Marguerite Humeau, Nottingham Contemporary 1929

Marguerite Humeau (born 1986) is a French visual artist. She is living in

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Early life and education

She studied at the

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. Her work focuses on communication between worlds. She has called herself an "

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Times".

Career

Humeau had her first major solo show at the

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in 2016, was part of the

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in Zurich in 2016, and showed at Nottingham Contemporary and other major galleries and institutions including the

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. Lucy, from her Opera of Prehistoric Creatures, was included in The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things curated by

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in 2013. She also resuscitated

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's voice singing a love song of her era for the

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Extinction Marathon curated by

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in 2014. In 2017, she was awarded the

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. "Birth Canal" at the

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in New York City (2018), was Humeau's first solo exhibition in the United States, and received a positive review in ''Sculpture'' magazine.

References

External links

Artist Website

C L E A R I N G New York/Brussels Profile

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Living people 1986 births 21st-century French sculptors French women sculptors French contemporary artists 21st-century French women artists Alumni of the Royal College of Art 20th-century French women {{France-sculptor-stub