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Curriculum vitae
Born in France, Anne Leigniel lives and works in London.
She is Member of the London Group since 2022
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
NAZUKARI WAREHOUSE “Lines” Ephemeral drawings and other lines. Chiba, Japan. April 2025
STONE SPACE GALLERY ‘Ephemeral Drawing’ London, UK. August 2024
SQUARE DES BATIGNOLLES ‘Ephemeral drawing’ Paris Mai 2024TANA Gallery Bookshelf. 'Line Fragment' Tokyo Nov 2018
CHARBON GALLERY "Wall Cycle" Artist in residence - Hong Kong, December 2017
KOMAGOME GALLERY From London to Tokyo>Travel drawings- Tokyo 2015
HIGURE GALLERY Spirit of Kendo- Tokyo 2012
SIN SIN GALLERY Artists Rags- Hong Kong 2011
QUINCY ABBAY “Bruissement de voiles” Installation Sound festival- Les notes de 7 lieux-curated by Jacques Py for Atomes Crochus, le Centre d’art de l’Yonne- France 2010
MINATOMACHI GALLERY Serie Sumo - Organised by Darkroom International and Franco Japanese institut- Yokohama Japon 2010 - VERMENTON Installation en Plein Champ- France 2009
HARBOURFRONT Center, Toronto, Canada. 2008
BOOKARTBOOKSHOP- London, UK 2007
ICON MUSEUM OF ART- Melbourne, Australia - 2005
KINGSGATE Gallery - London, UK - 2005
PRINT SPACE -New York, USA - 2001
Maison Francaise COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-New York, USA - 1999
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY the London Group Annual 2025, London, Feb 2025
BLOC PROJECT “A bell is a cup until it is Struck” curated by Stephen Carley Sheffield, UK. Feb 2025
TANEGASHIMA Light festival Tenegashima Japan. Nov 2024
TOBICHI ART MUSEUM Nagano Japan Nov 2024
BERMONDSEY PROJECT SPACE “Stillness in Movement” With the LG, London Sept 2024
LANDSCAPES - “Travel Landscape” Sculpture Installation St John ‘s Churchyard Waterloo, London, July 2022
QUAY ARTS CENTER “111 Not Out” Isle of Wight, UK. March~April 2024
COPELAND GALLERY The London Group Open London, UK. November 2023
OLD PARCELS OFFICE London Group at Scarborough, UK. April 2023
A7DESSIN Chapelle du quartier Haut, Sète, France. November 2022
CATCH YOUR BREATH- “Reach out” Installation St John‘s Churchyard Waterloo, with the London Group. London July 2022
MAKI MAKI à la Fonderie; VLA Sete with Atsuko Barouh and Marie Cecile Conilh de Beyssac Sète, France June 2022
OLD AND NEW Online exhibition with the London Group 2022
MANIFACIER Revient A. LA LUMIERE. Curated by Desarts-Paris, Auxerre France.November 2021
MINISCULE VENICE A Venice Biennale Fringe Exhibition curated by Vanya Balogh, Venice, Italy, May to July 2019
FOUR LEGS GOOD TWO LEGS BAD Curated by Rebecca Feiner with V Balogh and G Leong Q-Park Leicester Sq London Feb 2019
PARALLELES/OBLIQUES Curated by Viviana Birolli and Masamichi Tamura for E22, Arai building Yokohama Japan. Nov 2018
DENTS CREUSES with Echangeur 22 Journées du patrimoine, St Laurent des arbres France. Sept 2018
BICA Biennale internationale du carnet d’artiste, Quebec, Canada. Sept 2018
ZEN & BE-ZEN II Sogengi Zen Temple, Okayam, Japan. March 2018
TSUKUBA ART RESIDENCY Tsukuba Mountain. Japan October 2017
CASTELEINHO DO FLAMENGO- Centro Cultural Oduvaldo Vianna Fiho- Rio, Brazil March 2016
ECHANGEUR 22. End of residency exhibition Saint Laurent des Arbres. France July 2015
2014 FRAMES Center for Contemporary Art. Glasgow 2014
UNSEEN With Laura Noble Gallery, Amsterdam Photo Art fair 2013
LAURA NOBLE GALLERY Summer Show 2013
TOKYO LOCAL 4 Kouzome Gallery. Curated by Masashi Ogura- Tokyo 2011
VIDEO COLLECTION (Installation) Yokohama. Curator Philippe Laleu. Japan 2010
NO MAN”S LAND Former French embassy- Curated by Helene Kelmachter.Tokyo 2009-2010
KILBURN FESTIVAL “The night of the ephemeral” – Projection London 2009
IN PIECES: Christopher Landoni - Curated by Philly Adams. London 2008
KILBURN FESTIVAL “Studio Reflection” Projection London 2008
PHOTOGRAPHER’S GALLERY- Print room, London 2007
COMMENT?2 – Kingsgate Gallery, London 2007
SALON CONNEXION Contemporary Art Projects. London 2006
MAGAZINE ESW Edinburgh 2006
MAILBOX Gallery. "The Flow" Rhubarb Rhubarb, The UK International Festival of the Image, Birmingham, UK 2004
OLIN HALL GALLERY," Water" Salem, Virginie, USA 2004
GALLERIA D”ARTE MODERNA , “Nudo fra ideale e realtà”. Bologna, Italy 2004
