Biography

www.veilhan.net

Born in 1963 in France
Lives and works in Paris, France

Solo exhibitions / Public projects

2012 In Balance, The Phillips Colection, Washington
La Conservera, Murcia
Cité Radieuse, Marseille
Hartfield House, Hartfield, Hertfordshire

2011 Orchestra, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
Spacing, Ilju Foundation, Seoul
Dark Matter, Andréhn - Schiptjenko, Stockholm
Free Fall, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo

2010 Mobile, Maison Louis Vuitton, New York
Xavier Veilhan, Galerie Perrotin, Miami
Le Carrosse, Place de la République, Metz
Interacting with History: Xavier Veilhan at the Mount, The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
RAL 5015, Artcurial, Paris
Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels

2009 Veilhan Versailles, Château de Versailles
Le sort probable de l’homme qui avait avalé le fantôme, La Conciergerie, Paris
Sophie, work in situ, for the Costes Restaurant Le Germain, Paris

2008 Furtivo, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Furtivo, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin

2007 Metric, Gering & López Gallery, New York
Andrehn - Schiptjenko, Stockholm
Artwork for Air’s last album, Pocket Symphony (EMI)

2006 Les Habitants, Palais des Congrès de la Communauté Urbaine de Lyon (with Renzo Piano Building Workshop), Lyon (public project)
Miami Snowflakes, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami
Sculptures automatiques, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris

2005 Le Plein emploi, MAMC, Strasbourg
Le Projet Hyperréaliste, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham; traveling to National Academy Museum, New York
People as Volume, Andrehn - Schiptjenko, Stockholm
Fantôme, CAB Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos
Mobile, Pinksummer, Genova
Éléments célestes, artistic conception, Chanel Jewelry ; traveling to Taïwan, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo
Le Lion, Place Stalingrad, Bordeaux (public project)

2004 Vanishing Point, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Light Machines, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence; traveling to Écuries de Saint - Hugues, Cluny
Keep the Brown, Galería Javier López, Madrid
Galeria João Graça, Lisbon
Big Mobile, Forum, Centre Pompidou, Paris
MASS MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Le Monstre, Place du Marché, Tours (public project)

2003 Keep The Brown, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York

2002 Barbican Art Gallery, London
Galería Javier López, Madrid
Installation from the workshop, Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
Konsthallen, Göteborg

2001 Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d’Estudis d’arte contemporani, Barcelona
Pinksummer, Genova
Andrehn - Schiptjenko, Stockholm

2000 Le Magasin, Grenoble; curated by Yves Aupetitallot and Lionel Bovier
La Ford T, 5th floor terrace, Centre Pompidou, Paris; curated by Lionel Bovier
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
The Rhinoceros, Yves St. Laurent, New York

1999 La Fôret, Le Consortium, Dijon
La Ford T, MAMCO, Geneva
Galerie du Stadt, Schwaz
Galerie Gio Marconi, Milan

1998 Galería Javier López, Madrid
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
CCA of Kitakyushu, Japan; curated by Akiko Miyake and Nobuo Nakamura
Centre d’Art de Brétigny - sur - Orge; curated by Xavier Franchesci

1997 Galerie Newsantandrea, Savona
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York

1996 Galerie Jennifer Flay & Caroline Bourgeois, Paris
Galerie Andréhn - Schiptjenko, Stockholm

1995 CCC, Tours
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York

1994 Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
Galleri Riis, Oslo

1993 ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Galerie Andréhn - Schiptjenko, Stockholm

1991 Un centimètre égal un mètre, curated by A.P.A.C., Centre d’art contemporain, Parc de Pougues - les - Eaux, Nevers
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris

1990 Un peu de biologie, Galleria Fac - Simile, Milan

Selected group exhibitions

2011The Deer, Le Consortium, Dijon
L’Etoffe du Temps, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux
D’après Nature, Château d’Avignon, Avignon
French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art Through the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Art Museum, Tokyo
Look Into My Eyes, Andréhn - Schiptjenko at Mitterrand - Cramer, Geneva
2011 Lumens, Valls Museum, Valls

2010 Chefs d’oeuvre?, Centre Pompidou, Metz
Le Mont Analogue, Centro Cultural Metropolitan, Quito; traveling to Montevideo
Art For The World (The Expo), The City of Forking Path, World Exposition 2010, Shanghai
Catch Me, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
The Incomplete - Paris. Artists from the Neumann Family Collection, Galerie Richard, Paris, curated by Hubert Neumann
Foreign Studies, Andréhn - Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm
Jean - Michel Othoniel, Xavier Veilhan, Kukje Gallery (with Emmanuel Perrotin), Seoul

2009 Auto. Sueño y materia, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial La LABoral, Gijón
Galerie Perrotin, Miami and Paris
Dream Time, La Grotte, Mas d’Azil
N’importe Quoi, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon

2008 Des jeunes gens modernes, Galerie du jour Agnès B., Paris
Demolition Party, Royal Monceau Palace Hôtel, Paris
Allsopp Contemporary, London

