Melik Ohanian

Born in 1969, France, Lives and works in Paris and New York.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015

Melik Ohanian, National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania, Bucarest *c

DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland *c

Presence — Belongingness to Present, Part I & II, in Armenity, Republic of Armenia Pavilion, 56. Venice Biennale *c

DATCHA Project — A Zone of No Production, Special Session, Armenia

Stuttering, Galerie du Château, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France

2014

Stutttering, Galerie Chantal Crousel & La Douane, Paris

Stuttering, Centre d’Art Régional Contemporain L-R, Sète, France

Welcome To Hanksville, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA

DATCHA Project — A Zone of No Production, Session #005, Armenia

2013

Points d’Intentions, Centre d’Art – Les Eglises, Chelles, France

2012

DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See, Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival, Florence, Italia

In The Desert of Images, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India

Points d’Intentions, Centre d’Art – Les Eglises, Chelles, France

Concrete Tears, 3451, Musée National Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, France *c

2011

DISPLAY NONE, Galerie Ecole des Beaux Arts de Montpellier, France *c

DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Peripherical Communities, London, Rich Mix, London, UK

DATCHA Project — A Zone of No Production, Session #004, Armenia

2010

Cadence Modulaire - Public Art - UPR – Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France - 2009-2010 *c

Lightbox Melik Ohanian, Café Centre Pompidou, Paris, France *c

DATCHA Project — A Zone of No Production, Session #003, Armenia

DATCHA Project — A Zone of No Production, Session #002, Armenia

2009

Melik Ohanian with Romain Kronenberg, BLANK, Paris, France

From The Voice To The Hand, In Between, Centre Musical Goutte d’Or - Barbara, Paris, France

DATCHA Project — A Zone of No Production, Session #001, Armenia

2008

El Agua de Niebla, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

DATCHA Project — A Zone of No Production, Session #000, Armenia

From The Voice To The Hand, Le Plateau / FRAC Ile-De-France, Paris *

From The Voice To The Hand, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Paris *

From The Voice To The Hand, MAC/VAL, Ivry sur Seine *

From The Voice To The Hand, Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris *

From The Voice To The Hand, Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris *

From The Voice To The Hand, Association FACE, La Courneuve, Paris *

From The Voice To The Hand, Cinéma l’Entrepot, Paris *

From The Voice To The Hand, Galerie de Multiples, Paris *

From The Voice To The Hand, Le CentQuatre, Paris *

From The Voice To The Hand, Yvon Lambert - Librairie, Paris *

* From the Voice to the Hand is a co-existent exhibitons project by melik ohanian
15 venues at the same time, paris sept.2008. Visit project website : From the Voice to the Hand

 

2007

37 seconds _ Melik Ohanian, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan *c

Harun Farucki & Melik Ohanian, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden *c  

2006

Seven Minutes Before, South London Gallery, London, UK *c

(M)UT(E)OPIA, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Somewhere In Time, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherland *c

Let’s Turn or Turn Around, IAC Villeurbanne, France *c

2005

ArtPace, San Antonio, USA

With Sean Snyder and Pia Ronicke, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

A Moment as an Event, PERFORMA 05, New York, USA *c

2004

Seven Minutes Before, French Pavillon XXVIe Sao Paulo Biennal, Brazil *c

Revolving Analogia, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, USA

{T}HERE, Centre pour l’image Contemporaine, Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland

Welcome To Hanksville, Galerie Dvir, Tel Aviv, Israël

2003

SlowMotion, from Slave to Valse, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan *c

Welcome To Hanksville, Studio Yvon Lambert, Paris

Sound Bilboard, Museum in Progress, Wien, Austria

You are mY destinY, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, USA

AlightningtruckonablueracetracK, Galerie BF15, Lyon, France

2002

Nightsnow, Galerie Navona, Rome, Italia

Island of an Island, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland *c

Nightsnow, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Island of an Island and Peripherical Communities, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Freezing Film, FRAC, Montpellier, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015

Prix Marcel Duchamp 2015, FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris

