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Claude Viallat, is a French contemporain painter born in 1936 on may 18th, in Nimes.
 

In 1969, he was one of the founding members of the group Substrates/Surfaces.

In his recent works, Claude Viallat has returned to flat rectangular or square surfaces, favoring an outburst, internal constituent elements, placing ever greater emphasis on the ratios of density, intensity, brilliance between the colored surfaces. In addition to the growing success of his exhibitions both in France (at the Center Pompidou en 1982) and abroad (Venice Biennale en 1988), the artist devoted a good part of his life to teaching in the following art schools : Nice, Limoges, Marseilles, Nîmes (where he was director for many years), finally Paris at the National School Superior of Fine Arts of Paris. Now retired, he continues his exploratory research.

EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBTIONS

2018
- El horizonte del color, curator: Nicolas Martin Ferreira, Casa Blanca - Hilton Hotel - Papaya Planet, Panama City, Panama

2017
- Painting as far as the eye can see, curator: Nicolas Martin Ferreira,

Casa Franca - Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Canvases, Objects, Nets, The vacuum cleaner, Narbonne, France
- In situ, Palace of the Archbishops, Narbonne, France
- FIAC Outside the Walls, Tuileries Garden, Paris, France

2016
- Claude Viallat, Tributes to..., Synodal Palace, Sens, France
- Claude Viallat at Jean Prouvé, Beauvallon, France

2014
- Claude Viallat, Der Stoff der Malerei, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
- Retrospective, Claude Viallat, Fabre Museum, Montpellier, France
- Claude Viallat, Der Stoff der Malerei, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Chateau de Ratilly, Ratilly, France
- Claude Viallat, Foundation of Contemporary Art, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Claude Viallat Villa Tamaris la Seyne sur Mer, France

2013
- The margins of the pintura, National Gallery, Andorra
- Delacroix Gallery, Tangier, Morocco
- Matmut Contemporary Art Center, Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville, France
- Arsenal, Museum of Soissons, France
- Claude Viallat, Bullfighting, Aubais, France
- Claude Viallat, Der Stoff der Malerei, Grounds for painting, Situation Kunst,

Bochum, Germany

2012
- Paintings and objects, Museum of Louviers, France
- Claude Viallat, Paintings, hoops & Toros, Museum of the Saint-Roch hospice,

Issoudun, France
- Claude Viallat on the margins of painting, Museum of Touquet-Paris-Plage,

Le Touquet, France

2011
- Feuille à Feuille, exhibition of illustrated books, Château de Villeneuve, Vence, France
- Inauguration ceremony of the stained glass windows, Cathedral of Nevers, France
- Museum of Ferrieres, France
- House of Arts, Bages, France
- Faure Museum, Aix les Bains, France
- Arles Arena, Arles, France
- Frost Art Museum, Miami, USA
- Espace Villeglié, Saint-Gratien, France

2010
- Cultural Center of Damascus, Syria
- Chateau de Florac, Lozere, France
- Rice Fair, with Paco Ibañez, Arles, France
- La Verrière, Hermès Corporate Foundation, Brussels, Belgium

2009
- National Museum of Mali - Neighborhoods of Orange, Bamako, Mali
- Museum of Fine Arts, Brest, France
- Center La Passerelle, Brest, France

2008
- Zapettini Foundation, Milan, Italy
- Absolute drunkenness, Salomon Foundation, Annecy, France
- Claude Viallat announces the color!, Maison Carré - Arenas - Wall Foster Carré d'Art,

Nimes, France
- Espace Riquet, Beziers, France
- Gajac Museum, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France
- Recto-Verso, Hall of the station of Nîmes, France
- Gallery of accumulations, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
- Cornouaille Hospital Center, Quimper, France

2007
- House of Arts, Malakoff, France
- Claude Viallat, Prints, Espace del arte, Château de Grèzes, France
- Municipal Museum of Saint-Gaudens, France
- Claude Viallat en Ré, Kahn Gallery, Ars en Ré, France
- Claude Viallat, Painting / Paintings, Carmel Chapel, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
- The Radar, Bayeux, France
- Claude Viallat, GIANTS, Airport of Butzweilerhof, Cologne, Germany
- The high yellow note, Van Gogh Foundation, Arles, France
- Bullfighting, Beaucaire, France
- Library-gallery Passe-Temps, Eymoutiers, France
- The postal canvases, La Poste Museum, Paris, France
- 12th Meeting of Contemporary Art, Villa Saint Cyr, Bourg-la-Reine, France
- Bicêtre Hospital, Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

