Morgan Courtois
Morgan Courtois was born in 1988 in Abbeville, France. He lives and works in Aubervilliers.
He graduated from the École supérieure d’Art et de Design in Valenciennes (2007-2009) and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (2009-2012). He was a resident at the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) from 2018 to 2020 and winner of the Prix Meurice in 2017. He co-founded the artist run space Pauline Perplexe in Arcueil. His work was shown in Paris in 2016 at the Balice Hertling gallery, which represents him, and in the solo exhibition It’s All Tied Up in a Rainbow (curator: Franck Balland) at Passerelle, Centre d’art contemporain in Brest in 2018. He has also shown his work in numerous group exhibitions: at the Sculpture Garden Biennial in Geneva in 2020; as part of the exhibition J’aime le rose pâle et les femmes ingrates at Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine (cur : Sarah Tritz) and the Lyon Biennial in 2019; Médusa, Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris in 2017; Rien ne nous appartient, offrir, Fondation Ricard in 2017; Les trépignements du Fakir, Centre d’art contemporain du Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues les-Eaux in 2015.
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EDUCATION
2006 – 2007
Ceramics and prep class at Ecole municipale des Beaux-Arts, Beauvais, FR
2007 – 2009
École Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Valenciennes, FR
2009 – 2012
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, FR
2016
Botanical formation, Paris, FR
SOLO SHOWS
2016
Solo show, Balice Hertling gallery, Paris, FR
Grisette, Bikini, Lyon, FR
2015
Berezina, Pauline Perplexe, Arcueil, FR
Blues on purpose, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR
2013
The Frozen Spring, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
GROUP SHOWS
2017
Médusa, Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, FR
Rien ne nous appartient : Offrir, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR
Vitrine A2, Le Plateau – FRAC Île-de-France, Paris, FR
2016
Palabre, Florence Loewy gallery, Paris, FR
The great Depression, Balice Hertling gallery, Paris, FR
A()olade, Pauline Perplexe, Arcueil, FR
2015
Heartbreak Hotel, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hambourg, DE
Les trépignements du Fakir, Centre d’art contemporain du Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues les-Eaux, FR
Sweating as distribution, Treize, Paris, FR
Family Matters, De la Charge, Brussels, BE
2014
Faire des fleurs, Florence Loewy gallery, Paris, FR
It’s got to happen inside first, Jean-Alain Corre’s Studio, Paris, FR
Men with Broken Hearts, De la Charge, Bruxelles, BE
Exo Squelette Totale Dispersion, COUAC, Villeurbanne, FR
2013
Les Méprises, Collège François Villon, Paris, FR
Les enfants du Sabats XIV, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, FR
58th Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, FR
PRICES, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2016
Exceptionnal support, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, FR
2016
Residency at Hélène Bertin’s, Provence, Cucuron, FR
2015
Residency at Triangle, Marseille, FR
Residency at Moly-Sabata, Sablons, FR
Residency at Centre d’art contemporain du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, FR
2013
Paris Price, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, FR
2013
Residency at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
