Valery Grancher

Active as an artist, theorician and curator in artworld since 1992. Graduated from Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris (hypermedia and visual art master) on 1995. Awards: - "Stunning Awards" WIX, www.valerygrancher.com selected on 100 millions websites as finalist for the Stunning Awards. 2017 - Shortlisted for the COLLIDE international Art Award, by CERN. 2016 - Winner of "Villa Médicis hors les murs" for Japan, AFAA (video board, new technologies), France (1998). - "Internationaler videokunstpreis", finalist for the International Awards for the video "Memory", ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (1995). ​ Public collections: - Bandjoun Station: Acquisition of 10 works on paper from the "Fayum portrait (refugees)" serie. Cameroon 2016 - Bandjoun Station: Acquisition of a 7 meters drawing about Daesh massacres. Cameroon 2015 - Videotage, (Video: "Hong Kong 2014" ) Hong Kong RAS China - National Fund for Contemporary Art, Centre National des Arts Plastiques : Acquisition of video works (installations) "GEOPOL" (24:00 tracking shot of the horizon at the North Pole) and "Tanguntsa" (Plan sets the heart of Amazonia center of a village during 6:00 Day to Night) (2014) - National Fund for Contemporary Art, Centre National des Arts Plastiques : public command in the context of the 'Pop up, USB' 2010 (2012) - Prints and Drawings from the Museum of Art and History from Geneva, Switzerland. (Dos drawing) (2004) - Rhizome ArtBase Net and media collection New Museum - New York : USA (2002) - European House of Photography, Art Outsiders : Paris, France : "heart time / time heat" (website) (2001). - National Fund for Contemporary Art, FNAC, Paris, France : "Screen Reposoirs" (screensaver), "On Air" (VJ Performance saved on DVD) (2000). - Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA "24 : 00" (website) (1999 -2000) - The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France : "Longitude 38" (website) (1999), "Self" (website) (1998) - Contemporary Art Centre of St Fons St Fons, France : "Ulysses" (video) (1996) - ZKM Media Museum (video), Karlsruhe, Germany : "Memory" (video) (1994-1995) - Carillo Gil Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico : "Memory" (video) (1994), "U-Topos" (Virtual Reality installation) 1995 - The new museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Villeurbanne, France : "Epridemik Remix" (video co-produced with Benedict Berry) (1993) Since early nineties, the exhibitions : Institutions: - National Museum of Kielce, Poland. September 15 - November 13 2016 - D'Inverno Museum, Siena, Italy. May 28 - June 24 2016 - K11, Hong Kong, (May 8-29 - June 4 2016) - Bandjoun Station, Camerun (May 27 - December 31 2016) - Inchiostro e Pietra Zonca Art Center (ZACC), Venezia, Italy, (March 2016) - East Asian Studies, NYU, New York, USA, (October 2015) - K11 and Connecting Spaces, Hong Kong (October 2015) - Institute of Contemporary Arts ICA, London, UK. (September 2015) - Center for Chinese contemporary arts, Manchester UK. (July 17 2015) - Fabrica and Lighthouse Brighton, UK (July 2015) - Electric Palace, Hastings UK. (July 2015) - Phoenix Art Center, Leicester, UK. (July 2015) - Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong SAR (May 2015) - Swiss Institute, Milan, Italie (2014) - Contemporary arts Biennale, anciens hôpitaux de Douai, Douai, France (summer 2013) - French institute, Tokyo, Japon. (february 2013) - Centre International d’accueil et d’échanges des Recollets, Paris, France (2010) - Fondation Verbeke, Belgium (2010) - Glassbox, Paris, France (1998, 2009) - Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA (2009) - Emily Harvey Contemporary Art Fondation, New York, USA (2009) - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA (Rhizome)(2009, 2007) - Lieu Commun, Espace d'Art Contemporain, Toulouse, France (2009) - Espace d'Art Concret, Honegger Albers donation, Mouans Sartoux, France (2008, 2007) - Musée des Beaux Arts, Nîmes, France. (2008) - New Langton Art Center, San Francisco, USA (2008, 2002) - Pacific Film Archive Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA (2007, 2001) - Galerie Nikon, France (2007) - Palais de Tokyo, site de création contemporaine, Paris, France (performance, solo show) (2006, 2005) - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France. (2006, 2005) - Istambul Contemporary Art Museum, Istambul Turky (2006, 2005, 2003) - "Super !" 1ère Triennale des arts plastiques, de la mode et du design contemporain in Hasselt, Belgium (2005). - Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2005, 2004, 2002) - MAMCO, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland. (2004, 2005) - Museo Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina (2004). - Galleria de arte do Sesi, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2004). - Musée D'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC, Paris, France.(2004) - Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland (2003) - Turm Gallery, Hemstedt, Germany (2003) - Tirana Biennale National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania (2003, 2001) - MUHKA Contemporary Art Musuem, Antwerp, Belgium (2003) - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2003, 2002) - Artsonje Museum, Gyeong Ju, South Korea (2002) - Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea (2002) - New Langton Art Center, San Francisco, USA (2002) - Israeli center for digital art, Digital ArtLab, Holon, Israel (2001) - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (2000) - Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2000) - Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France (1999, 1998) - Artspace of Australia, Sydney, Australia (1999, 1998) - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (1998) - Bonn Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (1998) - Documenta X Kassel, Kassel, Germany (1997) - Ars Electronica Center (residence), Linz, Austria (1997) - CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (1996) - ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (1995) - Carillo Gil Museum, Mexico, Mexico (1995) - Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy (1995) - Moderna Museet, Helsinki, Finland (1994) - Contemporary Art Center, St Petersburg, Russia (1994) - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bruxelles, Belgium (1994) - Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France. (1993) Private galleries : - Mur Nomade, Aberdeen, Hong Kong SAR (2015) - GVCC Galerie, Casablanca, Morocco (2014) - Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2000, 2014). - Art Paris, Miss China gallery, April 2013, Grand Palais, Paris, France - Miss China Gallery, rue française 75001 Paris : December 2012, March, May, October, December 2013, April 2014 - Galerie des Nouvelles Images, Hôtel Scribe, Paris (2012) - Guest of Honnor at Show Off Artfair October 2011, monumental video installation down the Alexandre III bridge, Paris - Analix forever gallery, Geneva, Switzerland. (2005, 2010) - Lincart gallery, San Francisco, USA (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006). - Sketch Gallery, London, Great Britain. (2005). - http://www.artcart.de, Franckfurt, Germany. (2003, 2004) - Galerie Rachlin Lemarié, Paris, France (2003). - Electronic Orphanage, Los Angeles, USA (2001). - Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2001). - Deitch project, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York, USA (2001). - Galerie Gilbert Brownstown, Paris, France (2000). - Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France. (2000). - Tadu Contemporary Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thaïland (2000). - Galerie Glassbox, Paris, France. (1998). - Galerie Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France (1996). - Galerie Patrick Martin, Lyon, France (1995).