Saint Clair Cemin (born 1951 in Cruz Alta, Brazil) is a sculptor.
He studied at the École Nationale Superiore des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, in 1975, and moved to New York in 1978, to live and work. Saint Clair Cemin currently shows with the Brent Sikkema Gallery in New York City. A book of his writings, Fragments of a Mind: Stories and Comments on Art 1987-2004, was published by Edgewise Press.
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Cemin’s sculptures have been exhibited worldwide in such museums and museum exhibitions as the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston); the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); the 1989 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial (New York); Documenta IX (Kassel), 1992; Kunsthalle (Basel); the 22nd São Paulo Bienal, 1994; the Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass.); and The Menil Collection, 1999. He has had one-person museum shows at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; The Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Centro Cultural Light, São Paulo, Brazil; The Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; The Arts Club of Chicago; Lever House, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City.
His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Rooseum, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, among many others. He has executed many private and public commissions, among them the Reston Town Center, Virginia; Båstads Kommun, Sweden; and Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois. He received the Biennial Award from the Ueno Royal Museum and the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan in 1995.
Richard Milazzo, Saint Clair Cemin: Sculptor from Cruz Alta. New York: Brent Sikkema Editions, October 2005.