Valéry Grancher


Valéry Grancher is a French Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.

Biography

Grancher's art is a mix of conceptual and pop art references, sometimes with a sense of humour, sometimes appropriating the fads of the day.
Grancher is best known for selling Internet art in the contemporary art mainstream.
When Grancher started in the art world in 1995, he used emails in his art to show the processes and exchanges of the Internet community in physical installations like 'Alone'. In 1997 he used webcams in his project 'webscape', which dealt with the concept of "cybertime." In 1998, Grancher experimented with pop art in his 'webpaintings' project. In 2002, as Google began to dominate the Internet, he launched the "Search Art" collaborative project by creating a piece called 'Self Portrait.'
In 2005, he exhibited and sold at FIAC, the international art fair in Paris, 'the biggest Google paintings never produced.'

Exhibitions

Since the mid-1990s, Grancher has exhibited at many museums worldwide, including:

Permanent Collections

  • Cabinet des estampes du musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genêve, Switzerland.
  • Rhizome artbase Net and media collection, New Museum - New York: USA
  • http://www.computerfinearts.com: Net and media art collection - New York, USA: "Jerusalem". 2001
  • Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Art Outsiders:Paris, France: "heart time / time heat". 2001
  • Fond National d'Art Contemporain, FNAC, Paris, France: "Reposoirs d'écran", "On Air" 2000.
  • Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA: "24h00" 1999 - 2000
  • La Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France: "Longitude 38" 1999, "Self" 1998
  • Centre d'art contemporain de St Fons, St Fons, France: "Ulysse" 1996
  • ZKM Media museum, Karlsruhe, Allemagne: "Memory" 1994 - 1995
  • Carillo Gil Contemporary art museum, Mexico, Mexique: "Memory" 1994, "U-Topos" 1995
  • Le nouveau musée, l'institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France: "Epridemik Remix" 1993