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Curriculum vitae
Born in France, Anne Leigniel lives and works in England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- TANA 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
- CATCH YOUR BREATH- 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
- PARRALLELES/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
- CASTELINHO DO FLAMENGO- Centro Cultural Oduvaldo Vianna Fiho- Rio, Brazil March 2016
- ECHANGEUR 22. End of residency exhibition. St 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 Internationnales de la Photographie- Festival Off- Arles- 2001
PERFORMANCES
- PARALLELES/OBLIQUES Curated by Viviana Birolli and Masamichi Tamura for E22, Arai building Yokohama, Japan 2018
- ANTARA FESTIVAL with singer Maïa Barouh, Mill Farm, Great Horwood. England 2018
- CHARBON ART SPACE> Performance with Dancer Arumimi Hifumi and Musicien Hak Gwai. Hong Kong 2017
- BIGAKKO with dancer Kibe Yohani and Azusa on Piano, Chiyoda-ku. Tokyo Japan 2016
- JET ROBOT: with Kibe Yohani and Azusa Piano, Takahiro percussion. Tokyo 2016
- LA GROTTE: Performance Dance Painting, with Kibe Yohani dancer Azusa Piano, Takahiro percussion. Tokyo 2016
- LABO+ Performance with 86B210, Tokyo 2016
- CASA RIO Performance Dance Painting with Babi Fontana and Francisco Thiago dance, Grasiela Müller percussion.
Rio de Janeiro 2016
- CASTELINHO DO FLAMINGO, Performance Dance Painting with Renan Lima dance and Leandro Floresta Flute. Rio de Janeiro 2016
- GALERIE/NORD Video performance , Realisation Guillaume Diamant Berger with dance company 18b210, Paris 2015
PUBLICATIONS
- 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 Feb 2004
- 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
- LA FONDERIE- Sète France June 2022
- COVENTO SAN ANTONIO -Chamusca-Portugal 2021
- NG ART CREATIVE RESIDENCY Eygalieres France 2020
- COVENTO SAN ANTONIO -Chamusca-Portugal 2020
- CHARBON Art Space- Artist in residence- Hong Kong 2017
- TSUKUBA ART IN RESIDENCE, Japan, October 2017
- ECHANGEUR 22 Artist residency Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2016
- ECHANGEUR 22 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
