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Julien GARDAIR
born in France in 1976, works and lives in Brooklyn, NY since 2007
Education
1995 BFA from Ecole Nationale d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, France
1999 MFA from Ecole Nationale d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, France
Selected Solo Shows
2015 La Chapelle Ste Jeanne d’Arc Art Center, Thouars, France
Stevenson Union Gallery, South Oregon University, Ashland, Or
2014 Camera Locus, Musee Archeologique Lattara, Lattes, France
Check & Mat, Adah, Abu Dhabi, United Arabs Emirates
2012 Ceramic is the new video, Galerie Quincampoix, Paris, France
2011 Camera Locus 4, Homession, Barcelona, Spain
24/7 EDEN, Eden Rock Gallery, St Barths
Camera Locus 2, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2010 Left over and over, Four11 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2009 Dis'place, EyeLevelBQE, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2005 S'Aladin, Galerie Trafic, Ivry, France
Julien Gardair, Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret, France
Peintures récentes, Galerie Thérèse Roussel, Perpignan, France
2004 Gardair, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
2002 Chez Jacques Arnaudiès, Paris, France
Selected Group Shows
2015 Diplomatic Art, Muzeul Banatului, Bastinonul Theresia, Timisoara, Romania
The 7 deadly sins, curated by Kristin Sancken, Garis and Hahn gallery, NY, USA
In our cave we see shadows, curated by F. Allie & K. Loannidou, Projekt 722, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Westernized…, Fred Frelinghuysen presents, Queens, NY, USA
2014 InLight Richmond, curated by Denise Markonish, Richmond, VA, USA
Before you go, Jeffrey Meier Gallery, Lambertville, NJ, USA
L’art contemporain s’appelle Julien, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, France
Real on Rock Street, curated by D. Brown and L. Heller, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Collective show, Casa Maauad, Mexico DF, Mexico
Off, away,down, Spring/Break Art Show (Armory Show week program), New York, NY, USA
L’œil et le cœur 2, Carre St Anne, Montpellier, France
2013 Mythology and Folklore, Big Irv’s gallery , Brooklyn, New York, USA
2012 Drolatique, 8eme Biennale d’art contemporain de Gonesse, Gonesse, France
2011 Décor et Installation, Galeries Nationales de la Tapisserie, Beauvais, France
The Eye in EyeLevel, Eyelevel BQE, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2010 Les infiltrés, La graineterie, Houilles, France
2009 Day to day, Martos Gallery, New York, NY, USA
SQ20, galerie St Jacques, St Quentin, France
2008
2007
2006
Art4, couvent des Minimes, Perpignan, France
Caractères, Salon du livre d'artiste, Brussels, Belgium
Correspondances, galerie Vasistas, Montpellier, France
Cartons, cabinet du livre d'artistes, Rennes, France
La couleur toujours recommencée, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Festival Pocket Film, Forum des images hors les murs / Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Jean Fournier, un choix de papiers, Le Ring, Nantes, France
Scanners:The 2006 New York Video, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA
Awards
2014
Best in show, Inlight Richmond
Herradura Art Barrel, 2nd prize
Residencies
2014 ADAH, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2011 Eden Rock gallery residency program, St Barths
Homesession, Barcelona, Spain
Comissions and collaborations
2015 With director Luke Leonard, musical set design, NY, USA
2013 With fashion designer Paola Hernandez, fashion show set design, New York, NY, USA
For Art Assets, The Balcony Project, New York, NY, USA
With Mayer of Munich stain glass workshop, creation of samples, Munich, Germany
2012 For the National Furniture of France with the Gobelins Manufacture, carpet design, France
2011 For fashion designer Jerome Dreyfuss, art installation in retail store, New York, NY, USA
With choreographer P. Kaye, danse set design, CPR, Brooklyn, NY, USA
With architect Jun Aizaki, decorative panel and mural, Selborne Hotel, Miami, FL, USA
With ceramist JM Foubert, ceramic workshop, La Tuilerie de Treigny, Treigny, France
2010 With architect Jun Aizaki, decorative panels, Veritas, New York, NY, USA
For fashion designer Jerome Dreyfuss, art installation in retail store, New York, NY, USA
Selected Bibliography
2015 Beatrice Chassepot, Julien Gardair, when cutout means commitment, be-Art Magazine
Portia Makoma, Interview, Silence is accurate
Eva Prouteau, Futur Anterieur, Centre d’art la Chapelle Jeanne d’arc publication
Claire Obry, Julien Gardair’s cutout, French Wink
2014 Chang Stephanie, Marquetry and moving images: Julien Gardair, ArtsInBushwick
Warr Al, French artist creates installation piece at Lambertville gallery, HCB
Perry Patrick, Dialogue, in cat Julien Gardair Camera Locus, Lattara Museum editions
Adah French Month art residency, Skynews Arabia
2011 Rabinovitch Simona, Cutting Edges, Nuvo magazine, Autumn
Haimelin Lauren, Julien Gardair, Luxe Immo, Autumn
2010
2008
2007
2006
2005
Godefroy Cecile, Camera Locus 5, in cat Décor et Installations, Dilecta editions
Joon Aron, Eden Rock, LAX magazine, July
Shuster Robert, Best in show, Village Voice, March 23
Couillaud Anne, Highly Specific, Huffington Post, March 15
Sifton Sam, Living up to its cellar, New York Times,March 15
Maurer Daniel, First look at the new Veritas, New York Magazine, November 29
Larsson Ann, Julien Gardair for Jerome Dreyfuss: VM News, WGSN, August 10
Lawrence, Vanessa, Mix Tape, WWD, July 12
2009 Wolff, Rachel, See here now..., New York Magazine, October 12
Jaffe, Shirley. A l’atelier avec, Connaissance des arts, April
Dagen, Philippe. Jean Fournier galeriste fou de couleur et ses peintres, Le Monde, March 25
Pacquement, A. Jean Fournier, un marchand à Paris, in cat La Couleur toujours recommencée,
Actes Sud editions
Boyer, Charles-Arthur. Vies et Portraits, Jean Fournier 1922-2006, Encyclopédie Universalis
Leydier, Richard. Exporama, Artpress n°309, February
Collet, JM. Où l’art de la figure devient l’expression d’une vraie liberté, l’Indépendant, January