Jugnet + Clairet
American artists, French born.
Work in multiple media. Live in New Mexico
Anne Marie Jugnet : b. May 25, 1958 - La Clayette, France
M.A. (DNSEP Art), National Art School of Bourges, France
Alain Clairet : b. July 7, 1950 - Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France
B.A. in Art History, University of Paris X - Nanterre
M.A. in Philosophy (Aesthetics), University of Paris X - Nanterre
Everything has been said,
unless the words change meaning,
and meanings change words.
J.-L.G., Alphaville
We met in 1995 in New York and decided to work together in 1997.
Our imaginary is principally nourished by the landscapes and the culture of the American southwest. Our work, beyond an autobiographical dimension, explores and develops that which escapes the ordinary attention of the surrounding world and comes back to an intimate art history.
All that is imposed by sudden emergence, strangeness, dazzlement.
We begin with events and objects encountered during trips that develop our series: deserts, dead ends, the rarity of information, discrete units, minor changes, details, intervals, in-betweens constitute the universe of our work.
Our point of view is peripheral, we are interested in the margins, the background, the depths.
Our work is about images, memory, light and screens, from the TV Paintings to the Cue Marks Series, not to mention the Sunset Series and the Los Alamos Still Life paintings.
Our work also involves specific protocols and processes reflecting certain modes of production and representation of the image. Our aim is not to create new forms but to create the conditions of their emergence.
J + C
Currently represented by:
- Erna Hécey Gallery, Luxembourg
- Pie Projects Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions:
Personal Show:
D.A.A.A., Pie Projects Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM (February 8 - March 15, 2025)
Group Shows:
The Atomic Age, curated by Maria Stavrinaki & Julia Garimorth, MAM Museum of Modern Art in Paris (October 11, 2024 - February 9, 2025)
The Wonder Way Project - le geste et le territoire, curated by Emmanuelle Antille, Le Manoir, Martigny, Switzerland (February 9 - May 11, 2025)
The Wonder Way Project - les nébuleuses et les territoires de la nuit, curated by Emmanuelle Antille, CACY, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland (February 14 - April 12, 2026)
Personal Shows
2024 Nuages, Soleils, Sunsets, curated by Stéphane Tanguy & Pierre Grand, La Table d'Immédiats, Arles, France
2023 Midnight Blue, GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2019 Cue Marks, Mayeur Projects, Las Vegas, NM
2017 NM, Mayeur Projects, Las Vegas, NM
2015 Square Roots, Catherine Bastide Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2013-14 Séries, Centre d'art contemporain, Passerelle, Brest, France
2013 Just Passing Through, Esox Lucius, Le garage, La Clayette, France
2013 Let's Switch Again, Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris
2011-12 Un abrégé, MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Geneva, Switzerland
2010 Still Life - Los Alamos, Serge Le Borgne Gallery, Paris
2008 Keep Watching The Sky, Serge Le Borgne Gallery, Paris
2008 Décrire le reste, Casino Luxembourg-Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
2008 Beau Fixe, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2007 On The Horizon, Dunn & Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2006 Péter la forme, Cent8, Serge Le Borgne Gallery, Paris
2005 Côte à côte, Centre d’art contemporain, La synagogue de Delme, France
2005 Switch, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Museum of Fine Arts), Rouen, France
2004 Leblanc, Stepczynski-Blancpain Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2004 R.V.B., Stephane Ackermann Gallery, Luxembourg
2003 AFAA, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Paris
2003 Santa Fe, cent8, Serge Le Borgne Gallery, Paris
2003 F.W.J., curated by Claire Burrus, Centre Culturel Français, Milan, Italy
2003 Alpine, MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Geneva, Switzerland
2003 Cadiz, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland
2002 Switch, Carlier-Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2002 Mega Vixens, Catherine Bastide Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2002 Fishing With John, Stephane Ackermann Gallery, Luxembourg
2001 Right here - right now, Burnett Miller Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Tapes Series, Carlier-Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2000 Séries égyptiennes, Gandy Gallery, Prag, Czech Republic
2000 Séries américaines, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, France
2000 J’entendis un ver luisant, Josselyne Naef Gallery, Lyon, France
1999 Grandeur Nature, To celebrate entering the third millennium, installation in the gardens of the Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor, Egypt
1999 Une conduite forcée, Transpalette, Bourges, France
1998 Théâtre des terrasses, curated by Nadine Gandy, Gordes, France
1998 Erna Hecey Gallery, Luxembourg
1998 Le merle, cheese/burger, ...et Cie, 9 bis Gallery, Saint-Étienne, France
Group Shows
2024 The Atomic Age, curated by Maria Stavrinaki & Julia Garimorth, MAM Museum of Modern Art in Paris
2022 Paint, Painting, Painter, Le Shed, Gresland site (Nd de Bondeville), France
2022 Macht! Licht! Kunstmuseum Wolksburg, Germany
2022 Impromptu orienté, Esox Lucius, La gare Saint-Maurice-les-Châteauneuf, France
2021-22 Obsolescence déprogrammée (Unplanned Obsolescence), Masc (Museum of Modern and contemporary art, Les Sables-d’Olonne, France
2018 L'inventaire, vol.8 - Acquisitions de 2001 à 2002, Frac Normandie Rouen, France
2017 Powerama, for the 25th anniversary of Gandi Gallery, the proposition of Matali Crasset in the show case of Air de Paris Gallery, Paris
2017 Le Cabinet des Merveilles, L'Arbre du Monde Galerie, Arles, France
2016-17 La peinture à l'huile c'est bien difficile, Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
