Melodie Mousset | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

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