Valéry Grancher

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Valéry Grancher (born 1967 April 22 in Toulon, Var, France) is a French Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.

Grancher is best known for selling Internet art in the contemporary art mainstream. He was the first artist to sell an Internet art piece to a contemporary art museum, The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, in Paris in 1998. ^[1] In 1999, Grancher had a solo exhibit in a contemporary art museum in the United States, the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California. He was working for French publishing company Editions du Seuil at the time, and had a book published about him which was sold at the Pacific Film Archive.

Grancher's art is a mix of conceptual and pop art references, sometimes with a sense of humor, sometimes appropriating the fads of the day.

When Grancher started in the art world in 1995, he used emails in his art to show the processes and exchanges of the Internet community (email art) in physical installations like 'Alone' (1995). In 1997 he used webcams in his project 'webscape', which dealt with the concept of "cybertime." ^[2] In 1998, Grancher experimented with pop art in his 'webpaintings' project. ^[3] In 2002, as Google began to dominate the Internet, he launched the "Search Art" collaborative project by creating a piece called 'Self Portrait.' ^[4] Google had become a buzz word in the art world, and numerous artitsts had previously plundered the subject to death.

In 2005 he exhibited at FIAC, the international art fair in Paris, 'the biggest Google paintings never (sic) produced.'

1 Exhibitions
2 Private art galleries
3 Art pieces
4 Footnotes
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Exhibitions

Since the mid-1990s, Grancher has exhibited at many museums worldwide, including:

Palais de Tokyo site de création contemporaine, Paris, France. (2005)
Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2005, 2004, 2002)
Istambul Biennale, web biennial, Contemporary Art Museum, Istambul, Turkey (2005, 2003)
Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France. (2005)
MAMCO Musée d'Art moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland. (2004 - 2005)
Museo Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina (2004)
Galleria de Arte do Sesi, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004)
Musée D'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC, Paris, France.(2004)
Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland. (2003)
Turm Gallery, Helmstedt, Germany. (2003)
Tirana Biennale, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania (2003, 2001)
MUHKA Contemporary Art Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (2003)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2003, 2002)
Artsonje Museum, Gyeong Ju, South Korea (2002)
Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea (2002)
New Langton Art Center, San Francisco, USA (2002)
Israeli center for digital art, Digital ArtLab, Holon, Israel (2001)
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA (2001)
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (2000)
Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2000)
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France (1999, 1998)
Artspace of Australia, Sydney, Australia (1999, 1998)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (1998)
Bonn Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (1998)
Documenta X Kassel, Kassel, Germany (1997)
Ars Electronica Center (residence), Linz, Austria (1997)
CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (1996)
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (1995)
Carillo Gil Museum, Mexico, Mexico (1995)
Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy (1995)
Moderna Museet, Helsinki, Finland (1994)
Contemporary Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia (1994)
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bruxelles, Belgium (1994)
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France (1993)

[edit] Private art galleries

Grancher has also exhibited his work in private art galleries, including:

Analix forever, Genêve, Suisse (2006, 2007)
Lincart Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2006)
Galerie Incognito, Paris, France (2005, 2003, 2002)
Sketch Gallery, London, Great Britain. (2005)
http://www.artcart.de, Franckfurt, Germany (2003, 2004)
Galerie Rachlin Lemarié, Paris, France (2003)
Electronic Orphanage, Los Angeles, USA (2001)
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2001)
Deitch project, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, USA (2001)
Galerie Gilbert Brownstown, Paris, France (2000)
Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France (2000)
Tadu Contemporary Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (2000)
Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2000)
Galerie Glassbox, Paris, France (1998)
Galerie Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France (1996)
Galerie Patrick Martin, Lyon, France (1995)

[edit] Art pieces

His Internet art pieces are included in these permanent collections:

Cabinet des estampes of the Museum of Art and History, Geneva, Switzerland
Rhizome artbase Net and media collection, New Museum - New York: USA
http://www.computerfinearts.com: Net and media art collection - New York, USA: 'Jerusalem' (website) 2001
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Art Outsiders:Paris, France: 'heart time / time heat' (website) 2001
National Foundation of Contemporary Art (FNAC), Paris, France: 'Reposoirs d'écran' (screensaver), 'On Air' (VJ performance saved on DVD) 2000
Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA: '24h00' (website) 1999-2000
Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France: 'Longitude 38' (website) 1999, 'Self' (website) 1998
St. Fons Center for Contemporary Art, St. Fons, France: 'Ulysse' (video) 1996
ZKM Media Museum (video), Karlsruhe, Germany: 'Memory' (video) 1994-1995
Carillo Gil Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico: 'Memory' (video) 1994, 'U-Topos' (Virtual Reality installation) 1995
New Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Villeurbanne, France: 'Epridemik Remix' (video co-produced with Benoît Berry) 1993