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MELODIE MOUSSET
Melodie Mousset was born in 1981. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Education
2011
2009
2003
2007
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Royal College of Arts, London, UK
Diplôme Supérieur d’Arts Visuel, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Diplôme National d’Arts Plastique, EBAR, Rennes, France
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2012 Impulsive Control, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Melodie Mousset MFA Thesis Show, Lime Galerie, CALARTS, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Impulsive Control, Claudia Groeflin Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Together again, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2009 Party-animal, Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris, France
2008 Dans l’ombre du hérisson, la trajectoire de l’acier répond à la courbe des
arbres, Darse, Geneva, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2013 L’ENTREPRENEUR, Zebra3 Crystal Palace, Bordeaux, France
the state of making things, La RADA, Locarno, Switzerland
Brigadoon, La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand, France
The Ride, Gallery J Curtat-Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland
2012 Les Urbaines, Arlaud Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
Re-Cycles of Paradise, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Trouble Rainbow 3, Boltelang, Zurich, Switzerland
Drive-in, Bold Tendencies sculpture park, curated by Elise Lammer, London, UK
Plate Mappe, Curtat-Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland
Ampera Electric Dreams: Vauxhall Technol, Filling Station, Curated by Ken
Farmer, London UK
Hello? I Forgot My Mantra, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY
The Big Toe, Wallspace, New York, NY
Trouble Rainbow, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, CA
Trouble Rainbow: Athenee Galiciadis & Claudia Comte & Melodie Mousset,
Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
2011 CalArts Plays Itself, Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), PDC Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, CA
Intimacies, Farley Building, Curated by Eve fowler and Alex Seguade, Los Angeles
Paul Clay, Salon 94, New York, NY
Greater LA, SOHO, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Joel Mesler and Eleanor Cayre,
New York, NY
That's how we know the tongue is blind, Curtat-Tunnel, curated by Melodie
Mousset and Nicolas Grenier, Lausanne, Switzerland
Involuntary, Ford project, curated by Neville Wakefield, New York, NY
Collective Show, Los Angeles, CA
Trouble Rainbow: Athenee Caliciadis & Claudia Comte & Melodie Mousset,
Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
2010 Mashup, LA15 Contemporary Art Space, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Minipic, t’as cotté ton biclou?, Pauline's, curated by Pauline Beaudemont and Elise
Lammer, New York, NY
Volume, AT 1, curated by Andrea Neustein, Los Angeles, CA
We won't drink ice tea, Gallery Bitch, Los Angeles, CA
Snapshot, (curated by Bennett Simpson), LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble, Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris, France
I am by birth a genevese, Espace Forde, Geneva, Switzerland
I am by birth a genevese, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
Post Tenebras Luxe, Musee Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
You cut but you can't, Galerie zwanzigquadratmeter, Berlin, Germany
Once in a lifetime (curated by Dean Kissick), New Model Army, London, UK
Basement Project, Fred, London, UK
Work in Progress, RCA, London, UK
Art Paris (booth of Galerie Marion Meyer), Paris, France
2008 Le Spectrarium (curated by Tatiana Rihs, Samuel Dubosson, Mélodie Mousset),
Fondation Suisse du Corbusier, Paris, France
Josef Hannibal, isn't he?, Zoo art Fair, London, UK
HOME- mentioned, but did not Stop, Box Productions, Renens, Switzerland
That's all Folks, Popper, Genève
Drôle de dame, Galerie J, Paris, France
Joseph Hannibal now!, Galerie Blancpain, Geneva, Switzerland
Black Diaspora, Out of this World, Territet, Switzerland
WAWA, La Placette, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstraction extension (curated by Christian Besson, Julien Fronsacq, and Samuel
Gross), Fondation Salomon, Chateau d'Arenthon, Alex, France
Transformé en France, La Générale, Paris, France
Suspens, Duplex, Geneva, Switzerland
Prototipi-Manzoni, Salon du meuble, Milan, Italy
Atman Atmen, Out of this World, Territet, Switzerland
West, La Générale, Paris, France
Accrochage, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007 Der Tanz der Doppelgänger, Shark, Genève
Bouboule & Tutube, Call me I’m an artist, Naphtaline, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sweet & extra-dry (curated by Delphine Coindet), Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
1m3, Outre tombe (curated by Pascal Rousseau), Lausanne, Switzerland
Lascaux Fiasco, Viva dolor, Lyon, France
Génération Mélodie, Galerie J, (curated by Raphael Julliard), Geneva,
Switzerland
2006 L’art est il soluble dans le rire, Le chorus, Lausanne, Switzerland
Minigolf (curated by Mélodie Mousset), Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
Cinquième partie, Les abris anti-atomiques de l’Arsenic, Lausanne , Switzerland
Cabinet budget, L’Atelier, Geneva, Switzerland
La cuisse physique, space Bellevaux, Lausanne, Switzerland
SVP, Théatre Tumulte, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Rouge&Cool, Espace rue de Bourg, Lausanne, Switzerland
2005 La Grande Chose, Galerie Basta, Lausanne
Une energie sympatique qui booste le tout (curated by Riond), Kabak, Lausanne,
Switzerland
Accrochage, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2004 Armleder & Co, ELAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Good Stuff, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2003 Première vue (curated by Michel Nuridsany), Passage de Retz, Paris, France
L’eau à la bouche, l’Orangerie, Rennes, France
Vitrine, L’Endroit, Rennes, France
Yoda/sellenites (interference of Di Mattéo), Theatre Nationale de Bretagne,
Rennes, France
Wax (interference of Campy, Vampy, Tacky), La Criée, Centre d’art
contemporain, Rennes, France
Bibliography
2012 Diehl, Travis. “Critics’ Picks: Melodie Mousset,” Artforum.com, September
2011 Smith, Roberta. "Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel", The New York Times, May
2010 Kantarovsky, Alexander. "Melodie Mousset," Another new romance, The New
Wight Biennial, September
2009 Challe, Daniel. "Melodie Mousset," Breloque, May
Bacchetta, Joelle. "With or without you," Code Magazine, Spring
de Wavrin, Isabelle. "ART PARIS: Notre selection," Beaux Arts, March
Debailleux, Henri-François. "ART PARIS, un certain savoir foire," La Liberation,
March
2008 Menétrey, Sylvain. "A Geometrie humaine/Human Geometry", Baboo Time,
September
Nolan, Billy. "Pasta Princess," Frame, January
Residencies
2008 Studio Residency, "La Générale," Paris, France