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Didier Massard statement | biography | links + press

born France 1953

Lives Paris, France

EDUCATION

1975 French Baccalaureat / Degree of Art and Archaeology, University of Paris

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1974 / 75 Assistant to Henry Longlois, Director of the French Cinemagraphic Institute

1975 -present Commercial Photographer, clients include Vogue, Elle, Traveler, L’Oreal, Air France, Chanel, Hermes, Cartier

PERSONAL WORK

1987-present
Development of "Imaginary Journeys", a series of table top photographs conceived and created in the studio.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
"Territories", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2005 "Horizons Artificiels", Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France

2004 "Images" FNAC Genève, Switzerland

2003
"Artificial Paradise", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
"Images", FNAC Etoile, Paris, France

2000 "Imaginary Journeys", Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999 "Winter", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, "Winter"

1998
"Imaginary Journeys", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
"Imaginary Journeys" , Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 "Paisagem Artificial", Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal

2003
"Enchanted Evening", Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
"SYLVA ('silve) [L. silva a wood, forest, woodland.] A Tree Show", Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, NY
"Constructed Realities", Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV

2002
"Into the Woods" , Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
"Constructed Realities", Grand Arts Center, Kansas City, MO
"Invented Reality", photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2001
"Follies: Fantasy in the Landscape", The Parish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
"Le Printemps de Septembre", Toulouse
"How the West Won", CMC Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Fotomanifestatie Noorderlicht, Groningen, Holland


2000
Institute of Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
Hasselblad Center, Stockholm, Sweden

1999
"Starry Night: A Winter Group Exhibition", Carol Ehlers Gallery, Ltd.
"Full Exposure", Summit Art Center, Summit, N.J.
Marlborough Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY

1998
Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York, NY

1987
Salon d’Automne. Paris, France

1981
Gallery La Tour de Nelse, Paris

1976
Gallery II Diaframma, Milan, Italy

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bloomingdales, New York
Buhl Collection, New York
Capital Group Companies, Los Angeles, CA
Citibank, New York Musee de Elysee, Lausanne
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH
Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York
Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS
Musee d'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Ariane Dandois
Reader's Digest Collection, Pleasantville, NY
The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland
AXA, New York
U.S. Trust, New York
The West Collection, Pennsylvania

Reviews and Press

Schwendener, Martha, "Didier Massard, Territories", The New York Times,
June 15, 2007
"Didier Massard", The New Yorker, June 25, 2007
The New Yorker, May 14, 2007
Le Figaro, France, February 2003
McGraw, Hesse, "Fiction and History: A Science of Disputed Signs", Review,
May/June 2002
Thorson, Alice, "Everything Here Is Not What It Seems", The Kansas City Star,
May 3, 2002
Posel, David, "Imaginary Journeys", Los Angeles Times, March 2000
Smith, Roberta , "Views From the Edge of the World". The New York Times,
March 26, 1999
Smith, Roberta , "Imaginary Journeys", The New York Times, June, 26, 1998 Schwendender, Martha "Imaginary Journeys", Time Out, 6/25/98
Photo Magazine, Paris, France, March 1999


Territories 2003-2005 [view images]


Artificial Paradise 1999-2003 [view images]


Imaginary Journeys 1993-1999 [view images]