Richard Conte (born June 12, 1953) is a Contemporary artist and Art Professor.
Background and Education
Richard Conte studied Plastic Arts and Art History at the French University University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He then completed a Phd dissertation entitled Une Pratique Négative en Peinture, Poïétique de la Fragmentation, de l'Enlevage et de l'Obturation supervised by René Passeron. An Agrégé and a Doctor in Plastic Arts, he began teaching at the École Normale of Douai, l'Essonne and Cergy, and then at the university from 1983 onwards. In the mid-1990s, Richard Conte obtained an accreditation to supervise research. He was subsequently elected Director of the CERAP (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche en Arts Plastiques) by the Scientific Council of the University and has been responsible for coordinating the seminar entitled Interface at the Sorbonne since 1999.
Since 2012, Richard Conte is the Director of ACTE Institute a research Mixt Unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Richard Conte has been Director of the CERAP since the early 2000s. At about the same period, he was elected member of the Scientific Council of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. As part of his mandate, Richard Conte is also a member of the Council of the Doctoral School for Plastic Arts and Art Sciences at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Appointed member of the Commission nationale consultative d'évaluation des enseignants des écoles d'art (national commission about art teachers valuation) of the French Ministry of Culture.
Member of the research commission of the Délégation aux Arts plastiques (Plastik Art delegation).
Member of the Board of research and studies at the ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs).
President of the jury for the promotion of the Professors of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences in Tunisia (2004–2007).
Co-founder and managing editor of the journal Recherches poïétiques (poïetic researches).
Founder and managing editor of the journal Plastik.
Founder and Director of the collection Arts et monde contemporain (Art in the Contemporary world), Publications de la Sorbonne (Sorbonne publishing).
Coordinator of the project Création et prospective, as part of the 2006–2007 / 2008–2009 projects comprised under the title La création à l'épreuve des risques majeurs (creation proof against major risks).
2015 - 16 september - 16 october, Sutnar Art Gallery, Pilsen (République tchèque) : « L’amour et la guerre à Versailles », dans le cadre de Pilsen, capitale européenne de la culture 2015. Laska a valka ve Versailles / L’amour et la guerre à Versailles, Richard Conte, Catalogue de l’exposition à la galerie Ladislav Sutnar, Pilsen. Textes de Josef Mistera, Jiri Kornatovsky, Richard Conte. Editions de l’université de Pilsen, 70 pages.
2013 - Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, (avec Jiří Kornatovský)
2012 - Premier Festival international d'art contemporain de Moroni, République des Comores.
2009 - Deborah Zafman Art Gallery, Paris.
2005-2006 - Pommes Libertines, Potager du roi, grotte du Parc Balbi, Château de Versailles.
2005 - Museum Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France.
2004 - Performance entitled Bille en tête for the opening of the Festival Chalon-dans-la-rue.
2002 - KBS Television Gallery, Pusan, South Korea : Mondial 98 – Museum of Contemporary Art at Pusan, South Korea.
2001 - Contemporary Art Space Camille Lambert, city of Juvisy-sur-Orge, France (catalogue) - Performance entitled L'abeille qui fait son miel (Photographed by Yann Toma)
2000 - Museum of Contemporary Art at Seoul National University (Korea), (with Jean-Pierre Brigaudiot), edition of an art booklet.
1997 - Château de Dampierre, Anzin (North of France), Les Années Rondes (The round years), 1996–1986.
1996 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris. Les Autonus (the self nudes).
1994 - Museum of Bourges, France (Book) – Foundation of Roger Van Rogger, Bandol.
1993 - University of Pau, France.
1992 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue) – Art et essai, Art Gallery, Rennes, France.
1989 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue).
1988 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris (Catalogue) – University of Toulouse le Mirail.
1986 - Museum Gauguin, Papeete (Tahiti) – Eros Errance Art Gallery, Rouen, France.
1985 - Cultural Center Jacques Brel, Thionville, France.
1982 - Pierre Lescot Art Gallery, Paris (booklet).
1980 - Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre, France (booklet).
2016 - Musée de la toile de Jouy, Jouy-en-Josas, « Peindre n’est (-ce) pas teindre ? »
2013 - Installation « Mes chers amis », Ici & Là, Domaine du Saulchoir, Etiolles, 17 au 30 juin
2013 - Conseil régional de Marseille, « Hudjijuwa », 1er au 12 juillet
2012 - Festival d’art contemporain de Moroni (Comores) Intervention urbaine par affiches.
2012 - Galerie Municipale Jean Collet, Vitry-sur Seine, commissariat Catherine Viollet.
2010 May - La part du corps (the body piece), Kheïreddine Palace, Tunis.
2010 February - Laboratoria, exhibition Art/Science, Moscow.
2007 - Nuits Blanches (October 6), Paris.
