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Training

2001
ADAC, Paris : Photoshop classes

1998-99
Textile techniques with Colette Martin, Paris : screen printing, heat transfer

1994-97
Atelier Bordas, Paris : Lithography

1991-92
Atelier Format Raisin, Paris : Etching
Taos, New Mexico, USA : Monotype

1986-90
Atelier La Bête à Cornes, Paris : Lithography

1982-86
Académie Paris Saint Roch : painting with Jean Bertholle

1978
École des Beaux-Arts, Paris : painting techniques with Nicolas Wacker

1976-78
Académie de Port-Royal, Paris : painting courses with Claude Shurr, Marzelle, Ravel and Relange

1977
Atelier La Licorne Bleue, Burgundy : first lithographs on stone

1971-80
Teaching workshops in painting and drawing, Nogent-sur-Marne, France

1969
Académie de la Grande Chaumière , Paris : sketching

1964-66
Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris : graphic arts and illustration

1961-63
École des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, France


Exhibitions

2011
Commenoz gallery, Key Biscayne, Florida : personal exhibition

2010
Preparation of the book : « Miami »

2009
Edition of the book « Colette in Wonderland »
Bastille Design Center , Paris

2008
« Pusan-Paris » le Génie de la Bastille *, Paris

2007
« Portes ouvertes à la Pologne », open studio, Paris
« Bleu et rouge », Lagalerie, Paris

2006
Arc Gallery, Chicago

2005
« Américains in Paris », Génie de la Bastille

2004
Cornershop, Paris : personal exhibition

2003
« Portes ouvertes à l’Algérie », Génie de la Bastille, Paris
International Biennial of Engraving, Sarcelles, France : New images section

2002
« Paris-Séoul », Maison des Métallos, Paris 

2001
« Manif », Seoul, Corea

2000
« Kunstleraustausch », Berlin/Paris
Frankfort, Michigan, USA : personnal exhibition
« Sources d’Europe », Grande Arche de la Défense, Paris

1999
Selima Optique, Soho, New-York : personal exhibition

1998
« Festival Onze », open studio, Paris

1996
SAGA, Paris

1994
Continuum Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida

1993
Galerie Marius, Copenhagen, Denmark
Atelier Taille Douce, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

1992
« Painters and Sculptors of the 12th Arrondissement », Paris
Selected for the Seventh Biennial of Engraving, Sarcelles, France
Galerie les Sirènes, Milly-la-Forêt, France : personal exhibition of prints

1985
Maison Mansart, Paris

1982
Grand Palais, Paris : « Salon des Indépendants »

* le Génie de la Bastille is an organization for artists living in Paris. They set up every year exchanges with artists from around the world.


Travel/Research

Caribbean, North Africa, Turkey, Senegal, Mauritius Island, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Togo, Benin, Kenya, Bali, Korea and the United States.


Colette has been coming to Miami Beach for the past 20 years, fascinated by the light and the people she finds in South Florida. Her work has been represented by Commenoz gallery at Key Biscayne since 2004.