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