L’Effet Vertigo, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

FIAC 2015, Stand Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, Fr

Cycles Allures, Les Turbulences FRAC Centre, Orléans, Fr

Là où commence le jour, LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

L’heure qu’il est, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Yverdon-les-bains, Suisse

Le Point De Fuite De l’Histoire, Centre D’art Et Photographie De Lectoure, Lectoure, Fr

Nommés Prix Marcel Duchamp 2015, Carré d'Art de Nimes, Fr *c

ART Dubai, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Dubai, UAE

ART Basel Hong Kong, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Hong Kong

2014

ART BASEL Miami Beach, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Miami, US

Private Choice, Maison Georges Mélies, Paris, France

FIAC 2014, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

Frieze London, Art Fair, Galerie Chantal Crousel, London, UK

Simples Gestes, La Grande Place, Musée du Cristal Saint-Louis, Fondation Hermès, France

Music Palace, Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Bruxelles

Création Contemporaine & Immigration, Festival Teciverdi, Niort, France

Entre-Temps, Collection du MAMVP at MOCA, Chengdu, China

Real Track, Der Blitz 2014, Galleria Civica G. Segantini, Arco Di Trento, Italia

Ilots d’Utopies - Un Esprit Jaurès, Musée / centre d'art du verre, Carmaux, France

Des Choses en Moins, Des Choses en Plus, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2013

All About These..., Viafarini Docva, Milan, Italia

ART BASEL Miami Beach, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Miami, US

Sound Design For Future Films, Et al., San Francisco, US

FIAC 2013, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

Sans Matières Ajoutées by About Blank, CNEAI, Paris, France

El Agua De Niebla, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada *c

Bande à part, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

Libération Ann Lee, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Montpellier, France

Le Pont, Musée d’Art Contemporrain, Marseille, France

Im Dreaming About A Reality, La Douane Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

Tireless Refrain, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea *c

2012

Collection'12, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France

In Spite of It All, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, Emirats Arabes Unis *c

FIAC 2012, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

OilScapes, Peacock Visual Arts, Centre for Contemporary Art, Scotland, U.K

The Eyes of the Soul - Collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître, Fundació Godia, Barcelona, Spain *c

A Blind Spot, Berlin Documentary Forum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin *c

Living With Video, curated by Chantal Crousel, Pavillon Downtown, Dubaï, UAE

Néon, Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue ?, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France *c

2011

J’ai Deux Amours, Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris, France. *c

FIAC 2011, El Agua de Niebla, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France.

Entre-Temps, L’artiste Narrateur, Collection MAM Paris, Tapei, Taiwan *c

Atmosphères, Collection FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Romans, France.

Entre-Temps, L’artiste Narrateur, Collection MAM Paris, Minsheng, Shanghai, China. *c

Nuages, Cité Radieuse, Marseille, France.

Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK.

10. Sharjah Biennal, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.*c

2010

Collection, MAC VAL, Paris *c

Persistence of Vision II, Nikolaj Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Danemark.*c

L'Homme Debout, Galerie Chantal Crousel, FIAC, Paris.

Still/Moving, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.

Sound Design for Future Films, Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus, Ohio, US

Persistence of Vision I, FACT, Liverpool, UK.

Telling Stories, WUK Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria.

2009

America, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon

Entre-Temps, L’artiste Narrateur, Collection du Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

au MIS/Paco de Artes, Sao Paulo et Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *c

Behind The Image, The Image Behind, ArteFact Festival, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium

Los Tiempos de un Lugar, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundacion Beulas, Huesca, Spain *c

La Scène Française 1980-2008, Réfléchir Le Monde, Centrale Electrique, Bruxelles, Belgique c*

2008

Interstitial Zone, Argos, Bruxelles, Belgique c*

La Scène Française 1980-2008, Réfléchir Le Monde, Centrale Electrique, Bruxelles, Belgique c*

Sound Design for Future Films, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

U-Turn, Quadriennal de Copenhagen, Danemark c*

Du Jardin au Cosmos, L'Espace d'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France

