Joelle Kem Lika

Major painter, internationally renowned, present in private European, American and international collections.
Painting Prize: Toile d'Or “Art en Capital" 2013, Paris, Grand Palais, Champs Elysées.

Participation in prestigious exhibitions and fairs:
- Paris: Orangery of the Senate, Art en Capital.
- London: Chelsea, Art Biennal, Berlin, Vienna, Monaco.
- Rome: Palazzo del Vaticano. Chianciano, Tuscany Art Biennale Museo Arte. Pesaro: Alexander Museum
- USA: New York (Chelsea), Washington DC: French Embassy. Raleigh, North Carolina
Miami: Wynwood, Art Basel (2013.2014.2015.2016);
Houston: French Consulate, British Consulate, International Biennial. Permanent exhibition.
- Asia: Pekin: Art Beijing, Shangaï, and Seoul.

I like to use a bright palette with strong, cheerful colors, with a subtle play between opacity / transparency, material effects with a knife, figurative and abstract.

The homage to Monet allows me to share my personal universe, mixed with
influences of artists that I particularly like: B. Morisot, E Manet, V. Van Gogh, P. Gauguin et contemporains N. de Staël, JP Riopelle, Joan Mitchell, P. Soulages, G. Richter ...

At age 20 I moved to Paris and studied at Atelier Albers for two years, a school that prepares pupils who wish to join any of the major Art and Decoration schools in France. The classes were taught by two painters and an architect...

Simultaneously I discovered psychology, psychoanalysis and Sophrology in which I took a great interest. I chose this profession and was a psychotherapist in Paris for over 25 years.

I continued to draw and paint, went to fine arts school in Auxerre, Burgundy. I have a country house there. 10 years of happy exploration... and a lot of personal work.

I ended my therapist career in 2006 at age 51 to become a full time professional artist. I started a new life and concentrated on my passion for painting.

After a number of exhibits all over France since 2000, I have created my own contemporary art galleries :

March 2007 in Burgundy near Chablis, in the studio of my country house and later that year I bought the village café and turned it into an art gallery.

In 2009 I have opened my studio in Lacanau by the Atlantic Ocean and in 2011 I had an extension built.

In February 2010 I have opened my gallery in the heart of Paris, near Les Halles and the bustling Montorgueil street.

2022
-> Bourgogne Sainte Vertu : Galerie Joëlle Kem Lika "Bruissements charnels"
2021
-> Bourgogne Sainte Vertu : Galerie Joëlle Kem Lika "Lumières"
-> Bourgogne Sainte Vertu : Galerie Joëlle Kem Lika "Feu solaire"
-> Houston Texas : British Consulate General - Curated by Yvonamor Palix.
-> Lacanau Océan : Atelier Joëlle Kem Lika : "Feu solaire"
-> Bourgogne Sainte Vertu : Galerie Joëlle Kem Lika "Inside"
2020
-> Houston Texas : Art and Architecture ( July 20 - Sept20)
-> Houston Texas : Yvonamor Palix Gallery (Feb 20 - June 20)
-> France : Permanent exhibitions :
Galerie Joëlle Kem Lika : Burgundy- Sainte Vertu
Atelier Joëlle Kem Lika : Aquitaine : Lacanau Océan
2019
-> Houston Texas : "Flight of the monarch"
International Art Bienniale ( Oct 19 - Jan 20)
-> Houston texas : Consulat de France : Live painting
-> Paris : Young International Artfair (Nov)
-> La Rochelle ( France) - Biennale Arts Atlantic ( Nov)
-> France : Permanent exhibitions :
Galerie Joëlle Kem Lika : Burgundy- Sainte Vertu
Atelier Joëlle Kem Lika : Aquitaine : Lacanau Océan
2018
- Houston texas : Permanent exhibition : Yvonamor Palix Galery -
-> France : Permanent exhibitions :
Galerie Joëlle Kem Lika : Burgundy- Sainte Vertu
Atelier Joëlle Kem Lika...