Barontini
Biography - Raphaël Barontini
Raphaël Barontini was born in France in 1984. He works and lives in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris. Barontini studied at the Hunter College of Art in New York and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux arts in Paris, graduating in 2009.
Barontini often uses the term ‘creolisation’ associated with writers and thinkers of the French Caribbean (where Barontini has roots), such as Édouard Glissant and Aimé Césaire and compares his practice to Dadaist Hannah Höch or African-American collagist Romare Bearden.
He has exhibited work in galleries and museums throughout the world, including Brazil, France, Haiti, Mali, Morocco, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. He has also participated in international biennales in Bamako, Casablanca, Lima and Thessaloniki. The artist is recently presented an institutional solo-exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah. He just completed a seven months artistic residency with the French Luxury Group LVMH at the Heng Long Leather Tannery in Singapore.
His work is collected by Public and Private collections such as SCAD Museum of Art (USA), MAC VAL Museum (France), FRAC Réunion (France), FRAC Poitou-Charentes (France), LVMH Métiers d'Art Collection (France), Fiminco Collection (France), Crédit Agricole S.A Bank Collection (France).

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Education
2004 - 2009
ENSBA Beaux-Arts of Paris (France)
2008
Hunter College of Art - New-York City (USA)
Awards
2020
Annual Recipient of the LVMH Métiers d'Art Residency.
2019
Winner of the Second Prize of the International Prize of Tapestry / Aubusson (France).
Finalist of The ING Unseen Talents Award / Amsterdam (NL).
2016
Finalist SAM ART Project Prize / Paris (France)
Exhibitions
Solo
2022
Dithyrambe au Centurion / La Halle Centre d'Art / Pont en Royans, France
Blue Lewoz / Galerie Mariane Ibrahim / Paris, France
2021
J'habite un long silence - MO.CO & Lattara Museum / Lattes, France
Soukhos - LVMH Residency / Studio des Acacias / Paris, France
The Night of the Purple Moon / Mariane Ibrahim Gallery / Chicago, USA
2020
Odyssée / ÉSAPTDM Beaux-Arts de Toulon / Toulon, France
Caribbean Fantasia / FWCA Fort Worth Contemporary Arts / Fort Worth, USA
2019
Goya Voodoomania, une parade royale sur Mars / Espai Tactel / Valencia , Spain
Bal Violon / E29, Espace 29 / Bordeaux, France
The Golden March - A Living monument to Frederick Douglass / SCAD Museum of Art / Savannah, USA
En la Plaza de mí Pueblo / FRAC Occitanie – Les Abattoirs / Marvejols, France
2018
Palais, Lys et Palmiers / Villa Saint-Cyr / Bourg-la-Reine, France
Tapestry from an asteroid / The Pill Gallery / Istanbul, Turkey
2017
Back to Ithaque / Alain Gutharc Gallery / Paris, France
Odyssey / C.A.C La Traverse / Alfortville, France
2016
La figure sans visage with Laurent Marie Joubert / Le Cyclop / Milly la forêt, France
2015
Solar Drums / Alain Gutharc Gallery / Paris, France
2012
Sambodrome / Le 6B / Saint-Denis, France
Group
2022
Rose is a rose is a rose / MAC VAL / Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Enivrez-vous (Get drunk) / Praz Delavallade Gallery / Paris, France
Des grains de poussières sur la mer / C.A.C La ferme du Buisson / Noisiel, France
Globalisto - Une philosophie en mouvement / MAMC Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain / Saint-Etienne, France
Des grains de poussières sur la mer / Villa du Parc C.A.C / Annemasse, France
Garmenting : Costume as Contemporary Art / MAD Museum of Arts & Design / New-York, USA
La Vie en Rose / Mariane Ibrahim Gallery / Chicago, USA
2021
Nouvelles Icônes, effigies de sel et d'or / FRAC Réunion / Piton St Leu, Reunion Island
