# Richard Conte (artist)

Richard Conte (born June 12, 1953) is a contemporary artist and art professor.

## Background and education

Conte studied plastic arts and art history at the French University University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He then completed a PhD dissertation entitled Une Pratique Négative en Peinture, Poïétique de la Fragmentation, de l'Enlevage et de l'Obturation supervised by René Passeron. An Agrégé and a Doctor in Plastic Arts, he began teaching at the École Normale of Douai, l'Essonne and Cergy, and then at the university from 1983 onwards. In the mid-1990s, Conte obtained an accreditation to supervise research. He was subsequently elected director of the CERAP (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche en Arts Plastiques) by the Scientific Council of the university and has been responsible for coordinating the seminar entitled Interface at the Sorbonne since 1999.

## Career

Since 2012, Conte is the director of ACTE Institute a research Mixt Unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Conte has been director of the CERAP since the early 2000s. At about the same period, he was elected member of the Scientific Council of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. As part of his mandate, Conte is also a member of the Council of the Doctoral School for Plastic Arts and Art Sciences at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

## Latest appointments

* Appointed member of the Commission nationale consultative d'évaluation des enseignants des écoles d'art (national commission about art teachers valuation) of the French Ministry of Culture.
* Member of the research commission of the Délégation aux Arts plastiques (Plastik Art delegation).
* Member of the Board of research and studies at the ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs).
* President of the jury for the promotion of the Professors of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences in Tunisia (2004–2007).
* Co-founder and managing editor of the journal Recherches poïétiques (poïetic researches).
* Founder and managing editor of the journal Plastik.
* Founder and Director of the collection Arts et monde contemporain (Art in the Contemporary world), Publications de la Sorbonne (Sorbonne publishing).
* Coordinator of the project Création et prospective, as part of the 2006–2007 / 2008–2009 projects comprised under the title La création à l'épreuve des risques majeurs (creation proof against major risks).

## Works
### Solo exhibitions

* 1980 - Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre, France (booklet)
* 1982 - Pierre Lescot Art Gallery, Paris (booklet)
* 1985 - Cultural Center Jacques Brel, Thionville, France
* 1986 - Museum Gauguin, Papeete (Tahiti) – Eros Errance Art Gallery, Rouen, France
* 1988 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue) – University of Toulouse le Mirail
* 1989 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue)
* 1992 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue) – Art et essai, Art Gallery, Rennes, France
* 1993 - University of Pau, France
* 1994 - Museum of Bourges, France (Book) – Foundation of Roger Van Rogger, Bandol
* 1996 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris. Les Autonus (the self nudes)
* 1997 - Château de Dampierre, Anzin (North of France), Les Années Rondes (The round years), 1996–1986
* 2000 - Museum of Contemporary Art at Seoul National University (Korea), (with Jean-Pierre Brigaudiot), edition of an art booklet
* 2001 - Contemporary Art Space Camille Lambert, city of Juvisy-sur-Orge, France (catalogue) - Performance entitled L'abeille qui fait son miel (Photographed by Yann Toma)
* 2002 - KBS Television Gallery, Busan, South Korea: Mondial 98 – Museum of Contemporary Art at Busan, South Korea
* 2004 - Performance entitled Bille en tête for the opening of the Festival Chalon-dans-la-rue.
* 2005 - Museum Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
* 2005-2006 - Pommes Libertines, Potager du roi, grotte du Parc Balbi, Château de Versailles.
* 2009 - Deborah Zafman Art Gallery, Paris
* 2012 - Premier Festival international d'art contemporain de Moroni, Comoros
* 2013 - Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, (with Jiří Kornatovský)
* 2015 - 16 September – 16 October, Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Plzeň (Czech Republic) : « L'amour et la guerre à Versailles », dans le cadre de Pilsen, capitale européenne de la culture 2015. Láska a válka ve Versailles / L'amour et la guerre à Versailles, Richard Conte, Catalogue de l'exposition à la galerie Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Plzeň. Texts by Josef Mištera, Jiří Kornatovský, Richard Conte. Edition of University of West Bohemia, 70 pages.

### Group exhibitions

* 1998 June–July Catalogue - Conte produced 64 paintings during the 64 games of the FIFA World Cup, each of them being strictly produced within the time of the corresponding game.
* 2005 January–May - L'art, Un Cas d'Ecole, Museum of Education for the department, Saint-Ouen l'Aumône. Light installation entitled Gobostensibles, in collaboration with François Salis. Catalogue, text written by Romane Boyard. Nicole Ferry Art Gallery (Paris).

### Conte as exhibition curator

* September 2004 – Laborinthe, Fondation Avicenne, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
* October 2005 – Le bout du monde (the ends of the earth), Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
* October–November 2007 – Proliférer (Prolifering), Villa Savoye, Poissy, France.