THE ARMORY PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW- GALLERY 19/21 New York 2002
Photo L.A. 2001, GALLERY 19/21-Santa Monica, USA 2001
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie- Festival Off- Arles 2001
PERFORMANCES
REIGNY Belayed drawing performance in trees, Vermenton, France. Sept 2023
“Je fais toujours la même chose” reading performance with Viviana Birolli Curator tour Echangeur22 Saint Laurent des Arbres, France September 2022
REIGNY Belayed drawing performance in trees, Vermenton, France. July 2021
PARALLELES/OBLIQUES Curated by Viviana Birolli and Masamichi Tamura for E22, Arai building Yokohama Japan Nov 2018
ANTARA FESTIVAL with singer Maïa Barouh, Mill Farm, Great Horwood England Sept 2018
CHARBON ART SPACE> Performance with Dancer Arumimi Hifumi and Musicien Hak Gwai. Hong Kong December 2017
BIGAKKO with dancer Kibe Yohani and Azusa on Piano, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo Japan Nov 2016
JET ROBOT: with Kibe Yohani and Azusa Piano, Takahiro percussionTokyo May 2016
LA GROTTE: Performance Dance Painting, with Kibe Yohani; dance Azusa; Piano, Takahiro; percussion Tokyo April 2016 - LABO+ Performance with 86B210, Tokyo April 2016
CASA RIO Performance Dance Painting with Babi Fontana and Francisco Thiago dance, Grasiela Müller; percussion. Rio de Janeiro, March 2016
CASTELINHO DO FLAMINGO, Performance Dance Painting with Renan Lima dance and Leandro Floresta Flute. Rio de Janeiro, March 2016 - Video performance GALERIE/NORD, Realisation Guillaume Diamant Berger with dance company 18b210, Paris Sept 2015
PUBLICATIONS
VILLARS MAGAZINE Ete Autumn 2023
TROUBLE magazine volume one / number one Summer 2021
GALLERY Japan. - Lecture on Contemporary Art - by Masashi Ogura, Part 58 Anne Leigniel - An Art of a Swordswoman - March 2018
Projet#P Echangeur 22. Texte Fabiana de Moraes. Calameo 2016
Editor's Pick LenseCulture 2013
NO MAN'S LAND Catalogue 2010
The world top photographers NUDES Anthony Lasala- Rotovision 2005
Anne Leigniel “Drifting thoughts” Catalogue published by DEAKIN UNIVERSITY -Victoria Australia -2004
THE NUDE Ideal and reality. Photography Curated by Peter Weiermair- ArtificioSkira Feb2004
CONNAISSANCES DES ARTS- 1999/2001, portraits of Artists in New York
COLLECTION
BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE- Paris
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK- NY
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS - Europe, USA, Australia, Japan, HK.
EDUCATION
M.A. LONDON COLLEGE OF PRINTING- (1990-1992) London
ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D’ART DE PARIS CERGY (ENSAPC) - France
RESIDENCIES
TANEGASHIMA Light festival Nov 2024
TOBICHI ART MUSEUM Nagano Japan Nov 2024
COVENTINHO SAN ANTONIO Artist residency, Chamusca Portugal Mai 2021.
NG ART CREATIVE RESIDENCY Eygalieres France October 2020
COVENTINHO SAN ANTONIO Artist residency, Chamusca Portugal September 2020.
CHARBON Art Space- Artist in residence- Hong Kong, December 2017
TSUKUBA ART IN RESIDENCE, Tsukuba, Japan, October 2017
ECHANGEUR22 Artist residency Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2016
ECHANGEUR22 Artist residency St Laurent Des Arbres. France, July 2015
About
Anne Leigniel is an artist working across multiple disciplines, making works that respond to nature in all its multi-faceted ways, which may be working with the landscape in a site or materially responsive way. It is about being immersed in the environment around her, engaging with and using the materials or the people that surround her.
Another thread of the work is physicality - texture, movement. The structure of logs that are dismantled and reassembled into new form, delicate strings, branches and stones bending into new forms, flowing sheets of plastic within a rural landscape.
Drawings and paintings are circular to the process as they are like embodiments of memories, dreams, narratives, journeys; a form of abstract mapping. Sometimes created in the elements themselves, in fields, against buildings etc.
Anne’s work is an invitation to experience the world around you and to be playful, to re-read things differently- to draw your attention to a moment in time, amplifying unseen moments and a detail – and the richness that lies therein….
Anne Leigniel in her studio