2006
- Military tents, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
- Claude Viallat - 1966-1975, Scabies Jean Fournier, France
- DUPLEX - FABRIK culture, Wittersdorf, France
- Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
- Claude Viallat, recent works and Bullfighting, Sainte Eugénie Crypt, Biarritz, France
- Bernard Ceysson Gallery, Saint Etienne, France
- Estiarte Gallery, Madrid, Spain
- European Center for Contemporary Artistic Actions, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
- University of Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
- Postal bags, Philippe Pannetier Gallery, France
- Recto Verso, Scabiesrie Fabrick Culture, Wittersdorf, France
- André Malraux Center, Colmar, France
- Henri Matisse, Accomplishing a Great Journey, Claude Viallat, Looking at Matisse, Château de Villeneuve, Vence, France
- Yonne Art Center, Auxerre, France
- Pont du Gard, Remoulins, France
- Hiyake Gallery, Grimaud, France
- Claude Viallat, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2005
- Galleria d'arte Marchetti, Roma, Italy
- Claude Viallat, recent works, Oniris Gallery, Rennes, France
- Claude Viallat, Tribute(s) to Matisse, Matisse Museum, Le Cateau Cambrésis, France
- Gallery Helene Trintignan, Montpellier, France
- Hangar Theater, Montpellier, France
- Pom Jacques Gallery, Thonon-les-Bains, France
- Les Arts murartothèque, Pessac, France
- Recent paintings and objects, Center for Mediterranean Art, Toulon, France
- SPACE Peiresc, Toulon, France
- Saint Augustine Church, Bergamo, Italy
- Philippe Kang Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Benjamin-Rabier Media Library, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
- Roger-Quilliot Art Museum, Clermont Ferrand, France
- Gueffier House, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
- Gallery Acentmètresducentredumonde, Perpignan, France
- Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy

2004
- Doors and windows, ScabiesDaniel Templon, Paris, France
- Jacques Girard Gallery, Toulouse, France
- Objects, Contemporary Art Gallery of the University of Toulouse, Le Mirail, Toulouse, France
- Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
- Hotel Beury, Center for Art and Literature, L'Echelle, France
- Claude Viallat, traveling exhibition, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Jardin Borda, Cuernava, - Museo metropolitano, Monterrey, Merida, Mexico
- Egyptian Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece
- House of arts, Bédarieux, France
- Espace Jean Legendre, Theater of Compiègne, France
- Thérèse Roussel Gallery, media library Perpignan, France
- Claude Viallat and the book Perpignan, France
- Contemporary Art Gallery, Auvers-sur-Oise, France
- L'Atelier, Eric Seydoux Gallery, Paris, France

2003
- Pannetier Gallery, Nimes, France
- Annie Lagier Gallery, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
- Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
- Doors, Le Vallon du Villaret, Bagnols-les-Bains, France
- Ropes and nets, Pierre-André Benoit Museum, Alès, France
- The border gallery, Armentières, France
- Art Vailhan, Vailhan, France
- National 20, Highway A.20, What happened?, "Nationale 20", Cahors Henri-Martin Museum, France
- Château Haut-Gléon, Villesèque-des-Corbières, France
- Léa Grdt Gallery, Luxembourg
- Claude Viallat without frame, Jendela, Esplanade Mall, Singapore
- Claude Viallat- Tribute to Clabaud, Chabaud Museum, Graveson, France
- Atelier Eric Seydoux, Paris, France

2002
- Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, USA
- Catherine Issert Gallery, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
- Espace Gustave Fayet, Serignan, France
- Claude Viallat, Bullfighting, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, France
- Estiarte Gallery, Madrid, Spain
- Art in the chapels, Morbihan, France
- Oniris Gallery, Rennes, France
- Museum of Modern Art of Céret, Céret, France
- Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
- Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
- Chapel of the Capuchins, Aigues Mortes, France

2001
- Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
- Oniris Gallery, Rennes, France
- Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
- Henri Martin Museum, Cahors, France
- National Gallery of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia
- Chapel of the Capuchins, Aigues-Mortes, France
- Gallery Helene Trintignan, Montpellier, France
- Marseille and after..., Galerie de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
- Eric Linard Gallery, La Garde-Adhémar, France
- Museum of MuBe, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Fundaçao cultural de Curitiba, Brazil
- Imperial Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Philippe Pannetier Gallery, Nimes, France
- Artist's Proof Gallery, Lille, France

2000
- Objects, Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France
- Claude Viallat, works on paper (1968-1990), Museum of Modern Art of Saint-Étienne, - Saint-Étienne, France
- Garonne Festival, Toulouse, France
- Claude Viallat, Recent works, Scabies Dortindeguey, Arles, France
- A work - Claude Viallat, Château de Villeneuve, Emile Hugues Foundation,

France
- Claude Viallat, Prints, Châtellerault, France
- Claude Viallat, works on paper 1999, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
- Claude Viallat, selection of recent works, Galerie Georges Verney-Carron,

Villeurbanne, France
- Claude Viallat in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of Saint-Étienne, IUFM,

