Barthélémy Toguo

(Cameroonian, born 1967)

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Barthélémy Toguo

Baptism, 1999

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1967
Born in M’Balmayo, Cameroon
1989 - 1993
Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
1993 - 1996
Ecole d'Art de Grenoble (DNSEP)
1994 - 1996
Kunst Akademie, Düsseldorf, Germany (Klaus Rinke's atelier)
1994
Grant from the Office Franco Allemand pour la Jeunesse
1996
Grant from the Centre Genèvois de Gravure Contemporaine
1998
Grant from DAAD, Germany
Lives and works between Paris, Bandjoun, Cameroon, New York

Exhibitions

2015
All the worlds future, Biennale de Venise
The House of Secrets, La Chaufferie HEAR, Strasbourg, France (solo)
Specific creation, Nousbaum Reding Gallery, Luxembourg (solo)
First Solo show, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
Drawing Now, Lelong Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
Against the Grain, Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Specific creation, Le chateau d'eau, Strasbourg, France
Specific creation, Biennale Nationale de la Sculpture Contemporaine, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Vivre(s), Domaine Departemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France
An Afropolitan View, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden (solo)

Public Collections

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme, Paris, France
Düsseldorf City Art Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
National Fond of Contemporary Art, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Collection Agnès B., Paris, France
Burger collection, Zürich and Hong-Kong
The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
Centre Georges Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
E.S.Stella Matutina de Shyorongi, Kigali, Rwanda

Literature

2003
Eroticotoguo, Barthélémy Toguo & onestar press, Paris
2002
You don’t know what you are missing, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, Filigranes Editions
2001
Das Bett, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, éditions A Bruit secret, Collection du Jeu de Paume, Dunkerque
1999
Labyrinth Process, La Criée Rennes
Conversation avec Frau Schenkenberg, Die Tageszeitung, Small Noise, Brussels