Johan CretenRandall Chair Fall 2013
Johan Creten ( ˚1963, Belgium) is a Flemish sculptor based in Paris but working wherever he has the opportunity, from Miami to Mexico, from Den Haag to New York. He has been trained as a painter but soon turned to ceramics and bronze for his work. He has exhibited among many other places, at the Louvre Museum, at the Musée Nationale Eugène Delacroix in Paris, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, the Istanbul Biennale, the Mamco in Geneva, the Middelheimmuseum in Antwerp. In 1996 he was awarded the Prix de Rome and could stay as resident in the Villa Medici. Between 2004 and 2007 he was visiting artist at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. In 2009 he was nominated for the Flemish Culture Prize. In 2013, he held the Theodore Randall Chair at the Alfred University, NY.
In 2015 he has a solo show at Galerie Perrotin in New York and was selected for the Monaco Project for the Arts 2015 where he will present the exhibition The Nature of Clay. He is also included in following group shows: Glasstress Gotika, Berengo Foundation, la Biennale di Venezia; Vormidable. Contemporary Flemish Sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag & Ceramix, Ceramic Art from Gauguin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht. His work is represented by Galerie Perrotin in Paris, New York & Hong Kong, Galerie Almine Rech in Brussels and Galerie Transit in Mechelen. |
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