Jerome Lagarrigue


Jérôme Lagarrigue is a French painter living in New York City.
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Biography

Lagarrigue was born in Paris, to a French father who was an illustrator and painter, and an American mother who was a journalist and writer. As a child, he was schooled in France, but spent summers in New York City, where he now lives. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, with a major in illustration, in 1996.
Two years after graduation, Parsons School of Design made Lagarrigue professor of drawing and painting.
In 2002, Lagarrigue won the John Steptoe Award for New Talent for his illustrations in Freedom Summer.

Solo exhibitions

Books illustrated