Gwenaël Kerlidou challenges the conventions of painting by exploring the nature, culture and history of abstraction as a visual language. In his Opus Incertum series, he breaks away from the rectangular canvas by creating paintings with multiple shaped stretchers. He further expands beyond the edge of his canvases by spray painting the wall around the canvases, thus incorporating it into the work as a binding agent between its separate parts. For Kerlidou, abstraction has become the way in which diverse narratives can be projected without pre-established boundaries. In his work, the artist examines various categories of abstract painting in relation to their enduring power as a means of challenging our shifting values within a technology dominated environment.

Born in Lille, France, Gwenaël Kerlidou lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has been featured in solo and group shows at gallerieis and art institutes in New York, Paris, and Berlin, including The Brooklyn Museum (New York) and Musée des Beaux Arts (Lille, France).

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1997
Galerie Khokho René Corail, Fort de France, Martinique, French West Indies

1996
Z Gallery, NY

1992
Bubbles and Holes, public commission, Valenton, Seine et Marne, France

1990
The Enigmatic object: code breakers, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn

1987
Galerie am Holtzendorfplatz, Berlin

1983
Broome Street Workshop, NY

1980
Galerie Briand-Picard, Paris

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Turbulence, The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, New York City, NY
Juxtapositions, The Painting Center, NY

2015
Sans Titre, Galerie Guy Ledune, Brussels, Belgium

2014
Risky Business, Paris Concret, Paris, France

2012
Go Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

2005
Project Diversity, curated by Danny Simons, Brooklyn, NY

2003
Clear intentions, curated by Robert Morgan, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2002 - 2003
Ready-Made Color, Galerie Corinne Caminade, Paris, France

2002
Prescient, then and now: the resonance of support - surface, curated by Saul Ostrow, Dorski Gallery, Queens, NY

1997
Recent Works, 142 Water St., Brooklyn, NY
A process to painting, curated by Saul Ostrow, Bennington University, Vermont
Z Gallery, NY

1995
Pier Show III, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
Friends, 55 Mercer Gallery, NY

1990
Une semaine d’art public à Valenton, Seine et Marne, France

COLLECTIONS

Musée des Beaux Arts, Cholet, France
Mairie de Valenton, Seine et Marne