FABIENNE VERDIER

Biography

1919196219 626262 Born in

1983 Graduates from Ecole des Beaux-arts de Toulouse

1984 Awarded a post-graduate scholarship at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute,

19841984----93939393 Studied painting, aesthetics and philosophy at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China, with some of the last great traditional masters

1989 Graduates from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Excellence Prize Elected to Calligraphers Association Sichuan

19891989----91919191 Cultural attaché at the French Embassy,

2003 Publication of Passagère du silence, dix ans d’initiation en Chine (Passenger of Silence: Ten Years of Initiation in China), Albin Michel, Paris — a memoir of her years of apprenticeship with Master Huang Yuan Entered permanent collection of Musée Cernuschi, Paris

2005 Solo exhibition at Galerie Alice Pauli, ,

2007 Publication of monograph Between Heaven and Earth and Entretien avec Charles Juliet (Albin Michel, Paris) Four large works commissioned by Foundation in dialogue with selected American abstract and minimalist artists from the collection (John Chamberlain, , Willem de Kooning, Ellsworth Kelly and ) Entered permanent collection of Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges- Pompidou, Paris

2008 Group exhibition, Expansion Résonance , Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris

2009 Group exhibition, Elles@ , Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris Solo exhibition, Peinture , Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris

2010 Commission of two monumental works for the Palazzo Torlonia, Documentary film by Philippe Chancel: : Flux , on the creation of the commissioned works Publication of Fabienne Verdier Palazzo Torlonia , by Eric Fouache and Corinna Thierolf, chief curator of , (Editions Xavier Barral, Paris)

2011 Group exhibition, Art of Deceleration from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Wei Wei , Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg,

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2012 Group exhibition, My Private Passion – Foundation Hubert Looser , Kunstforum, , Austria Publication of Fabienne Verdier–Painting Space , by Doris von Drathen (Edizioni Charta, Milano/)

2013 Documentary film by Mark Kidel: Fabienne Verdier, peindre l’instant ( Fabienne Verdier: Painting the Instant ), Les Films d’Ici with the participation of Télévisions and CNC, 2012; broadcast on France5 on 1 February 2013 within the Empreintes series

Fabienne Verdier lives and works in France and Canada

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

1983 Palais des Beaux-arts, Toulouse, France

1119891989 Fine Arts Museum, , China

1991 French Cultural Centre, Beijing

1992 Maison de la Chine, Paris

1993 Contemporary Art Centre

1995 Galerie Joyce Ma, Palais Royal, Paris

1996 Galerie Joyce Ma, Palais Royal, Paris

1997 Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taipei

2001 Chapelle des Beaux-arts, Paris

2003 Galerie Ariane Dandois, Paris

2004 Abbaye de Silvacane, Provence, France

2005 Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland

2007 Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland

2009 Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris

2012 Art Plural Gallery,

2013 Objects and Paintings , David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles Fabienne Verdier, The Spirit of Painting: A Tribute to the Flemish Renaissance, at Groeninge Museum and Memling Museum (St. John Hospital), , Fabienne Verdier, Eloges, notes et etudes , Erasmus House, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris

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Selected Group Exhibitions

1990 Contemporary Brushstrokes , Beijing Fine Arts Museum, China

2006 Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland (exhibited annually at Art Basel)

2008 Expansion Résonance , Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris

2009 Elles@Centre Pompidou , Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris

2011 Un souffle venue d’Asie, regards croisés , Contemporary Art Center, Abbaye de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue, France Not for Sale , Art Center Passage de Retz, Paris Art of Deceleration from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Wei Wei , Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany

2012 My Private Passion – Foundation Hubert Looser , Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria. Waddington Custot Galleries, London

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Public Collections

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris (Commission by the Festival d’Avignon) Ministère de l’Équipement (Direction de l’Architecture), Paris Honda Group, Tokyo Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Paris Chinese Ministry of Culture, Beijing Musée Cernuschi, Paris Palais de l’Assemblée Nationale, Paris Foundation Hubert Looser, Foundation François Pinault, Paris, Venice

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Selected Bibliography

2001 Unique Trait de Pinceau by Fabienne Verdier, published by Albin Michel, Paris

2005 Passagère Du Silence by Fabienne Verdier, published by Albin Michel, Paris

2006 The Dragon's Brush: A Journey to China in Search of a True Master by Fabienne Verdier, published by Trumpeter

2007 Entre Ciel Et Terre by Fabienne Verdier, published by Albin Michel Entretien Avec Fabienne Verdier by Charles Juliet, published by Albin Michel

2009 Sherwin, Skye: ‘John Wesley’, Art Review , Summer, p.92

2011 Fabienne Verdier: Palazzo Torlonia by Philippe Chancel, published by Editions Xavier Barral

2013 Fabienne Verdier - introduction by Michael Peppiatt, edited and published by Art Plural Gallery, Singapore Fabienne Verdier: Painting Space by Doris von Drathen, published by Edizioni Charta, Milan

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