Bio


Born French in Tunis, Tunisia
Grew up in Nice, France before arriving to States
1984 - 1986 Lives and works in Berlin, while keeping residence in New York City
1986 - 1991
Lives and works in Munich, while keeping residence in New York City
1992 - current Lives and works in New York City

Selected Museum Collections


1973 - Larry Aldrich Museum
1976 - Brooklyn Museum
1986 - Ludwig Museum, Cologne
1993 - MOCA, LA
1993 - FIU-MIAMI, FL
1992 - Guggenheim, NY
1992 - Ludwig Museum, Cologne
1993 - Newport Harbor Museum, LA
1997 - Berlin Museum of Art
2008 - Wolfsburg museum - Germany

Monographs


colette - 10 years of work politi- roceed - 81
colette - from silk to marble- kunstler haus bethanien - 84
colette - new paintings and work--kammerer&unverzagt- 85
colette - art on stage - nordorn museum germany- 85
colette - the bavarian adventure--dumont- 88
colette - colette love in ruins/ the artist and her muse- rempire gallery- 92
colette - the essence of olympia-institut- berlin- 97
colette - the new me- maison de la lumiere -carol johnssen- 2002
colette - kunstler kritisches lexicon der gegenwartskunst- weltkunst verlages-2004

Exhibitions

"Remix" - Traveling show of works in collection from the International Collage Center (curated by Pavel Zoubok & Rachel Lawe)

  • 2014 - January - March - Bates College Museum of Art - Bates College, Lewiston, ME
  • 2013 - Oct - Dec - Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture - University of Tenessee Knoxville TN
  • 2013 - June - Sept - The Daum Museum of Art - Katonah, NY

2013

  • 20130222141718487908_10151528586725572_1216819168_n_150"Colette and Sandy" Collaboration - Feb.16 opening reception & after dancing party celebration. Presentation of over 40 works on view till March 2nd. 83 Leonard St. Exhibition made possible by private sponsors.

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2012

2012 Oct - Dec - The Samek Art Gallery - Bucknell University, Lewisburg PA.
Nov 2012 - Bohemian Nights short films- presented by Nicki Carson, curated by Ingrid Dinter- Gershwin Hotel ("Painting the Street "The Ear"- 1973 with Al Hanson and Arnold Newman)
Sept 2012 - Jan 6, 2013 - "Come Closer" Art Around the Bowery 69-89- curated by Ethan Swan- New Museum -NYC
Sept - Oct 2012 - "Lumiere Travels through Springfield ". Solo show at Benedictine University, Springfield IL - in the historical victorian home on campus.
May 2012 - "Pirate in Venice" - a film on Colette (Laboroatorie Lumiere)- edited by Friedericke Schaefer - The Gershwin Hotel
May 2012 - November 2012- "Art Returns to Art"- Galleria dell'Accademia Firenze- Italy
Apr 2012 - :The Quality of Presence:- curated by Dimitri Komis- Chelsea Hotel-NYC
Mar 2012 - "The Von Show; Reward Has Anybody Seen Gaga"- Window Installation- curated by Emil Memon

2011

June 2011 - Politically Colette - curated by Alan Jones - at Paolo Barozzi - Venice, Italy
June 2011 - Sweet&Savory - at Pavel Zoubok Galley, NYC
July 2011 - Summer Salt - curated by Ingrid Dinter - "The Proposition Gallery" NYC
February 4 - March 16th 2011 - "Basic Instinct". Flanders Gallery (curated by Sasha Oksthteyn). Raleigh, NC
January 13 - Feb 2011 - White sale - curated by Beth Rudin Dewoody. Loretta Howard gallery.
Dec 11 - Jan 2011 - NYC Salon, curated by Michelle Fillou. Dorian Grey Art Gallery. East Village, NYC.
Dec 17 - Jan 23 2011 - BASIC INSTINCT, curated by Sasha Okshteyn , Black and White Project, Williamsburg.
Dec 11 - Jan 2011 - NYC Salon, curated by Michelle Fillou. Dorian Grey Art Gallery. East Village, NYC

