Annette Messager

Annette Messager studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. She won first prize in the Kodak Photography International competition in 1964. In 1995 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York's Museum of Modern Art co-organized her first major American retrospective. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires (1999) and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2004). She also exhibited in the Biennale de Paris (1977), Documenta VI (1977) and XI (2002), the Biennale of Sydney (1979, 1984, and 1990), the Venice Biennale (1980, 2003, and 2005), and the Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon in 2000. She won the Golden Lion Award at the 2005 Venice Biennale.

ANNETTE MESSAGER CV

 

Born: Berck-sur-Mer, France, 1943.

Lives and works in Malakoff.

Education: Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, Paris.

Awards: Golden Lion for Best National Participation, 51^st Venice Biennale (French Pavilion) 2005.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2009 “The Messengers,” Haywood Gallery, London, England

“Annette Messager,” Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

2008 “Annette Messager,” EMMA Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland; National

Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; Mori Art Museum,Tokyo, Japan

2007 “Annette Messager,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2006 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York.

2004 “Annette Messager – Sous Vent,” Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France.

“Annette Messager – Between You and Me,” Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway.

2002 “Hors-jeu,” Musée des Beaux-arts, Nantes, France.

“Pudique, Publique,” Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro de arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy.

2000 “Le Retour d’Age de Repliquants,” Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France.

1999 “La procesion va por dentro,” Palacio de Velasquez - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.

“En balance,” Musée d’art Moderne, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

“Les messagers de l’été,” Ecuries de Saint-Hugues, Cluny, France.

1998 “Map of temper, Map of tenderness: Annette Messager,” David Winton Bell

Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

“C’est pas au vieux singe qu’on apprend à faire la grimace,” Musée des arts

“Annette Messager – Mes ouvrages 1988-1992,” Salzburger Kunstverein et d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Paris, France.

Décor d’une pièce de théâtre d’Alfredo Arias, “Aimer sa mere,” Maison de la culture, Bobigny, France.

1997 “Un mur à Marrakech, ”Institut Français de Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco.

“Dépendance Indépendance,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida.

1996 “Annette Messager,” The Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois.

“Dépendance Indépendance,” Capc-Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France.

1995 “Faire Parade,” Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France.

“Annette Messager,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.

“Annette Messager,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.

The Pace Roberts Foundation, San Antonio, Texas.

1994 Grand prix des arts plastiques, Paris, France.

1993 “Annette Messager - Faire figure,” FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France.

1992 “Annette Messager- Telling Tales,” Arnolfini, Bristol / Cornerhouse

Manchester / Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin / Camden Art Center, London, England.

Kunstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria.

“In Scapes – Annette Messager,” The University of Iowa, Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa.

1991 “Annette Messager – Making up stories / Faire des histoires,” Mercer Union,

Toronto / Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia.

1990 “Annette Messager – Comédie-Tragédie de 1971-1989,” Bonner Kunstverein,

Bonn / Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon / Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.

“Contes d’été,” (avec Christian Boltanski), Musée départemental, Château de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France.

1989 “Annette Messager – Mes ouvrages,” église Saint-Martin-du-Méjean, Arles, France.

“Annette Messager – Comédie-Tragédie de 1971-1989,” Musée de Peinture et 24 de Sculpture, Grenoble, France.

Festival de la sorcellerie, Centre d’art Contemporain, Castres, France.

1988 “Mes enluminures,” Le Consortium, Dijon, France.

“Annette Messager – Comédie-Tragédie de 1971-1989,” Centre d’Art Contemporain, Castres, France.

1987 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia.

“La ruée vers l’art,” ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris, France.

1986 “Annette Messager – Peindre, photographier,” Galerie d’art contemporain, direction des Musées de Nice, France.

Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Surrey Hills, Australia.

1985 “Annette Messager – Chimères,” Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London, England.

1984 “Annette Messager – Les piéges à chimères,” Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France.

1983 “Annette Messager – Chiméres, 1982-1983,” Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France.

1981 Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, California.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.

PS 1, Long Island City, New York, New York.

Artists Space, New York, New York.

1980 Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri.

Le coin du miroir, Dijon, France.

1978 “Les feuilletons,” Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany.

“Annette Messager Kolecje 1972-1975,” B.W.A., Lublin / Salon Krytykow, Czerwiec, Poland.

1977 “Annette Messager – Les vacances,” Centrum für Kunst, Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

1976 Galerie Multimedia Arte Contemporanea, Erbusco, Italy.

Galerie Grafikmeyer, Karlsruhe, Germany.

 “Messager/Boltanski, das Glück, die Schönheit und die Traüme,” Rheinisches

Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany.

1975 Galerie t’Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

“La Femme et…Annette Messager truqueuse,” Galerie Ecart, Geneva, Switzerland.

“Annette Messager – Mes jeux de mains,” Galerie d’Art Contemporain,

Zagreb / Galerie Space, Wiesbaden, Germany.

“Annette Messager collectionneuse, artiste, truqueuse, femme pratique,”

Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy.

1974 “Annette Messager collezionista,” Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy.

“Annette Messager collectionneuse – Les tortures volontaires,” Galerie Daner,

Copenhagen / Galerie Sankt-Pétri, Lund, Sweden.

“Annette Messager collectionneuse,” Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France.

1973 “Annette Messager Sammlerin – Annette Messager Künstlerin,” Städtische

Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich / Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble, France.

“Annette Messager collectionneuse – Mes clichés-témoins,” Galerie Yellow Now, Liège, Belgium.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2009 The Puppet Show, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Ensemble, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Silences: A view by Marin Karmitz, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France; Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal

LA FORCE DE L’ART 02, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Soft Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Parades and Processions: Here comes everybody, Parasol unit, London, England

Libertad, Igualdad, Fraternidad (Freedom, Equality, Liberty), Sala De Exposiciones La Lonja, Zaragoza, Spain; Sala Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Third Moscow Biennale, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2008 The Puppet Show, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Santa Monica

Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

2007 WACK!, Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at

MOCA, Los Angeles; Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; PS 1, Long Island City, New York

Mystic Truths, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Welcome Collection, London, England

2006 “The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in the Visual Arts since 1960,”

Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany.

“Naissances,” Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France.

“Smile Machines,” Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany.

“Collection Automne – Hiver,” 2ème Partie, CAPC – Musée d’art

Contemporain, Bordeaux, France.

“Correspondance,” Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

“La Force de l’art,” Grand Palais, Paris, France.

“ART FAB, la Femme, l’Art, l’Europe,” Espace Rendez-vous des lices, le

Lavoir Vasserot et la Citadelle, Saint Tropez, France.

“The Eighth Square. Gender, Life and Desire in the Visual Arts since 1960,”

Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany.

2005 “Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing,” Compton Verney, Warwick, England.

“Big Bang,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

“Casino,” 51st International Exhibition: Always a Little Further, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

“At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.

2004 “Un conte d’hiver,” FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France.

“Moving Pictures,” Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain.

“Annette Messager: Mes Petites Effigies,” organized by the Musee d’Art

Moderne de la ville de Paris / Musée national du Moyen Age Termes de Cluny, Cluny, France.

“The Joy of My Dreams,” Seville International Biennial, Seville, Spain.

2003 “Micropolitics III, Art & Everyday Life, 2001-1968,” Espai d’Art

Contemporain de Castelló, Spain.

“Phantom der Lust,” Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria.

 “Chimères,” Sale des Expositions du Quai Antoine I, Monaco.

“Yankee Remix,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts.

“Skin Deep,” Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy.

“Les Spectres de l’Hospice Comtesse,” Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France.

“Utopia Station,” Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

“Utopia Station Poster Project,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.

“Gegenwärtig: Field Research,” Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.

“Not So Cute & Cuddly: Dolls & Stuffed Toys in Contemporary Art,” Ulrich

Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas.

2002 “Ars Photographica,” Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany.

“Aubes – Rêveries au bord de Victor Hugo,” Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, France.

“Sacred & Profane,” York City Art Gallery, York, England.

“La part de l’autre,” Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France.

Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany.

“Les années 70, l’art en cause.” Musee d'Art Contemporain CAPC, Bordeaux, France.

2001 “Flash DVD” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England.

“Ma sorcière Bien Aimée,” Musée d’Histoire de la ville de Luxembourg.

“Do it,” Perth Festival, Perth, Australia.

“Le BHV inspire les artistes,” BHV, Paris, France.

“In Between,” Le Crestet, Centre d’art, Vaison La Romaine, France.

“Sacred & Profane,” Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England.

“Mutations,” Tokyo, Japan.

2000 “Zeitwenden,” Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.

“Ich ist etwas Anderes,” Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf, Germany.

“La beauté,” Palais des Papes, Avignon, France.

