Capucine Gros

**Capucine Gros**
*HUMAN STROKES*, 2010-2017
Acrylic on canvas and accompanying journals
71 × 111 inches

**Capucine Gros**
*Approximately 199*, started 2012
Ink on hand-printed, hand-made and hand-bound sketchbooks
each 7 × 5 × 1 inch

Started in 2012, Gros makes one book each year, dedicating one page per country which holds an internationally recognized passport, plus one page for the approximately 10 million people who are stateless. The artist intends to continue this project for the remainder of her life.

**Capucine Gros**
*Approximately 199*, started 2012, ink on hand-printed, hand-made and hand-bound sketchbooks, 7 × 5 × 1” each

**Capucine Gros**
*APPROXIMATELY 199*, installation variation 1, 2017

The sale of each piece in the installation created data: Which countries are bought? Why does a person choose to own a particular nation? Which countries remained unwanted? As the project travels, how will place and time affect these answers?

**Capucine Gros**
*APPROXIMATELY 199*, installation variation 1, 2017
Catinca Tabacaru, New York

**Capucine Gros**
*Approximately* 199, March 20, 2017 – October 5, 2017, performance with screen-printed shirts, 200 days

Installation at UNFINISHED Festival

**Capucine Gros**
*Approximately 199*, 2017
performance

**Capucine Gros**
*The Geography of Love (People I Love or Loved / People I Could Love)*, 2015-2017
Screen-printed and hand-stitch on canvas (diptych)
8.5 × 11 inches each

Capucine Gros (b. 1989 Switzerland/French)
Capucine Gros grew up in France and China. She moved to the United States in 2007 to earn her BFA in Painting and New Media art from the Savannah College of Art and Design. This movement about the world has tainted her perception with a certain geographic compulsion. Her work is a way to explore, process and challenge the semi-absurd lines that humans draw around themselves all over the world: borders, languages, media, class, politics, prejudice. Her practice can be defined by a rare affinity for long-term commitment: year-long performances recording her interactions with others; life-long paintings and annual hand-made books; and a recent 200-day performance wearing one shirt for every country in the world, each screen-printed with that country’s shape, from March 20 to October 4, 2017. Cartography, love, death and free will play strong roles in her repertoire of subject matter.

In 2011, Gros completed a residency at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY and was most recently artist-in-residence at the Webb School of Knoxville. In May 2017, she was invited to premiere a large-scale installation during the Unfinished Festival in Bucharest.
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BORN 1989, SWITZERLAND
LIVES AND WORKS IN BROOKLYN

EDUCATION

2012: BFA, Painting and New Media Art, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, GA

MUSEUM & INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2018: Touched / Untouched, one year-long performance, public project, Sydney, Australia; San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Savannah & Charlotte, USA; Paris & Lyon, France; Bucharest, Romania; Belgrade & Jalovik, Serbia; Harare, Zimbabwe; Doha, Qatar.
2015: Generations: 40 Hues Between Black and White, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Mode/Code, Georgia Southern University Contemporary Gallery, Statesboro, GA
2014: Circling the Center, collaborative performance with Nene Humphrey, BRIC Brooklyn Biennale, Brooklyn, NY
2013: Circling the Center, collaborative performance with Nene Humphrey, Dixon Place, New York, NY
2012: Student International Small Print Show, El Minia University, El Minia
2011: Open-Studio, Open-Source, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (solo)
2010: The In-Between, collaborative exhibition with Ju-Yeon Kim, SCAD and the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2007: Turning Point, Creative Center of Fine Arts College University, Shanghai

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2017: Implicit Borders: a cartography of free will, Catinca Tabacaru, NY
Capucine Gros, Webb Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2012: Little Thank You Show, Creative Coast Gallery, Savannah, GA
2011: Open-Studio, Open-Source, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Human Strokes, solo performance at SCAD deFine Art, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA
17%, installation at SCAD Fall Open Studio, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA Explorelations, exhibition with Ramona Todoca, Truspace Gallery, Savannah, GA
2010: Present!, installation at SCAD Fall Open Studio, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019: 41st Jalovik Art Colony, Kuća Kralja Petra, Serbia

2018: Unknowning Knows | Knowing Unknowns, UNFINISHED Festival, National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
CTG: ZIMBABWE 2018, group exhibition, CTG Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
2017: Unfinished Festival, Galeria Dalles, Bucharest
CTG-R: ZIMBABWE 2018, CTG Harare, Zimbabwe
2016: Between Senses, Gallery House, Brooklyn, NY
Art Inter/National, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2015: The Biology of Love, Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College, NY
cARTography, Ryan James Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
2013: INFLUX, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris
2012: Bring Yourself, Small Black Door Gallery, New York, NY
Art for Life’s Sake, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA
99% COTTON, City Market Space, Savannah, GA
Far From Home, La Galerie Bleue, Savannah GA
SCAD deFine Art, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA
2011: SCAD Senior BFA Exhibition, Alexander Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA
Exquisite Corpse, Mr Beast Gallery, Savannah, GA
2010: B114, Purple Roof Gallery, Shanghai
One for the Row, Desoto Row Gallery, Savannah, GA
Wud Sha, CCDP Space, Savannah, GA
Ensnared, Desoto Row Gallery, Savannah, GA

PUBLIC PROJECTS & WORKS

2017: Approximately 199, New York, NY; Paris, Lyon, Ile d’Yeu, Nantes; Bucharest; Venice
2013: Sing for Hope, collaborative public project with Michael Scoggins, Staten Island, NY
I, You, We Hope, Howard Street, New York, NY
2011: I AM SAVANNAH, public project with James Sakalian, Butler Elementary School, Savannah, GA
2010: The Resonance, public sculpture with Brian Rogers and Christopher Crowe, Hinesville, GA

AWARDS & GRANTS

2012: Target Professional Development Grant, Savannah, GA
2010: “The Resonance,” public sculpture competition, City of Hinesville, GA
2009: “Who’s Who Among American Universities and Colleges” honoree
2007/2012: SCAD full-tuition Intercultural Scholarship, Savannah, GA

RESIDENCIES

2018: CTG Collective, Harare, Zimbabwe
Jalovik Art Colony, Jalovik, Serbia
EIDOS Foundation, Bucharest, Romania
2017: Artist in Residence, Webb School of Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
2011: SCAD New York City Workspace residency, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

CTG-R: ZIMBABWE

Curated by CTG Collective

25 August — 28 October 2018