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François Bard (also written Francois) attended the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and was selected for residency at the Casa Velázquez 1988-1990. He was a professor at the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts in Paris for 10 years. Bard’s work has been featured in major international art fairs, including Art Miami, the London Art Fair, Art Paris, FORM London, Art London and Art Karlsruhe Germany, and hangs in prestigious public and private collections around the world, including those of Ralph Lauren, Kit Kemp, Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr. and Arkansas Arts Center–Museum of Art. Bard now divides his time between his Paris studio and his home in Burgundy.

For Bard, the simplest of all subjects, be it a shoe, a leg, a torso, a dog or a face, takes a dark and edgy turn. He manages to translate all his intimate emotion into a two dimensional oil painting; each work an endless exercise of composition, rhythm and struggle. The use of multiple layers of oil accentuates the feel and dynamic mood of all his paintings. François Bard gives a part of himself in every canvas. The horizon – the vast limiting of human experience – is fascinating to Bard. The horizon draws a line between here and not-here, day and night, good and evil, us and them. The scale and cinematic quality of his work only makes this more dramatic and stuns viewers over and over again.

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EDUCATION AND AWARDS

1990 Premier prix, Prix Paul Belmondo
1988-1990 Casa Velasquez Madrid, Spain
1977-1980 Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 Mazel Galerie, Brussels
2012 Si Loin,  Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris
2012 Not Guilty, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York City
2012 Not Guilty, Axelle Fine Arts, Boston
2011 Open Bard ,Mazel Galerie, Brussels
2010 Big Guns,  Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York City
2009 Une saison en forêt , Galerie du Fleuve, Paris
2007 Centre d’Art contemporain de Montluçon, France
2006 Le Carmel, Tarbes, France
2005 Galerie du Fleuve, Paris
2004 Stephany Hoppen Gallery, London
2003 Galerie du Fleuve, Paris
2002 Galerie Samagra, Paris
2002 Art Miami, Galerie du Fleuve, Miami
1998 Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1996 Visart, Paris France
1995 Centre Culturel, La Maison du Boulanger, Troyes, France
1992 Visart, Lille France
1991 Visart, 20/20, Paris
1984 Galerie du Passage, Troyes, France

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York City
2013 London Art Fair, Galerie Olivier Waltman, London
2013 Drawing now Paris , Mazel Galerie, Paris
2012 Art  Gent, Mazel Galerie, Gand, Belgium
2012 Art Paris, Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris
2012 Galerie DX, Bordeaux, France
2012 Waltman Ortega Fine Art, Miami
2012 Lille Art Fair , Mazel Galerie, Lille, France
2012 Happy birthday Marilyn…. 50 ans déjà , Mazel Galerie, Brussels
2012 Tensions, Mazel galerie, Brussels
2012 Axelle Fine Arts Soho, New York City
2011 Biennale d’Issy les Moulineaux – France
2011 Scope Artfair Miami, Waltman Ortega Fine Art, Miami USA
2011 Art London, Galerie Olivier Waltman, London
2011 Art Elysées , Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris
2011 Chic Art Fair – Mazel Galerie, Paris
2011 Lineart, Mazel Galerie, Gand, Belgium
2011 Remix, Mazel Galerie, Brussels
2011 Zoo O logis, Mazel Galerie, Brussels
2010 19, Mazel Galerie, Brussels
2010 Galerie du Fleuve, Paris, France
2009 Art Paris, Galleria Forni, Paris
2008 FORM London, Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London
2008 Art Karlsruhe, Galerie du Fleuve, Karlsruhe, Germany
2007 Salon de Vitry, France
2007 Art DC, Washington, Galerie du Fleuve, Washington
2007 Biennale de d’Issy les Moulineaux, France
2007 FORM London, Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London
2006 Galerie Aida Cherfan, Beyrouth Liban
2006 London Art Fair, Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London
2006 Art Miami, Galerie du Fleuve, Miami
2005 Centre d’Art Contemporain de Montluçon, France
2005 London Art Fair, Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London
2005 Fondation Coprim, Paris
2005 Biennale d’Issy les Moulineaux, France
2005 St’Art, Strasbourg, Galerie du Fleuve, France
2004 St’ Art, Strasbourg, Galerie du Fleuve, France
2004 Le Carmel, Tarbes, France
2004 Art London, Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, London
2004 Galleria Forni, Bologne, Italy
2003 Centre d’Art Duatre Coelho, Portugal
2003 L’art Emmêlé, Paris
2002 Stephany Hoppen Gallery, London
2002 Salon Grands et Jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Séoul Corée
2001 Salon Grands et Jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Luxembourg
2000 Salon Grands et Jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Paris
2000 Salon de Montrouge, France
1999 Centre Culturel, Abidjan  Côte d Ivoire
1999 Cloître des Billettes, Paris
1997 Cloître des Billettes, Paris
1996 La Réserve D’AREA , Paris
1996 Salon de Vitry, France.
1996 Fondation COPRIM, Paris
1996 Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris
1992 Exposition du prix Belmondo, Paris
1992 Visart, Paris
1991 Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Exposition Prix du Crédit Agricole, Paris
1990 Casa Velasquez, Madrid (Institut de France) Spain
1990 Sala de Pallarés, Léon, Spain

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Jackye et Curtis Finch Jr. Collection, About Face, Arkansas
Kit Kemp, Soho House, London
Goldsmith, Geneva
Dan O’Neal art collection, New York
Crane’s Collection, New York
Angelo M Collection, Milan
Ralph Lauren Collection, New York
Crosby Hotel, New York
Spruce Restaurant, San Francisco
Ralph Lauren Collection, Paris

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2013 François Bard, Monographie
2008 BARD François , Monographie, Editions SFEIR
2007  Hybrid  par Alains Rosenbach. Editions des Riaux.
2007 5 ans de Azart  par Gérard Gamand.
2007 Editions Azart « Peinture et photographie » par Jean Luc Chalumeau. Editions du Chêne

 

FILM

2006  Un promeneur silencieux dans le monde : Documentaire sur le travail de François Bard, Olivier Delahaye, 22 Production, Odelion Films