“Voilà, Le Monde dans la Tête,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.

“Die Verletzte Diva,” Galerie um TaxisPalais, Innsbrück, Munich et Baden- Baden, Germany.

“L’Empire du Temps – Mythes et créations,” Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.

“Closer to one Another” Biennale de la Havane, Havana, Cuba.

“Présumé innocent,” Capc-Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France.

“Partage d’exotisme,” Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France.

“La romance digestive d’Annette Messager,” restaurant Le Petit Saint-Benoît,

Comité Saint-Germain-des-Près, Paris, France.

 “Dire Aids,” Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy.

Arken - Museum for Moderne Kunst, Arken, Denmark.

“The Anagrammatical Boby,” Karlsruhe ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Biennale du livre d’artistes, Chateau de la Napoule, Mandelieu-la-Napoule,France.

1999 “Passeurs de linge,” Musée des arts et Traditions Populaires, Paris, France.

“Private Eye, Crimes and Cases,” Haus dem Waldsee, Berlin, Germany.

“Fauna,” Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland.

“Dards d’Art,” Musée Reattu, Arles, France.

1997 “Floating Images of Women in Art History,” Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan.

“Deep Storage, Arsenale der Erinnerung,” Haus der Kunst, Münich / National Galerie, Berlin, Germany.

“Do It,” a traveling exhibition organized by Independent Curators

International, New York, New York. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

1996 “Collections-Parcours,” Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, France.

“Chacun sa chimère,” Maison des arts, Bordeaux, France.

“Comme un oiseau,” Fondation Cartier, Paris, France.

1995 “Traces, Fragments, Ellipses,” Galerie d’Art Moderne, New Dehli, India.

“Passions Privées,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.

“Fetishism,” Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, England.

“45^ème Nord & Longitude 0,” Capc-Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France.

“Féminin/Masculin, le sexe de l’art,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

1994 “Les Chapelles de Vence,” fondation Emile-Hugues, Château de Villeneuve,

Vence / Espace des arts, Chalon sur Saône / Capc-Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France.

“Le saut dans le vide,” Maison des artistes, Moscow, Russia.

“Trans,” galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.

“Living in Knowledge – An Exhibition about the Questions not Asked,” Duke

University Art Museum, Durham, North Carolina.

1993 “L’Autre à Montevideo – Homenaje a Isidore Ducasse,” Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

“Fall from Fashion,” the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

 “De la main à la tête, l’objet théorique,” Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bihan, France.

“Et tous ils changent le monde,” 2e Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France.

“L’Envers des choses,” Galeries contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

“Anonymity & Identity – Oniric Threshold,” Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.

“Multiples Images: Photographs since 1965 from the Collections,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.

“Tresors de voyage,” Biennale de Venise, Monastero dei Padri Mechitaristi  dell’isloa di San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice, Italy.

“Chambre 763,” Hotel Carlton-Montparnasse, Paris, France.

“Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art,” Neuberger Museum of  Art, New York, New York.

1992 “Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art,” Los Angeles County

Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California / Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain / Kunsthalle Bâle, Basel, Switzerland / The Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

“Le Portrait dans l’Art Contemporain,” Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Nice, France.

“A visage découvert,” Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en Josas, France.

“Special Collection,” (The Photographic Order from Pop to Now),

International Center of Photography, New York, New York / Mary & Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois / Arizona State Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona / The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia / Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida / The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York / Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia / Ansel Adams Centre, San Francisco, California / Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska.

“Trans-Voices,” American Center, Paris (affiches dans le metro, Paris / NewYork)

“Corporal Politics,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1991 “1969-1972 – Une scène parisienne,” Centre d’Histoire de l’Art contemporain, Université de Rennes II /La Criée-Hall d ‘Art, Contemporain F.R.A.C Bretagne, Rennes, France.

“L’Excès et le retrait,” XXIè Biennale de Sao-Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

“La Collection,” Château de Rochechouart, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France.

“Construcing Images: Synapse Between Photography and Sculpture,” Tampa

Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida / Center of Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona / San José Museum of Art, San José, California.

1990 “Le choix des femmes,” Le Consortium, Dijon, France.

Biennale de Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

“Individualités : 14 Contemporary Artists from France,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

“Images in Transition: Photographic Representation in the Eighties,” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.

“Vies d’artistes,” Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France / Usine Fromage, Rouen, France / Musée de l’Ancien Evêché, Evreux, France.

