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Biography 

Monique Frydman lives and works in Paris and Senantes in France.

Personal exhibitions:

2021

My perfect Body exhibition at Dutko Gallery, Paris, France

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2021

Jubilation, exhibition at the Bogena gallery, Saint Paul de Vence, France

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2021

Chronique des jours fêlés, exhibition at Dutko Gallery, Paris, France

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2019
Monique Frydman, exhibition at Dutko Gallery, Paris, France

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2018
Le temps de peindre, Espace Commines, Paris, France

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2017
Monique Frydman, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK

2016
In the Golden Light, Passage de Retz, Paris

2015
A journey through colors, Bogena Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
U-topia of color, Espace Muraille, Geneva, Switzerland
2014
Des saisons avec Bonnard, Bonnard Museum, Le Cannet, France

2013
Polyptyque Sassetta, Salon Carré, Louvre Museum, Paris, France

2012
Monique Frydman...de la couleur..., Alice Pauli Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland

2011
Inside/Out, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Monique Frydman, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (2011–12), Kanazawa, Japan

 

2009
Monique Frydman: dix ans ded peinture(s) 1978–1988, Jacques Elbaz Gallery, Paris, France

2008
Whisper, La Verrière, Hermès Corporate Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Calcaire : 7 tableaux, Espace Commines, Paris, France

2006
Monique Frydman: la couleur tissée, Matisse Museum, Le Cateau-Cambresis, France

2005
Sensible exemplaire, Bouvet-Ladubay Contemporary Art Center, Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent, Saumur, France
Monique Frydman, Sollertis Gallery, Toulouse, France

2003
L'oeuvre sur papier, Museum of Fine Arts, Tourcoing, France, Museum of Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, France, Museum of Modern Art, Céret, France

2002
Monique Frydman: rpeintures récentes, Alice Pauli Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
Monique Frydman, Savage Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

2001
Peintures1996–2000, Laage-Salomon Gallery, Paris, France
Révélés, Jacques Elbaz Gallery, Paris, France
Peintures pour Tokyo, Laage-Salomon Gallery, Paris, France

2000
L'emprunte et la couleur, Espace Tag-Heuer, Tokyo, Japan

1999
Les sombres, Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France, and Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse, France

1997
Monique Frydman, Laage-Salomon Gallery, Paris, France

1996
Les Dames de Nage Laage-Salomon Gallery, Paris, France
Autour d'un triptyque: Absinthe, Jacques Elbaz Gallery, Paris, France
Monique Frydman, Matisse Museum, Nice, France
L'Age d'Or, Archet II Hospital, Nice, France
Monique Frydman, Sollertis Gallery, Toulouse, France

1995
Les Dames de Nage (1992–1995), Museum of Fine Arts, Caen, France

1993
Monique Frydman, Willy d’Huysser Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1991
Monique Frydman, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France
Ephéméride, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jouy-en-Josas, France

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1990
L'Ombre du Rouge, Alice Pauli Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland

1989
Monique Frydman, Regional Center for Contemporary Art, Toulouse, France
Monique Frydman, Art Center, Flaine, France
Monique Frydman, Gill Fabre Gallery, Lyon, France

1988
Monique Frydman, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France

1987
Monique Frydman, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Monique Frydman, Jacques Girard Gallery, Toulouse, France

1986
Monique Frydman, C. Le Chanjour Gallery, Nice, France

1985
Monique Frydman, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France

1983
Monique Frydman, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France

1981
Monique Frydman, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France
Monique Frydman, Abbey Museum, Les Sables d'Olonne, Sainte-Croix, France

1979
Monique Frydman, La Caisse Gallery, Nice, France

1978
Monique Frydman, studio opening, Paris, France

Collective exhibitions (selection):

2023

250 years of Solar Culture, worldwide traveling exhibition by Veuve Clicquot 

 

2020
Abstractions, Dutko Gallery, Paris, France
Les Authentiques, In the studios of 21st century artists. The Pioneers II,Pierre-Alain Challier Gallery, Paris, France

 

2019
Paris, the Paris Mint, Toget'Her, Tribute by 33 contemporary artists to inspiring women and charity sale for the benefit of UN Women

2018
Adventure of Seeing, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanzawa, Japan
Image en lutte,Palace of Fine Arts,
Matisse and Vence, in the light of Matisse, Vence Museum
Trois femmes, trois regards sur le monde! Monique FrydmanEtel Adnan, Landa Crommelynck, Châtellerault Contemporary Art Center

2015
Rooms Apart X: Timeless, La Reserve, Paris, France

2014
Le mur-oeuvre de la collection Antoine de Galbert, The Red House, Paris, France
Rooms apart IX: Nine, La Reserve, Paris, France
Joan Mitchell: Mémoire de Paysage, Monet, Riopelle, Jaffe, Riegl, Frydman, Kirkeby, Benzaken, Museum of Fine Arts of Caen, Caen, France
Beauvais, 350 ans, portrait d'une manufacture,National Manufacture of Beauvais, Beauvais, France
Bogena Gallery, Artspace 222, Singapore

