Born in Geneva in 1965
Lives and works in Geneva

EDUCATION

1984-90 Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel, Geneva
1983-84 Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Geneva

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2007
BFAS/ Blondeau Fine Art Services (automne), Genève, Suisse
Galerie Bärtschi (automne), Genève, Suisse
COMA, Berlin, Allemagne
Cubes, installation permanente, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseilles, France

2006
Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall
Le Plateau, installation “vidéotheque mobile”, Paris

2005
Orange County Museum, Newport Beach, California, USA
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Kunstalle St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
"Tribunal" Château de Châteaudun, France

2004
Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
"Nature Morte", in collaboration with Visual Arts Gallery & India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India

2003
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
"Happines overdose", Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland

2002
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Biennale de Sao Paulo, Bresil
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany

2001
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
"Self-Tattoos, estampes et multiples, 1982-2001", Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
"Under Pressure", Swiss Institute, NY ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, USA
Art Unlimited, Vidéothèque Mobile, Basel, Switzerland
Contemporary Edition Center, Geneva, Switzerland

2000
"Défense", Elac, Lausanne, Switzerland

"Scène", Project Room, Arco, Spain
Galerie de Lege Ruimte, Gand, Belgium
Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland

1999
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Zurich-Kloten Airport, Switzerland
Free Market Kunsthof, Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstkasten, Winterthur, Switzerland
Ausstellungsraum, Offenbach am main

1998
Galerie de Lege Ruimte, Gand, Belgium
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland

1997
CAN, Centre d'art, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
ECAL, Ecole cantonale d'art, Lausanne, Switzerland
Gramercy Art Fair, New York, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, USA
Galerie Gabrielle Vitte, Ajaccio, France

1996
"In Vitro", Geneva, Switzerland
"Ecart", Art 27'96, Bâle, Switzerland
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland

1994
Espace d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
Attitudes, Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland

1993
La Régie, Geneva, Switzerland

1991
Galerie Skopia, Geneva, Switzerland

1990
M/2, Vevey, Switzerland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Rouge Baiser, 1ere edition de la Biennale Estuaire Nantes – Saint Nazaire, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France (01.06 – 01.09)
Dans ces eaux là..., Domaine du Château d’Avignon, France
Une question de génération, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
Collective One, Galerie Guy Bärtschi
Editions, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
The Plastic Vacuum, a proposal by John Tremblay, Cabinet des estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
Môtiers 2007, Môtiers, Suisse (Juin - Septembre)

2006
Human Game, Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy
Pelouses autorisées, Parc de la Villette, 30 juin – 1er juillet
Galerie Sint-Lukas, Bruxelles
Talking about the Real World – a aspect of Contemporary Swiss Art, Chiba City Museum of Art
La Vidéothèque mobile, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris Belleville

2005
« Des deux côtés du Rhin – Mouvement », Museum Ludwig, Köln
“Talking about the Real World”, Contemporary Swiss Art, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japon
Leçon Zéro, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
"Agir Proche", Maison de la culture d'Amiens, France

2004
"None of the Above", Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
"Personne n'est innocent", Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
"L'estampe/à chaque technique ses chefs-d'oeuvre", Cabinets des estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
"Re : Location 6 : Re(framed)locations, dis(covered) desires", Gdansk, Poland
"L'air du temps", collection printemps / été, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
"Playgrounds & Toys", La Manufacture des Oeillets, Ivry sur Seine, France
"Situations construites", Attitudes, Espace d’arts contemporains, Geneva, Switzerland

2003
"Through the Eye of a Needle", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
"Pantella Suiza", Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"Fast Food, Fast Love", ESBA, Geneva, Switzerland
"Multitudes – Solitudes", Museion – Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano, Italy
" Urban Diaries: Young Swiss art ", Alcala 31, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
"Dust Memories", Swiss Institute, New York, USA
25th Biennial of Ljubljana, Slovenia
"G2003", Mostra internazionale d'arte all'aperto, Vira Gambarogno e Ascona, Italy
"Playgrounds & Toys", John Kiakossian School, Erevan, Armenia
"Glassfab. Praha>Milano", ACS Editions, Milano, Italy
"Re : Location", Villa Arson, Nice, France
"Mouvements de fonds. Acquisitions du Fnac 2002", Galeries contemporaines des
musées de Marseille.
"Buenos Dias Buenos Aires : Arte contemporaneo siuzo", museo de arte contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Meanwhile in the real world", Chapelle de la Sorbone, Paris, France
"Prestige", URDLA, Villeurbanne, France

