Mathilde Moraeau
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She studied at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan where she obtained a DCSA (Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts) in 1986.[3]
In 1983–1994 she was a professor of Fine Arts at Harris School of Modern in Abidjan. Then worked as a professor of painting at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan between 1994 and 2006.
Between 2003 and 2005 she was a researcher at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing[4] on Chinese traditional painting.
Since 2006, she has been the Director of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Abidjan.[3]
She was one of the precursors of the Vohou-Vohou movement born at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts of Abidjan in the 1970s. Vohou-Vohou is the refusal of using very expensive painting materials. Other precursors were: Yusuf Bath, Kra N'Guessan, Théodore Koudougnon, Mathilde Moreau.[5]
Group exhibitions
- 24 November – 8 December 1993 "Grafolies", Biennale d’Abidjan in Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
- 2 June – 9 July 1995 "Café des Artistes" in Lausanne, Switzerland
- 19–29 September 1996 "Biennial of Contemporary African Art", Museum of African Art of IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop (With 05 works selected)
- 16–31 August 1997 "Art Collection of the century from 1995 to 2000", Piotrkòw Trybunalski, Poland
- 5 June – 5 July 2008 Curated by Yacouba Konate at the headquarters of the BICICI the Plateau. The artists are; Abdoulaye Konate, Koffi Setordji, Ki Siriki, Michel Kodjo, Jean-Claude Henein, Mathilde Moreau, Youssouf Kourouma, Augustin Kassi, Jacoblen, Watt Kang, Mamery Ballo, Ange-Martial Shiner and Cherif Souleymane
- 20 September – 20 November 2008 African Artists in Residence at the Institute of Fine Arts Archived 5 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine Shenzhen