EDUCATION AND PRIZES
Art grant by the Conseil Général du Val de Marne (France), 2010
Paris Fine Art Studios, painting, Martin Bissière's class, 2004-2007
Paris Political Institute, bachelor of political science, 1992-1994
Paris Polytechnic Insitute (ENSTA), master of science and engineering, 1990-1993
Paris University, bachelor class in Art History and Archeology,1991-1992
Paris Museum of Decorative Arts studios (Louvre), painting, Paris, 1976-1986
SELECTION OF SOLO SHOWS
Kyoto Institute of Technology, The Great Wave. An Homage to Hokusai, curator Pr Ph.D. Misato IDO, Kyoto, 2026
Kyoto Institute of Technology, A Dialogue between East and West: Water as a Pictorial Pattern, lecture, invited by Pr Ph.D. Misato IDO, Kyoto, 2025
Marignana Arte, Ninfae, Marignana Project Room, during the Venice Gallery Weekend event/ Venice Galleries View, 2025
Palazzo Albrizzi Capello, L'oro dell' acqua, during the 60th Art Biennale, with ItsLiquid Group, ACIT/Goethe Institut/ See Galerie and Galerie Faure Beaulieu, Venice, 2024
Galerie Etienne de Causans, L'oro dell' acqua, paintings, Paris, 2023
Galerie Etienne de Causans, Or Bleu, Paris, 2022
Flers Castle Museum, Normandy (France), Les couleurs de l'eau, curator Hélène Tarantola, 2021
Artist studio private visits for signing sessions of the monography 2000-2020, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 2020
OFI Asset Management, art patronage, Paris, 2019
Restaurant Maison Blanche, Au fil des saisons, Paris, 2018
Galerie ArtCube, Monuments, Paris - catalog, 2018
Galerie Anne-Claire Simon, Focus, Paris, 2018
Vertheuil Abbey, Mémoires d'eau, Médoc (Bordeaux vineyards) - catalogs, 2017
Galerie Teodora, renaissance(s), Paris, 2016
Galerie Teodora, Peintures flottantes, Paris, 2015
Restaurant Maison Blanche, Paris, 2015
Flers Castle Museum, Normandy (France), Trames d'eau, trio, curator Hélène Tarantola, 2014
Galerie ArtCube, Shadows of Forms, Paris - catalog, 2014
Ursulines Medieval Tower Chapel, Les chemins de l'eau, Autun (Bourgogne, France), invited by painter Hisao Takahashi, 2014
Paris Polytechnic Insitute, Métamorphoses des fluides, ENSTA atrium - catalog, 2013
Pavillon de l'Eau / Water Pavillion (with Eau de Paris and the City of Paris), Metamorphoses of Fluids, Paris, catalogs, curator Matthieu Marquaille, 2012-2013
Galerie Bagatelle, Dialogues d'eau, Aix-les-Bains (Alps, France), 2012
Galerie Audrey Marty, Métamorphoses des fluides, Saint Malo (Britanny, France), 2012
La Petite Galerie, Microcosmes-macrocosmes, Paris, 2010
Galerie Bagatelle, Aix-les-Bains (Alps, France), 2010
Avignon University (Provence, France), Saint Martha's Chapel : decoration with mosaics, ceramics, stained glass, 2005-2007
Galerie La Madelaine, Brussels, 2002
Commission Européenne, Brussels, 2001
ART FAIRS
Luxembourg Art Fair, 2021
Art Elysées, Paris, 2019
Lille Art Up (France), 2019
YIA Art Fair / Paris Contemporary Art Show, Paris, 2018
Art Montpellier (France), 2017
Lille Art Fair (France), 2013
Spectrum Miami, USA, 2013
New York Art Expo, USA, 2010
Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, 2008
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 2008
Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, 2007
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 2006
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 2004
SELECTION OF GROUP SHOWS
SEE Galerie/ Galerie Faure Beaulieu, Utopia Now, Paris, 2023
SEE Galerie/ Galerie Faure Beaulieu, Black is Back, Paris, 2023
SEE Galerie/ Galerie Faure Beaulieu, Eau, Paris, 2023