2002
" De la représentation à l'action ", un projet de Maria Ines Rodriguez, Le Plateau, Paris, France
" JRP Editions "_ Instalação, Galeria João Graça, Lisboa, Portugal
" Community art collaboration", Evens Foundation, Antwerp, Belgique
"JRP Editions », Galerie Martin Janda Raum Aktueller Kunst, Wien
"Public Affairs", Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland
" Objets de réflexion ", Le Plateau, Paris, France
" Prière (s) ", Musée d’ Art et d’ Histoire, Saint-Denis, France
" Tutto Normale ", Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy
"Something Anything", Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
"The collective unconsciensness", Migros Museum, Zurich
"Onze débardeurs/Palissades", FRAC Bourgogne, France
" Energies de résistance", attitudes : espace d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
" The gift…" International tour organised by ICI, New York, USA
"Playgrounds & Toys", Deepalaya School, New Dehli, India

2001
"Under Pressure", Museum of Contemporary art, Tucson, USA
"L'Esprit de Famille", Villa du Parc, Geneva, Switzerland
Sonsbeek 9 : "LocusFocus", Arnhem, Netherlands
" The over exited body ", Duomo Piazza, Milano, Italy
"Ambiance magasin ", Abbaye Saint-André, Meymac, France
"Gonflé", Faux Mouvement, Metz, France
"The gift, Generous offerings, threatening hospitality ", Palazzo Candiani, Sienna, Italy (oct.2001- janv.2002)
Work produced for the courtyard of Attitudes, espace d’arts contemporains, with the help from Fonds d’art contemporain de la ville de Genève, Switzerland
"Histoire de cœur", Collection Michel Poitevin, Fondation Guerlain, Les Mesnuls, France
"Fabrice Gygi", in : 5,6,7,8,9,10-Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
‘‘Mégahertz", Attitudes, espace d’arts contemporains, Geneva, Switzerland

2000
Artissima, Arte contemporanea a Torino, Italy
"XN 00", Maison des arts, Châlon sur Saône, France
"Défense L’ELAC", Lausanne, Switzerland
"Only connect", Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
"Over the Edges", SMAK, Gand, Belgium
" Kunst in der stadt 4", Kunsthaus Bregenz, Germany
"Ex Lux", Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall in Tirol, Vienna, Austria

1999
"Human rights", Fond Cantonal de Décoration et d’art visuel, Geneva, Switzerland
"Power", Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
"Le Repubbliche dell' Arte - Svizzera", Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy
"Corps Social", Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
"FWD » Italia / FWD » Olanda", Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy
"Les coups", FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France

1998
"Technocuture", Fria-art, Fribourg
"Forde's Needles", Galerie Forde, Geneva, Switzerland
"The Edge of Awareness", Organisation mondiale de la Santé, Art for the World, P.S. 1, New York, USA ; New Dehli, India ; Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Altered States", Festival A/D Werf, Utrecht, Netherlands
"Poussière (dust memories), FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes
"Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer", Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland ; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
"Nonchalance Revisited", Junge Scweizer Kunst, Akademeie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
"Diana 98", Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
"Suite substitude III", Hötel du Rhône, Geneva, Switzerland
"Do all oceans have walls ?", Künstlerhaus + Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Lauréats du concours Fédéral des Beaux-Arts, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany
"Paravaents-Z", Galerie Patrick Roy, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Ignition", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
"Dogdays are over", Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France

1997
Concours fédéral des beaux arts, Musée Arlaud, Lausanne
"My Swiss Friends", Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA
"Des histoires en formes", Le Magasin, Centre régional d'art contemporain, Grenoble, France
"504", Zentrum für Kunst, Medien und Design, Braunschweig, Germany
"Nonchalance", Centre PasquART, Bienne, France
Galerie Skopia, Geneva (with Pierre Klossowski and Pierre Schwerzmann), Switzerland

1996
"Ici Bas", Galerie Skopia, Geneva, Switzerland
"Young Art", Kunsthalle Bern and MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
"Cabines de Bain", Piscine de la Motta, Fribourg, Switzerland
"Winners of the Swiss Federal Prize of Fine Arts", Centre d'Art Contemporain,
Geneva, Switzerland
6° Cairo International Bienale, Cairo, Egypt

1995
"Jedes Haus ein Kunsthaus", Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
"Môtiers1995 - Art en plein air", Môtiers, Switzerland
"Christmas Show", Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland

1994
"Migraçoes", Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Jedes Haus ein Kunsthaus", Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland

1993
"7 Westschweizer KünstlerInnen", Kleines Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

1991
"Sub Trans Alpina", Fort de Bard, Val d'Aoste, Italy

1990
"7 artistes aménagement M/2", M/2, Vevey, Switzerland

PERFORMANCES

2002
"A gentleman’s agreement", Biennale de Cétigné, Montenegro

1995
"Performance Domestique", Projektraum Zürich, LowBet, Geneva, Switzerland
"Always upright", Performance Index, Warteck-Brauerei, Basel, Switzerland

1994
"Authority Finger", Attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland

1990
"Ligne droite", M/2, Vevey, Switzerland

AWARDS

1996/97/98
Swiss Federal Prize of Fine Arts (Federal Grants), Bern, Switzerland

1996
6° Cairo International Bienale, Cairo, Egypt, 2° prize

1995
Lissignol Grant, Geneva, Switzerland