2005 May - L'art, un cas d'école (Art, a textbook case), Museum of Education at [[Saint-Ouen l'Aumone, France ; Ligne de fuite, Contemporary Art Gallery at Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
2005 January–May - L'art, Un Cas d'Ecole, Museum of Education for the department, Saint-Ouen l'Aumône. Light installation entitled Gobostensibles, in collaboration with François Salis. Catalogue, text written by Romane Boyard. Nicole Ferry Art Gallery (Paris).
2004 May- L'art et le bâti (Art and the built), cultural center of Chebba (Guest of Honor for the 4èmes Journées d'arts plastiques), Tunisia. Art installation: painting on a mason's sieve.
2003 January- Takato & Jean-Luc Richard Art Gallery, Paris.
2001 October - Les filles du calvaire Art Gallery, Paris – December 2001 –Madeleine Lacerte Art Gallery, Quebec –Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris - August 2002 –Artena Art Gallery, Marseille, France.
2001 August - Invited to the International Contemporary Art Symposium of Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec.
1999 July–August - Invited to the 12th Festival of Mahrès (Tunisia). In situ work of art.
1998 June–July Catalogue - Conte produced 64 paintings during the 64 games of the FIFA World Cup, each of them being strictly produced within the time of the corresponding game.
1998 Catalogue - À fleur de peau (all on edge), Espace Le Garage, Saint-Saëns and Les Jardins de Bellevue, Beaumont-le-Hareng (with Jean-luc Bichaud, Ulla Frantzen, Miguel Egana).
1996 to 2000 - Art Gallery Nicole Ferry, group exhibitions.
1996 to 1999 - Group exhibitions Des Images pour la Paix (pictures for peace), Paris (Parc de la Villette), followed by touring exhibitions in great European capital cities (Rome, Munich, Brussels, ...) so as to raise funds for the Museum of Modern Art at Sarajevo. (Cf. Catalogue, MIR, Fragments (snatches), 1996)
1996 - Mater la couleur, Art au domaine du Saulchoir, at the IUFM of Évry-Étiolles, Soisy sur Seine, France. (with C. Bellegarde, M. Gouéry et F. Mendras).
1995 - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris - Galerie du Faisant, Strasbourg - Hommage à Marcelle Cahn.
1994 - Salon de Bagneux (Catalogue) - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery - SAGA - Duos d'artistes (duos of artists), Paris - Des Images pour la Paix, un Tableau, un Symbole, La Villette, Pavillon Tusquet, Paris (Catalogue) – Galerie du Faisant, Strasbourg.
1993 - Galerie du Faisant, Strasbourg - Library Méjanes, Aix-en-Provence, Exhibition of Carnets d'artistes (artists notebooks) - Public sale of kites specially produced by some artists to raise funds for the fight against AIDS (In collaboration with the French Department of Culture)
1992 – Pascal Weider Art Gallery, Marly-le-Roi, France - Pierre Lescot Art Gallery, Paris - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris.
1991 – Catholic University of Santiago, Chile - Salon de Bagneux (Catalogue) - Découvertes 91, N. Ferry Art Gallery – Grand Palais, Paris - Salon de Mars, Michel Cachou Art Gallery, Paris –Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris - International Contemporary Art Symposium of Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec - MAC 2000, nov. 91, Grand Palais, Paris (Catalogue).
1990 - Salon de Montrouge - Art et Téléphone, Espace Lamartine, Paris (Catalogue) - Nicole Ferry Art Gallery, Paris - Espace Zig Zag, Rennes, France (Catalogue).
1988 - Yan Lung Art Gallery - Lascaux Aller-retour, Périgueux, France (Catalogue) - Jacqueline Moussion Art Gallery, Carnac – Symposium on Poietics, Vinneuf (Yonne, France) - Espace Cardin, Paris.
1987 - Salon de Mai, Grand Palais, Paris (Catalogue) –City Hall of Cachan – Georges Brassens hall, Juvisy - Ecomuseum, Fresnes, France.
1985 - Pierre Lescot Art Gallery, Paris - Graffitis de Peintres au Téléphone (Graffities of painters on the phone) (Catalogue) –National Library, Paris - Entrepôt Lainé, Bordeaux, France – Cultural center of Thionville, Autour de Jean Hélion.
1984 - Salon de Montrouge (Catalogue) – Novembre à Vitry (November in Vitry), France.
1983 - Novembre à Vitry.
Conte's works of art can be found in various public and private collections in France, Germany, England, Canada, South Korea, Denmark, Tunisia and in the United States.
October–November 2007 - Proliférer (Prolifering), Villa Savoye, Poissy, France.
October 2005 - Le bout du monde (the ends of the earth), Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
September 2004 - Laborinthe, Fondation Avicenne, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