La Déconniatrie / Les Abattoirs Museum / Toulouse, France
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti / San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
J'ai deux amours / Mariane Ibrahim Gallery / Paris, France
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti / 516 Arts, Albuquerque, USA
Comme de Longs Échos / Domaine de la Garenne Lemot - Musée Dobrée / Clisson, France
Ils ont dit oui! / Galerie Marguerite Milin / Paris, France
2020
Possesed / MO.CO Panacée / Montpellier, France
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti / Little Haiti Cultural Center / Miami, USA
2019
Africa state of mind / Royal West of England Academy / Bristol, England
Embers of Freedom / SCAD Museum of Art / Bristol, England
De Toutes façon / Le Signe - Centre National du Graphisme / Chaumont, France
Almost Home / RX Gallery / Paris, France
Nous sommes sur tous les ponts / FRAC Réunion / Piton Saint-Leu, Réunion
Picasso & the Exodus. Je suis né étranger / Les Abattoirs et FRAC Occitanie / Toulouse, France
Persona Grata? / MAC VAL Museum / Vitry sur Seine, France
Galaxy Express / Espai Tactel Torrmix / Barcelona / Spain
Africa state of mind / MoAD Museum of African Diasporas, San Francisco, USA
As I like / Alain Gutharc Gallery / Paris, France
Les enfants terribles / Espai Tactel Gallery / Valencia, Spain
Paris-London / Museum of Immigration / Paris, France
Décoloniser le corps / Eternal Gallery / Tours, France
Medium(s) / La Box Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts / Bourges, France
2018
Soft Power / Transpalette Art Center / Bourges, France
Récits des bords de l'eau / International Biennale of Casablanca, Morocco
Africa state of mind / New Art Exchange Museum / Nottingham, England
Don't forget it / Alain Gutharc Gallery / Paris, France
Afrotopia / Afrikamuseum / Berg-en-Dal, Netherlands
2017
Afrotopia - Panafrican Biennale of Photography / Bamako, Mali
Window Shopping II / Le Coeur Gallery / Paris, France
The pros and cons of hitch-hiking / Biennale of Thessaloniki / Thessaloniki, Greece
Hard Sun - Duo exhibition with Eva Nielsen / The Cabin / Los Angeles, USA
Surreal House / The Pill Gallery / Istanbul, Turkey
Tous des sang-mêlés / Mac Val / Vitry, France
Archipel Di Rosa, en toute modestie / MIAM / Sète, France
Une Autre fin du monde est possible / Galerie Alain Gutharc / Paris, France
2016
Où poser la tête / ICAIO / Port Louis, Mauritius
The Quiet Violence of Dreams / Stevenson Gallery / Cape Town, South Africa
Musée Passager 2016 / Région Ile de France, France
Compart - Art biennal of Lima / Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes / Lima, Perù
Only Lovers / Galerie Le Coeur / Paris, France
A city without a song / Averard Hotel / London, United Kingdom
2015
Furiosité / Frédéric Lacroix Gallery / Paris, France
60ème Salon de Montrouge / Le Beffroi / Montrouge, France
Outrage / G8 Cité des Arts / Paris, France
Picturae / Polaris Gallery / Paris, France
2014
L’habît de château / Château de Maisons Laffitte / Maisons Laffitte, France
Saxifraga Umbrosa II / Futur II La Générale en Manufacture / Sèvres, France
2013
Periféériques / Jacmel, Haïti
Sentimental Acte II / Revue Noire / Paris, France
Disposition / Maison des Arts de Malakoff / Malakoff, France
Saxifraga Umbrosa / Espace Lhomond / Paris, France
Waterproof / Urgent Paradise Gallery / Lausanne, Switzerland
2012
Duo exhibition with Eric Dizambourg / APACC / Montreuil, France
Commettre / Le 6B / Saint-Denis, France
Outre Forêt n°2 / Le 6B / Saint-Denis, France
Man Made / Dominique Fiat Gallery/ Paris, France
Postcards from the Edge / Cheim & Read Gallery / New-York, USA
2011
2010
Vivaces Mémoires d'Outre Tombe, duo with Marie Weisensel / Crous Gallery / Paris, France
2009
Still Painting / Mendes Wood Gallery / Belo Horizonte, Brasil