Laurence Garnesson

Laurence Garnesson was born in 1967 and grew up in Hauts-de-France. She lives and works in Paris.

She has a double degree in Plastic and Applied Arts. After training at the Duperré school and the ENS (Art and Design department), she worked at the Centre de Recherche en Arts Plastiques (CERAP) at Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne.

At the same time, Henri Cueco welcomed her into his studio at the Beaux-arts de Paris, where he gave her the interest in drawing and a sharp eye. From then on, the artist never ceased to bring together the richness of her training in multiple projects and collaborations.

After numerous solo and group exhibitions, in 2014 the Institut Français de Tokyo invited her to take part in ÂMES EN RÉSONANCE, a dialogue between French and Japanese artists. In 2015, the European Commission in Brussels dedicated her a solo show, LE TRAIT À L'OEUVRE . Since then, her work has been exhibited at international fairs (South Korea, Germany, and Sweden). Laureate of the Charles Oulmont Foundation in 2015, an award presented by Maria Lund, her works are part of numerous collections including Crédit Agricole Hauts de France, the Gautier collection, the Tiffon collection and the Bi Sun Jae collection (South Korea).

Since 2017, she has been working on prints in residence at Editions Bucciali. In 2019, Laurence Garnesson explored the artistic porosities between instant musical writing and contemporary dance in performances with the multipoint.s collective at 109 - L'entre-pont in Nice.

Since that same year, she has been reflecting on the issues involved in her research with Elora Weill-Engerer (critic, member of AICA, curator and art historian), who wrote a critical text for her in 2020, Point sensible, published on BoumBang!

Laurence Garnesson has been exploring the correlations between drawing and volume through research in ceramics from les Ateliers Poush Manifesto (Aubervilliers, France) which she joined in 2022. She is preparing a series of works to be presented at Aponia, Lieu d'Art Contemporain (France) in June 2023.

Laurence Garnesson co-founds the Cinéma d'animation department at the École Estienne in Paris. She has run numerous workshops with L'Odéon-Théâtre de L'Europe and RMN-Grand Palais. In 2019, she co-produced a series of video-poems, short, animated films with La Factorie, Maison de poésie de Normandie. She is currently working with the Lilian Thuram Foundation on an animated documentary film project on the theme of everyday discrimination (Les petites phrases qui blessent), a theme particularly close to her heart.

EDUCATION

Ecole Nationale Supérieure, Art et Design

Université Paris I - Sorbonne, Arts Plastiques et Arts Appliqués 

EXHIBITIONS

2022
Estivales, Festival d'art contemporain du grand Paris, Sceaux, Curation Christophe Delavault

Northeast coast tour, estampes avec Artvista, ParisAAF Bruxelles, Belgique, Editions

BuccialiPré-méditation du geste, avec Olivier Marty et Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Jacques

LEVY, Paris Parution dessins revue REHAUTS, Paris

2021
Collective avec Laurent Selmès, Galerie Olivier Nouvellet

A bien y regarder..., solo show Galerie Olivier Nouvellet, Paris.

2019
Résidence au 109-L’entrepont, Nice performing drawing

Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, Editions Bucciali

La stratégie de l'infime, dessins, Galerie Jacques LEVY, Paris

AAF Hamburg, Allemagne/ AAF Stockholm, Suède/ Art KARLSRUHE, Allemagne, Editions Bucciali

2018
Parcours de l'art, Festival d’art contemporain, Avignon Le sujet en question, Galerie Jacques LEVY, Paris

AAF Bruxelles, Belgique, Editions Bucciali

2017
La pulsation du trait, solo show, Galerie Jacques LEVY, Paris

2016
Dessins, accrochage collectif, Galerie Jacques LEVY, Paris

Art Gwanju et Art Jeju, Corée du Sud, Galerie Jacques Lévy

2015
Le trait de l'oeuvre, solo show, Commission européenne, Bruxelles Oeuvres récentes, solo show, Galerie Jacques LEVY, Paris

2014
Âmes en raisonnance, Takamatsu, Japon, avec le partenariat de l’Institut Français de Tokyo et l’Ambassade de France au Japon

2012
Salon du Dessin, Bruxelles, Galerie Pascaline MULLIEZ, Paris

RESIDENCY/ PRODUCTION OF WORKS ON SITE

2022, 2020, 2018 et 2017
Editions Bucciali, Colmar / estampes et monotypes

2019
Résidence de création au 109 - L’entrepont, Nice / performances

AWARD

2015
Prix d’Arts plastiques FONDATION CHARLES OULMONT (2015)

COLLECTIONS

Collection Crédit Agricole Haut de France,

Collection Gautier,

Collection Tiffon

Collection Bi Sun Jae (Corée du Sud)