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Born and raised in Lyon, France. Lived in Taiwan, Mexico and Egypt. Living and working in New York since 1984.

Collections:

Museums:

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Prints and Drawings, New York.
  • The Getty, Los Angeles.
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
  • Legion of Honor, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco.
  • Brooklyn Museum
  • Museum of the City of New York.
  • MOMA Library, New York.
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
  • New York Historical Society, New York.
  • Portable Work Collection, City of Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Musée Saint-John Perse, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.
  • Musée de l'hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France.
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Belfort, France.
  • Musée de la Miniature, Lyon, France.
  • Musée Baron Gérard, Bayeux, France.

Libraries:

  • Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum, New York.
  • Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
  • Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
  • New York Public Library, Spencer Collection.
  • Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxembourg.
  • Burton Barr Library, Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Cerritos Library, California.
  • The Evergreen's rare book collection,Washington.
  • Newark Public Library, New Jersey.
  • Sackner Collection of Visual & Concrete Poetry, Florida.

French city library collections:

Albertville, Albi, Amiens, Annecy, Auxerre, Bayonne, Becherel, Besançon, Brest, Chalon en Champagne, Chambéry, Cherbourg, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Douai, Dunkerque, Grasse, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Issoudun, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Lille, Limoges, Lourdes, Lyon, Metz, Montpellier, Mulhouse, Nantes, Narbonne, Nice, Niort, Oullins, Quimper, Rennes, Riom, Royan, les Sables d'Olonne, Saint-Priest, Saumur, Sens, Sète, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Vannes

University Collections:

  • Atheneum La Jolla, California.
  • Brown University, Rhode Island.
  • Connecticut College.
  • Columbia College Library, Illinois.
  • Florida Atlantic University, Arthur Jaffe collection.
  • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
  • Mills College, California.
  • Occidental College, Mary Norton Clapp Library, Los Angeles.
  • Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.
  • Princeton University Firestone Library, New Jersey.
  • Rutgers University Libraries (Newark, Dana library, Jazz collection; New Brunswick, Roebling Collection & special collections), New Jersey.
  • Stanford University, California.
  • U.C.L.A., California.
  • University of Connecticut.
  • University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
  • University of Louisville, Kentucky.
  • University of Miami, Richter library
  • University of Minnesota.
  • Temple University, Pennsylviana.
  • Yale University: Arts of the Book Collection, New Haven, Connecticut.

Public Art:

  • Cultivate Your Mind in the Orchard of Knowledge, 2009, Santa Teresa Library, San Jose, CA, hand-blown glass, cut metal and stone.
  • "Floating Memories"- Sept- Dec 2008- cut Tyvek banners at the Bell Tower, 7380 E 2nd St, Scottsdale, AZ
  • "Tell Me A Story"-2008, Aurora, CO, cut metal sitting bench installed at 9724 East Colfax Avenue, part of "the Intersection of Art & Function" program
  • "Energie"- 2007- stainless steel and LEDs, Halle de sport de Tigery, France
  • "Postcards from North Carolina"-2007, six aluminum murals, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, North Carolina
  • "Have a Ball"-2006, Kent, Washington, cut-out metal gates
  • "Bronx Literature"-2006, Burke subway station,New York City: permanent faceted glass mural commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts in Transit, New York City
  • "Seeds of the Future are Planted Today"-2004, Kostner subway Station, Chicago: stainless steel fence Chicago Transit Authority Commission administered by the City of Chicago's Public Art Program
  • "Working in the Same Direction"-2003, permanent sculpture commissioned by the Percent for Art Program of the New York Department of Cultural affairs, the New York City Fire Department and the Department of Design and Construction - Rossville, Staten Island, New York City

Fences, signage, gates:

  • "herbes folles"- 2009- cut stainless steel, 53 rue des prairies, Paris XX, France
  • "herbes piquantes", 2009, cut and painted aluminum, Autun, France
  • "Wild Flowers" - 2009, cut and painted metal, Melrose 5, South Bronx, New York, commissionned by Blue Sea Development Company
  • "Roots & Wings"- 2010, cut and painted metal, lobby papercut tryptich, General Colin Powel Apartments, South Bronx, commissionned by Blue Sea Development Cie
  • "Jazzy" - 2010, cut and painted metal, Macy Place, South Bronx, New York, commissionned by Blue Sea Development Company
  • "on the Moon"- 2009- cut and painted metal, private residence, Tucson, AZ
  • "Patterns of Life"-2006, stainless steel shadow boxes for the Chelsea House, Manhattan, commissionned by the Clarett Group

Curated slide registry:

