MOUNIR FATMI

Born 1970, Tangier, Morocco

Lives and works in Paris, France

Education

1989 School of Fine Arts, Casablanca, Morocco

1991 School of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Connection 02, Galerie Delacroix, Tangier, Morocco

Fuck Architects: Chapter 2, le Creux de l’Enfer, Centre d’art

Contemporain, Thiers, France

Fuck Architects: Chapter 3, First Biennale of Brussels, Belgium

2007 Fuck Architects: Chapter 1, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, NY

Something is possible, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

I like America, La Maison Rouge- Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France

In Search of Paradise, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Without History, Musée national Picasso La Guerre et la Paix- Vallauris, Vallauris, France

2006 tête dure / hard head, Galerie la B.A.N.K., Paris, France

99 names of god, Galerie Saint Severin, Paris, France

2005 Bad Connexion, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

Black screens, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Istres, France

2004 Survival Signs, Oeuvres video 1990-2004, Videokiosque 01, Pau, France

He who understands last understands longest, Centre d'art contemporain le Parvis, Ibos, France

Until the end of dust, Espace des Arts, Colomiers, France

2003 Obstacles-next flag, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland

1999 Connections and Displacements, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

2008 Attempt to Exhaust an African Place, Santa Monica Art Center, Santa Monica, CA

Flow, Studio Museum, New York, NY

Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-garde Cinema, 1890-2008, Tate Modern, London

Visionary Tales of a Balanced Earth, New Zealand, Australia, South

Africa, Nairobi and Russia in collaboration with United Nations Environmental Program

Cadavre Exquis, Analix-Forever, Geneva, Switzerland

The Gates of the Mediterranean, Palazzo del Piozzo Rivoli, Turin, Italy

Traces du Sacre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Traces du Sacre, Haus der Kunst, Munich

Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: kick the carbon habit, The Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand

Biennal de Pontevedra, Pontevedra,Spain

Traversia, CAAM, Canary Islands

2007 1st Triennial of Luanda, Luanda, Angola

52nd International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Sharjah Biennial 8: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

24th Biennial Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak

Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, USA

2006 2nd Biennial of Séville, The Unhomely Phantom Scenes in Global Society, Séville, Spain

7th Dakar Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal

Image Révélée, Musée de la ville de Tunis, Tunisian Republic

Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Moderna Musse, Stockholm, Sweden

Self defense, with the Black Panther Party, Galerie la B.A.N.K., Paris, France

Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Alternative Currents, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux & Le Parvis Center Musée d'art contemporain, Ibos, France

2005 Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Tourist Class, Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden

Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Meeting Point, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway

Marokko: kunst & design, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Mediterranean encounters, Horcynus Orca Foundation, Messina, Italy

2004 5th Gwangju Biennial: A drop of water, a grain of dust, Gwangju, South Korea

Nearer the near east, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany

Les camoufleurs, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Lüneburg, Germany

Biennale d'art contemporain de Bourge, Bourge, France

Inventaire contemporain II, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

2003 Sur le front, géographie de la peinture contemporaine, Le Triage, Nanterre, France

8th Havana Biennial, In/Tangibles Cartographies, Havana, Cuba

Nuevo video arabe, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain

Avant-garde Cinema, General Counterculture, Cinémathèque Francaise, Paris, France

Art vidéo, Art interactif, Musée de la fondation O.N.A., Casablanca, Morocco

2002 Videorient, Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria

Images and power, Espacio C, Camargo, Spain

Observatorio #2, Espace Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium

2001 9th International Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw, Poland

Video- I see, The Creation of Video, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

2000 4th Dakar Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal

Biennale of Art, Video and TV, Bologna, Italy

Film Screening, UC Berkeley & Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco

Selected Residencies

2006 The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2005 Damon Centre and Saw Gallery, Gatineau/Ottawa, Canada

2004 Drac centre / Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France

CRRAV, Bourse du Fonds Regional d'aide a la Creation, Tourcoing, France

2001 Drac ile de France, Centre Culturel le Chaplin, Mantes la Jolie, France

Friche Andre Malraux, Collectif 12, Mantes la Jolie, France

2000 Ateliers d'artistes, Marseille, France

1997 Drac Nord Pas de Calais / MAJT, Lille, France

Fellowships

2006 Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs/DCO/IC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Van den Bergh van Heemstede stichting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1999 Bourse de l'AFAA, Cité International des Arts, Paris, France

Awards and Grants

2006 Grand Prix Leopold Sedar, Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal

Stichting kunstprijs Willem F.C. Uriôt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1998 Special mention, International festival of new film, Split, Croatia

Special price of the Jury ex-æquo, Festival vidéo d'Estavar-Llivia, Estavar,

France

1st prize Video-creation, Canarias International Mediafest, Las Palmas de Gran

Canaria, Spain

1994 First Prize, Second Annual Festival of Arab Video, Casablanca, Morocco

1993 First Prize, Biennial of Young Painters, Fondation Wafabank, Casablanca, Morocco

Artist Publications

2006 Toussaint, Evelyne., Odile Biec, Nicole Brenez. "Mounir Fatmi." Un,

Deux... Quatre Editions 2005.

