Jerome Lagarrigue

Jérôme Lagarrigue (born August 18, 1973 ) is a French painter living in New York City.

Biography

Lagarrigue was born in Paris, to a French father who was an illustrator and painter, and an American mother who was a journalist and writer. As a child, he was schooled in France, but spent summers in New York City, where he now lives. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, with a major in illustration, in 1996.

Two years after graduation, Parsons School of Design made Lagarrigue professor of drawing and painting.

In 2002, Lagarrigue won the John Steptoe Award for New Talent for his illustrations in Freedom Summer.

Solo exhibitions

2001 - "Boxers", The Cutting Room Gallery, 19 W 24th St, New York City. 2017 - "The Tipping Point", Lazarides Gallery, 11 Rathbone Place, London, UK.

Books illustrated

1999 - "My Man Blue", text by Nikki Grimes. 2002 - "Freedom Summer", text by Deborah Wiles. 2003 - "Me and Uncle Romie", text by Claire Hartfield. 2004 - "Going North", text by Janice N. Harrington. 2004 - "Freedom on the Menu", text by Carole Weatherford. 2007 - "Poetry for young people", poems by Maya Angelou. 2007 - "Pleine Face", text by Sylvain Coher, publisher: Éponyme.