About
G A L L E R Y BLUM & POE Los Angeles / New York / Tokyo
https://www.blumandpoe.com/artists/françoise-grossen#works
E X H I B I T I O N S 2 0 1 4 - 2 0 1 8
Françoise Grossen Late Works at the Blum & Poe Gallery, New York, Nov.3 thru Jan. 6, 2018
https://www.artforum.com/picks/id=73035
Françoise Grossen Françoise Grossen Selects, a M A D collection Point of View,
at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, Oct.18, 2016 thru March 12, 2017
ROPE BRIDGE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dql-D6JQ1Bc
Inchworm I (1971) First Light: A Decade of Collecting at ICA
at the ICA in Boston (Massachusetts), Aug.17, 2016 thru Jan.16, 2017
Contact III (1977) Françoise Grossen at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, July 2 thru Aug.20, 2016
https://www.blumandpoe.com/sites/default/files/press/FG-LATimes08012016.pdf
Cenotaphe (1977) Tapisseries Nomades, Foundation Toms Pauli-Collections XXe Siecle
Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (Switzerland), March 23 thru June 29, 2016
Five Rivers (1974) Revolution in the Making, Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016 at Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles, March 13 thru Sept.4, 2016
U S ( USA 1969) The Textile Room, a Swiss textile art collection from 1910 till today at the Museum Bellerive, Zurich (Switzerland), Oct.23, 2015 thru Feb.21, 2016
VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://vimeo.com/161906999
Francoise Grossen 1st US Survey at the Blum & Poe Gallery, New York, June 4 thru Aug.15, 2015
http://hyperallergic.com/217580/a-textile-artists-long-overdue-us-survey-ropes-you-in/
Inchworm I (1971) Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present at ICA Boston (Massachusetts), Columbus (Ohio), and Des Moines (Iowa) from Oct.1, 2014 thru Aug.2, 2015
Symbiosis 3 (1974) at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, Sept.23, 2014 thru Feb.8, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/arts/design/what-would-mrs-webb-do-at-the-museum-of-arts-and-design.html?ref=arts&_r=3
S H O R T B I O G R A P H Y
1943 Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland
1962 Baccalaureat Scientifique, Neuchatel, Switzerland
1962 - 1963 School of Architecture, Polytechnical University, Lausanne, Switzerland
1963 - 1967 School of Arts & Crafts (textile design major), Basel, Switzerland
Traveled throughout western and northern Africa
1967 - 1969 Graduate work with Professor Bernard Kester at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1969 Master of Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA and moved to New York City
First group exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1969 - 1977 IV-VIII Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland
1976 Solo exhibitions at the Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
and The Hadler Galleries in New York City
1977 Group exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo
1979 Soft-Art, group exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
1980 - 2002 Worked and lived in her studio near Almeria in southern Spain
1987 Solo exhibition at the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Neuchatel, Switzerland
XIII Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Lausanne
2002-2018 Resides and maintains a studio in Chelsea, New York City
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHa-fgmES6A
2018 Moving to Neuchatel, Switzerland
A W A R D S and G R A N T S
UCLA Art Council Awards (1967-1970)
National Endowment For The Arts (1977)
Women In Design, International Honor Award (1981)
American Craft Council Award (2016)
P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
Began as a textile designer for Jack Lenor Larsen Inc. New York
Taught arts classes and summer workshops for many years
Juror for art exhibitions and visiting artist throughout the United States
G R O U P and S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
Participated in over a hundred national and international group and solo exhibitions
including the 1969 exhibition, Wall Hangings, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
and six times in the Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie in Lausanne, Switzerland
P U B L I C C O L L E C T I O N S
Created large scale works for public places, institutions, corporate offices and hotels
in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, Texas, California, and abroad.
M U S E U M C O L L E C T I O N S
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institution, Renwick Gallery, Washington DC.
Musee d’Art et d’Histoire, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Art, RISD, Providence, RI
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY