Laurent Grasso

• Biography
• Bibliography
• Selected works
• Documents to download (.pdf)

• Pierre Ardouvin
• Cécile Bart
• Eric Baudart
• Etienne Bossut
• David Douard
• Luca Francesconi
• Babak Ghazi
• Dominique Ghesquière
• Alois Godinat
• Laurent Grasso
• Yves Grenet
• Renaud Jerez
• George Henry Longly
• Andrew Mania
• Nicolas Moulin
• Anne Neukamp
• David Renggli
• Joe Scanlan
• Veit Stratmann
• Niels Trannois
• Donelle Woolford

Solo exhibitions

2011

• "The portrait of a young man", Bass Museum, Miami, USA.
• "Black Box: Laurent Grasso", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA.
• Project space, Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy.

2010

• "The silent movie", Galerie chez Valentin, Paris.
• "Sound Fossil, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA.
• “NOMIYA”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

2009

• “Reflections Belong to the Past”, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany.
• "The Horn Perspective", Espace 315, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
• “GAKONA”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
• “Polair", Art fair artLA, Chez Valentin Gallery, Santa Monica, USA.
• “NOMIYA”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

2008

• "Infinite Light", Bridge of the Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, USA.
• "Laurent Grasso", Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada.
• "Time Dust", Galerie chez Valentin, Paris.
• "L’atelier d’hiver" de Laurent Grasso", Domaine Pommery, Reims, France.
• "Neurocinéma", Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey [curator : Ali Akay].
• "Neurocinéma, Rochechouart Art Museum, Rochechouart, France.

2007

• “Magnetic palace”, Institute of Contemporary Art -New Museum, Villeurbanne, France.
• "Electric Palace", Studio 814, New York, USA.

2006

• "Du soleil dans la nuit", Nuit Blanche, Paris, France [curator : Nicolas Bourriaud & Jérôme Sans].
• "L’éclipse", MIT List, Visual Art Center, Cambridge, USA. [curator : Bill Arning].
• "Paracinéma", Art space Paul Ricard, Paris, France.
• “Paracinéma", Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy.

2005

• "Projection", Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, France.
• "Radio color studio", De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• "Purkinje’s tree", Irmaveplab, Châtillon-sur-Marne, France.

2004

• "Radio Ghost", CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
• "Radio Ghost", Galerie du Jour Agnès b., Hong Kong, China.

2002

• "Soyez les bienvenus", Centre de photographie, Lectoure, France.
• "Tout est possible", chez Valentin Gallery, Paris, France.

Group exhibitions

2011

• "2001-2011: Soudain, déjà" Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
• "Cherries on the boat", Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France.
• "Architecture Of Fear", Z33, Hasselt, Belgium.
• "Translife", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China.
• "Dans le palais de cristal", CA'ASI, Venice, Italy.
• "French Contemporary Art", NMCA, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Corea.
• "Views on politics and poetics", chez Valentin Gallery, Paris.
• "French Window: Looking at contemporary Art trought the Marcel Duchamp Prize", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
• "Le monochrome sous tension", Turnabuoni Art, Paris, France. (curator Matthieu Poirier)
• "Paysages/ Film et vidéo," FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France.

2010

• “De leur temps, 10th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp Prize", Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France.
• “Manifesta 8”, The European Biennal of Contemporay Art, Murcia in dialogue with nothern Africa, Spain.
• “The Birds”, Saint-Louis Art Museum, Saint-Louis, MO, USA.
• “Memories of the future,” Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA.
• "Dreamlands”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
• “Cuvée Biennale,” OK Center, Linz, Austria.
• “Magnetic North”, Léonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal, Canada.
• "La tête et les pieds”, MAC/VAL, Art Contemporary Museum of Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France.
• “Terra Infirma”, ISCP, New York, USA.
• "Love at first, Contemporary Art made in France", Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taïwan, China.

2009

• “Intersections: Mémoire, Réalité et temps nouveaux”, 10th Cuenca Biennal, Cuenca, Ecuador.
• “Projections” Carré dʼart, Musée dʼart contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France.
• “Lʼinvention du monde”, ITAU Cultural Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• “Hitchhikers to the galaxy” Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea.
• “ Moscow Biennal” , Moscow, Russia.
• “La confusion des sens” Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France.
• “Villa Aperta” Villa Medicis, Rome, Italy.
• “Grand Opening for City Garden”, Gateway Foundation, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
• “Rien nʼa rien à voir” Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France.
• “Backyard” Kunstvereiniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, Netherlands.
• “Paisagens Obliquas”, Faro Museum, Algarve, Portugal.
• “9th Sharjah Biennal” , Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
• “La Notte” La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France.

2008

• “Dans la nuit, des images,” Grand Palais, Paris, France.
• "Maternités cosmiques", Museum Plaza de Espagna,Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. [curator : Arnauld Pierre].
• “La vidéo, un art, une histoire 1965-2007”, Fabre Museum, Montpellier, France.
• “Philippe Journo propose un parcours de 1600 M2 autour de deux artistes de sa collection”, Place Vendôme, Paris, France.
• "Antidote 04", Galerie des galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France.
• “Nuit Blanche”, Jérusalem, Israel.
• “Landscope”, Ropac Gallery, Salzburg, Austria.
• "to : Night", Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, USA.
• "Les collections du musée", Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
• "Phantasmagoria : Specters of absence", McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, USA.
• "Rooms", Conversation", Le Plateau - FRAC Ile-de -France, Paris, France.

2007

• Fiction vs Réalité, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. [curator : Christine Van Aasche].
• "In Parallelen Welten", Museum für Gegenwartskunst , Siegen, Germany.
• "L’histoire d’une décennie qui n’est pas encore nommée", Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, [curator : Saâdane Afif].
• "Weather Report", CAAM , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain [curator : Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya].
• "Mystic truths", Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand [curator: Natasha Conland].
• "New Horizons", MARCO, Vigo, Espagne & La Centrale Électrique, Brussels, Belgium [curator : Hilde Terrlinck].
• "Phantasmagoria : Specters of absence", Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogota, Colombia.
  The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. [curator: José Roca].
• "Les roses de Jéricho", Galerie Attitudes, Genève, Suisse, [curator: Claire Le Restif].

2006

• "Sudden Impact", Le Plateau - FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France.
• "Building the World", MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico.
• "Antidote 02", Galerie des galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France.
• "A Tale of two cities", Busan Biennal, South Korea, [curator: Claire Staebler].
• "From There", Bloomberg SPACE, London, Great Britain.
• "Assemblage III", Museum 52 Gallery, London, Great Britain.
• "Satellite of love", Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• "Notre histoire", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

2005

• "OK / OKAY", Gey Art Gallery & Swiss Institute , New York, USA. [curator: Marc-Olivier Wahler].
• "Invisible script", W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [curator : François Piron]
• "Radio days", De Appel foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2004

• "Je m’installe aux abattoirs", la collection d’art contemporain d’Agnès b., Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France.
• "Busan Biennale 2004", Busan, South Korea [curator :Manu Park].

2003

• “Complément à l’ouest", Zoo Gallery, Nantes, France.
• "Plan 03", Museum für angewandte Kunst, Köln, Germany.
• "Design matografi y experimenta design", Lisbon Biennale, lisbon, Portugal.

2002

• "Printemps de Septembre", Toulouse, France, [curator: Marta Gili].
• "Subréel", MAC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France, [curator: François Piron, Nathalie Ergino].
• "Promotion", Art space Paul Ricard, Paris, France [curator: François Piron].
• "Panorama 3", Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France [commissaire: curator].
• "Rendez-vous", Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA [curator: Claire Le Restif].