Earlier

Sept 23 - Oct 30, 2010 - Consider The Oyster (group show) - James Graham Gallery, curated by Ingrid Dinter
April 22 - May 21st 2010 - "Girl Talk" at Pavel Zoubok Gallery
Feb. 8th - March 2010 - Colette at Destination - Unveiling of new Works.
Dec 2009 - Jan 2010 - 10th Barcelona contemporary festival - video - Museum of Contemporary Art
Nov 09 - Dinter Fine Art - Project Room - New York
Nov 22/ 09 - Apr 10 - P.S.1 - 100 years of performance curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Kate Macnamara (part of Performae09)
Sept 2009 - I.M.O Gallery "Pose/Expose" Copenhagen, Denmark curated by Toke
April 2009 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation - open studios -"...that's all she wrote..."
Dec 08 - April 09 - New Metaphysical Portraits on view at Black and White Gallery, NYC
2008-2009 - Wolfsburg museum - Interior/Exterior - Germany
2008-2009 - Akademie Der Kunste - React Feminism - berlin
2008 - Lowen Palais - Colette Lounge - video marathon
2007 - The Closet, Windows Gallery, LI City
2007 - The Apartment, HPGRP Gallery, New York City - SoHo
2007 - Intriguing Faces, Vivian Horan Gallery, New York City - SoHo
2006 - Lumière's Dinner at Eight , Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich, Germany
2006 - DowntownNYC, Grey Art Gallery, NYC (Group Show; 70´s-80´s)
2006 - Reverse Pop (with Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg), Haus der Kultur, Germany
2006 - La Vie en Rose, Pablo’s Birthday, NYC
2006 - Sexhandel, Frauen Museum, Bonn
2005 - La Robe, UNESCO, Paris
2005 - Colette Appearance at the Foyer, Löwen Palais, Berlin
2005 - Clothesline Exhibition, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico (Installation)
2005 - High Noon, Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich, Germany
2005 - Face to Face, Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich, Germany
2004 - C.I.A. (Colette Institute of Art) Crowbar, NYC (Multi-media Event)
2004 - The Bedroom, HGRP Building, Tokyo (Enviroment with new paintings, sculpture, souveniers, cd’s and clothes)
2004 - Domestic Bliss and the Colette Look, Rosenthal Showroom, New York
2003 - From the Other Side of the Sky, UNESCO, Paris
2003 - The Opening of the Colette Lounge, Löwen Palais, Berlin
2003 - Über die Malerei in der Photographie, Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich, Germany
2002 - Before and after the Smoke, Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich, Germany
2002 - PPOW Gallery, NYC (with Charlie Ahearn)
2002 - Montreal, 3 - rd Montreal Biennale
2002 - Maison Lumiere, NYC (Presentation for New Monograph)
2001 - Solo Exhibition at the Stiftung Starke, Berlin
2001 - Maison Lumiere Eggizio’s Project, NYC
2001 - Before and After the Smoke, Carol Johnssen Gallery, NYC
2000 - Colette goes Banking, Merck Finck Bank & Co., Berlin
2000 - Corpus Christi, Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas
2000 - Fondation de la Tapisserie, Brussels
1999 - Multi Media Event, Limelight, NYC
1999 - Colette in the Museums, Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich
1998 - Re-Duchamp, Goldstrom Gallery, New York
1998 - Reconceptualizations of the Tableaux Vivant, New York
1997 - New Perspectives, Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich, Germany
1997 - Le Salon De La Refusee, Gerswin Gallery, NYC
1997 - New York Art/Fashion, Guggenheim Museum
1997 - Aurevoir Olympia, 8th Floor Gallery, New York
1995 - Constructed Photographs, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1995 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1995 - Home Exhibition, MOMA Lausanne Switzerland
1994 - Updown Downtown Gallery, NYC
1994 - House of Olympia, Beatice Wasserman Cologne
1993 - The rise and the ruins of the House of Olympia, Lok Gallery, NYC
1992 - Rempire Gallery, New York
1992 - The Aristocrats, Carol Johnssen Gallery, Munich
1991 - Through the looking glass, Rempire Gallery , NYC
1990 - Visits to the Normal World, Carol Johnssen Gallery, Munich
1989 - Kunstverein, Munich
1986 - Galerie Dany Keller, Munich
1985 - Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1984 - Venice Biennale
1984 - Silvia Menzel Gallery, Berlin
1983 - New Paintings Installation, Barbara Braathen Gallery, NYC
1981 - Persona, New Museum, NYC
1981 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
1981 - 10-year Retrospective, Muenster, Germany
1979 - Elizabeth Weiner Gallery. Justine's Special Christmass Gifts.
1978 - Whitney Museum, Out of the House, NYC
1978 - PS 1. Justine and Victorian Punks. introduction performance.
1977 - Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977 - Cologne Art Fair, My living Environment re-installation.
1977 - Paris Biennale, Let them Eat Cake installation / performance.
1977 - Clearance sale, Gillesby / De Laage Gallery, Paris
1977 - It Re-appear, Cucalon Gallery , NYC
1976 - P.S.1
1974 - Florida, Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art
1975 - The Clocktower, the Dream Series with installation Real Dream, NYC
1973 - Sand Women with room installation. Stefonatty Gallery, NYC
1972 - Hommage to Delacroix, installation performance, lightboxes. Courtyard Gallery.

Awards & Accomplishments

1977 Fashion Innovator
1984 DAAD-Berlin
1985 National Endowment
1985 Caps Grant
86-88 Lothringrasse Studio Grant-Munich
81-02 Eight Monographs
2004 Kunstler Kritisches Lexikon (artist dictionary) Dergegenwartskunst
2004 Pollock-Krasner Foundation
08-09 Marie Walsh - Sharpe Foundation

Commissions

1985 Sets and Costumes for Berlin Opera/Ravel-Spanish Hour
95-2000 Colette Salon-Lowen Palais/Berlin
03-09 Colette Lounge-Foundation Starke/Berlin
03-04 The Bedroom-HTP Building-Entire Third Floor-Environment with New Artworksþ Sculptures Multiples and Clothes/Ginza, Tokyo


Most images of public and private performances are available in photo edition or as altered photographs.
Contact Maison Lumiere for more information.

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