2013
La Route Bleue, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Chambre à part VIII: Seeing is a fable, La Reserve, Paris, France
Chambre à part VII: Dark to light,The Doctor's House, Tower of London, London, UK

2012
Chambre à part VI: Poetic trajectories, La Reserve, Paris, France

2011
Decor and Installation, Gallery of the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, Paris, France
Chambre à part V: Lines & Figures, Shangri La Hotel, Paris, France

2010
Chambre à part IV, La Reserve, Paris, France

2009
elle@centrepompidou, Center Pompidou (2009–2011), Paris, France
Métissage, art contemporain et , The Radar and The Baron Gerard Museum, Bayeux, France
No Man's Land, Embassy of France in Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Rooms apart III, La Reserve, Paris, France

2008
Friedman + Frydman. One and the other, Sollertis Gallery, Toulouse, France

2007
Line B / Connection to Slaughterhouses, Les Abattoirs, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Toulouse, France
The forms of color, Bouvet-Ladubay Contemporary Art Center, Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent, Saumur, France

2005
Contemporary Frames,National Tapestry Gallery, Beauvais, France
Venus in Périgord,Francois Mitterrand Cultural Center, Perigueux, France
Portraits of women from the Bible, Diana Marquardt Gallery, Paris, France

2003
20 years of creation in the Regional Contemporary Art Funds, Museum of Fine Arts, Nantes, France

1999
Goya Informe: modern descendants of Goya, Fine Arts Museum of Tourcoing, France
Paintings, painting is not a genre, Jacobin Museum, Morlaix, Brou Museum, Bourg-en-Bresse; Tourcoing Fine Arts Museum, France

1998
M. Frydman, C. Bonnefoi and J-P. Pinchmin, Rosa Turetsky Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Emotional Landscape: G. Baselitz, P. Cognée, M. Frydman, P. Kirkeby, G. Marsh, Laage-Salomon Gallery, Paris, France

1997
Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Caen, France
Do they have a job? Denise Rene Gallery, Paris, France
From Monet to Morandi, Palazzo Sarcinelli, Conegliano, Italy
collections, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France

1995
Atlan, Fautrier, Frydman, Mason, Poliakoff, Rouan,Jacques Elbaz Gallery, Paris, France
The paper, Cleavage Gallery, Paris, France

1994
Like a ray of light, Alice Pauli Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
Small is beautiful,Alice Pauli Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland

1991
An Atlantic look, Europe-America, Alice Pauli Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France
Manufacture Nationale de Sevres, Sevres, France

1989
Fota Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Five French Artists, The French House – Embassy of France, Washington, DC, USA
A collection for the Grande Arche, La Defense, Paris, France
The acquisitions of the Cartier Foundation, Jouy-en-Josas, France

1988
Choice of Abstracts, Refectory of the Jacobins, Museum of Modern Art, Toulouse, France
Praise of paper [In Praise of Paper], B.C.P. of the Ardèche, Annonay, France

1987
French survey show of the French/?Australian artists exchange project, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Helene Delprat, Monique Frydman, Camille Saint-Jacques, Center for artistic and cultural development, Martigues, France
9 French Artists,Modern Art Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

1985
The Abstract Way, Hotel-de-Ville, Hall Saint-Jean, Paris, France
Map,FRAC Champagne-Ardennes and Franche-Comté, Reims, Sedan, France

1983
Resonance,Roma, Italy
Singular-Plural, Munich, Germany

1982
Triennial, New Delhi, India
4 years of acquisitions, Municipal Museum, Toulon, France
Künst-Frankrike, Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway

1980
Art and artist books, N.R.A. Gallery, Paris, France
Die Sprache der Stille, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany
Toulon Museum, Toulon, France

1979
Toulouse-Mirail University, Toulouse, France
The Tondo from Monet to the present day, Sainte-Croix Abbey Museum, Les Sables-d’Olonne, France

1978
N.R.A. Gallery, Paris, France
Michel Lechaux Gallery, Paris, France
College of Contemporary Exchanges, Saint-Maximin, France

Public orders:

2011
Fenêtre sur cour, écran crée en collaboration avec le designer Frédéric Ruyant et réalisé par la Manufacture des Gobelins et le Mobilier National, Paris, France

2007
Boucle d’or, FNAC | Fonds national d’art contemporain, avec la participation de l’atelier de broderie le Bégonia d’Or, Rochefort, France
La Sauleraie, Saouzelong metro station, Toulouse, France
Le Mur de Lisses, installation permanente pour l’escalier de la galerie de la Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, Paris, France

2006
La danseuse de cordes, cylindres de porcelaine, prototype réalisé par la  Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, France

2001
6 Yamanashi-Gakuin University, Kofu prefecture, Japon

1999
L’ardente, commande du Mobilier National pour la Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, Paris, France

1996
L’Age d’Or, Hopital l’Archet II, Nice, France

1989
Jaune secret, AXA Mécénat, La Grande Arche, La Défense, France

Company collections:

Société Générale 

Institution collections:

Office Européen des Brevets EPO. Munich

Awards 

Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur
Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 

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