Béatrice Valentine Amrhein (born 1961 in
Wassy
Wassy () is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France. Its population, as of 2019, is 2,819. Wassy has been twinned with the German town of Eppingen in north-west Baden-Württemberg since 1967.
History
On 1 March 1562, a f ...
) is a French artist. She lives and works in
Arcueil
Arcueil () is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
Name
The name Arcueil was recorded for the first time in 1119 as ''Arcoloï'', and later in the 12th c ...
.
Biography
Amrhein was trained as a painter at l’
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...
in Paris, at École nationale des beaux arts of
Nancy and as a fashion designer at
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...
in New York.
Amrhein works in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, multimedia, and installation.
Her work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Museum in
Baltimore
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, USA, in 2007;
Herzliya
Herzliya ( ; he, הֶרְצְלִיָּה ; ar, هرتسليا, Hirtsiliyā) is an affluent city in the central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture. In it h ...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Herzliya;
Palais de Tokyo
The Palais de Tokyo (''Tokyo Palace'') is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to ...
, Paris; Convent of the Cordeliers, and
Châteauroux
Châteauroux (; ; oc, Chasteurós) is the capital city of the French department of Indre, central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges. Its residents are called ''Castelroussins'' () in French.
Climate
Ch ...
in 2004..
Amrhein has held numerous solo exhibitions around the world. Some of her notable exhibitions are ''Paris-Texas'' (1992), ''Innocent Désire'' (1993), ''Hope'' (1994), ''Prométhée'' (1995). Since 2000, she has exhibited regularly at Galerie Pascal Gabert, C. Downey, New York, Sara Gata Studio, New York, and Nancy Wine, Brooklyn, New York.
References
External links
Beatrice Valentine Amrhein's Web page
Art Gallery Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
Lee Wells / Cinema-scope / Perpetual Art Machine / Scope Art Fair, New York, 2006
Living people
1969 births
20th-century French women artists
21st-century French women artists
Parsons School of Design alumni
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