The Drawing Center, New York, www.drawingcenter.org
PlacerArts Public Art Registry, CA, www.publicart.placerarts.org
City of Atlanta Public Art Registry
Prequalified artist for Public Art in the Cities of:
Evanston, Il; El Paso, TX; Santa Cruz, CA; Tucson, AZ; Richmond, BC, Canada

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2010 The Identity Series, Aferro Galerie, Newark, NJ, March 13- April 24, 2010
2008 City Slices, Grady Alexis Gallery/El Taller Latino Americano, New York, July 31 - August 30
2007 The Secret Life of Cities, Lehmann College Art Gallery, The Bronx,NY, September 4, 2007-January 11
Krasl Art Center, St Joseph, Michigan, March 1-April 15
2006 Rear Window, Asuka Gallery, Kanoya , Japan: (see pictures), October 25-November 10
2005 Personal Cities, Brooklyn Public Library, August 16-October 2
Cutting Edge, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois, January 14-February 18
2004 Dessiner avec des Ciseaux, Maison des Mémoires, Carcassonne, France, May 14-June 26, 2004 (interview-video en français).
The Spelling Spider and Other Cuts, Azarian-McCullough Art Gallery, Sparkill, NY, February 29-March 27
2003 Fresh Cuttings, Alhum Gallery, Easton, Pa, November 2 - December 27
SagaCity, The Cutting Edge, Chicago,Center for Book & Paper Arts, July 11-August 22
Center for Book Art, New York, March
2001 Papiers Découpés, Musée de l'hospice Saint-Roch,Issoudun, France, September 28-November 30
Livres et Découpes, Librairie Nicaise, Paris, France,8-24 February
le Prêt-à-Rêver, Terre de Chine, Paris, France, 5-26 February
2000 Empire State Building Gallery, New York,NY, 1 September-19 November
Graphes, , Paris, France, February
Singular views of the urban multitude, I'm different like everybody else, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, April (view realplayer video).
1999 Terre de Chine, Paris, France, September 1999
1996 Empire State Building Gallery, New York, NY, September-November
1995 Découpes, Mairie du VIIe arrondissement, Lyon, France, September
1994 Voyage, Maison de la Chine, Paris, France, February

Selected Group Shows:

2010

Narrative Sequences, The Center for Book Arts, New York, January 20- April 3, 2010
Beyond the Text: Artist's books Collection of Robert J.Ruben, Grolier Club, New York,NY,March 25- May 28, 2010
The Weight of Black, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC, May 25- July 18, 2010
The Perfect Fit, Nicolaysen Museum, Casper, Wyoming, April 30- September 12, 2010
The Morgan Dialogs , Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, Ohio, April 16- May 28, 2010
Noire Lumière: Papiers découpés, silhouettes et théâtre d'ombres, Médiathèque Malraux, Strasbourg, France, 7 avril- 5 juin, 2010
25th Anniversary Salon, Lehman College, The Bronx, May 11- June 4, 2010
Arts Without Border, Taller Latino, New York, April 15- May 29, 2010
The Art of the Book,,Donna Seager Gallery, San Raphael, CA
I will cut thrU: Pochoirs, Carvings and Other Cuttings, The Center for Book Arts, New York, July 7-September 11, 2010
Pulp, Arts Guild of New Jersey, Rahway, NJ, March 19- April 16, 2010
2009

Slash: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts & Design, New York,NY, October 7, 2009- January 10, 2010
Range of Possibilities, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC, March 17- May 10
The Perfect Fit, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, June 6, 2009- January 3, 2010
Somewhere far from Habit , Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA, November 6-30, 2009
Le livre est une oeuvre d'art, Europ'Art, Aigues-Morte, October 11- November 8
Book Review, Sirens' Song Gallery, Greenport, NY11944 , July 3 _ August 3, 2009
Rare Editions: The Book as Art, Lehman College Gallery, The Bronx, NY, February 10 – May 20, 2009
Pulse art fair, NY- March 5 to 8, 2009 at the stand of the Museum of Arts & Design
Cut & Fold, New Brewery Arts, Gloucester, England , November 7, 2009 – January 32010
Uncharted Territory, Oualie Art, Orange, NJ , May 1- 31, 2009
Quand L'Objet se Livre, Bibliothèque Municipale de Dijon, France ,20 janvier-18 avril 2009
Booked 6, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ, March 3 to 21, 2009
Anthropology: Revisited, Reinvented, Reinterpreted, Central Booking art space, Brooklyn, November 19, 2009 – January 17, 2010