2007 The Incomplete, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Intrusions au Petit Palais (works from the Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain), Petit Palais, Paris
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris (La Cabane Éclatée aux Paysages Fantômes, a project with Daniel Buren; Aérolite, a musical show with Air)
Galerie Rüdiger, Schöttle, Munich
Plastic, Cabinet des Estampes, Genève

2006 Kit O’Parts, CAN, Neuchâtel
La force de l’art / Grand Palais 2006, Paris
Supernova : Experience Pommery # 3, Domaine Pommery, Reims
Thank you for the music, Simon Lee Gallery, London
Collection and new acquisitions, Viktor Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev
Boucle, place du Trocadéro, Jardin des Tuilleries; Ville Nouvelle, Cour de l’Hôtel de Ville, Nuit Blanche, Paris
InTRANSIT from Object to Site, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence

2005 Water (Without You I’m not) - Thoughts of a fish in a deep sea, 3rd Biennial of Contemporary Art of Valencia, Valencia
Foundation La Caixa Collection, 20 years with Contemporary Art: New Acquisitions, Caixa Forum, Barcelona
Pour de vrai, Musée des Beaux - Arts, Nancy
De lo Real y lo Ficticio: Arte contemporaneo de Francia, Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico, Mexico City; traveling to Bass Museum, Miami

2004 None of the Above, Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art, New York
Genesis Sculpture: Experience Pommery #2, Domaine Pommery, Reims
L’Eblouissement, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
Contrepoint, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Étrangement Proche / Seltsam Vertraut, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken

2003 It Happened Tomorrow, 7th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Le Consortium, Lyon
Split, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
JRP Editions Selected Multiples, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva; traveling to Galería Javier López, Madrid ; Raum Aktueller Kunst, Martin Janda, Vienna
No.5: Une partie de pétanque, Galerie de multiples, Paris
Coollustre, Collection Lambert, Avignon, curated by Eric Troncy
25th edition of International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, curated by Christophe Chérix and Lionel Bovier
Glass Wall, device conceived for Faits et Gestes, Atelier de mécanique, Parc des ateliers SNCF, Arles

2002 Audiolab 2, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Collections croisées, CAPC, Bordeaux
La Part de l’autre, Carré d’art, Nîmes
Les animaux sortent de leur réserve, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Sculpture Now, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Palm Beach
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville
Optical Optimism, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans
Light X Eight, Jewish Museum, New York
2002 Taipei Biennial: Great Theatre Of The World, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

2001 A New Domestic Landscape, Galeria Javier López, Madrid
Métamorphoses et Clonage, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York

2000 Jour de fête, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Xn00, Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saone; curated by L. Bovier in collaboration with E. Lebovici, JC Masséra, S. Moisdon Trembley, H.U. Obrist, assisted by Nicolas Trembley
Over the Edges, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
The Collective Works, Centre d’art Contemporain de Toulouse, Toulouse
Art Unlimited, Art’31, Basel
L’oeuvre collective, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; curated by Pascal Pique
Vivre sa vie, Tramway, Glasgow; curated by Tanya Leighton

1999 Abracadabra, Tate Gallery, London; curated by Catherine Grenier
La Fôret, MAMCO, Geneva
Côté Sud…Entschuldigong, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel; traveling to Nouveau Musée, Contemporary Art Institute, Villeurbanne, curated by Jean - Louis Maubant
Bu!, Palazzo del Papesse, Sienna

1998 Premises, Guggenheim Museum, New York
La Ville, Le Jardin, La Mémoire, Villa Medicis, Roma; curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, Laurence Bossé
Freie Sicht An Der Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus, Zurich; curated by Bice Curiger

1997 Selections from the Collection, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Créer, Produire, Collectionner: Works from the Collection of the Caisse des Dépots et Consignations, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
Xavier Veilhan and Matthew McCaslin: Places from the Morton J. Neumann Collection, French Cultural Services, New York
Artists and Photographs, Museum fur Litteratur, Karlsruhe
504, Braunschweig
Need for Speed, Kunsthalle, Graz
Bienal Cetijne, Montenegro
Coïncidences, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

1996 Traffic, CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux

1995 Le Labyrinthe moral, Le Consortium, Dijon
Beyond the Borders, Kwangju Biennale, Korea

1994 Taro Chiezo, José Antonio Hernandez - Diez, Michael Joo, Ben Kinmont, Xavier Veilhan. Part I, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Naked City, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Still Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

1993 Christiane Geoffroy, Véronique Joumard, Xavier Veilhan, Le Consortium, Dijon
Kinder, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München
Als het ware niet meer dan ontmoetingen / Comme rien d’autre que des rencontres / Nothing but encounters as it were, curated by Florent Bex & Isabelle Vierget, MUHKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen

1992 Claude Closky, Jean - Jacques Rullier, Xavier Veilhan, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris

1991 No Man’s Time, curated by Christian Bernard & Eric Troncy, Villa Arson, Nice

1990 French Kiss. A Talk Show, curated by Eric Troncy, Halle Sud, Genève