Goudard, Bernadette Clot. "Écrans Noirs." revue semaine, Arles

2002 Cohen Hadria, Michèle., Frédéric Bouglé "ovalproject." C.C

le chaplin, Mantes la Jolie

1996 Chevallier, Bénédicte. "à l‚origine." du goethe-institut,

Raba

Selected Bibliography

2008 Blanc, Axelle. “Borderlines.” Gazet’art, no. 4, Nov 2007: 16-17.

Cotter, Holland. “Out of Africa, Whatever Africa May Be.” New York Times, April 4, 2008: E27, E32.

Debailleux, Henri-François. “ Arabe art.” Libération, Apr 3, 2009: 6-7.

Esman, Abigail R. “Leaps of Faith.” Art + Auction, May 2008: 162-169-171.

Francblin, Cathrine. “le sacré au travail.” Artpress, no. 345, May 2008: 44-48.

Gilman, Claire. “Mounir Fatmi.” Freize, issue 114, Apr, 2008: 188-189.

Sansom, Anna. “Please be Seated: The Artists’ View of the Electric Chair.” DAM, no. 16, Apr/May 2008: 115-118.

Youssi, Yasmine. “Ces artists font un sacré travail.” La Tribune, no. 3.904, May 3, 2008.

2007 Banai, Nuit. “Mounir Fatmi, “Fuck Architects: Chapter 1.” Time Out New York, Nov 8-14, 2007: 68.

Bedford, Christopher. “Critic’s Picks: Mounir Fatmi, Shoshana Wayne Gallery.” Artforum.com Feb 2007.

Cohen Hadria, Michèle. "Cris de banlieues/paroles d‚artistes, etc." Montréal

Corgnati, Martina. "Guilty: Mounir Fatmi." Contemporary Practices: Visual Arts from the Middle East, vol. 1, Oct 2007: 91-93.

Davis, Ben. "LA LA LAND." Artnet Magazine, Feb 26, 2007.

"In Pictures: Venice Biennale 2007." BBC News, 7 Jun 2007.

Harris, Jane. “Coil Slick.” The Village Voice, vol. LII, no. 48, Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2007: 44.

Mounir Fatmi. “Mounir Fatmi: African Pavillion.” V Magazine, no. 49, Fall 2007: 167

Lacayo, Richard. " Africa: Best in Show?" TIME Magazine, Looking Around Blog, 12 Jun 2007.

Nys Dambrot, Shana. "Mounir Fatmi: Something is Possible." ArtKrush, issue 53, review, Mar 7, 2007.

Rovzar, Chris, et al. "Photo Op: New York in Venice." New York Magazine, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Jun 2007.

Smith, Roberta. "Mounir Fatmi." The New York Times, Nov 16, 2007: E34.

Vali, Murtaza. “Mounir Fatmi: Fuck Architechts: Chapter 1.” Art Review, issue 18, Jan 2008: 121.

2006 F.C, Fatmi l‚insoumis, télérama N°2945

"African Art Now." NEWSgrist, May 4, 2006.

2005 Brenez, Nicole. "l'art ne reflète pas le monde, il anticipe les vérités,

panic." Paris

Dezainde, Line. "Résister, voir n°537." Sept, Ottawa

Heartney, Eleanor. "2004 Ad." Art in America, May 2005.

2004 Ballista, Marie-José. "ce qui reste après la destruction." le berry républicain, 26

Oct 2004: Bourges

Biec, Odile. une oeuvre à lire entre les lignes, revue un deux quatre,

Clermont-Ferrand

Raymond, Marie-Claire. "Mounir Fatmi et la tour "eiffel", la nouvelle république,

27 Oct 2004: Cher

2003 Basting, Barbara. "aus einer welt der hindernisse." tages anzeiger, 15 Nov 2003:

Zürich

Bernède, Jérémy. "le monde arabe vu de son avant-garde." midi libre, 30 Oct 2003: Montpellier

Lagarde, Angélique. "une grande université de langues." cassandre, Paris

West, Michael. "andere ansichten aus afrika." brüchenbauer, 25 Nov 2003:

Zürich

2002 Antoine, Frédéric. "ovalprojet, le courrier de mantes." 19 Jun 2002: Mantes la Jolie

el Haïk, Tarek. "Introducing the Video Work of Mounir Fatmi." frameworks,

n°43: 1-3.

Lagarde, Angélique. "Mounir Fatmi." plasticien, projections, n°2, Paris