Olivier Masmonteil

Olivier Masmonteil (born September 23, 1973, Romilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French artist.

Education and Career He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux from 1996 to 1999. As a painter, Olivier Masmonteil dedicates his work exclusively to landscapes. While offering a variety of treatment, the paintings of Olivier Masmonteil assume a thematic unity which the landscape is both the substance and form, subject and object, the content and container. Globetrotter artist, he has started a second world tour in Asia (India, Thailand, Vietnam) and South America (Chile, Brazil).

Selected works Tempête à Giverny, 2011, oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm La Dordogne, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 270 cm (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs collection) Cascade Argentine, 2010, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 235 x 240 cm (Fondation Eileen S. Kaminsky Family collection ) Routes du monde, 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 27 x 35 cm each (Fondation Colas collection) Augenweide XVI, 2004, oil on canvas, 250 x 280.5 cm (FNAC collection)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection) 2020:

Serial Colors, L’Artothèque, Caen (à venir) Horizons so big, Suquet des artistes, Pôle d'art moderne et contemporain de Cannes The veil erased, Galerie Thomas Bernard - Cortex Athletico, Paris

2019:

Countryside, Galerie Thomas Bernard - Cortex Athletico, Paris

2018:

The space of metamorphoses, Cité des Arts, Chambéry

2017:

From Gimel to Ushuaia, château de Sédières, Clergoux (Corrèze)

2016:

Portrait, Galerie Dukan, Saint Ouen

2015:

LE put in Diane, Patio Art Opera, Paris

2014:

A week and a day in Prague/ A week and a day in Prague, Dvorak Sec Contemporary Gallery, Prague Courtesans, Galerie D.X, Bordeaux The memory of the past, Galerie Dukan, Paris

2012: Place, La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Ontario, Canada Olivier Masmonteil, Galerie du CAUE, Limoges, France 2011: Walden ou la vie dans les bois, Galerie Domi Nostrae, Lyon, France 2010: The long and winding road, Galerie Dukan&Hourdequin, Marseille, France Quelle que soit la minute de jour, Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-Bains, France 2007: Olivier Masmonteil, Klare Ferne, French Institute, Berlin, Germany 2006: Pêcher l’eau, Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, France 2005: Olivier Masmonteil, Augenweide, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Group exhibitions (selection)

2012: Plaisirs de France, curated by Philippe Costamagna, Baku, Azerbaijan and Almaty, Kazakhstan 2011: A Glimpse at French Contemporary Painting, Galeria Tap Seac, Macao, China Des paysages, des figures. Carte blanche à Olivier Masmonteil, Le Château de Saint-Ouen, Saint-Ouen, France 2010: Collection 3, Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France 2008: Délicatesse des couleurs, Hangar 7, Salzburg, Germany 2007: Peinture: Génération 70, Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France 2004: Climats, cyclothymie des paysages, Centre national d’art et du paysage, Vassivière-en-Limousin, France

Awards, grants and residencies (selection) 2005-2006: Residency Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany 2002-2003: Residency La Source-Villarceaux, France 2002 Painting Prize, Fondation Coffim, France

Collections FRAC (Regional Contemporary Art Funds) Haute-Normandie, France French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, France Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, New York, USA Claudine and Jean-Marc Salomon Foundation, France Colas Foundation, France FNAC (National Contemporary Art Fund), France FRAC (Regional Contemporary Art Funds) Alsace, France