Jérôme Lagarrigue (born August 18, 1973
) is a
French
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Arts and media
* The French (band), ...
painter
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living in New York City.
Biography
Lagarrigue was born in Paris, to a French father who was an illustrator and painter, and an American mother who was a journalist and writer. As a child, he was schooled in France, but spent summers in New York City, where he now lives. He graduated from the
Rhode Island School of Design
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, with a major in
illustration
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, in 1996.
Two years after graduation,
Parsons School of Design
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made Lagarrigue professor of drawing and painting.
In 2002, Lagarrigue won the
John Steptoe Award for New Talent
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for his illustrations in
Freedom Summer
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.
Solo exhibitions
*2001 - "Boxers", The Cutting Room Gallery, 19 W 24th St, New York City.
*2002 - "Recent works",
Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles.
*2003 - "Paintings", UFA Gallery, 526 W 26th St, New York City.
*2005 - "Synchresis", TheXpo Gallery, 63 Pearl St, Brooklyn, New York City.
*2006 - "Paesaggio Del viso",
Villa Medicis
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, Rome, Italy and Oliver Waltman Gallery, Paris.
*2007 - "Boxing", Galerie Olivier Waltman, 74 Rue Mazarine, Paris.
*2009 - "Brooklintimate", Galerie Olivier Waltman, 74 Rue Mazarine, Paris.
*2010 - "Urban Boxing United",
Palais de la Bourse, Marseilles, France.
*2011 - "Anne Claire", BDG Gallery, 535 W 25th St, New York City.
*2012 - "Closer", Waltman Ortega Gallery, 2233 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL.
*2014 - "Visible Man", Driscoll Babcock Gallery, 525 W 25th Street, New York City.
*2017 - "The Tipping Point", Lazarides Gallery, 11 Rathbone Place, London, UK.
Books illustrated
*1999 - "My Man Blue", text by Nikki Grimes.
*2002 - "
Freedom Summer", text by Deborah Wiles.
*2003 - "Me and Uncle Romie", text by Claire Hartfield.
*2004 - "Going North", text by Janice N. Harrington.
*2004 - "Freedom on the Menu", text by Carole Weatherford.
*2007 - "Poetry for young people", poems by Maya Angelou.
*2007 - "Pleine Face", text by Sylvain Coher, publisher: Éponyme.
References
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1973 births
American children's book illustrators
Rhode Island School of Design alumni
Parsons School of Design faculty
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
French male painters
21st-century French painters
21st-century French male artists
Living people
Coretta Scott King Award winners
French children's book illustrators