Manon Harrois (1988, Reims, France)
Lives and works in Troyes

She studied at ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres, Paris. She was awarded the Jean Walter Zellidja
research prize by the French Academy and spent a year in the Sahara Desert in Niger with the nomadic communities of the Tuaregs and the Fula. Presented by Gilles Fuchs, she exposed in the Galerie Premier Regard, Paris (2014).
The artist has had several art residencies : Collège Albert Camus with CAC Passages, Troyes (2017-18); CNCM Césaré, Reims (2016-17-18); Artistes en résidence, Clermont Ferrand (2017); Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates UEA (2016); CAMAC Art Centre, Marnay sur Seine (2016); MAC Valdivia, Chile (2015) ; CAC Passages, Troyes (2014); Residency Unlimited, New York, USA (2014) .
Her work has been shown in venues such as CAMAC , Marnay sur Seine (2016); CNCM Césaré (2016-17); Cryptoportique, Reims (2015); Parc Naturel de la Montagne de Reims, Pourcy (2015); Galerie Premier Regard, Paris, CAC Passages, Troyes, and MAC, Valdivia, Chile (2014); The Window, Paris (2013); CCFN Jean Rouch, NIamey, Niger (2011).

Among her numerous performances and collective works are Arquipelago Centro de artes – Sao Miguel - Azores (2018); FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Reims (2017); ANOZERO 17 Biennial, Coimbra, Portugal (2017); Jeune Creation, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris-Pantin (2016), Nema Tog Podruma5 Subject Vrijdag, Antwerp (2015); Art is Hope pour Aides, Piaza, Paris (2014-15); Deformes Biennial, Santiago, Chile (2014); Galeria Artopia, Milan, Italia (2014).

The work of Manon Harrois has started to be collected by Blake Burn (USA), Jimmy Traboulsi (Lebanon); Gilles Fuchs (France).
Prisme Mécénat d'entreprise Champagne Ardenne, Monography of the l'Artothèque of the Région Champagne Ardennes. She received the support of the ministère of culture from the State and the Region Grand Est since few years to produce and show her experimental work as artist researcher.

Conferences and workshops
> "l'improvisation comme une strategie de survie. Formes de Feu"
FRAC Champagne Ardenne ( Sciences Po, Reims, 2018)
> "Nos migrations"
Collège Albert Camus, La Chapelle St Luc
with Isabelle Coutant, Sociologist (2018)
> " Nos migrations"
Collège Albert Camus , La chapelle St Luc -France / CAC Passages, Troyes (2017-2018)
> "Synesthesia" Sharjah Art Foundation Emirates with the composer Uriel Barthelemi (2016)
>"Performing study"
Univeristy of Chile, Santiago
Performance BIennial (2014-2015)

http://bonjour.manonharrois.com/

"L'oeuvre de Manon Harrois n’existe pas. Ou n’existe qu’en circulation, d’une pratique à l’autre, d’un pays à l’autre, ici, là. Jamais vraiment finie, son oeuvre mouvante se donne ainsi à voir dans le flux sans fin du vivant, dans le flux sans fin d’un “work in progress” saisissant. ici, la performance est une ébauche au dessin."

Michel Nuridsany

Completou a licenciatura e o mestrado em Pintura na Faculdade das Belas Artes de Lisboa (2008, 2011). Integrou várias residências artísticas, Residency Unlimited (2012, USA), PIRA ADM (2016, MX), Artistes en Résidence (2017, FR), e no Centro de Artes Arquipélago (2018, PT). Expõe desde 2009, destacando-se as exposições individuais mais recentes: Encontra-me, mato-te (2018), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa; Coastal (2017), Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston; O meu sol chora , Fundação das Comunicações, Lisboa; Somebody’s Address (2016) e Open Gates (2014), Rooster Gallery, Nova Iorque; Recheio (2014), Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisboa. Das colectivas: Geometria Sónica (2018), Centro de Artes Arquipélago, S. Miguel, Açores; Chama (2018), Atelier-museu Júlio Pomar, Lisboa; Extática Esfinge (2017), CIAJG , Guimarães; Curar e Reparar (2017), Bienal Anozero, Coimbra; O Que Eu Sou (2017), MAAT, Lisboa; Now, this is fucking too hot (2017, com Manon Harrois), Les Ateliers, Clermont-Ferrand; Puras Cosas Nuevas (2017), Pantalla Blanca, Cidade do México; }{ { } (2015, com Omar Barquet), Diagrama, Cidade do México; Eccentric Exercise II (2015), KCB , Belgrade; Soundless Harmonies (2014), Artopia Gallery, Milão; Eccentric
Exercise I (2013), Les Gens Heureux, Copenhaga; Uma Coisa a Seguir à Outra (2013, com Miguel Ângelo Rocha), Quadrum Gallery, Lisboa; Extending the Line (2012), Arevalo Gallery, Miami.

O seu trabalho está representado em várias colecções públicas: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; MAAT; Câmara Municipal de Lisboa; Fidelidade Mundial; Figueiredo Ribeiro; António Cachola; Norlinda e José Lima; Midfirst Bank Arizona; Benetton Foundation, entre outras.

Foi premiada pela Fidelidade Mundial – Jovens Pintores (menção honrosa, 2009), pelo Anteciparte (artista seleccionada, 2009) e pelo BPI/FBAUL (1º prémio na categoria de pintura, 2008).

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