2008 Drawn by New York, New York Historical Society, New York, NY, September 19, 2008- January 19, 2009
My World - within & without, Prince George Gallery, New York, NY, November 7- December 30
Running with Scissors, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC, July 11- September 2
B.J. Spoke Gallery,Huntington,NY, August 2-31
Ombres & Lumières, Musée de la Miniature et des Décors de Cinéma, Lyon, France, December 4, 2007-January 31
2007 Brave New World, Solar Gallery, East Hampton, NY, October 27, 2007-January 30, 2008
Black/White (and read), Cerritos Library,CA, October 28, 2007-January 14, 2008 and The Center for Book Arts, New York, April 13-June 30
Play, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
PaperCuts, Oriel Davies Gallery, Powys, Wales, October 27– December 8 and Hove Museum and Art Gallery, England, 6 April-July 1 
Artist Books: From Matisse to Present, Natural History Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, June 1-July 8
Cutting Across Cultures, The Rye Art Center, NY, January 7-February 17
2006 Open Book, New Jersey City University Visual Arts Gallery, November 15-December 20
Euclid to E-books: ideal books moving ideas, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY, September 18-December 8
Book As Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, October 27, 2006-February 4
PaperCuts,Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk, England, 11 August-23 September 23
Mutilated/Cultivated Environments, The Center for Book Arts, New York, June 29-September 16
Bronx Bound, Lehman College Art Gallery, The Bronx, NY, February 8-May 14
Sharp Impressions, University of West of England Library, Bristol, England, February 1–March 6
2005 EX LIBRIS Artists, Lafayette College, Easton,PA, Sept 2-October 23
Cutting Edge, Quincy Art Center, IL, January 14-February 18
Shanghai Cultural Festival, Jinshan, China, October 17-22
Decalage-Time lag, Minato Mirai Gallery, Yokohama, Japan, October 5-16
Paper Cut, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, September 21-October 29
Marché de la Poésie, Montréal, Canada, June 3-5
City Arts, Center for Architecture, New York, NY, April 28-September 3
Books/Multiples, Olin Fine Arts Center, Washington PA, April 1-30
2004 Pulp:book art, art books & works on paper, ADA gallery, Richmond, VA,December
Out of the Frame, The Loft at the Mill, Lincoln, NE, October 6-9
Freedom Frenzy, Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR, September 4-30
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, June 17-August 20
CitiEscapes, Rongio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, April 3-25
2003 From a Woman’s Point of View, New York Historical Society, Luce Center Drawing, August 25-December 14
Portland Arts and SATTA, South Portland Antiques, Brooklyn, NY, November 15-December 13
Beyond Reading, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, Va., September 9-October 18
Petropolis, New York Historical Society, July 8-November 9
The Center for Book Arts, New York, June 19-August 16
Built by hand: the book as art, Pyramid Atlantic, Washington, D.C., November 20, 2002- February 8
2002 Center for Book & Paper Arts Washington, D.C.Biennial,Chicago, September 13 - October 25
Les Petits Papiers, Abbaye de Saint Florent le Vieil, France, June 7-Septembre 29
Temptations, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., March 4, 2002-Jan 5, 2003
Building on the Flatiron, New York Historical Society, April 23-September 1
Skyline, Museum of The City of New York, January-March
Universal Language: The Art of Papercutting, Queens Library Gallery, NY, January 17-February 23
Rutgers University Dana Library, Book Symposium, Newark, NJ, November 1, 2001-January 10
2001 Transactions, Eastern Edge Gallery, St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, September 30-October 24
Book Explorations, Saltwinds Yankee Barn, Kingston, MA, April
2000 Qingdao Art Gallery Print Exhibition, China, November 20-December 10
Chicago, Center for Book & Paper Arts Biennial, September 15-October 27
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dpt of Prints and Drawings, Johnson Gallery, New York, June 27-Sept 10
1999 The Art of Reading: Books and Non-Books, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine, September
New York, New York, HarperCollins Gallery, New York, April 5-May 22
Cut Paper, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, January 13-March 6
Bound to Happen, Paul Mesaros Gallery, Morganstown, WV, January 28-March 6
1998 Center for Book & Paper Arts Biennial, Chicago, September 18-October 30
Textiles/fibers/threads: the book show, Center for Book Art, New York, September 12- November 14
1997 Animal Tales, Whitney Museum, Stamford, Connecticut, November 1997-February
Beautiful Beasts, Center for Book Art, New York, June-September 1997
1996 Paper, Art & the Book, Center for Book Art, New York, September-December
1995 Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan, December
1994 Chamalières, France: "3e Triennale Mondiale d'Estampes" September

Publications and Reviews:

