Born in 1956 in Paris, Pierre Collin lives and works mainly in Conleau (Vannes-Morbihan) and also in Paris.
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EDUCATION
1975-80 National School of Fine Arts of Paris
1980-82 Resident at the Casa Velasquez, Madrid
1982-83 Resident at the Cité des Arts, Paris
1985-86 Scholarship student from the Ile-de-France Region
TEACHING
Teaches at the European School of Art of Brittany, Lorient site.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1983 Galerie Harmonie, Orléans (prints), exhibition realized with the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture (help to the first exhibition)
Galerie Biren, Paris (prints)
Galerie du Haut-Pavé, Paris (paintings)
1984 French Institute of Barcelona (paintings and prints)
Brody gallery, Washington (prints)
1985 School of Fine Arts of Clermont-Ferrand, Halle aux Blés (prints)
Galerie Guy Mondineu, Paris (drawings and paintings)
Galerie Biren, Paris (paintings and prints)
Area X Gallery, New York (paintings and prints)
1986 Lacourière and Frélaut gallery, Paris (paintings and engravings)
Mac 2000, Grand-Palais, Paris (paintings and prints)
1987 Galerie Guy Mondineu, Paris (monumental engravings)
Calcographia Nationale, Madrid (prints)
1988 Lienzo y Papel Gallery, Seville (prints)
Brody gallery, Washington (prints)
1989 Lacourière and Frélaut gallery, Paris (paintings)
Arco, with Lacourière and Frélaut gallery, Madrid (paintings)
1990 Abras Gallery, Brussels (paintings and prints)
Galerie Lieber, Vézelay (paintings and prints)
Galerie Biren, Paris (books and prints)
Galerie Ariel Rive gauche, Paris (paintings)
1991 Galerie Pierre Kamouh, Paris (paintings)
Priory of Vausse, Yonne (paintings and prints)
Galerie Ariel Rive gauche, Paris (paintings)
Galerie Biren, Paris (prints)
1993 Galerie Devaux, Moulins (paintings, engravings and books)
1994 Galerie Thierry Spira, Paris (paintings)
1996 Manutention, IC'art, Cambrai (paintings and prints)
Galerie Biren, Paris (paintings and prints)
1997 Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris (paintings)
1998 Saint-Maur Art Workshops (paintings and prints)
2000 Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris (paintings)
Galerie Biren, Paris (books and prints)
2001 Lacourière Editions gallery, Paris (prints)
2003 Strasbourg Art Fair, with Galerie Vieille du Temple (paintings)
Le Présidial, Quimperlé (paintings, drawings, installation)
School of Fine Arts of Nîmes (paintings)
2004 Galerie Prodromus, Paris (paintings, monotypes and engravings)
2006 Bal des ardents, Lyon (paintings, drawings and prints)
2007 Galerie Prodromus, Paris (paintings and prints)
Musée de la Cohue, Vannes (paintings, drawings and prints)
2008 Museum of Drawing and Original Prints, Gravelines
2009 School of Arts of Saint-Nazaire
Galerie Doyen, Vannes
2011 Galerie Prodromus, Paris (At the museum, section 1, drawings, engravings)
Graphic Art Center of La Métairie Bruyère - RLD Editions
2014/2015 Barnenez, commission of 10 engravings for the centenary of the National Monuments
Center - part 1 - exhibition on the Barnenez site from July 2014 to May 2015.
Project renewed in 2015 for 15 engravings and exhibitions during summer 2015.
2015 "Sol y sombra" Galerie Documents 15, Paris (books and prints)
2018 "De Locmariaquer à Barnenez" Galerie Documents 15, Paris (engravings)
RECENT COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS, COMMISSIONS AND PRIZES
2009 - Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, Galerie Prodromus Paris, Galerie Pictura, Cesson-Sévigné, Rennes Museum of Fine Arts.
Commission of 12 engravings by LP Art for their 2010 calendar.
Receives the engraving prize of the Academy of Fine Arts endowed by Mrs Nadded Ojjed who dedicates an engraved work.
2009 - Commission of a series of 15 engravings to illustrate Un matin pour la vie, an album with 4 unpublished short stories by Françoise Sagan (first edition) by the Société de bibliophilie des 101, Paris. Edition of a series of engravings by RLD editions
2010 - Galerie Pictura, Cesson-Sévigné. Galerie Doyen, Vannes.
2011 - Edition of the album Au Musée with 5 lithographs and a deluxe edition with a print, accompanied by extracts from Marcel Proust's La Recherche du temps perdu, En Puisaye collection, RLD editions.
2012 - Galerie Bazouges-la-Pérouse. Vannes Museum " 25 years of collecting ".
2013 - Publication of the Sol y sombra album, 17 leporello engravings accompanied by 1 March 1938, poem by Picasso, introduction by Androula Michaël, art historian specialized in the written work of Picasso, l'Appuie-tête and Pèle-Mèle editions. Presentation at the gallery of L'ESPE - Vannes
2018 - Pierre Collin was elected on April 25, 2018 as a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts, in the seat of René Quillivic, n°IV of the Engraving Section.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Purchases from the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
Purchases from the City of Paris
French National Library, Prints Department and Illustrated Books Department
National Library, Madrid
National Library, Luxembourg
Prints Department, Mulhouse
Vincent Van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid
Belfort Museum
Chateauroux Museum
Paul Valéry Museum, Sète
Musée de la Cohue, Vannes
Museum of Drawing and Original Prints of Gravelines
Slaughterhouse Museum, Toulouse
Graphic art office of the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany
Etc...
Monograph published in 2007 by les Cahiers Dessinés, text by Valère Bertrand, preface by Marie-Françoise Le Saux, chief curator of the Vannes museums, and Dominique Tonneau-Ryckelinck, chief curator of the Drawing and Original Prints Museum of Gravelines