“Francja Dsisiaj,” Museum Nardowe, Warsaw, Poland / Museum Nardowe, Kraków, Poland.

1989 “Une Autre Affaire,” Espace FRAC, Dijon, France.

“Histoire de Musées,” Arc-Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.

“Les 100 jours d’art contemporain de Montréal,” Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Quebec.

“Shadows of a Dream,” Dark Room, Cambridge, England / Impressions, York, England / Untitled Gallery, Sheffield, England .

“Simplon Express,” La Galerie des Locataires (intervention dans l’Orient Express), France.

“L’Invention d’un Art,” MNAM / Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

“Peinture, cinéma, peinture,” Centre de la Vieille-Charité, Marseille, France.

1988 “Nature Inconnue,” jardins de la Préfecture, Nevers, France.

“Narrative Art,” Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, France.

“Gran Pavese: The Flag Project,” Anvers, France.

“Le Facteur Cheval et le Palais idéal,” Mairie de Hauterives, France.

“Jahresgaben 88,” Kunstverein, Dusseldorf, Germany.

“Auf zwei Hochzeiten Tanzen,” Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland.

1987 “Exotische Welten Europäische Phantasien,” Landes Bibliothek, Baden- Würtenberg, Germany.

“Wall Works,” Cornerhouse, Manchester, England.

“Les années 70 – Les années mémoire,” Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France.

 “Perspectives Cavalières,” Ecole Régionale Supérieure d’Expression Plastique, Tourcoing, France.

1986 “Luxe, calme et volupté – Aspects of French Art, 1966-1986,” Vancouver Art

Gallery, Expo 86, Pavillon Français, Vancouver, British Columbia.

“Marchen, Mythen, Monster,” Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland.

“Photography as Performance : Message through Object & Pictures,” The Photographers Gallery, London, England.

1985 “Ils collectionnent – Premier regard sur les collections privées d’art contemporain,” Musée Cantini, Marseille, France.

“Biennale des Friedens-Finding a Form for Peace,” Kunstverein & Kunsthaus, Hambourg, Germany.

“Livres d’Artistes,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

1984 “Marchen, Mythen, Monster,” Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany / Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland.

“Ecritures dans la Peinture,” Villa Arson, Nice, France.

Biennale de Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

1983 “New Art 83,” Tate Gallery, London, England.

“Kunst mit Fotografie,” Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany / Kölnischer

Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany / Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany / Kunstverein, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany / Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany.

1982 “Gott oder Geifel: Erotik in der Kunst heute,” Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany.

“Façons de peindre,” Maison de la Culture, Chalon sur Saône, France /

Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland / Musée Savoisien, Chambery, France.

1981 “Typische Frau,” Bonner Kunstverein und Galerie Magers, Bonn, Germany / Stadtische Galerie Regensbourg, Germany.

“Autoportraits photographiques 1898-1981,” Mnam-Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

“For a New Art,” Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan.

1980 “Walls! ,” The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

“L’Arte degli anni settenta,” Biennale de Venise, Pavillon central, Venice, Italy.

“Ils se disent peintres, ils se disent photographes,” Arc-Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

1979 “French Art 1979: An English Selection,” Serpentine Gallery, London, England.

“European Dialogue,” Biennale de Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

“Photography as Art,” I.C.A., London, England.

“Tendances de l’art en France III, 1968-1978/1979, Parti-pris autres,” Arc-Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris France.

1978 “Couples,” PS 1, Long Island City, New York, New York.

1977 “Bookwarks,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.

“Selbstportrat,” Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany.

“Kunstlerinnen International 1877-1977,” Berlin, Germany.

10ème Biennale de Paris, Paris, France.

Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany.

1976 “Boites,” Arc-Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France / Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France.

“Identité / Identification,” Capc-Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France / Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, France.

“Foto & Idea,” Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna, Parme, Italy.

1975 “New Media,” Konsthall Malmö, Sweden.

“Je / Nous,” Musée d’Ixelles, Bruxelles, France.

Biennale de Venise, Magazini del Sale alle Zattere, Venice, Italy.

1974 “Ils collectionnent,” Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris / Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Montréal, Quebec.

1973 “Boltanski, Le Gac, Messager,” Biennale des Nuits de Bourgogne, Musée Rude, Dijon, France.

“Cinq musées personnels,” Musée de Grenoble, France.

1972 “French Window,” Galeria Sudentskog, Zagreb, Croatia.

“Wool Art – Artistes de la laine,” Galerie Germain, Paris, France.