Capucine Gros
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
- 2019
THE CENTER IS EVERYWHERE, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
- 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