# Melodie Mousset URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/melodie-mousset/ Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles ## Exhibitions - [Melodie Mousset: Impulsive Control](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-09-melodie-mousset-impulsive-control.md): September 8 — October 20, 2012 · Artists: Melodie Mousset ## Biography 1981 Born in United Arab Emirates Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA 2011 MFA, California Institute of Art, Valencia, CA, USA 2009 Royal College of Arts, London, UK 2006 Diplome Superieur dArts Visuel, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland 2003 Diplome National dArts Plastique, EBAR, Rennes, France **Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions** 2013 Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY 2012 Joyce Gallery, Beijing, China Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2011 Melodie Mousset, Lime Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA 2010 Impulsive Control, Claudia Groeflin Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Together Again, Main Gallery CalArts, Valencia, CA 2009 Party-Animal, Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris, France 2008 Dans lombre du herisson, la trajectoire de lacier repond a la courbe des arbres, Darse, Geneva, Switzerland **Selected Group Exhibitions** 2015 "S.O.S. Dada The World Is A Mess," Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Venice, Italy Inhabitations: Phantasms of the Body in Contemporary Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland 2013 "Inherent Vice", Peckham Artists' Moving Image Festival, London, UK lentrenreneur, Crystal palace, Bordeaux, France the state of making things, La RADA, Locarno, Switzerland The Ride, Curtat-Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland Brigadoon, La tolerie, Clairemont-Ferrand, France 2012 (Re-) Cycles of Paradise, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA Les Urbaines, Arlaud Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland Ampera Electric Dreams: Vauxhall Technol, curated by Ken Farmer, Filling Station, London, UK Trouble Rainbow 3, Boltelang, Zurich, Switzerland Das El Ohne Schale, Oslo10, Basel, Switzerland Hello? I Forgot My Mantra, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY The Big Toe, Wallspace, New York, NY Trouble Rainbow 2, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, CA Multi Plakati, Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland The ride, Zoo Galerie, Nantes, France Plate Mappe, Curtat-Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland Drive-in, curated by Elise Hammer, Bold Tendencies Sculpture Park, London, UK 2011 Commercial Break, The Nuit Blanche, New York, NY Once Emerging, Now Emerging: Now and Then, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca CalArts, Plays Itself, PACT, Essen, Germany Trouble Rainbow, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy Intimacies, Farley Building, Los Angeles, CA George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Paul Clay, Salon 94, New York, NY Greater LA, curated by Benjamin Goodsill, Joel Messler and Eleanor Cayre, New York, NY Thats how we know the tongue is blind, Curtat-Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland Commercial Break, Venice, Italy Involuntary, curated by Neville Wakefield, New York, NY 2010 Mashup, LA15 Contemporary Art Space, San Juan, Puerto Rico The Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Minipic, tas cotte ton biclou?, curated by Pauline Beaudemont and Elise Lammer, New York, NY Volume, AT 1, Los Angeles, CA Snapshot, curated by Bennett Simpson, LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble, Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris, France I am by birth a genevese, Vegas Gallery, London, UK Post Tenebras Luxe, Musee Rath, Geneva, Switzerland You cut but you cant, Galerie zwanzigquadratmeter, Berlin, Germany Once in a Lifetime, curated by Dean