# Olivier Masmonteil

Olivier Masmonteil (born September 23, 1973, Romilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French artist. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux from 1996 to 1999. As a painter, Olivier Masmonteil dedicates his work exclusively to landscapes. While offering a variety of treatment, the paintings of Olivier Masmonteil assume a thematic unity which the landscape is both the substance and form, subject and object, the content and container. Globetrotter artist, he has started a second world tour in Asia (India, Thailand, Vietnam) and South America (Chile, Brazil).

## Selected works

* Tempête à Giverny, 2011, oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm
* La Dordogne, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 270 cm (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs collection)
* Cascade Argentine, 2010, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 235 x 240 cm (Fondation Eileen S. Kaminsky Family collection)
* Routes du monde, 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 27 x 35 cm each (Fondation Colas collection)
* Augenweide XVI, 2004, oil on canvas, 250 x 280.5 cm (FNAC collection)

## Exhibitions
### Solo exhibitions (selection)

2020:
* Serial Colors, L’Artothèque, Caen (à venir)
* Horizons so big, Suquet des artistes, Pôle d'art moderne et contemporain de Cannes
* The veil erased, Galerie Thomas Bernard - Cortex Athletico, Paris
2019:
* Countryside, Galerie Thomas Bernard - Cortex Athletico, Paris
2018:
* The space of metamorphoses, Cité des Arts, Chambéry
2017:
* From Gimel to Ushuaia, château de Sédières, Clergoux (Corrèze)
2016:
* Portrait, Galerie Dukan, Saint Ouen
2015:
* LE put in Diane, Patio Art Opera, Paris
2014:
* A week and a day in Prague/ A week and a day in Prague, Dvorak Sec Contemporary Gallery, Prague
* Courtesans, Galerie D.X, Bordeaux
* The memory of the past, Galerie Dukan, Paris
2012:
* Place, La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Ontario, Canada
* Olivier Masmonteil, Galerie du CAUE, Limoges, France
2011:
* Walden ou la vie dans les bois, Galerie Domi Nostrae, Lyon, France
2010:
* The long and winding road, Galerie Dukan&Hourdequin, Marseille, France
* Quelle que soit la minute de jour, Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-Bains, France
2007:
* Olivier Masmonteil, Klare Ferne, French Institute, Berlin, Germany
2006:
* Pêcher l’eau, Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, France
2005:
* Olivier Masmonteil, Augenweide, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, Germany

### Group exhibitions (selection)

2012:
* Plaisirs de France, curated by Philippe Costamagna, Baku, Azerbaijan and Almaty, Kazakhstan
2011:
* A Glimpse at French Contemporary Painting, Galeria Tap Seac, Macao, China
* Des paysages, des figures. Carte blanche à Olivier Masmonteil, Le Château de Saint-Ouen, Saint-Ouen, France
2010:
* Collection 3, Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France
2008:
* Délicatesse des couleurs, Hangar 7, Salzburg, Germany
2007:
* Peinture: Génération 70, Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France
2004:
* Climats, cyclothymie des paysages, Centre national d’art et du paysage, Vassivière-en-Limousin, France

## Awards, grants and residencies (selection)

2005-2006:
* Residency Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2002-2003:
* Residency La Source-Villarceaux, France
2002
* Painting Prize, Fondation Coffim, France

## Collections

* FRAC (Regional Contemporary Art Funds) Haute-Normandie, France
* French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, France
* Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, New York, USA
* Claudine and Jean-Marc Salomon Foundation, France
* Colas Foundation, France
* FNAC (National Contemporary Art Fund), France
* FRAC (Regional Contemporary Art Funds) Alsace, France