Véronique Joumard
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Véronique Joumard | |
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 Éclats verts, jaunes, rouges installed at Mark Ashton Garden, 2004 | |
| Born | 1964 |
| Education | École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble |
| Known for | Visual art, installation, photography |
| Awards | Opline Prize 2018[1] |
| Website | www |
Véronique Joumard (born 1964 in Grenoble) is a French artist.[2]
Early life and studies
Véronique Joumard was born in Grenoble, France in 1964.
She studied at the École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble,[3] and began her career as an artist in 1987 with an exhibition at the Villa Arson in Nice.[4]
Career
Specificity of her work
Véronique Joumard is a photographer, videographer, sculptor and installation artist. She is represented by the parisian gallery Gilles Drouault, galerie/multiples.[5]
Most of her projects are in relation with light and interact with the exhibition space.[6][7] Véronique Joumard is known for working with technical devices making energy visible.[8] Her work invites the public to physically experiment its environment. If her work can recall minimalism, Véronique Joumard constantly enriches it of new and specific elements: mirrors, thermosensitive painting, etc.
Véronique Joumard is also a teacher at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC).[9]
Exhibitions, commissions and residencies
Véronique Joumard has participated in exhibitions in art centres, museums and galleries in France and abroad.[10] Her work has been shown in exhibitions at the Setouchi Triennale in Takamatsu Japan,[11] in the Kunsthaus Baselland in Muttenz, Switzerland,[12] at the Mudam in Luxembourg,[13] the Credac in Ivry-sur-Seine in France,[14] among others.
She has completed several public commissions in France,[15] where she notably works on the recreation of the vitraux of the Cathédrale de Bayeux,[16] as well as in Italy and Japan.
Véronique Joumard was a pensionate of the Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto, Japan) in 1996.[17]
