Valéry Grancher (born April 22, 1967 in Toulon, Var, France) is a French Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.
Grancher's art is a mix of conceptual and pop art references, sometimes with a sense of humour, sometimes appropriating the fads of the day.
Grancher is best known for selling Internet art in the contemporary art mainstream. When Grancher started in the art world in 1995, he used emails in his art to show the processes and exchanges of the Internet community (email art) in physical installations like 'Alone' (1995). In 1997 he used webcams in his project 'webscape', which dealt with the concept of "cybertime." In 1998, Grancher experimented with pop art in his 'webpaintings' project. In 2002, as Google began to dominate the Internet, he launched the "Search Art" collaborative project by creating a piece called 'Self Portrait.'
In 2005 he exhibited and sold at FIAC, the international art fair in Paris, 'the biggest Google paintings never (sic) produced.'
Since the mid-1990s, Grancher has exhibited at many museums worldwide, including:
Espace d'Art Concret, Honegger Albers donation, Mouans Sartoux, France (2008, 2007)
Musée des Beaux Arts, Nîmes, France. (2008)
New Langton Art Center, San Francisco, USA (2008, 2002)
Pacific Film Archive Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA (2007, 2001)
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA (Rhizome)(2007)
Nikon Gallery Europe: "Arts aux Poles". France (2007)
Palais de Tokyo, site de création contemporaine, Paris, France (performance, exposition personnelle) (2006, 2005)
Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France. (2006, 2005)
Istambul Contemporary Art Museum, Istambul Turkey (2006, 2005, 2003)
"Super!" 1st Triennale of visual arts, fashion and design, Hasselt, Belgium (2005).
Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2005, 2004, 2002)
MAMCO, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (2004, 2005)
Museo Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina (2004).
Galleria de arte do Sesi, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2004).
Musée D'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC, Paris, France.(2004)
Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland (2003)
Turm Gallery, Hemstedt, Germany (2003)
Biennale de Tirana National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Albania (2003, 2001)
MUHKA Contemporary Art Museum, Anvwerp, Belgium (2003)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2003, 2002)
Artsonje Museum, Gyeong Ju, South Korea (2002)
Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea (2002)
Israeli center for digital art, Digital ArtLab, Holon, Israël (2001)
Pacific Film Archive Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA (2001)
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (2000)
Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2000)
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France (1999, 1998)
Artspace of Australia, Sydney, Australia (1999, 1998)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (1998)
Bonn Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (1998)
Documenta X Kassel, Kassel, Germany (1997)
Ars Electronica Center (residence), Linz, Austria (1997)
CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (1996)
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (1995)
Carillo Gil Museum, Mexico, Mexico (1995)
Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy (1995)
Moderna Museet, Helsinki, Finland (1994)
Contemporary Art Center, St Petersburg, Russia (1994)
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bruxelles, Belgium (1994)
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France. (1993)
Cabinet des estampes du musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genêve, Switzerland. (Dos drawing)
Rhizome artbase Net and media collection, New Museum - New York: USA
http://www.computerfinearts.com: Net and media art collection - New York, USA: "Jerusalem".(website) 2001Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Art Outsiders:Paris, France: "heart time / time heat".(website) 2001
Fond National d'Art Contemporain, FNAC, Paris, France: "Reposoirs d'écran" (screensaver), "On Air" (VJ performance saved on DVD) 2000.
Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA: "24h00" (website) 1999 - 2000
La Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France: "Longitude 38" (site internet) 1999, "Self" (website) 1998
Centre d'art contemporain de St Fons, St Fons, France: "Ulysse" (video) 1996
ZKM Media museum (video), Karlsruhe, Allemagne: "Memory" (video) 1994 - 1995
Carillo Gil Contemporary art museum, Mexico, Mexique: "Memory" (video) 1994, "U-Topos" ( installation Réalité Virtuelle) 1995
Le nouveau musée, l'institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France: "Epridemik Remix" (video coproduced with Benoit Berry) 1993
