Education and Qualifications

2008

Institut Supérieur de Peinture Décorative Van der Kelen Logelain, Brussels, Belgium

2005 – 2006

Mention Complémentaire de Décoration, CFA de Plerin, St. Brieuc, France

2004 – 2005

CAP Peintre applicateur de revêtements, CFA d’Alençon, Alençon, France

Professional Experience

2013 – now

Self-employed paper artist and author

2014

Painting Assistant for Tauba Auerbach

2010 – 2014

Self-employed decorative painter specializing in restoration, fine decoration and natural paint finishes

2013

Painting Assistant for Lucy McKenzie for Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2012

Internship at Kadoïde Paper Studio in Kadoïde, Japan

2010

Painting Assistant for Lucy McKenzie for Muzee, Ostende, Belgium

Internship with Amanda Degener and Bridget O’Malley at Cave Paper, Minneapolis, USA

Painting assistant for Lucy McKenzie for Gallery Bucholz, Cologne, Germany

Teaching assistant at Salzburg International Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria

Painting assistant for Lucy McKenzie for Cabinet Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2009

Painting assistant for Lucy McKenzie for exhibition Lucy McKenzie, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

2008 – 2009

Sales & Decorating employee of SARL Fischer Peinture Décor, Rosheim, France

2008

Painting assistant for Lucy McKenzie for exhibition at MOMA, New York, USA

2005 – 2006

Painting apprentice for Philippe Forget, Lower Normandy, France

2004 – 2005

Painting apprentice for Raimbault Peinture, Lower Normandy, France

Publications

2015

The Origami Garden, The Artist, St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, USA

2013

Origami for All: Elegant Designs from Simple Folds, The Artist, Busy Hands Books, UK

500 Paper Objects: New Directions in Paper Art, Gene McHugh, Lark Books, USA

Awards and Exhibitions

2015

Group exhibition “Jerome Mentorship Series V”, MCBA, Minneapolis, USA

Group exhibition “Parts of a Whole III”, MCBA, Minneapolis, USA

2014

Recipient of the MCBA/Jerome Mentorship Program Series V

Group exhibition “The View from Here”, Phipps Center, Hudson, WI, USA

2013

Art in Action ‘Best of the Best’, 3rd Place, Waterperry, Oxford, UK

‘Origami as Art’, Group Exhibition, Kinokuniya Gallery, NYC

Group Exhibition ‘Salon des Artisans et Métiers d’Art’, Propriete Caillebotte, Paris, France

2012

Guest of honour ‘Salon Resonances’, Strasbourg, France

2010

Group exhibition ‘Parcour I’, KG Freiraume, Hallein, Austria

2008

Silver medal with distinction from l’Institut Superieur de Peinture Van der Kelen

2007

Solo exhibition ‘Initium’, Centre d’Animation MJC, Flers, France

2006

Lauréate de Basse Normandie des Olympiades des Métiers en peinture et décoration

2005

Lauréate de la fondation du jeune apprenti de Basse Normandie en Peinture en Bâtiment

Additional Information

Languages

English – fluent

French – fluent

Spanish – working knowledge

 

References upon request