ANIMA MUNDI International Art Fair, during the 59th Art Biennale, with ItsLiquid Group, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, 2021
Borders Art Fair, with ItsLiquid Group, The Room Contemporary Art Space San Marco, Venice, 2021
Venice International Art Fair, with ItsLiquid Group, The Room Contemporary Art Space San Marco, Venice, 2021
Contemporary Venice, with ItsLiquid Group, Misericordia Archives, Cannaregio, Venice, 2021
UNESCO, Paris, 2021
PIASA Auction, charity auction in benefit of Covid healthtakers, Paris, 2020
Chez Castel, with Galerie Anne-Claire Simon, Paris, 2019
Galerie Anne-Claire Simon, Le Bleu, Paris, 2019
Galerie Anne-Claire Simon, summer show, Paris, 2018
Galerie Teodora, summer show, Paris, 2016
Galerie Teodora, summer show, Paris, 2015
Science and Industry Museum, Higgs'Boson, Paris, 2013
Twins Moers 2010, Ruhr European Capital for Culture, Moers, Germany, 2010
Festival de l'Oh!, Maisons-Alfort and the Conseil Général du Val de Marne (France), 2009
O Art Museum, Tokyo, 2008
Fine Arts Museum, Okinawa, 2008
Imperial House, Tamozawa, 2008
Japanese Embassy, Séoul, 2005
Ono Gallery Ginza, Tokyo, 2004
Ward Nasse Gallery, New York, 2003
Tablet Gallery, Londres, 2003
Arte Giappone Galeria, Milan, 2003
Galerie La Madeleine, Brussels, 2002
Atelier Visconti, Paris, 2002
TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS
Bibliography :
Cités englouties (Submerged Cities) - Texts by Kathrin Machinek, architect-archeologist, PhD / University of Karlsruhe, CNRS, chief of the Department of Architecture at the Center of Alexandrian Studies (ongoing)
Winter Dream - Foreword by Annie Dubernard Laurent, trilingual French-English-Japanese, 62 pages, Paris, 2023
Ninfae. T.1 : Nereids & Dryads - Photographs of ephemeral installations in situ in nature, bilingual French-English, 122 pages, Paris, 2022
Ninfae. T.2 : Oreads - Photographs of ephemeral installations in situ in nature, bilingual French-English, 128 pages, Paris, 2022
Ninfae. T.3 : Ophelia - Photographs of ephemeral installations in situ in nature, foreword by Annie Dubernard Laurent, bilingual French-English, 86 pages, Paris, 2022
Ninfae. T.4 : Naiads - Photographs of ephemeral installations in situ in nature, bilingual French-English, 158 pages, Paris, 2022
Gold Blue : Shades of Blue, Lumières d'écume (Lights of Foam), L'oro dell' acqua - Texts by Annie Dubernard Laurent, bilingual French-English, 72 pages, Paris
First edition 2022, new edition 2023
Published for the exhibitions at Galerie Etienne de Causans (Paris, 2022 & 2023) and Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello (Venice, 2024)
De l’eau et des hommes (Of Water and Men) - Photographs of ephemeral installations in situ in nature, foreword by Hélène Tarantola, bilingual French-English, 124 pages, Paris, 2021
Acqua alta - Foreword by Annie Dubernard Laurent, bilingual French-English, 76 pages, Paris, 2022
Toiles d’eau. Hommage à Claude Monet (Water Canvases.Homage to Claude Monet) - Foreword by Annie Dubernard Laurent, bilingual French-English, 68 pages, Paris, 2022
Violaine Vieillefond. Paintings 2000-2020 - Foreword by Annie Dubernard Laurent, with TIMKAT publications, illustrated monography with a selection of texts, 240 pages, Paris, 2020
Revelations 2017-2018-2019 - OFI Asset Management - Art Patronage, Paris, 2019
L‘éclat du bleu. Nuance et essence du bleu en littérature, en art et dans la société contemporaine – under the direction of Geneviève Vilnet. Anne-Claire Simon. L'Harmattan Editions, 2019