  • Maison à part: Mon portail? Une oeuvre d'art!, July, 2009
  • Le magazine Actives - Les Pays de Savoie côté femmes, June 2009
  • Hand Papermaking, Volume 23, Number 2, Winter 2008, page 23
  • Blueprint, the magazine for leading architects and designers, issue 259, October 2007, page 178.
  • Teachers & Writers Magazine, cover, Fall 2007.
  • Mercure Liquide number 7, October 2007.
  • Riding Easy: Works to Soothe the Harried, New York Time, Art review, April 23, 2006.
  • Arcade, Ephémère, Montréal, été 2005, numéro 63, page 64-65.
  • City Art: New York's Percent for Art Program, 2005, Merrell publishers, pages 230-231.
  • DesignNet June 2005, Seoul, pages120-123.
  • “Celle qui enchantait la ville” Métiers d’Art, numéro221, page 28-29, Mai-Juin 2005.
  • Book Paradise by Fang-Ling Jong, Taipei 2004, pages 60-61.
  • Recto Verso, Radio Suisse Romande interview par Alain Maillard, 2 Novembre 2004.
  • Come Decorare con gli stencil by Celina di Pisa, 2003,p.61-63 ISBN 88-86422-48-2 .
  • Book Arts by Ha-Rae Kim, Seoul 2003, pages 110-111.
  • "New directions in creation" Photosign, Russian CD, December 2003 (view realplayer video).
  • "Paper Magic" The Morning Call review by Geoff Gehman, December 2003.
  • Wall Street Journal review by Stuart Ferguson, December 17, 2003.
  • "Creative Process and Organization." Tabellae Ansatae, Volume 3, number 1, Fall issue 2003.
  • DesignNet March 2003, Seoul, pages126-131.
  • "The art of using papercutting as pochoirs & stencils." Tabellae Ansatae, Volume 2, number 2, Spring issue 2002.
  • The book of papercutting by Haeyong Kwon.2002.p.27-28 ISBN 89-86009-10-2.
  • "Spotlight on Artist" Newsletter of the Ph.D. Program in French, The City University of New York, volume 2, April 2001.
  • Paper Illuminated by Helen Hiebert. 2001 p.39 Storey books-ISBN 1-58017-330-6.
  • "Le Magazine des Femmes," interview avec Béatrice Coron. Laurence Garcia, pour Radio France Internationale, 20 Septembre 1999 (écouter en Real Player 20mn).
  • "Regards: livres et découpes." Lunes, numéro 8 (juillet 1999).
  • "Béatrice Coron ou l'art du papier découpé, "Christophe Comentale. Art & Métiers du Livre, numéro 211 (Septembre-Octobre 1998): pages16-20.
  • Resident illustrator of Attitude: The Dancers Magazine since 1989.

Residencies:

Museum of Arts & Design, New York, June 2009
Lehman College Art Gallery, The Bronx, summer 2007, 2008, 2009
Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ, September 2008- February 2009

Nomination:

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2009

Weblinks:

Workshops & Lectures:

Split Rock, MN, June 20-26, 2010
Peters Craft Valley. July 2-6, 2010
Haystack, MA, July 18-30, 2010
BookWorks, Asheville, NC, May 22 & 23, 2009
Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale,NY, July 21-25, 2008
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Cutting workshop, May 31- June 1, 2008
Penland School of Crafts, NC, Fresh Cuttings Workshop, April 26-May 2, 2008, May 24- June 5, 2009
Florida Atlantic University, Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Lecture November, .Workshop "Cutting for Design" November 10-11, 2007.
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, March 10-April 13, 2007.
Ubud, Indonesia: Mitra-Bali, January 2007.
Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan, Sharp New Art with Traditional Kiri-e Techniques Nov 8-9, 2006.
Kagoshima, Japan: Asuka Gallery, Kanoya (see pictures), October 2006.
Brooklyn Public Library "Making Books" Spring 2006.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005.
Taller Leñateros, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, 2005.
Macalaster College- French Series Program- December 2004.
Relevance/Resonance, MAPC2004, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. October 6-9, 2004.
 Paper and Book Intensive, Portland, Or June 7-18, 2004.
Maison des Mémoires, Carcassonne May 2004.
The Ink Pad, New York, 2002.
Queens Library, "The Art of Book Design", Spring 2001.
Borough of Manhattan Community College, May 1998, March 2001.
American Craft Museum, New York 2000-2001.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, April 2000-2001.
Au Papier Japonais, Montréal, October 2001.
Papercutting workshops at the New York: Center for Book Art and Creative Women with Cancer since 1999.
Book Structures & Papercutting workshops in France: Matière Contact, Lyon since 2001.
Papercutting workshops at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago since 2002.
 

running (without scissors):
Marathon du Médoc 1999: 4h20
50k 2003 5h20
Kurt Steiner 50 miles 2004 9h22
Knickerbocker 60km (37.2 miles) Nov 2007 7h16

last update June 2010

 


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