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Barthélémy Toguo    (Cameroon, 1967)

 Barthélémy Toguo - Boat (Mixed Media)
Barthélémy Toguo
Boat 2007
 
 Barthélémy Toguo - Purification N. XVIII (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 114 x w: 100 cm / h: 44.9 x w: 39.4 in
Barthélémy Toguo
Purification N. XVIII 2007
 
 Barthélémy Toguo - The Administrator (Sculptures) h: 300 x w: 300 x d: 100 cm / h: 118.1 x w: 118.1 x d: 39.4 in
Barthélémy Toguo
The Administrator 2008
 

Biography
1967 Born in M’Balmayo, Cameroon
1989 - 1993 Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
1994 Grant from the Office Franco Allemand pour la Jeunesse
1993 - 1996 Ecole d'Art de Grenoble (DNSEP)
1994 - 1996 Kunst Akademie, Düsseldorf, Germany (Klaus Rinke's atelier)
1996 Grant from the Centre Genèvois de Gravure Contemporaine
1998 Grant from DAAD, Germany
Lives and works in Paris

Exhibitions
2008 Micro-Narrative, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
2008 The Devilish Human Temptation, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna, Austria (solo)
2008 Heart Beat, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, New Casttle, United Kingdom (solo)
2008 Laughing in a foreign language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2008 Black Paris, Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
2007 2°Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2007 Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2007 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2007 De leur temps - Art contemporain et collections privées, Musée d'art contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
2007 Art Protects, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2007 Temptation of small realities - micro-communities, October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2007 African Way, Orangerie de Madame Elisabeth, Versailles, France
2007 Climbing Down, Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France (solo)
2006 Wildcats' Dinner, Ateliers d'artistes de la Ville de Marseille, Marseille, France (solo)
2006 La Magie du souffle, Frac Paca, Marseille, France (solo)
2006 Notre histoire…, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2006 La Force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris
2005 A fleur de peau: Le dessin à l’épreuve, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris
2005 Short Cuts Between Reality and Fiction, Bass museum of art, Miami Beach
2005 Faire signe, La criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes
2005 African Art Now, oeuvres de la collection J. Pigozzi, Musée des Beaux-arts de Houston, USA
2005 Exotic Ambivalence, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Art of Africa, oeuvres de la collection J. Pigozzi, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
2005 Africa Urbis, Perspectives Urbaines, Musée des arts derniers
2005 Afrika Remix, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
2005 Slow destruction, Galerie Anne de Villepoix (solo)
2005 The Human Mirror, Ecole supérieure d’art, Lorient (solo)
2004 Swallowing the World/Avalez le monde, aliceday, Brussels (solo)
2004 The sick opera, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (solo)
2004 La guerre des sexes n’aura pas lieu, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Valence (solo)
2003 Pure and Clean, Institute of Visual Arts Milwaukee, USA (solo)
2002 Mamie water , Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris (solo)
2002 Emergency Exit, le Lieu Unique, Nantes (cat.) (solo)
2002 Puk, Puk, Puk, CCC, Tours (solo)
2002 Epidémies, Goethe Insitut, Yaoundé, Cameroon (solo)

Literature
2003 Eroticotoguo, Barthélémy Toguo & onestar press, Paris
2002 You don’t know what you are missing, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, Filigranes Editions
2001 Das Bett, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, éditions A Bruit secret, Collection du Jeu de Paume, Dunkerque
1999 Labyrinth Process, La Criée Rennes
1999 Conversation avec Frau Schenkenberg, Die Tageszeitung, Small Noise, Brussels
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