top of page

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).

Portrait de Raphaël Barontini, 2022.©Jalil Ourguedi-A.jpg

Copyright: Jalil Ourguedi ©

CV

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

bottom of page