Of Flesh and Blood and Hanging Gardens - Catalogues for « Water Memories » exhibition at Vertheuil Abbey (Médoc), bilingual French-English, 18 pages, Paris, 2017
In situ. Metamorphoses of Fluids. The Water Pavilion - Photographs of the exhibition at the Water Pavilion, foreword by Bernard Point, September 2012 - January 2013, 24 pages, Paris
First edition, 2012; Second edition for the 10th Anniversary of the Water Pavilion, 2017
Texts and catalogs:
Jonathan Molinari, PHD, Professor of Philosophy, Ca' Foscari University
"Through the eyes of Orpheus: on the Nymphs by Violaine Viellefond", text for the exhibition Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice, 2025
Claudia Meschini, journalist:
Con Violaine Vieillefond dentro "L'oro dell'acqua" (With Violaine Vieillefond inside "L'oro dell'acqua"), in IL GAZZETTINO VENEZIA-MESTRE, June 30th, 2024, about the solo exhibition Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello
Laurence de Calan, journalist, artist, writer :
Dance of Fluids (in COTE OUEST, n°165, p. 34, illustrated, June-July 2023), about the exhibition at See Galerie (Paris), 2023
Annie Dubernard Laurent, Art Historian, PHD/ Comparative Literature, Professor at Paris University :
Winter Dream, foreword to the catalogue, 2023
L 'Oro dell' Acqua, 2022, text included Gold Blue, catalogue
Lights of Foam, 2022, text included Gold Blue, catalogue
Shades of Blue, 2021, text included Gold Blue, catalogue
Ophelia, the Drowned-Drapery, foreword to Ninfae. T.3 : Ophelia, 2021
Life and Death in Venice, foreword to the monography and to Acqua alta, 2020
Windows. A Window open onto the World, text included in the monography, 2020
Water Canvases. A Homage to Claude Monet, text included in the monography and foreword to Water Canvases, 2020
Michèle Tardat, former cultural advisor and President of Vertheuil Abbey's Friends Association:
Water Memories, foreword to the exhibition at the Abbey, 2017
Maryse VIOLIN-SAVALLE, writer, art historian, art critic for the National Museum Eugène Delacroix 's Friends Society Publications
Monuments, text for the catalog, about the exhibition ArtCube Gallery (Paris), June 2018
Renaissance(s), text for the exhibition Teodora Gallery (Paris), December 2015
From Dream to Image, March 2014
Bernard POINT, former member of the committee of the Contemporary Art Fair DRAWING NOW, creator and former director of the Gennevilliers School of Fine Arts and its Edouard MANET Gallery
Shadows of Forms, preface to the exhibition ArtCube Gallery (Paris), 2014
Nenufluids, preface to the exhibition at ENSTA ParisTech (Palaiseau), 2013
Metamorphoses of Fluids, foreword to the exhibition at The Water Pavillion, 2012
Molly MINE, AZART Mag, "Violaine Vieillefond, "The live art of metamorphosis" (AZART n° 61, March-April 2013, p. 68 à 76)
Isaac ORTIZAR, art critic, AICA
Memories of Winds and Lights, 2006
The Students'House Chapel, University of Avignon : Themes and symbolics", 2006
Book covers:
Etienne WASMER, Ph.D, professor at New York University Abu Dhabi :
- Labor, Credit, and Goods Market, 2017 (MIT Press), illustration of the book cover
- Principles of micro-economy, 2017 & 2014 (Pearson), illustration of the book cover
Press:
- ARTFORUM, "Venice is for dreamers", Travis Jeppesen around Venice Gallery Weekend 2025, March 2025, about the solo show Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice
- EXIBART, "Apparizioni d’immagini e di ninfe da Marignana Arte a Venezia", March 2025, about the solo show Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice
- ARTSLIFE, 'Venice Gallery Weekend. Ecco tutto il programma della festa dell’arte a Venezia', March 2025, about the solo show Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice
- VENEZIA NEWS : VIOLAINE VIEILLEFOND. NINFAE, March 2025, about the solo show Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice
- VENEZIA NEWS : VENICE GALLERY WEEKEND 2025, March 2025, about the solo show Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice
- IL GAZZETTINO VENEZIA-MESTRE, 30/06/2024, "Con Violaine Vieillefond dentro L'oro dell'acqua ", by Claudia MESCHINI, about the solo exhibition Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello
- ITINERARI DELL'ARTE,"Violaine Vieillefond. L'oro dell'acqua", June 2024
- COTE OUEST, n°167, October-November 2023
- COTE OUEST, "Dance of Fluids", by Laurence de Calan, n°165, June-July 2023, about the exhibition EAU at SEE Galerie
- OUEST FRANCE, "Flers. Les canaux de Venise peints avec liberté", 14/08/2021
- OUEST FRANCE, "Flers. Polngée dans les profondeurs de l'eau. Un hommage à Claude Monet", juillet 2021
- OUEST FRANCE, "Flers. Une vitrine d'art éphémère rue du 6 juin", 01/06/2021
- OUEST FRANCE, "Exposition "les couleurs de l'eau" du 19 mai au 21 novembre au musée du Château de Flers", 20/05/2021
- LE JOURNAL DU MEDOC, "Le manifeste tout en nuances de Violaine Vieillefond", par Michèle MORLAN-TARDAT, exposition à l' Abbaye de Vertheuil, 18/08/2017
- LE JOURNAL DU MEDOC, "Mémoires d'eau", par Dominique BARRET, exposition à lAbbaye de Vertheuil, 14/07/2017
- L'Officiel des galeries et Musées, mars 2016, à propos de l'exposition "renaissance(s)", Galerie TEODORA, Paris
- Revue ART ACTUEL, site internet, Exposition Shadows of forms, Galerie Art Cube, 2014
http://www.artactuel.com/galerie-art/artcube-3577/evenement/violaine-vieillefond-shadows-of-forms-11935.html
- TELESSONE (TV), Emission "On a des choses à vous dire" du 12/02/2014, reportage sur l'exposition "Métamorphoses des fluides" à l'ENSTA ParisTech, présenté par Martine GUEGAN et Patrice ARDITI
- LE REPUBLICAIN, "Les loisirs. Palaiseau. L'ENSTA expose", exposition à l'ENSTA ParisTech, 09/01/2014
- LE PARISIEN, "Vernissage en musique", exposition à l'ENSTA ParisTech, 12/12/2013
- Revue AZART, "Violaine Vieillefond, l'art vivant de la métamorphose", par Molly MINE "(AZART n° 61, mars-avril 2013, p. 68 à 76)
- "A PARIS", le magazine de la Ville de Paris, trimestriel n°45 Hiver 2012-2013 : "Plongez dans l'univers du Pavillon de l'eau"
http://www.nxtbook.fr/newpress/mairie-de-paris/Aparis_45-Hiver_2012_2013/index.php?startid=B8
- LE DAUPHINE: « Aix-les-Bains. Vernissage de l'exposition Dialogues d'Eau », 17/05/2012
- FRANCE 3 Région Nord (TV) : Libraire Chapeau melon et Piles de livres, accrochage d’ouverture, JT du 31/01/2012
- Actualité aixoise, http://stefaninijournal.com/expoviolaine.htm, « Galerie Bagatelle, Art contemporain : Violaine Vieillefond, une jeune peintre à découvrir », novembre 2010
- Revue Portraits d'Artistes/Evasion's: novembre-décembre 2010, n°1, couverture
- Maisons-Alfort Magazine: juillet/août 2009, n° 368, "Du côté des Abstraits" (illustr. de l'exposition au Théâtre Debussy); avril/mai 2008, n° 354, "La peinture abstraite s'invite à la Médiathèque André Malraux"; juin 2008, n° 355, "Initiation à l'art avec l'artiste Violaine Vieillefond pour les plus jeunes"
- LA PROVENCE : « La maison des étudiants ouvriva en septembre », Rémy MARTINO, juin 2007
- LA PROVENCE : « La chapelle ardente rénovée sur le thème de l’oecuménisme », Rémy MARTINO, 10/11/2006
