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Chelsea Mortenson is an American artist who lives and works in Paris. She was born in Oregon in 1986 and grew up in Eugene. She received a Bachelors of Arts in Film Studies from Barnard College in 2008 and a Masters of Fine Art from Beaux Arts of Paris in 2016. She has participated in several group exhibits: at the Griffin Gallery in London, the Dukan Gallery in Leipzig, with the Florence Association in Paris, she participated in the BBKL Hochedruck Grafik Symposium at Carpe Plumbum in Leipzig. In 2017 she was named laureate of the Rose Taupin-Dora Bianka painting prize, and in 2018 was awarded the Albert Maignan painting prize. Her work has joined the Collection Société General.
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Studio
Tour Orion, 5eme étage diametre 15
12-16 rue de Vincennes
Montreuil
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education
2013-2016 Masters of Fine Art DNSAP, Beaux Arts de Paris, studios Wernher Bouwens and Tim Eitel
2011-2013 License DNAP (BFA) Beaux Arts de Paris, Wernher Bouwens and Philippe Cognée
2004-2008 Bachelors of Liberal Arts, Film Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
personal shows
2018 Chelsea Mortenson : Laureate du Prix Albert Maignan, Espace de la Fontaine, Saint-Prix
group shows, selected
2020 Novembre à Vitry Gallerie Municipale Jean-Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine
2019 Natur’art, Association Florence, Espace Commines, Paris
Jardinons les possibles, Curators Isabelle de Maison Rouge and Ingrid Pux,
Les Grandes Serres, Pantin
Passarelles, Les Grandes Serres, Pantin
2018 Novembre à Vitry municipal Gallery Jean-Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine
La Règle du Jeu Association Diamètre 15, Les Grandes Serres, Pantin
Exhibit of Taylor Foundation Prizes, Paris
2017 Parcours d’artistes, Les Passerelles, Pontault-Combault
Show for the selection of Rose Taupin-Dora Bianka Painting Prize, Via Ferrata, Paris
Show of the Hochdruck Graffik Symposium 2016, BBKL Tapetenwerk, Leipzig
Show for the Gravix 2017 engraving prize, Fondation Taylor, Paris
République des Lettres, Maison André Gouveia, Paris; Archeological Museum of Carmo, Lisbonne
2016 Exprimer Aujourd’hui Association Florence, l’Espace Commines, Paris
Lubok: artists from the Beaux Arts of Paris, Dukan Gallery, Leipzig
2015 Salon Offprint, presentation of Lubok 12, studio of Wernher Bouwens, Beaux Arts de Paris
Crisscross, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris
Selective Memories, Griffin Gallery, London
2014 Les pierres se battent entre elles exhibit at 48°28’39»N 2°12’47»E, Auvers-Saint-Georges
Salon Offprint, studio of Wernher Bouwens, Beaux Arts de Paris
2013 Presentation of DNAP, 3rd year diploma, galerie droite, Beaux Arts de Paris
Biennale de la gravure de Sarcelles, Sarcelles
Horreur Vacui with Emilienne Alcover, galerie droite, Beaux Arts de Paris
collections
Collection Société Générale
prizes
Laureate of the Albert Maignan painting prize
Laureate of the Rose Taupin-Dora Bianka painting prize
grants
2018 Allocation for studio equipment, DRAC île de France.
residencies
2016 Residence at Hochdruck Graffik Symposium, with studio Carpe Plumbum and BBKL, Leipzig
books
Dans La Forêt Rouge co-written with Jen Rice, images in woodcut prints. La Ville Brûle, 2019
La porte, Le rêve images in watercolor for book of poetry and prose. Lanskine Editions, 2018
Lubok Verlag 12 two double pages in linocut, with Christoph Ruckhaberle and Werhner Bouwens,
printed by the carpe plumbum studio, Leipzig, 2015
publications
2021 Nos Mondes Sauvauges, Colères du présent #1
Almenach Ides de Mars
2018 A5 Magazine #14 (May), UK
2017 I am not famous because I am not dead Issue #2, Artistank, UK