BIOGRAPHY
JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT
1958 Born in Morteau, France. French and American artist.
1978-1981 Studies architecture in Strasbourg and later painting at L'école des Beaux-Arts de Besançon.
1983-1991 Works as visual artist while raising and training horses in the Jura Mountains. Completes monochrome abstractions on Masonite polyptych panels.
1991 Moves to Montreal to devote himself fully to painting. Creates works using Plexiglas, industrial materials, newspaper clippings and photos. Begins incorporating silkscreening techniques.
1993 Sets up studio in New York City. Paints street-found object Sculpture-Painting series, creates silkscreens on Plexiglas tile assemblages.
1998 Exhibits Suspended Time, a monumental site-specific mural Plexiglas painting at the French Institute of New York.
2001-2003 Paints the Mayan Diary series, a modular mural installation of 42" x 42" silkscreened Plexiglas squares inspired by pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan imagery. This body of work is still in progress and is exhibited at several New York galleries and cultural centers. Sergent uses computer technology to redesign gathered images and cut silkscreen film.
2004 Moves his studio to Besançon, France and divides his time between New York City and Besançon.
2007 Installs Mayan Diary 18 (18 paintings silkscreened on plexiglas, 10'4" X 20'8") for the set design of Traviata Giuseppe Verdi's Opera in the minimalist scenery by Didier Brunel.
2008 Installs Mayan Diary 24 (10'4" x 27"6" ) in the Salle des Iles Basses City of Ornans, France. Documentary film Insolation et autres puissances symboliques, realized by Jean-luc Gantner.
2011 Installs Mayan Diary 20 (7' x 35') at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse, France
2012 Installs Nature, Cultures, The Worlds Origin's (10'4" X 20'8" ) at the Ferme Courbet, Flagey, France
2015-2016 Works from his Besançon studio's on a new body of work entitled The Entropic Suites, silkscreen on Plexiglas. The images painted are mostly inspired from Japanese mangas sexual cartoons, Hindus Yantras meditations drawings and genetics patterns from archaic cultures.
PRESENT The artist is working since 2016 on a small prints on paper series (25.5 x 25.5 cm), the Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances, a corpus of works including more than 4 000 art prints. His work is exhibited extensively in Europe, Canada, the US and China. Since 2019, his work: The Four Pillars of the Sky is presented in the monumental staircases of the historical Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Besançon, it is a large wall installation of seventy-two paintings on Plexiglas with a total dimension of eighty square meters.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (or large wall installations)
| 2022 | Polyphonies: Arts, Cultures & Civilizations, Galerie l'Orangerie, Sauvigney les Gray, France Works on Paper, Art Jed Gallery, St Moritz, Switzerland |
| 2020 | Voluptuousness, Maison Laurentine, Châteauvillain, France Eros Unlimited (Erotics on paper), Museum of Fine & Art, Besançon, France |
| 2019 | The Four Pillars Of The Sky, Museum of Fine Arts & Archeology, Besançon, France Eros Regenerating Life, Ailleurs Art Museum, Shenyang, China |
| 2018 | Shakti-Yoni: The Small Paper Works, Galerie Keller, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2016 | This Is You, An Artist, Container Gallery & 50 Plus Contemporary Art Studio, Shanghai, China Anima Mundi, Galerie Keller, Zurich, Switzerland L'artiste est-il un chamane, Contemporary art Center L'aspirateur, Narbonne, France |
