Fabrice Cazenave
works and lives in Paris
He began ballet at a very young age and joined Claude Bardouil’s PMA dance theater company in 1998, as he was studying at the Beaux Arts in Toulouse. Since 2006, he has mainly devoted himself to drawing. His wide-ranging practice stems from a deliberately exploratory, or even experimental, approach. Most of the time, he works with his eyes closed. He feels, tastes, touches, explores his environment, and simultaneously transcribes his sensations onto space-body diagrams. He seeks to discover how a place can transform us through our perceptions of it, and when our rationality flickers to modify our perspective through the prism of our culture and our cognitive biases.
In 2018 Fabrice Cazenave was the first winner of the AIR program for French artists in residence (FAR) / Hill End AIR. This unique residency program is a partnership between the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) and the French Consulate in Sydney. Since 2009, he has had several solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad, including “The garden of shadows” in Bathurst (Australia) in 2019 and recently “Antipolis” organized by the Picasso Museum in Antibes.
DNSEP Beaux arts de Toulouse
DNAT Ecole d’art des Pyrénées Pau
2021
Le jardin des ombres – Musée Picasso d’Antibes – espace d’exposition Les Arcades (FR)
2019
The garden of shadows – Die Brucke – Lille (FR)
The garden of shadows – Bathurst Regional Art Gallery – NSW (AU)
2018
Invocations, Die Brucke, Lille (FR)
2017
Solar Cream – commissaire John Marchant – Eagle Gallery, London (GB)
2016
Hyperballad – commissaire Azad Asifovich – galerie Nivet-Carzon – Paris (FR)
2012
Cartographie des nuages – Centre d’Art Contemporain de Mourenx (FR)
2007
Avant que le loup/Autoportraits – Galerie de Belleville – Paris (FR)
2021
Drawing/Draw #5 – Le Lieu Multiple – Montpellier (FR)
Another Realm, Silvis Contemporary – virtual gallery, New York (US)
Affaires d’états – Galerie la Ferronnerie – Paris (FR)
2020
Espace contraint/sujet libre – commissaire Carl Hurtin – PAHLM Cazères sur Garonne (FR)
2019
Non grata – commissaire Agnès Callu – galerie Marty de Cambiaire – Paris (FR)
2018
Particules – commissaire Evor – L’atelier, Voyage à Nantes (FR)
De la texture du présent (performance filmée) dans le cadre de Desseins, Dessins, Designs (DDD)
Epistémologie du dessin – par Agnes Callu pour le Collège de France
2016
Then me too, Galerie Simpson curated by John Marchant – Swansea (UK)
Pure gold – John Marchant Gallery – London (UK)
2015
European contemporary art exhibition At Qingdao Sculpture Art Museum (RPC)
2014
Collection Gilles Balmet à l’occasion de l’exposition au Vog et à l’ESAD – Grenoble (FR)
Paysage – Artmandat – Barjols (FR)
Dreaming reality – RUSH Arts Gallery – New York (US)
2012
The others – curated by John Marchant – Torino (IT)
Drawing Now, Artiste en focus, curated by John Marchant – Carrousel du Louvre – Paris (FR)
2011
Cutlog – Bourse du commerce – curated by John Marchant – Paris (FR) (nominé pour le prix Arte/Cutlog)
Trajectory – curated by John Marchant – Bruxelles (BE)
Drawing Now, Artiste en focus, curated by John Marchant – Carrousel du Louvre – Paris (FR)
2009
Gone to earth – Isis Gallery – John Marchant, London (GB)
Spunk – Envoy Gallery – New York (US)
2005
Alimentable – le BBB Toulouse (FR)
Apparence 1 – performance théâtre Sorano – Toulouse
2004
Apparence 1 – performance – Clermont-ferrand (FR)
2003
Relaps – Chapelle Cumin Auch (FR)
Corps – action culturelle du BBB à L’ENFA – Toulouse (FR)
2021
Drawing Factory -résidence co-organisée par le drawing Lab et le CNAP
Musée Picasso d’Antibes
2018
Hill End Residence Program en partenariat avec la Bathurst Regional Art Gallery et le programme FAR de l’Ambassade de France en Australie
2005
Lycée professionnel de Castelsarrasin
2017
12 drawings for the HERMES George V shop
