPORArt." The National. CBC. 2 Feb. 2010. Television.
2009
Fatona, Andrea, and Françoise Charron. Fibred Optics: Frances Dorsey, Jérôme Havre,
Ed Pien, Michèle Provost. Ottawa: Ottawa Art Gallery/Galerie d'art d'Ottawa, 2009.
Print.
Margo, Deborah. "Akimblog." Akimbo. 3 Dec. 2009, Web.
http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=341
Conferences and workshops:
Upcoming
Talking point with Kenneth Montague (February 2014)
Participation lecture “The state of blackness” (February 2014)
2012
Artist talk : MFA Studio Arts – Concordia University, Montreal
2012
Art of Survival Speaker Series, VAV Gallery Concordia University, Montréal,
Canada. Panel Member.
2011
Arts visuels contemporains d’Afrique et de la diaspora, UQAM (Université de
Québec à Montréal). Guest lecturer.
2010
Isthmus : 2D/3D creation workshop, MAI, Montréal, Canada.
2009
Fibred Optics: Family workshop, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
Fibred Optics : Artist talk, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
Collections:
• Canada Art Bank -
• Private collection
• Maison des Arts de Laval