| 2015 | Earth Is The Region Of The Fleeting Moment, Idecor Art Gallery, Montreux, Switzerland Porns Graffitis & Sacred Paterns, Art & Context 101, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2014 | Suites Entropiques 8, MAG 2014, Montreux, Switzerland Le désir, la matrice, la grotte et le lotus blanc, Caveau des Arts, Ornans, France La Vulva Grotte, Cave of Plaisir-Fontaine, Bonnevaux le Prieuré, France |
| 2013 | Cultures-Energies - Works on Paper, Kunstpalais, Badenweiler, Germany Sex & Rituals / Works on Paper, Galerie Omnibus, Besançon, France |
| 2012 | Nature, Cultures, l'origine des mondes, Ferme Courbet, Flagey, France |
| 2011 | Mayan Diary, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse, France Banque Vontobel, Geneva, Switzerland MAG 2011, Montreux, Switzerland |
| 2010 | Art Amazone Gallery, Neuchâtel, Switzerland MAG 2010, Montreux, Switzerland Galerie Mon Loup, Besançon, France Banque La Société Générale, Dijon, France Artbygenève, Galerie Artscademia, Lutry, Switzerland |
| 2009 | MAG 2009, Montreux, Switzerland Kursaal, Besançon, France |
| 2008 | Gribouillis, Dionysos & Rythmes Cosmiques, Galerie Le Pavé dans la Mare, Besançon, France Mayan Diary 6, Conseil Général du Doubs, Besançon, France Mayan Diary 24, Salle des Iles Basses, Ornans, France |
| 2007 | L'Axe Bartholdi, Centre d'Art Mobile, Le cylindre, Besançon, France Traviata staging, Opéra Théâtre de Besançon, France |
| 2006 | Works from New York, Mairie de Besançon, France Banque La Société Générale, Besançon, France |
| 2004 | La Tables des Halles, Besançon, France |
| 2002 | Mayan Diary, Taller Boricua Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1999 | Amana, York Square Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA Dionysos, Perpetual Orgy of Life, Gallery Juno, New York, USA |
| 1998 | Suspended Time, French Institute, New York, USA |
| 1997 | French Consulate, New York, USA |
| 1993 | Galerie Riverin-Arlogos, Eastman, Canada |
| 1990 | Galerie G, Besançon, France |
| 1989 | Galerie Yannef, Toronto, Canada Galerie Transit, Strasbourg, France Galerie Edition du Faisan, Strasbourg, France |
| 1983 | Galerie du Clos St-Amour, Besançon, France |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2023 | "Witches!" Women's spells..., Popular Arts and Traditions Museum, Champlitte, France |
| 2022 | Wopart 2022 (Works on Paper Art Fair), Keller Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland |
| 2020 | 4 x Shakti-Yoni: Ecstatic Cosmic Dances art prints in Iran, Sayé Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran |
| 2019 | Biodiversity & Cultural Diversity, Wopart (Work on Paper Art Fair), Lugano, Switzerland 9th Biennale des arts plastiques, Besançon, France |
| 2018 | Shakti-Yoni, Wopart (Work on Paper Art Fair), Lugano, Switzerland Charles de Bruyère invite..., Charles de Bruyère Museum, Remiremont, France On Paper Supreme, Ailleurs Gallery, Shenyang, China L'inspiration de Louis Pasteur, Chinese-French group exhibition, MJC Arbois, France |
| 2017 | Hirsh In Art, Galerie Keller, Zurich, Switzerland Birds, Whales & Yantras, 8th Biennale des arts plastiques, Besançon, France |
| 2016 | Shenzhen Art Fair (With 50 Plus Contemporary Art Studio), Shenzhen, China Corps Accords, Pôle Culturel de Drusenheim, France Un lieu, des liens, Fondation du Grand-Cachot, La Chaux-du-Milieu, Switzerland Ailleurs, Asir Museum, Tainan, Taiwan |
| 2015 | Bones & Flowers: The Metamorphosis Of Life, 7th Biennale des arts plastiques, Besançon, France |
| 2104 | Art 3F, Nice, Orlinda Lavergne Gallery, Colmar, France |
| 2013 | Links, E-artiste gallery, Ferme-Musée de Grand’Combe-Châteleu, France 6th Biennale des arts plastiques, Besançon, France Genèse, Midnightsun Gallery, Morges, Switzerland |
