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CLÉMENT-OLIVIER MEYLAN

1968 Born in Switzerland.
Studies music, architecture and photography
1984/85 Prize Winner both years, National Photography Competition of Nikon Switzerland • 1986 Third prize, International Photography Competition of Nikon Japan 1987 Free-lance photographer in Zürich. Works for advertising and press (Pro Juventute, Jardin des Modes, Magma) • 1988 Settles in Paris. His work appears in Libération, VSD, Glamour • 1993 Winner, FNAC National Art Competition. Theme : "musique avec les yeux" • 1994 Bourse de la Ville de Paris (Winner photography grant from the city of Paris) • Resident Photographer, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris • 1997 Travels to Madagascar • 1998 Resident Photographer, Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris • 2000 Member of agency paysages • 2004 media-covered event at Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland : public skin-print session • 2007 my work permanently published on japanese public TV NHK

Selected solo and group exhibitions
1993 - Exhibition of FNAC prize winners. Gallery Pilzer, Paris (catalogue) • 1994 - Pied-à-terre III. Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris - A travers Paris, Stadthaus Unterseen, Switzerland - 13th International Triennal of Original Grafic Prints. Grenchen, Switzerland • 1999 - ART 30 Basel. Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel - 6 junge Künstler aus Deutschland, Italien und der Schweiz. Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel (catalogue) • 2000 - Paysages naturels - natures mortes industrielles. CHUV Lausanne, Switzerland • 2001 - Métal-Végétal, Swiss Embassy, Paris - Salon du Livre, Paris, in cooperation with the Centre Culturel Suisse - Licht. Interartes, Foundation for Contemporary Photography, Nikon Image House Gallery, Küsnacht / Zürich - works on paper. Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel - Paris des Suisses, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris • 2003 "Spezialangebote". Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel - Cara a Cara. Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal (group-show presenting also work by Andy Warhol and Gilbert & George) - night of 1000 drawings. Artists Space, New York • 2004 - Je t'envisage. La disparition du portrait. Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (group-show presenting also work by Andy Warhol and Gilbert & George) "Spezialangebote". Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel • 2006 - Scénographies d'Architectes, Le Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris • 2007 - Portes ouvertes des ateliers d'artistes de Belleville, Paris • 2008 - Jardin des Plantes - regard intime, Galerie New Art, Paris • 2010 -Galerie Wild Zürich, Behind the Shadows

Selected collections
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris • Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris • Collection Gunther Sachs, Switzerland • National Versicherungen, Switzerland • Swiss Embassy, Austria • Extratel AG, Switzerland • Fotostiftung Schweiz, Switzerland (a portrait of Robert Frank) • CHUV Lausanne, Switzerland • commune du Bourget, France • Clinique Chirurgicale de Tergnier, France • Swiss Embassy, Paris

Publications
Le Paris des Suisses. Editions La Différence • Annual Report of Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris • catalogue du Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris • About Face, Thames & Hudson, London

Behind the shadows II, 1989-027-34-900(1)
180 x 120 cm, fotography on canvas


Behind the shadows II, 1989-027-34-900(2)
180 x 120 cm, fotography on canvas
Behind the shadows II, 1989-027-34-900(1)


Behind the shadows III, 1997-085-06-900(2)
180 x 120 cm, fotography on canvas



Vegetation II (0919602-05(1),
fotography on canvas


Vegetation II (0919602-05(2)
fotography on canvas


0919501-16,
fotography on canvas