      
Atelier Jean-Pierre Sergent 11 Avenue de La Gare D'eau, 25000 Besançon/France
Tel 01133 (0)3 81 53 28 87 - Cel 01133 (0)6 73 44 94 86
Chronological Artist Biography
1958 Born in Morteau, France. French, Swiss, American.
1978-1981 Studies architecture in Strasbourg and later painting at L'école des Beaux-Arts de Besançon.
1983-1991 Works as visual artist while raising and training horses in the Jura Mountains. Completes monochrome abstractions on Masonite polyptych panels.
1991 Moves to Montreal to devote himself fully to painting. Creates works using Plexiglas, industrial materials, newspaper clippings and photos. Begins incorporating silkscreening techniques.
1993 Sets up studio in New York City. Paints street-found object "sculpture-paintings" series, creates silkscreens on Plexiglas tile assemblages.
1998 Exhibits a monumental site-specific mural plexiglas painting at the French Institute of New York.
2001-2003 Paints the "Mayan Diary" series, a modular mural installation of 42" x 42" silkscreened Plexiglas squares inspired by pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan imagery. This body of work is still in progress and is exhibited at several New York galleries and cultural centers.
Sergent uses computer technology to redesign gathered images and cut silkscreen film.
2004-Present Moves his studio to Besançon, France and divides his time between New York City and Besançon.
2007 Install "Mayan Diary" 2003, (18 paintings silkscreened on plexiglas, 10'4" X 20'8") for the set design of Traviata Giuseppe Verdi's Opera in the minimalist scenery by Didier Brunel.
Sergent’s work is exhibited in France, England, Austria, Switzerland as well as in Canada and the United States.
Sergent engages himself in Themes of eroticism, shamanism, the cosmology of the afterlife and chaos. The artist uses life's forces to wreck individual and collective mind/body and social/cultural forms of alienation. His works dig deeply into the collective super-conscious and various pre-industrial mythologies in order to honor the Man/Nature/Culture/Universe interconnection. He also depicts "wholeness areas" human-beings can reach through spirituality or sexual intimacy.
Solo Shows
2007 "Opéra Théâtre" Traviata (staging) Besançon, France
2006 "Mairie de Besançon" Besançon, France
1111 "Banque la Société Générale" Besançon, France
2004 "La Tables des Halles" Besançon, France
2002
"Mayan Diary" Taller Boricua Gallery, NYC
1999
"York
Square Gallery" New Haven, CT
1998 "French Institute" NYC
1997 "French
Consulate" NYC
1993 "Gallery
Riverin-Arlogos" Eastman, Canada
1990
"Gallery G" Besançon, France
1989
"Gallery Yannef" Toronto, Canada
1111 "Gallery Transit" Strasbourg, France
1111
"Gallery Edition du Faisan" Strasbourg,
France
1983 "Gallery
du Clos St-Amour" Besançon, France
Selected Group Shows
2007 "Biennale des Arts Plastiques" Besançon, France
2006 "Kunst 05 Zurich", Galerie Zéro, l'Infini Zurich, Switzerland
1111 "Salon des Annonciades" Pontarlier, France
2005 "Kunst 05 Zurich", Galerie Zéro, l'Infini Zurich, Switzerland
1111 "Biennale des Arts Plastiques" Besançon, France
1111 "RAPSIDA" Gallery 138, NYC
1111"Desire Submerged into the Earth" Gallery 138, NYC
2004 "Scope Art Fair " Yukiko Kawase, London, England
1111 "Europe Day "
Dahesh Museum of Art, NYC
1111 "Artincubator" Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, NYC
2003 "The Divided World" York Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1111 "Art Happens" Time Square Lobby Gallery, NYC
1111 "La France d'hier et d'aujourd'hui" Fire Patrol #5, NYC
1111 "Rapture" Gallery 138 NYC
2002 "Desire
+ The Hurricane" Gallery
138 @ White Box, NYC
1111 "Independant
Art Fair" T.A.B.A.K. Museum, Vienna, Austria
1111 "Independent
Art Fair" Plaza Hotel, NYC
2001 "A Cry
For Peace" Fire Patrol #5, NYC
2000 "Trophy-ism" Idefine Art, Brooklyn, NY
1111 "Opera
Gallery" NYC
1111 "Nomad
Territories" D.F.N. Gallery, NYC
1999 "Dionysos,
the Organs of Life" Gallery Juno, NYC
1998 "Fin de
Siècle" Swiss Embassy Paris, France
1111 "Profusion" Gallery Edition du Faisan, Strasbourg, France
1997 "Sous le
Signe de Zorro" Gallery Vivas, Paris, France
1996 "Body,
Trace, Memory" Eight Floor gallery, NYC
1995 "Interpellation" Sorbonne University, Paris, France
1111 "Conceptual
Documents for Impossible Art" Eighth floor Gallery, NYC
1111 "Pier Show
III" Brooklyn, NY
1111 "68 J Art
group Show" Brooklyn, NY
1994 "Burning
Show" Patrice Landau Gallery, NYC
1111 "Pier Show
II" Brooklyn, NY
1992 "L'Université de la Ruelle Propose" Montreal, Canada
1991 "Gallery
Moos" Toronto, Canada
1111 "Exposition
Ardoise" Gallery Edition du Faisan, Strasbourg, France
1988 "Gallery
Edition du Faisan" Strasbourg, France
1987 "Gallery
G" Besançon, France
1111 "2nd Biennial
of Besançon" France
1986 "Gallery
Edition du Faisan" Strasbourg, France
1985 "Gallery
Mathieu" Besançon, France
1111 "International
Art Exhibition" Basel, Switzerland
1111 "Gallery
Jonas" Neûchatel, Switzerland
1984 "1st Biennial
of Besançon" France
1983 "Salon
des Annonciades" Pontarlier, France
1982 "Salon
des Annonciades" Pontarlier, France
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