Nicolas CHARDON

Nicolas Chardon was a resident at the Villa Médicis, Académie de France in Rome in 2008-2009.

He is co-founder of the alternative school BABA and of the publishing house CONNOISSEURS

He teaches painting at HEAD in Geneva

Since the late 90s, his work has been regularly shown in solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad. He is represented in major private and public collections, including the Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the MUDAM - Musée d'Art moderne Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg, the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg, the Musée d'Arts de Nantes, the Musée Voorlinden in Wassenaar (NL), the Meritz Foundation in Seoul, the Marta Collection in Herford and EPO in Munich.

He has taken part in numerous exhibitions, including La Force de l'Art at the Grand Palais in Paris, Peinture / Malerei at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Seconde main at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Tableaux at the Magasin in Grenoble, Dystotal at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, Revolution in Red-Yellow-Blue at the Marta Museum in Herford.

In 2012, the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Strasbourg offered him his first museum monograph.

In 2018, he had his first institutional exhibition in Germany at the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven.

In 2022 and 2023, in duo with Karina Bisch, he will carry out two major projects, at the MAC VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine - Modern Lovers - and at the Kunstmuseum in Bochum - Squares and Roses.