| 2011 | Souffles I & II, Galerie Le Pavé dans la Mare & I.S.B.A. Besançon, France 5th Biennale des arts plastiques, Besançon, France |
| 2010 | Lineart Gand, Art Gallery 826, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium Galerie Esquisse, Nyon, Switzerland |
| 2009 | 4th Biennale des Arts Plastiques, Besançon, France |
| 2007 | 3rd Biennale des Arts Plastiques, Besançon, France |
| 2006 | Salon des Annonciades, Pontarlier, France |
| 2005 | Kunst 05 Zurich, Galerie Zéro, l'Infini, Zurich, Switzerland 2nd Biennale des Arts Plastiques, Besançon, France Rapsida, Gallery 138, New York, USA Desire Submerged into the Earth, Gallery 138, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Scope Art Fair, Yukiko Kawase Gallery, London, England Europe Day, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, USA Artincubator, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA |
| 2003 | The Divided World, York Square Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA Art Happens, Time Square Lobby Gallery, New York, USA La France d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, Fire Patrol #5, New York, USA Rapture, Gallery 138, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Desire + The Hurricane, Gallery 138 at White Box, New York, USA Independant Art Fair, T.A.B.A.K. Museum, Vienna, Austria Independent Art Fair, Plaza Hotel, New York, USA |
| 2001 | A Cry For Peace, Fire Patrol #5, New York, USA |
| 2000 | Trophy-ism, Idefine Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA Opera Gallery, New York, USA Nomad Territories, D.F.N. Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1998 | Fin de Siècle, Swiss Embassy Paris, France Profusion, Gallery Edition du Faisan, Strasbourg, France |
| 1997 | Sous le Signe de Zorro, Galerie Vivas, Paris, France |
| 1996 | Body, Trace, Memory, Eight Floor gallery, New York, USA |
| 1995 | Interpellation, Sorbonne University, Paris, France Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, Eighth floor Gallery, New York, USA Pier Show III, Brooklyn, New York, USA 68 J Art group Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| 1994 | Burning Show, Patrice Landau Gallery, New York, USA Pier Show II, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| 1992 | L'Université de la Ruelle Propose, Montreal, Canada |
| 1991 | Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada Exposition Ardoise, Galerie Edition du Faisan, Strasbourg, France |
| 1988 | Galerie Edition du Faisan, Strasbourg, France |
| 1987 | Galerie G, Besançon, France 2nd Biennal of Besançon, France |
| 1986 | Galerie Edition du Faisan, Strasbourg, France |
| 1985 | Galerie Mathieu, Besançon, France International Art Exhibition, Basel, Switzerland Galerie Jonas, Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| 1984 | 1st Biennal of Besançon, France |
| 1983 | Salon des Annonciades, Pontarlier, France |
| 1982 | Salon des Annonciades, Pontarlier, France |
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
| 2021 | LUXURY SPLASH OF ART, Interview Jean-Pierre Sergent & Thierry Savatier at MBAA Besançon, October, Londres, UK, Agnieszka Kowalczewska |
| LUXURY SPLASH OF ART, Art, like sex, has to do with the transcendences of reality, colours, pleasure and death..., January/February, London UK, Agnieszka Kowalczewska | |
| 2020 | THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE SKY (PDF), exhibition catalogue, September 2020, Besançon Fine Arts & Archeology Museum |
| 2018 | ON ART AND AESTHETIC, February, UK & Australia, What Strikes Me Most Nowadays is the Disappearance of Rituals in our Developed Capitalist Countries..., Tulika Bahadur |
