Grégoire DEVIN

Grégoire DEVIN

Paris, France

About Grégoire DEVIN

"GRÉGOIRE DEVIN, AN UP-AND-COMING FRENCH ARTIST, BRILLIANTLY EVOKES MENTAL, URBAN IDEAS THROUGH HIS PAINTINGS. WHILE USING STREET ART AS A BASE, DEVIN INTEGRATES CONCEPTS AND STYLES THAT DRAW FROM THE EARLY FACETS OF CHILDHOOD ART, HIS TRAVELS, AND HIS INTERACTIONS WITH STREET CULTURE AND GRAFFITI. AS HIS PAINTINGS ARE ALMOST A MAZE OF HIS THOUGHTS INSPIRED BY HIS TRAVELS, DEVIN’S COMPOSITIONS ARE BUSY AND DENSE WITH COLLAGE AND IMAGERY, BUT NOT IN AN OVERWHELMING WAY. AT FIRST GLANCE, YOU MAY SEEM LOST, AS IT’S HARD TO DECIPHER GRÉGOIRE’S CODE OF WHAT THESE IMAGES AND WORDS OR PHRASES ARE DOING PLACED TOGETHER ON THE SAME CANVAS. BUT BEING LOST IN DEVIN’S WORK IS NOT A BAD THING. IT’S WHILE LOST IN THE LABYRINTH OF IDEAS AND DEPICTIONS OF URBAN LIFE DEVIN DISPLAYS FOR US, THE VIEWER IS ABLE TO BECOME FULLY ENGULFED BY HIS IDEAS, AS HIS WORKS ASK US TO RETHINK OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE VAST URBAN SPACE AROUND US" - PAUL GOST, NEW YORK ARTS MAGAZINE

Education:

"TRAINED IN THE MOST DYNAMIC CITIES IN THE WORLD AND INSPIRED BY THE MOST COSMOPOLITAN ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS, GREGOIRE DEVIN TRANSMITS IN HIS ART THE ENERGY OF STREET CULTURE, OF "POP ART" AND OF «COUNTER-CULTURE» IN NEW YORK. ITS MODERN KALEIDOSCOPIC WORKS RESOLUTELY QUESTION THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN, CHILDREN'S ART AND ITS INTERACTION WITH STREET ART, BUT ALSO THE PLACE OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE VAST URBAN SPACE AROUND US."

- EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LILLE, FRANCE

Events:

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS //

NEW YORK, MIAMI, CHICAGO, HOUSTON, SEATTLE, AUSTIN, MINNEAPOLIS, LOS ANGELES, PARIS, LONDON, BERLIN, BEIRUT, DUBAI, BEIJING

Exhibitions:

2019

MAX GALLERY - NYC, USA (Jan. 9-29)

2018

ARTEXPO NEW YORK - NYC, USA

2017

TOKYO ART FAIR - TOKYO, JAPAN

2016

SIA GALLERY - NEW YORK, USA

2015

GALERIE MARIE RICCO - CALVI, FRANCE
GALERIE SANDY TOUPENET - PARIS, FRANCE

2014

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OF DALIAN, CHINA
RED GALLERY - BEIJING, CHINA

2013

GUOZHONG ART MUSEUM - BEIJING - CHINA
ART BEIJING 2013 - BEIJING, CHINA
​​​​​​"They were, they are, they will" - ATLANTIC GALLERY - NEW YORK, USA
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2012

RED DOT ART FAIR - MIAMI, USA​
"Dialogue(s)" - MONTSERRAT GALLERY - NEW YORK, USA​
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - HAINAN, CHINA​