Lyon, France
- New Bucol fabric paintings, Scabies Le Rectangle, Lyon, France
- Seven Hills Gallery, Vienne, France

1999
- Claude Viallat, Recent Paintings, Oniris Gallery, Rennes, France
- Claude Viallat, Galleria Plumira, Udine, Italy
- French Institute, Scabiesrie 121, Casablanca, Morocco
- Claude Viallat, Rehearsals, Shangai - Art Museum, Chengdu, Kunming City Museum, - Kunming, Heping Museum, China
- Ryhmus, Farben, Raum, St. Petri Church, Lübeck, Germany
- Itsutsuji Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Won Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- French Institute, Scabies Bab Kebir, Rabat, Morocco

1998
- Lea Gredt Gallery, Luxembourg
- Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France
- Phoebus Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Claude Viallat, the Nice period 1964-1967, Emile Hugues Foundation, Vence, France
- L'Echelle, Hotel Beury, Epernay, France
- Gallery of Fine Arts, Cherbourg, France
- Claude Viallat: Banners and nets, French Institute of Florence and Fiesole Musei, Italy
- Confluence Gallery, Nimes, France
- Claude Viallat, Acquisitions 1985-1998, Limousin Arthotek, Limoges, France
- Viallat, recent works, Le Sphinx Gallery, La Villedieu-du-Temple, France
- Akhnaton Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
- Free run, Contemporary Art Center, Le Cailar, France

1997
- Lobby of the Palais des Congrès, Paris, France
- Yahia Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
- Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
- Plurima Gallery, Udine, Italy
- Mining Museum, Hall of the Hanged, Saint Etienne, France
- Temple of Caussade, Caussade, France
- Claude Viallat, Recent Works 1990-1996, Pavilion of the Fabre Museum, Montpellier, France
- Claude Viallat. Bordering areas, Museum of the Hotel - Dieu, Mantes la Jolie, France
- Claude Viallat, recent paintings, Maison Coccoz, Saint Tropez, France
- Orenga Gallery in Gaffory, Patrimonio, France
- Savoisien Museum, Chambery, France
- Free courses, Drawings by Claude Viallat, Contemporary Art Center, Le Cailar, France
Obalne Gallery, Piran, Slovakia

1996
- Claude Viallat, Objects 1974-1996, National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France
- Golden Court Museum, Metz, France
- Claude Viallat, 1986-1996, former Cordeliers convents, Châteauroux, France
- Contemporary art group, Annonay, France
- Gastaud Gallery, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Museum-Castle of Annecy, France

1995
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France
- Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung, Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
- Arthotek of Nantes, France
- Adolf & Christiane von Ribbentrop Gallery, Eltville am Rhein, Germany
- Municipal Museum of La Charité-sur-Loire, France
- Lawrence Durell Space, Museum of Sommières, France
- French Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel

1994
- Cultural Department, Périgueux, France
- Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
- Gallery Helene Trintignan, Montpellier, France
- Claude Viallat: Objects 1973-1993, Scabiesrie Itsutsuji, Tokyo, Japan
- Won Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Victor Charreton Museum, Bourgoin-Jallieu, France
- Fine art academy, Beirut, Lebanon
- Espace Ecureuil Gallery, Toulouse, France
- Art & Essay Gallery, University of Rennes, France
- Oniris Gallery, Rennes, France
- Galerie du Cloître, Rennes, France
- Regional School of Fine Arts, Rennes, France
- Therese Roussel Gallery, Perpignan, France
- Municipal Museum of Clamecy, France

1993
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France
- Curtains for the Museum of Céret, Modern Art Museum of Céret, Céret, France
- Cantoisel Workshop, Joigny, France
- Municipal Gallery, Millas, France
- Espace Fortant de France, Sète, France
- Regional School of Fine Arts, Le Mans, France
- Center for artistic initiatives of the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, Toulouse, France
- Larock-Granoff Gallery, Paris, France

1992
- Itsutsuji Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Universal exposition of Seville, Seville, Spain
- National Museum of Fine Art, Ankara - Museum of Fine Art of the University Mimar, Sinan, Istanbul, Turkey
- Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan
- Colt Gallery, Nice, France
- Chateau d'Arsac, Margaux, France
- Museum of Contemporary Art of Montbéliard, Montbéliard, France
- Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
- Artefact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
- The Bedouin Culture Museum, Kibbutz Lahav, Beer Sheva, Israel
- Appart Gallery, Saint-Etienne, France

1991
- MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, French Institute,

Athens, Greece
- Wentzel Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- Papers, National Museum of Modern Art - Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, France
- Christine Debras & Yves Bical Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
- Orangerie Pavilion, Bishop's Museum, Jean Gagnant Cultural Center, Limoges, France
- Pinacoteca, Athens, Greece
- French Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece
- Thessaloniki Port warehouse, Athens, Greece
- Workshop Famagusta Gate, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France
- Arte Fiera, Cultural Association Franco-Italian of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Sup. Hors Sur Face, Regional Center of Pedagogical Documentation, Poitiers, France
- Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
- Oniris Gallery, Rennes, France

