Frédéric Bruly Bouabré | Biography

 

 

Born in 1923, Zéprégüé, Côte d’Ivoire
Died in 2014, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Lived and worked in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

 

Selected Exhibitions

2013
Four Corners of the World, HITE Collection, Seoul
The Solo Project Art Fair – Basel, Magnin-A, St Jakobshalle, Basel
The 55th Venice Biennale, Ivorian Pavilion, Venice
Art Paris Art Fair 2013, Magnin-A, Grand Palais, Paris

2012
São Paulo Bienal, 30th edition, São Paulo
Aujourd’hui je travaille avec mon petit fils Aboudia, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan
Art Brussels, 31th Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels
Drawing Now, Salon du dessin contemporain 7th edition, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

2011
Le monde vous appartient, Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Fondation, Venice
Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Magnin-A, Paris

2010
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré at Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London
African Stories, Ancienne Banque du Maroc, Marrakech, Morocco
Bon Séjour, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Galerie du jour agnès b, Paris
ARTPARIS+GUESTS; André Magnin & Leridon Collection, Grand Palais, Paris
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne

2009
Una nuova storia, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome
Against Exclusion, The 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow

2007-2008
Why Africa?, La collezione Pigozzi, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin

2007
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Musée d’art contemporain de Cocody, Abidjan

2006
100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
De ida y vuelta. África, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Dak’art 2006, Biennale de l’art African contemporain, Dakar
Musée des Civilisations de Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan

2005
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Arts of Africa, The Contemporary collection of Jean Pigozzi, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco

2004-2007
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Allemagne; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg

2003
Transferts, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Musée Champollion, Figeac

2002
Documenta 11: Platform 5 Exhibition, Kassel
Inauguration du Plateau, Le plateau, Paris

2001
Egofugal: Fugue from Ego for the Next Emergence, the 7th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré – Acharya Vyakul, Galerie du jour – Agnes b, Paris

2000-2001
Voici, 100 ans d’art contemporain, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Dessins Choisis, Alliance éthiofrançaise, Abbis Adaba, Ethiopia Forum Cultural de Blanc-Mesnil, France

1999-2000
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Miami Art Museum, Miami; Art Visionnaire, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris; Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Köln; Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum, Bonn

1999
FIAC, Galerie du jour, Quai de Branly, Paris

1998
Everyday, the 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Dak’art 1998, Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar

1997
Trade Routes: History and Geography, the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg
South Africa Unmapping the Earth, the 2nd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju