Damien Cadio (1975, FR), lives and works in Nantes, France.
Damien is a professor in painting at the Beaux-Arts Nantes. His work is part of many esteemed public and private collections worldwide. The paintings of Damien Cadio are as much about their images as they are about painting itself. It is a delicate interplay between the physical reality of the flowers, pure paint on a canvas, and the history and tradition attached to the medium.
From Saturday 17 October till Saturday 14 November 2020
from Saturday March 2nd – Saturday April 6th, 2019
Saturday, March 4th until Saturday, April 15
CV Damien Cadio
Born in Mont Saint-Aignan, France, 1975.
Lives and works in Nantes, France.
Currently occupied as Professor in Painting at the Art Academy in Nantes.
Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2023
Immortal Vitality of the Young French Figurative Painting, MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier (FR)
Botanique de la faim, Centre d’art Les Eglises, Chelles (FR)
2022
I never meant to be cruel, Gallery Gerhard Hofland, Amsterdam (NL)
The Serpentine Similar, Galerie C, Paris (FR)
Toute la vie sous cutanée, Abbaye de Tuffé, Val de la Charonne (FR)
2021
Des Horizons, Beaux Arts, Nantes (FR)
Embrasement, Dilecta, Paris (FR)
Mélange, Galerie C Contemporary Art, Paris (FR)
2020
Homemade Mountains, Künstlerhaus Ulm (GER)
2019
Reigns, Gerhard Hofland Amsterdam (NL)
A Rose for Mum, Maïa Muller Gallery, Paris (FR)
2018
Double jeu, la collection du FRAC Auvergne, Aurillac (FR)
Resonance 2, FRAC Normandie Rouen (FR)
Phenomenes, curated by F. Diering, FRAC Alsace (FR)
2017
Le Rêve des Formes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Á la Solidarité, Gerhard Hofland, Amsterdam (NL)
2016
Botanique du Silence, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (NL)
La Chambre 12, Sleep Disorders, Aubervilliers (FR)
2015
Choices, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris (FR)
Murailles, L’assaut de la Menuiserie, Saint-Etienne (FR)
2014
La Folie Hennequin, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (FR)
Drawing Now, Paris (FR), rep. by Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (FR)
Untitled Solo Exhibition, Galerie Andreas Grimm, München (DE)
2013
Untitled Solo Exhibition, Galerie Andreas Grimm, München (DE)
Arouille, Hastingues, Baigts, Pimbo, Memphis, Tupelo, Le Cap Art Center, Saint-Fons (FR)
It takes a million years to become diamonds so let’s just burn until the sky’s black, with K. Ziemke, Galerie Manzoni Schäper, Berlin (DE)
Excalibur, Micro-Onde Art Center, Velizy-Villacoublay (FR)
2012
Tropical Charlemagne, Galerie Manzoni Schäper, Berlin (DE)
Tupelo, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (FR)
2011
Aujourd’hui le siècle, MDA Art Center, Grand-Quevilly (FR)
I agree… No! … I Disagree, Galerie Andreas Grimm, München (DE)
2010
Passage à faune, with B. Bak, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (FR)
2009
Passage à faune, with B. Bak, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (FR)
Sleeping Instruments, Institut Francais de Berlin, Berlin (DE)
2008
Les fins naturelles, Almine Rech, Paris (FR)
2007
Double Vapeur, Grimm|Rosenfeld, New York (USA)
2006
Goodbye Victoire, Grimm|Rosenfeld, München (DE)
2005
Untitled Solo Exhibition, commissariat d’Eric Corne, Galerie Premier Regard, Paris (FR)
2004
Untitled Solo Exhibition, Galerie French-Made, München (DE)
2000
Mercredi, Maison Bleu, Mayenne (FR)
1999
Viens ici mon tout petit, Maison des Arts, Conches (FR)
Group Exhibitions
2021
Les Apperances, Centre d’Art À Cent Mètres du Centre du Monde, Perpignan (FR)
L’Enfer, Galerie Sabine Baysli, Paris (FR)
2020
Echoes of the Unseen, Gerhard Hofland Amsterdam (NL)
Art Rotterdam 2020, represented by Gerhard Hofland Gallery (NL)
2019
Painting Spirit #2, Zoo Galerie au Lieu Unique, Nantes (FR)
Viennacontemporary 2019, represented by Gerhard Hofland Gallery (NL)
Feedback, Musée Crozatier, Le Puy-en-Velay (FR)
A Rose for Mum, Galerie Maia Müller, Paris (FR)
Intoto#7, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (DE)
2018
Sleep Disorders #17, Greylight Projects, Brussels (BE)
Double Jeu, la collection du FRAC Auvergne, Aurillac (FR)
Resonance 2, FRAC Normandie, Rouen (FR)
Phenomenes, cur. by F. Diering, FRAC Alsace, Altkirch (FR)
2017
Voici le temps des assassins, cur. by A. Berland, Galerie Journiac, Paris (FR)
Shoulders, cur. by M. Tauber, ODEEH, Giebelstadt (DE)
Le rêve des formes / The Dream of Forms, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Bernini, Cadio, Perramant, Galerie Dukan, Leipzig (DE)
Inner Landscapes, cur. by B. Boehm, Kunstraum LCC, New York (USA)
La nuit de la philosophie, Kiasma, Helsinki (FI)
2016
La nuit de la philosophie, Kiasma, Helsinki (FI)
D’autres possibles, comm. T. Fort, Pavillon Vendôme, Clichy (FR)
À quoi tient la beauté des étreintes, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
Maison pour Insomniaque, Rêve 1, Le Garage, Saint-Saens (FR)
Papier Bitte, Galerie C, Neuchâtel (CH)
Only Lovers, Le Coeur, Paris (FR)
2015
Fabriquer le dessin, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen (FR)
REAL, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
Pour vous mieux contempler, demeurez au désert, CIA, Paris (FR)
Haut les masques!, Quartier General, La Chaux-de-Fonds (FR)
Rundgang 01, Re-Surgo, Berlin (DE)
Miroir Ô mon miroir, Pavillon Carré Baudouin, Paris (FR)
2014
All Creatures small and great, Galerie Haubs, München (DE)
Extraction, URDLA, Villeurbanne (FR)
La vengeance de Mathilde, Galerie C, Neuchâtel (CH)
Le Mur, Collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris (FR)
Les esthétiques d’un monde désenchanté, CAC de Meymac, Meymac (FR)
Scène Parisienne, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal (CA)
The Blank Cartridge, Curated by Fleur Helluin, Schloss Neschweinsteiger, Berlin ((DE)
Kentucky Karaoke, DMNDKT, Berlin (DE)
Grey Flags, Curated by T. Chaillou, Backslash Gallery, Paris (FR)
Jeunes Feuilles, URDLA in Paris, Paris (FR)
The End is the Beginning, The Wand, Berlin (DE)
2013
The End is the Beginning, The Wand, Berlin (DE)
Les Centres d’art font leur Cinema, Nuit Blanche, Paris (FR)
Black Out, Galerie Jordan/Seydoux, Berlin (DE)
Sleep Disorders #6, DMNDKT, Berlin (DE)
Friends and Family, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (FR)
Untitled Group Exhibition, SSIIEE Two, Berlin (DE)
The French Haunted House, SongEun Art Space, Seoul (SK)
La nuit nous verrons clair, La Station, Nice (FR)
There is something between me and the world outside, Galerie Manzoni Schäper, Berlin (DE)
Coeurs Vaillants, curated by Damien Cadio, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (FR)
2012
Voir en Peinture III, La Box, Bourges (FR)
Sneak Peek, Galerie Manzoni Schäper, Berlin (FR)
2011
D’Après la Ruine, Art Center Vilnius, Vilnius (LT)
State of the Union, Freies Museum, Berlin (DE)
l’Ombre, la lune et les feux, Galerie Patricia Dorfman, Paris (FR)
… with a mental squint, Le 19, CRAC Montbéliard (FR)
2010
La Belle Peinture est Derrière nous, Istanbul (TR), Ankara (TR), Nantes (FR)
False Recognition, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (LT)
NERF, with K. Ziemke, Heroes, Berlin (DE)
Nie Spia Tylko Duchy, CoCA Torun, Torun (PL)
2009
l’Image Cabrée, Prix Richard, Paris (FR)
O Realismo Segunda Parte, MARGS, Porto Alegre (BR)
Wach sind nur die Geister, Phoenix Halle, Dortmund (DE)
Arte na Franca, O Realismo, MASP, Sao Paulo (BR)
Não te posso ver nem pintado, Museo Berardo Lissabon (PT)
2008
Não te posso ver nem pintado, Museo Berardo Lissabon (PT)
Disentangle, Grimm|Rosenfeld, New York (USA)
2007
Tiere II, Kuhstall Moosalpe, Grimm|Rosenfeld, New York (USA)
Menschenbilder, Sammlung Südhausbau Gallery, München (DE)
2006
I’m not There. This isn’t Happening, Grimm|Rosenfeld, New York (USA)
Befremdliche Geschichten, Schloss Agathenburg, Hamburg (DE)
Die Statistenloge, Mit K. Ziemke, KunstraumB, Kiel (DE)
Voir en Peinture Two, La Générale, Paris (FR)
Peindre des Images, Ecole des Beaux Arte de Cornouaille, Quimper (FR)
2002
De toute manière, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris (FR)
Education
-Graduated from the Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts, Paris in 2004 and the Ecole superieure des beaux-arts, Rouen in 1999
-Master 2 – Fine Arts – Pantheon-Sorbonne 2001
Conferences
-Strategies figuratives de la peinture contemporaine, Université Paris I, 2018
-L’image fantôme 2, Interface, Sorbonne, Paris
-La fabrique de la peinture, Collège de France, Paris
-Gespräch mit Cyrille Noirjean, URDLA, Villeurbanne
-Sortir de la grille du modernisme, la narration, Ensa, Bourges
Grants
-First Prize-winner of the 2014 Antoine Marin Prize, Arcueil
-Prix Ricard 2009 (nominated)
-First Prize-winner of the 2007 Sovereign European Art Prize, London
Music
-“Histoire de l’ombre”, a film from Alex Pou, Phantom Production, 2012
-“L’invisible”, a film from Alex Pou, 2007
-“Tous les chercheurs et historiens vous remercient” a performance from L. Paviani et C. Dauchez, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2003
-Live with Pierre & Leo Guy, Batofar, Palais de Tokyo,… 2004
-“The Last”, Alex Pou, Institut Français et Moltkerei Werkstatt, Köln, 2002
-as ErmanZoe, Kile Tracks, One thing disturbed me in what we did last night, Reed Eyi.
Catalogs
-Resonance, Frac Normandie, 2018
-La chambre #12, Gespräch mit Sophie Delpeux, ed. Sleep Disorders, 2016
-The blank cartridge , 2014
-La belle peinture 2, Maurice : Institut Français, 2014
-Monographie, Micro-Onde Vélizy-Villacoublay / Galerie Eva Hober, 2013
-Sleep Disorders #6, 2013
-The end is the beginning, The Wand, Berlin, 2013
-Friends & Family, Galerie Eva Hober, 2013
-La belle peinture 2, Bratislava : Institut Français, 2013
-La belle peinture est derrière nous, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, 2012
-D’après la ruine, Vilnius, 2011
-…with a mental squint, Le 19, Crac Montbéliard, 2011
-State of the Union, Berlin, 2011
-Forteresse, Monographie, CRAC Alsace / Galerie Almine Rech, 2011
-Awake are only the spirits, HMKV, 2009
-L’image cabrée, Judicael Lavrador, 2009
-Befremdliche Geschichten, 2006
-De toute manière, ENSBA, Paris, 2002
Publications
-Esse N°102, Thomas Fort, 2021
-L’Officiel Arts N°11, Thibaut de Ruyter, 2014
-Kaltblut Magazine, Fleur Huellin, 2014
-Elle mai 2014, Hector Obalk , 2014
-Le monde, Philippe Dagen, 2014
-Kaltblut N°4, Fleur Huellin, 2013
-Mouvement N°69, 2013
-Sang Bleu N°6, Entretien avec Timothée Chaillou, 2013
-Annual Magazine, Thibaut de Ruyter, 2012
-Le monde, Philippe Dagen, 2012
-Art Press N°387, Hors-champ, Thibaut de Ruyte, 2012
-Les Inrocks, Judicaël Lavrador, 2012
-Mouvement N°62, Zones indécises, Alain Berland, 2012
-Le quotidien de l’art, Léa Bismuth, 2012
-Standard N°32, 2011
-Zero Deux, 2009
Not For Peter, 2022, oil on canvas, 140 x 190 cm
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And Over, 2022, oil on canvas, 47 x 52
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Over, 2022, oil on canvas, 47 x 52 cm
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Among Foxes and Pheasants, 2022, oil on canvas, 24 x 32 cm
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A body turns to pain, a body turns to even, 2022, Oil on canvas, 190 x 140 cm
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Black Swan, 2022, Oil on canvas, 190 x 140 cm
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Lighthouse (Karaoke with Carl Hultgren), 2021,
80 x 110 cm,
Oil on canvas
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The Liar, 2021,
140 x 190 cm,
Oil on canvas
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Before the Wind Blows It All Away, 2020,
190 x 260 cm,
Oil on canvas
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The Piano Drop, 2020,
140 x 190 cm,
Oil on canvas
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Ode to a nuthatch, 2020,
190 x 140 cm,
Oil on canvas
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Autism Large Diplomacy, 2022
Oil on canvas
190 x 140 cm
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Under the Sun, 2019,
40 x 30 cm,
Oil on canvas
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