The Space of Man, Fondation Merz, Torino, Italy

Re-Make/Re-Model, Courtisane Film Festival, Gent, Belgium c*

Locked-In, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg c*

Voice and Void, Galerie Im Taxipalais, Insbruck, Austria

Collection08, IAC Villeurbanne, France *c

Collateral 2, SESC Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil *c

Perform History, U-TURN at Overgaden, Copenhagen, Danemark *c

2007

Fiction Vs Reality, Centre d’Art Moderne, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbonne *c

Passages, Hommage à Walter Benjamin, Gandy Gallery Bratislava, Slovakia *c

Playback, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris *c

Intrusions, Collection FMAC, Petit Palais, Paris *c

Voice and Void, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (CT) Ridgefield, USA *c

04. Goteborg Biennale, On the limits of politics and possibilities of resistance, Sweden *c

Collection, MAC VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain de Vitry, France

Poeziezomers, Watou, Belgium

Borderline-Moving Image, Beijing Center for Creativity, China

52. Venice Biennale, Think with the senses, Feel with the mind, Venise, Italy *c

Critical Foreground, New Langhton Arts San Francisco, US

The Hand, National Museum of Fine Arts, Riga, Lettonia

On Peter Watkins, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria

Air de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris *c

Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, TATE Liverpool, UK *c

Parabol Magazine #2, Vienna, Austria *c

Collateral, When Art looks at Cinema, Hangar Bicocca, Milano, Italia *c

2006

02. Biennale de Sevilla, Spain *c

06. Biennale de Gwangju, Korea *c

Tell Me, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg *c

Human Games, Fondazione Pitti in Firenze, Italy *c

DATCHA Project — A Zone of No Production, Armenia

Undo Redo, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany

Seven Minutes Before, Outdoor projection in Vercors, France

Negative Space, Extended, by Susane Burner Kunstmuseums Bonn, Germany

Satellites of Love, Witte de Whit, Rotterdam, Netherland *c

25 PEACES, billboard project, Wien, Austria

2005

Collection, MAC VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain de Vitry, France

Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multimédia, Marseille, France

Leçon Zéro, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Istmo, Galerie Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil

08. Biennale de Lyon, Experiencing Duration, France *c

01. Biennale de Moscou, Dialectic of Hope, Russia *c

Tell Me, MNBA Québec, Canada *c

October Art Salon, Belgrade, Serbia *c

Multipistes, Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium *c

Nach Rokytník, EVN Collection, MUMOK Wien, Austria *c

DATCHA Project — A Zone of No Production, Armenia

Greengrassi Gallery, London, England

Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Remagine, Collection du FNAC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France

Collection, Macro-Mattatoio, Roma, Italia *c

Documentary Creations, Kunst museum, Luzern, Switzerland *c

Universal Experience, MCA Chicago, USA *c

2004

14. Biennale de Sydney, ReasonEmotion, Australia, *c

03. Biennale de Berlin, Germany *c

04. Biennale de Pontevedra, Spain *c

Communautés, IAC Villeurbanne, France

Mediterraneo, Macro-Mattatoio, Roma, Italia *c

Nuit Blanche, Paris, France

Eblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris

2003

Geographies # 3, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

Freezing Film, Gare de Lyon, Festival d’Automne, Paris, France *c

Through the Eye of a Needle, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

Collective Exhibition, CRAC Sète, France

Embassy, Galleri F15, Moss, Norvegia

20 ans des FRAC, Musée d’art Contemporain de Strasbourg, France *c

Moltitudini–Solitudini, Museion, Museo d’arte contemporanea Bolzano, Italy *c

No ghost Just a Shell, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Pays-Bas / San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, U.S.A *c

Art Digital Video. AFAA, Ministère des Affaires étrangères – exposition itinérante.