1990
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France
- Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
- Oniris Gallery, Rennes, France
- Won Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- French cultural center, Seoul, South Korea
- Marthe Carreton Gallery, Nimes, France
- Galeria Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain
- Athisma Gallery, Lyon, France
- Church of Notre-Dame-des-Sablons, Aigues-Mortes, France
- Superior School of Art, Annecy, France

1989
- 20 years of work in Catalonia, Céret Modern Art Museum, Collioure Castle, France
- Oudayas Museum, Rabat, Morocco
- European School of Art of Brittany, Quimper, France
- Meetings of contemporary art, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Papers by Claude Viallat, Thérèse Roussel Gallery, Perpignan, France
- Les Filets by Claude Viallat in Vienne, Etendards 3, Vienne, France
- Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Wentzel Gallery, Koln, Germany
- Le Rafour, Condrieu, France
- Convention Center, Perpignan, France

1988
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France
- French Pavilion, 43rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- Won Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Casino Venier, Venice, Italy
- Wentzel Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- French Institute, Cologne, Germany
- Carré d'Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nîmes, France
- Cultural center, Cairo, Egypt

1987
- Sara Hildén taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland
- Mücsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
- Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands

1986
- Claude Viallat, recent paintings, Scabies municipal exhibition hall, Saint-Priest, France
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France
- On paper, Claude Viallat, cultural center of Annonay, France
- Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
- Archaeological Museum, Cavaillon, France
- Toros/Féria 1986 posters, Scabiesrie des Arenes, Nîmes, France
- Jacques Girard Gallery, Toulouse, France
- Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1985
- Nets, ScabiesJean Fournier, Paris, France
- Claude Viallat, Recent works, Scabies Zôgraphia, Bordeaux, France
- Claude Viallat, Objects, Scabiesrie Athanor, Marseille, France
- National School of Art, Limoges, France

1984
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France
- Chapel of the Salamander, Nîmes, France
- French Institute, Valencia, Spain
- French Institute of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France
- Caia de Ahorros, Valencia, Spain
- Museum of Art and Industry, Saint-Étienne, France

1983
- Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Wentzel Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- Won Gallery - Hankuk Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Ponchettes Gallery, Nice Museum, Nice, France
- Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
- Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1982
- National Center of Art and Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
- Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
- Wentzel Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- Retrospective, Fine art Museum, Montreal, Canada

nineteen eighty one
- Part I, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Part II, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Ace Canada Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- The Viallat of Jacques Lepage, Scabies
 l'Atelier, Nice, France
- Ace Gallery, Venice, Los Angeles, USA

1980
- Other works from 1979, Scabies Jean Fournier, Paris, France
- CAPC, Lainé Warehouse, Bordeaux, France
- Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany

1979
- Wentzel Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

1978
- Arta Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
- House of Culture, Orléans, France
- Vega-Manette Repriels Gallery, Plainevaux, Belgium
- New works, Senanque Abbey, Gordes, France
- Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
- Claude Viallat - Traces, Museum of Art and History, Chambéry, France

1977
- Les Peilles, Scabies Jean Fournier, Paris, France
- Sanguine Gallery, Collioure, France

1976
- Gallery A 16, Scabies Le Flux, Perpignan, France
- Claude Viallat 1973-1975, Scabies
 Pierre Matisse, New York, United States
- Fine Art Palace, Brussels, Belgium
- Van der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
- Daniel Templon Gallery, Milan, Italy
- CM Gallery, Saint-Etienne, France

1975
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France
- Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
- 12x1 Brussels 1975, Europalia 75, Fine Art Palace, Brussels, Belgium

1974
- Delta Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
- Malabar & Cunégonde Gallery, Nice, France
- Museum of Art and Industry, Saint-Étienne, France
- House of Culture, Rennes, France

1973
- Daniel Templon Gallery, Milan, Italy
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France

1971
- Dis Pa Ri Tion Mul Ti Ple, Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris

1968
- Sample for a wall, Museum of Modern Art of Céret, Céret, France
- Jean Fournier Gallery, Paris, France

1966
- Gallery A, Nice, France

Main public and private collections :

- Art Museum de Toulon


- Museum of bullfighting cultures de Nimes

- Church of Our Lady of the Sablons of Aigues-Mortes, stained glass windows (1991)


- Pierre-André-Benoit MuseumAles


- Carré d'Art - contemporary art museumNimes


- Paneling for the Liège University Hospital Center, screen printing on vitrified enamel steel panels, each panel : h. 103, l. 200 cm, 1978-1985, collection du Sart Tilman Open Air Museum (university of Liege).

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