FRANCE
JEAN-MARC HUNT
PRESENTATION
Originally from Reunion and Guadeloupe, Jean-Marc Hunt was born in 1974 in Strasbourg (France). He grew up in the suburbs, where he took his mark in the graffiti world and rap music. Settled in Guadeloupe for fifteen years, he wrote a work there with a neo-expressionist figurative workmanship.
Painter and plastic artist, he proceeds by series, accumulation and diversion. His work is often based on the economy of means, evoking a state of emergency with an ironic register. Regularly invited to collective exhibitions and residences, he likes to venture into monumental installation and sculpture projects. Since 2005, he has also distinguished himself in scenography and exhibition curating, in particular with the unifying projects in visual arts that he initiated.
In January 2015, he was promoted to the rank of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture and Communication of the French Republic.
He was selected in 2019 to represent Guadeloupe at the Venice Biennale, and will exhibit in 2020, among other places, at the Dakar Biennale, and in various exhibitions in Miami, Albuquerque or Los Angeles
“Hunt tried to reconstruct the initial global chaos from his own colorful perspective. To him, painting is to expose and build. His position does not take into account ideology, aesthetic flattery or self-satisfaction. Its purpose is more to tell than to show. To do this, he chooses means that can be direct, funny, moving and necessarily authentic ”- Christian Bracy, art critic.
ARTWORKS
SOLO & GROUP SHOW
SOLO SHOW SELECTION
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2019
Personal Structures - Identities, Palazzo Mora - Bienale de Venise (Guadeloupe Pavilion), Venice.
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2018
State of color, Alliance Française San Francisco CA
Pigments, Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe.
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2015
Negropolis, Fondation Clément, Martinique.
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2014
Negropiltan traffic, 14 ° N61 ° W gallery, Martinique.
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2012
Carte Blanche II, Schoelcher museum, Guadeloupe.
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2010
Negropolitan Museum, Lherminier, Guadeloupe.
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2007
Negroscopie Urbaine, La vitrine gallery, Limoges France.
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2006
Spontanart gallery, Laupen Switzerland.
GROUP SHOW SELECTION
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2020
Off Biennal de Dakar - Le Don, Ile de Gorée, Senegal
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2019
Caribbean Identities, 193 Gallery, Paris.
Open House Workshop, Fort-de-France Martinique
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2018
Dust Specks on the Sea, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New-York.
Eclats d'iles, 24 Beaubourg Gallery, Paris
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2017
Bienal Del Sur - Pueblos en Resistencia, Caracas, Venezuela.
Lausanne Art Fair international art fair, Krytell Ann Art Gallery, Switzerland.
Turning Tide, international group show, Mémorial Acte, Guadeloupe.
Liberated Memories, itinerant show, Nantes France, Port-au-Prince Haiti, Cameroon, Senegal Africa.
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2016
Vera International Fine Art Festival, Krytell Ann Art Gallery, Lisbon Portugal.
Pool Art Fair, Pointe-à-Pitre Guadeloupe.
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2015
Carifesta, group show, Galerie Expression, Pétionville Haiti.
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2013
Global Caribbean IV, group show Fondation Martinique, Little Haiti center, Miami.
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2012
Mythiq'27, group show, Angers France.
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2011
Cross-cultural forum of contemporary art Haiti.
Young talents from Guadeloupe, group show, Fondation Martinique.
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2008
group show Marseille Foundation France.
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2006
Pool Art Fair New York Manatthan New-York.