Kissick, New Model Army, London, UK Basement Project, Fred, London, UK Work in Progress, RCA, London, UK 2008 Le Spectrarium, crurated by Tatiana Rihs, Samuel Dubosson, Melodie Mousset, Fondation Suisse du Corbusier, Paris, France Josef Hannibal, isnt he?, Zoo art fair, London, UK HOME-mentioned, but did not Stop, Box Productions, Renens, Switzerland Thats All Folds, Popper, Geneve, Switzerland Drole de dame, Galerie J, Paris, France Joseph Hannibal now!, Galerie Blancpain, Geneva, Switzerland WAWA, La Placette, Lausanne, Switzerland Black Diaspora, Out of this World, Territet, Switzerland Abstraction Extension, Fondation Salomon, Chateau dArenthon, Alex, France Transform en France, La Gnrale, Paris, France Duplex, Suspens, Geneva, Switzerland Prototipi-Manzoni, Salon du Mueble, Milan, Italy Atman Atmen, Out of this World, Territet, Swizterland West, La Gnrale, Paris, France Accrochange, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, France 2007 Der Tanz der Doppeppelganger, Shark, Geneve, Switzerland Bounoule & Tutube, Call me Im an artist, Naphtaline, Lausanne, Switzerland Sweet & extra-dry, curated by Delphine Coindet, Curcuit, Lausanne, Switzerland Outre tombe, curated by Pascal Rousseau, 1m3, Lausanne, Switzerland Lascaux Fiasco, Viva dolor, Lyon, France Generation Melodie, curated by Raphael Julliard, Galerie, J, Geneva, Switzerland 2006 Lart est il soluble dans le rire, Le chorus, Lausanne, Switzerland Minigolf, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland Cinquieme partie, Les abris anti-atomiques de lArsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland Cabinet budget, LAtelier, Geneva, Switzerland La cuisse physique, Espace Bellevaux, Lausanne, Switzerland SVP, Theatre Tumulte, Neuchatel, Switzerland Rouge&Cool, Espace rue de Bourg, Lausanne, Switzerland 2005 La Grande Chose, Galerie Basta, Lausanne, Switzerland Une energie sympatique qui booste le tout, curated by Riond, Kabak, Lausanne, Switzerland Accrochage, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland 2004 Armleder & Co, ELAC, Lausanne, Switzerland Good Stuff, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland 2003 Premire vue, Passage de Retz, Paris, France Leau a la bouche, lOrangerie, Rennes, France LEndroit, VItrine, Rennes, France Yoda/sellenties(interference of Di Matto), Theatre Nationale de Bretagne, Rennes, France Wax (interference of Campy Vampy, Tacky), La Crie, Centre dart contemporain, Rennes, France **Bibliography** 2013 Steffen, Patrick, Brand New: Melodie Mousset, Flash Art, No. 288, January-February 2012 Pilet, Guillaume, Trouble Rainbow, Novembre Magazine, January Armstrong, Liz, Sleeping with Strangers, Passages Pro Helvetia, Volume 58, Issue 1 Three Friends Walk Into A Gallery, Revising Loneliness, November 6 Guillaume Pilet, Trouble Rainbow, Novembre Magazine, January Tuck, Geoff, In the moment of Melodie Mousset, Notes On Looking, September 27 2011 Jones, Anna, Melodie Mousset, Precursor. The Creativity Watchlist, published by Gestalten Bodin, Claudia, L.A. Cool, art Das Kunstmagazin, October Klanten, Mollard, Precursor: The Creative Watchlist, Gestlaten Smith, Roberta, Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel, The New York Times, May 2010 Forsythe, Sara, Melodie Mousset Impulsive Controle, jour, Winter Kantarovsky, Alexander, Melodie Mousset, Another New Romance, The New Wight Biennial, September Daniel Morgenthaler, Tages Anzeiger, September 2 Debailleux, Henri-Francois, ArtParis, un certain savoir foire, Liberation, March 2009 Challe, Daniel, Melodie Mousset, Breloque, May Bacchetta, Joelle, With or without you, Code Magazine, Spring De Wavrin, Isabelle, ART PARIS: Notre Slection, Beaux Arts, March Debailleux, Henri-Francois, ART PARIS: un certain savoir faire, La Liberation, March 2008 Mentrey, A Geometrie humaine/Human Geometry, Baboo Time, September Nolan, Billy, Pasta Princess, Frame, January **Residencies** La Generale, Paris, France Galerie zwanzigquadratmeter, Berlin, Germany