Fabienne VERDIER (Born in 1962)
Education
1979-1983 Studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse 1982-1984 Studied Chinese at the Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, France
Awards
1982 Grand prize, Toulouse Municipal painting competition 1983 First scholarship for the study of Chinese in the context of the sister cities relationship between Toulouse and Chongqing, China. Excellence prize, Fine Arts Institute of Sichuan, China
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 Crossing Signs, Hong City Hall, Hong Kong, China The Ink Discipline: A series of rare original prints by Fabienne Verdier, Hing Wai Centre, Hong Kong, China
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), Bruges, Belgium Fabienne Verdier, Eloges, notes et etudes, Erasmus House, Brussels Art Plural Gallery, Singapore Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris
2012 Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2009 Peinture, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris Elles @ Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou
2007 Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
2005 Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
2004 Silvacane Abbey (Centre des Monuments nationaux et ville d’Aix-en- Provence)
2003 Ariane Dandois Gallery, Paris
2001 Chapelle des Beaux-arts, Paris
1997 Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taiwan
1996 Galerie Joyce, Palais Royal, Paris
1993 Centre for Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
1992 Maison de la Chine, Paris, France
1991 French Cultural Centre, Beijing
1990 French Embassy, Beijing, China
1989 Fine Arts Museum, Chongqing China
1983 Palais des beaux-arts, Toulouse, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 “Köningsklasse II”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich at Herrenschiemsee Palace, Germany “Formes simples”, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France “Flux”, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2013 The Hubert Looser Collection, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2012 My Private Passion – Foundation Hubert Looser, Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria. Waddington Custot Galleries, London Fine Art Asia 2012, Art Plural Gallery, Hong Kong Art Stage Singapore 2012, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2011 Regards Croisés: A Selection of Asian Contemporary Art, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
2009 FIAC, Paris Elles@Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
2008 Expansion Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris
2006 Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
1990 Contemporary Brushstrokes, Beijing Fine Arts Museum, China
1989 International calligraphy exhibition, Peking Fine Arts Centre
Selected Commissions and Permanent Collections
2013 Commission for Majunga Tower, Paris
2010 Commission from the Palazzo Totrlonia Foundation, Rome
2009 Collection of Uli Sigg
2008 Collection of Beat Curti
2007 Collection of Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou Collection of H.Looser Foundation
2005 Collection of François Pinault Collection of Barbier-Mueller
2004 Collection of Bruce Kovner
2003 Permanent collection of Musée Cernuschi Permanent collection of E. de Rothschild
2001 State commission for the official logo and visual conception of ‘Année de la Chine en France et Année de la France en Chine’ for the joint project of the French Foreign Ministry and the Chinese Ministry of Culture.
1998 State commission via the Centre national des arts plastiques for the creation of the official poster for the Avignon Theatre Festival, France