| 2016 | ARTSPECIALDAY, July, Italy, Opere d’arte in plexiglass: intervista a Jean-Pierre Sergent, Simona Manlio |
| 2014 | THE CULTURE TRIP, July, UK, Interview with French Artist Jean-Pierre Sergent: Art, Sex and Subconscious, Kayleigh Moreno LES MAUVAISES FREQUENTATIONS, June, Jean-Pierre Sergent sur les terres de Gustave Courbet, Thierry Savatier |
| 2013 | LELITTERAIRE.COM, March, Entretien avec le peintre franco américain Jean-Pierre Sergent, Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret THE EROTICARTLOVER, February, Denmark, Talking to artist…Jean-Pierre Sergent, Grith Grough |
| 2012 | THE ARTBOOKGUY, May, USA, Jean-Pierre Sergent in living color, Michael Corbin Nature, Cultures, L'Origine des Mondes, exhibition catalogue, Courbet Flagey Farm's |
| 2011 | POLY, May-June, Civilisations, Dorothée Lachmann NOVO # 13, March, Énergie Vitale, Adeline Pasteur ART ABSOLUMENT # 40, Entretiens with Tom Laurent MAYAN DIARY, exhibition catalogue, Mulhouse Museum of Fine Arts |
| 2009 | D'AILLEURS, # 1, revue de l'Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, dirigée par Laurent Devéze |
| 2007 | KEE MAGAZINE, Hong Kong, The Alchemy of Desire, Sooni Schroff-Gander |
| 1998 | NEW YORK NEWS, USA, Suspended Time, Céline Curiol |
| 1996 | FRENCH TELERAMA # 2438, Le Pari New York, Olivier Pascal-Moussellard |
DOCUMENTARIES FILMS, INTERVIEWS & ARTIST TALKS (selection)
| 2021 | INTERVIEWS WITH THIERRY SAVATIER | THE FOUR PILLARS OF HEAVEN, MBAA Besançon, a 35 min film (3 parts) |
| 2020 | INTERVIEWS WITH THIERRY SAVATIER | THE EROTIC ART OF JPS, MBAA Besançon, a 45 min film (3 parts) |
| FILMED BROADCAST OF THE INTERVIEW BY AURÉLIEN BERTINI ON RADIO CAMPUS BESANÇON, MBAA Besançon, a 58 min film (3 parts) | |
| INTERVIEWS WITH NICOLAS SURLAPIERRE, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Besançon, a 88 min film (4 parts) | |
| LECTURE EROS UNLIMITED AT BESANÇON FINE ARTS MUSEUM, a 52 min film (3 parts) | |
| 2019 | LECTURE AT THE CHARLES DE BRUYÈRES MUSEUM OF REMIREMONT, a 70 min film (4 parts) |
| INTERVIEWS WITH CLAUDIE FLOUTIER, a 66 min film (3 parts) | |
| INTERVIEWS WITH THIERRY SAVATIER, a 83 min film (5 parts) | |
| INTERVIEWS WITH JEAN-LOUIS GARILLON, a 44 min film (2 parts) | |
| INTERVIEWS WITH MICHEL PÉTIARD, a 95 min film (11 parts) | |
| 2018 | SEX | SPIRITUALITIES | SHAMANISM & ENERGIES OF LIFE, interviews with Jean-Luc Gantner, a 50 min film (4 parts) |
| IMPROMPTU INTERVIEWS, with Marie-Madeleine Varet, a 26 min film (3 parts) | |
| 2017 | ENDLESS DISCUSSIONS IN THE STUDIO, interviews with Marie-Madeleine Varet, a 73 min film (8 parts) |
| 2016 | DIGRESSIONS IN THE STUDIO, interviews with Marie-Madeleine Varet, a 80 min film (8 parts) |
| 2015 | INTERVIEW WITH LIONEL GEORGES, a 10 min film (4 parts) |
| 2014 | INTERVIEWS WITH THIERRY SAVATIER, a 20 min film (4 parts) |
| 2013 | TRANSGRESSIONS ? interview with Marie-Madeleine Varet, a 42 min film |
| 2012 | THE PAINTER & THE ART HISTORIAN, interview with Thierry Savatier, a 40 min film THE PAINTER & THE PHILOSOPHER, a 42 min film of interview with Laurent Devèze |
| 2011 | INTERVIEW WITH LAURENT DEVEZE, a 34 min film |
| 2009 | INTERVIEW, a 17 min film, realized by Jean-Luc Gantner |
| 2008 | INSOLATIONS ET AUTRES PUISSANCES SYMBOLIQUES, a 17 min film, realized by Jean-Luc Gantner |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Conseil Général du Doubs, Mulhouse Museum of Fine Arts, City Hall of Besançon (France), Fondation MAG, Montreux (Switzerland)
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Australia, Canada, China, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA, etc.