ARCO, Madrid, Spain

2002

No ghost Just a Shell, Institute for Visual Culture, Cambridge, England

Toasting Agency at Openspace, Curated  by Alexis Vaillant  Piazza Duomo, Milan, Italy

No ghost Just a Shell, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland / SFMOma, San Franscico *c

Migration de l’image, Erevan, Armenia

Haunted House, curated by Gabriel Lester, Outline, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

Stories, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany *c

Less Ordinary, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Museum of Modern Art, Kyungju, Korea *c

2001

Traversées, ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris *c

A Pour Accident, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Rencontres Vidéo, Galerie Piazza Navona, Roma, Italy

2000

Institut d’art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, Residency in Die, Drôme, France

Soirée Nomade, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris

1999

ThirtyFiveSecondsLater Interval Program, MAC Lyon, France

Icono Festival Printemps du Québec à Paris, Metro Stalingrad, France

1998

Collective Exhibition, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris

Junge Szene 98, Secession, Vienna, Austria *c

In Vitro, Glassbox, Paris

1997

Mobile TV, with Pierre Huygue, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Histoires en Forme, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France *c

Galerie de Portraits, Collection FRAC Rhône-Alpes, France

1.Biennale du Montenegro, Cétinié, Montenegro *c

1996

Bande Sonore pour un Film Potentiel, with Pierre Huyghe, Le Hall, ENBA Lyon

Arte Fiera di Bologna, Galerie Nuova Icona, Bologna, Italy

1995

Critique, Critique, Post-diplôme, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Cité de l’image, Lyon *c

Galeria Nuova Icona, Venise *c

08152758, Embarcadère, Lyon, France

 

*c  - catalogue

Public Art

Station O, Armenian Genocide Memorial, Musée Gassendi & CAIRN, Dignes-les-bains, 2014 {2016}

Les Réverbères de la Mémoire, Armenian Genocide Memorial, Geneva, 2010 {2015}

Cadence Modulaire, UPR – Hopital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France - 2009-2010

Second Time & Second Sound, Piscine de Belleville, Paris - architectes Berger & Anziutti – 2008

Philosophic DUB, Atelier de Création Radiophonique, France Culture, CNAP, Paris - 2008

Cosmoball, Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint-Ouen l'Aumone, France – 2008

Rosa Park Tribute, Collège Rosa Parks, Gentilly, Val de Marne, France – 2008

Le Récit Perpétuel, Talence, Bordeaux, France - 2003-2007

Books

2012/2015 | POLYLOGUES Double-Edition, monography (in progess)

2015 | DATCHA Project — A Zone of No Production — Abandonned Black Book. Ed. Melik Ohanian Studio (in progess)

2015 | MEMORY, Streetlights of Memory — A Stand by Memorial 2010/2015. Ed. Melik Ohanian Studio

2014 | Les Cahiers du Musée National d'Art Moderne, N°127, Des bouts de Cinema, essai de Fabien Faure. 28p.

2014 | Concrete Tears, 3451, Musée national Pablo Picasso, La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris.

2010 | Cadence Modulaire, Journal - UPR – Hopital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France

2009 | From The Voice to The Hand, a co-existent exhibition, Paris 2008

Co-produced by Abbaye de Maubuisson, Le Plateau-FRAC Ile-De-France. Ed. Archibook, Paris.

2005 | SlowMotion, from Slave to Valse, Ed. CCA Kitakyushu, Japan

2005 | Cosmograms, Melik Ohanian et Jean Christophe Royoux, Ed.Lukas & Sternberg, New York

2005 | Cosmograms Newspaper Edition distributs by EXO, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2003 | KRISTALE Company, Monography Melik Ohanian, Edition HYX, Paris

Grants

Golden Lion for The Best National Pavilion (Armenia), 56.Venice Biennale, 2015

Marcel Duchamp Award Nominee, 2015

Montalvo Arts Center, Sally and Don Lucas Artist Program, USA, 2007

CCA KitaKyushu, Japan 2007

Prize of October Art Salon, Belgrade, Serbia, 2005

ArtPace 2005, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Villa Medicis 2003/2004, Rome, Italia

CCA KitaKyushu, Japan 2003

FIACRE, aide à la première exposition, 2002

IAC Villeurbanne, Residency, Die, France, 2000

Image en Mouvement CNC/DAP, 2000

Prix Linossier, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Lyon, 1995

Education

1988 | Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier, France

1993 | DNSEP Art et Média, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France

1994 | Post-Diplôme Art et Média, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France

Melik Ohanian is represented in Paris by Galerie Chantal Crousel

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