Adeline de Monseignat

Adeline de Monseignat (born 1987) is a Dutch-Monegasque contemporary visual artist who lives and works between London and Mexico City. Made from natural materials such as recycled fur, soil, textiles, glass and marble, her sculptures and installations show an interest in mythology, anthropology and psychology, especially the Uncanny.

Education and career Adeline de Monseignat obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Language and Culture from University College London in 2009, with an Erasmus year in 2007 spent studying Architecture and Design at Politecnico di Milano. She then completed her Fine Art Foundation Course at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2010 before graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree, with distinction, from the City and Guilds of London Art School in 2011.

As a result of her degree show, curator Justin Hammond selected her to feature in the Catlin Guide, a book that features forty new promising graduate artists in the United Kingdom. She was thereafter shortlisted for the Catlin Art Prize, alongside nine other fellow artists including Julia Vogl, Jonny Briggs and Gabriella Boyd.

She was awarded the Catlin Art Prize Public Vote Prize in 2012. That same year she was shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries and was the recipient of the Royal Society of Sculptors Bursary Award in 2013.

In 2013, curator James Putnam brought Monseignat and artist Berndnaut Smilde together for her first show at Ronchini Gallery, The Uncanny.

In 2014, Ronchini Gallery held a solo exhibition of the artist's work entitled Home. Art historian Jo Applin wrote a text for a catalogue which was published to accompany the exhibition. She was interviewed by the BBC World Service that year about her use of recycled fur in her work, which aired on The Forum and later on BBC Radio 4.

That year also marked the first time Monseignat ever shows work in Mexico, in a gallery called Galería de Arte Mexicano which held the 1940 International Surrealist Exhibition curated by André Breton. The exhibition entitled Synergia, with regrouped works by Pablo de Laborde Lascaris, Samuel Zealey, James Capper, Luke Hart, Manuel Munoz G.G. and Amy Stephens attracted such attention that it was taken on the following year by Latin America's only museum dedicated to sculpture, Museo Federico Silva in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

In 2020, she showed extensively in Mexico, notably at Salon Acme, Zona Maco, Museo de Geologia UNAM, Studio Block M74 and Masa Galeria alongside artists such as Jose Davila, Perla Krauze, Gabriel Rico and Tezontle.

Selected exhibitions 2011 – Reveal the Tension, solo show curated by Samia Calbayrac at Norman Rea Gallery, York, United Kingdom 2012 – Art Moscow, a presentation of her work sponsored by Christie's and the British Council, Moscow, Russia 2012 – The Catlin Art Prize, curated by Justin Hammond at the Londonewcastle Project Space, London, United Kingdom 2013 – The Future Can Wait, curated by Zavier Ellis at Victoria House, London, United Kingdom 2013 – The Uncanny, a two-people show alongside artist Berndnaut Smilde curated by James Putnam at the Ronchini Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2013 – The London Project, curated by Gerson Zevi at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, United Kingdom 2013 – Articulate, Victoria Miro Gallery for Dramatic Need, an initiative by Amber Sainsbury, including works by Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Whitney McVeigh and the Chapman Brothers, London, United Kingdom 2014 – Time to Hit the Road, Leila Heller Gallery, New York City, United States 2014 – Home, solo show, Ronchini Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2015 – Whispers - Project by Adeline de Monseignat, Ronchini Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2015 – UK/RAINE , Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2016 – Beyond Borders, Blain Southern, London, United Kingdom 2016 – Art Barter Dubai, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2016 – I am NOT tino sehgal, curated by Francesco Bonami, Nahmad Projects, London, United Kingdom 2016 – Sigmund's Shorts: In the Flesh, Freud Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2017 – House of Penelope , curated by Alteria Art, supported by the Gaia Art Foundation, Gallery 46, London, United Kingdom. 2017 – Force of Nature, curated by James Putnam, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, United Kingdom 2017 – Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, curated by Brooke Benington, Fulmer, United Kingdom 2017 – L'Attesa, solo show curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, Exchiesetta, Polignano a Mare, Puglia, Italy 2018 – Synergia, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico 2018 – Cure3, Bonhams, London, United Kingdom 2019 – Through the Looking Glass, curated by Alteria Art and James Putnam, Cob Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2019 – Silogismos de la Construcción, curated by Alberto Rios, Studio Block M74, Mexico City, Mexico 2019 – Sisyphus in Retrograde, London, United Kingdom 2019 – Synergia, Museo Federico Silva, San Luis Potosi, Mexico 2020 – Fire Ladders, Museo de Geologia, Mexico City, Mexico a 900m2 space dedicated to sculpture which houses a number of sculptors' studios, artist residency and gallery spaces, which her husband runs alongside his own practice.