Background
Toguo, Barthélémy was born in 1967 in Cameroon.
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Barthélémy Toguo
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Graduate, Abidjan School Fine Arts, Côte d'Ivoire, 1993. Graduate, Grenoble Graduate School Art, France, 1996. Graduate, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.
Career
He lives in Paris and Bandjoun. He has also worked with photographs, prints, sculpture, videos. Some of his paintings are found in The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi.
In 2008 he opened the Bandjoun Station, an art centre in Bandjoun which also provides artist residencies for visual artists.
His first solo presentation in New York City was at Robert Miller Gallery in Chelsea, from September 10 to October 29, 2009. Solo
2013 Hidden Faces, Lelong Gallery, Paris
2011 Criminal Tribunal, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna
2004/2005 The Sick Opera, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2004 Louisiana guerre des sexes n’aura pas lieu, Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts, Valence, France
2003 Pure and Clean, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, United States of America
Group
2014 Jaume Plensa - Kiki Smith - Bartélémy Toguo, Lelong Gallery, Paris
2005 African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, United States of America
2005 Hayward Gallery, London, England
2005 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2004 Africa Remix, Art contemporain d’un continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004 Je m’installe aux abattoirs, Louisiana collection d’art contemporain d’agnès b., Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2003 The American Effect, Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America.
