colette
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biographie
colette
birambo
biographie
biographie
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.