2016-17 Flatland/ Abstractions narratives #1, curated by Sarah Ihler-Meyer & Marianne Derrien, Mrac Sérignan, France (Museum of Contemporary Art Languedoc Roussillon), In collaboration with the Mudam (Museum of Modern Art Grand-Duc Jean), Luxembourg
2016 Laboratoire de l'art, Musée des arts et métiers, Paris, In collaboration with the Mudam (Museum of Modern Art Grand-Duc Jean), Luxembourg
2015-16 One More Time - L'Exposition de nos expositions, séquence automne-hiver, MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Geneva, Switzerland
2015-16 Là où commence le jour, curated by Marc Donnadieu, LaM Lille Métropole (Museum of Modern, Contemporary Art and «Art brut»), Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
2015-16 Eppur si Muove - Art and Technology, a shared sphere, Mudam (Museum of Modern Art Grand-Duc Jean), Luxemburg, In collaboration with the Musée des arts et métiers, Paris
2015 Heaven and Hell. From Magic Carpets to Drones, curated by Diane Hennebert and Christophe Dosogne, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Antonioni, aux origines du pop, curated by Dominique Païni (In collaboration with Maria Luisa Pacelli, Barbara Guidi and Matthieu Orléan), La cinémathèque française, Paris
2015 Lumière ! [Liàng], curated by Michel Nuridsany with the French Embassy in Beijing: 798/Chen Xindong Gallery in Beijing, Minsheng Museum in Shanghai, Taikooli in Chengdu,China
2015 Biens publics, curated by Christian Bernard, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
2015 Esprit de famille, Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
2014-15 Lumières de la ville, (Camera candida, Space 46, Statement 53, Collection, Polygraphy), MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Geneva, Switzerland
2014-15 Zones sensibles, La peinture renversée, Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d'Olonne, France
2014-15 LUX, curated by Michel Nuridsany, Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France
2014 Collections, MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Geneva, Switzerland
2014 Parti pris, 1989-2014, Blancpain art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2013-14 Ligne de force, Donation Albers-Honegger, Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
2013-14 Le Regard du bègue (physique du souvenir), une exposition dans la collection, MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Geneva, Switzerland
2013 Partage de minuit, une exposition dans la collection, MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Geneva, Switzerland
2012-13 Tapis volants, curated by Philippe-Alain Michaud, les Abattoirs, Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
2012 Flippant time, les 30 ans du Frac Languedoc-Roussillion, curated by Emmanuel Latreille, Museum of Lodève,France
2012 Tapis volants/Tapetti volanti/Flying carpets, curated by Philippe-Alain Michaud, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
2012 Néon, Who's afraid of red, yellow, and blue?, curated by David Rosenberg, La maison rouge, Antoine de Galbert Foundation, Paris
2010 Le sourire du chat (opus2), Collection Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
2010 America Deserta, curated by Etienne Bernard & Sandra Patron, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
2010 Le sourire du chat (opus1), Collection Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
2009 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2009 Tilt, 11 Museums with the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Museum of Saint-Jean Le Rotrou, France
2009 Chhttt…, Crac Alsace, Centre Rhénan d'Art Contemporain, Altkirch, France
2008 Something New, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2008 La dégelée Rabelais : Comme des choses gelées, Abbaye de Lagrasse, France
2008 La dégelée Rabelais : Voyages horrifiques et espovantables : navigation en réseaux numériques, Museum of Fine Arts, Nîmes, France
2008 Flux, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Arid Zones, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
2008 Qui a peur de la couleur, Paintings of the Frac Collection, Frac Haute-Normandie, France
2007 L'Explosition, Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
2007 Gmtt-ck, Collection Frac des Pays de la Loire, Centre culturel de la laverie, La Ferté-Bernard, France
2007 Montre-moi l'œuvre autrement, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, France
2007 Capricci, Possibilités d'autres mondes, Casino Luxembourg-Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
2007 Everything, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2007 On fait le mur, flux + territoires + frontières = multimedia, Donation Albers-Honegger, Espace l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
2007 Télémétries, artistes et télévision, curated by Frédéric Dumond, Villa des Tourelles Gallery, Nanterre, France
2007 Spaceinvasion, with the 9bis, Vienna, Austria
2006 Carte blanche à Cent8, Cloister Gallery – Art School of Rennes, France
2006 Zones Arides, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
2006 Zones Arides, Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
2006 Painters of Modern Life, Donation – The Caisse des Dépôts – Photographic Collection, National Museum of Modern Art, Pompidou Center, Paris
2005 Ils sont là, James Lee Byars, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anne Marie Jugnet & Alain Clairet, Stephane Ackermann Gallery, Luxembourg
2005 L'œil écoute, Vitrins, Saint-Germain des Prés subway station, organised by l'APSV, RATP and IESA (International Studies in History and Business of Art and Culture), France
2005 Big Bang, destruction et création dans l'art du 20ème siècle, National Museum of Modern Art, Pompidou Center, Paris
2005 Shortcuts, between reality and Fiction, Video, Installations and Paintings from le Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Bass Museum, Miami, FL
2005 Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière…2, Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
2004 Ralentir Vite, Le plateau, Frac Ile de France, Paris
2004 La Lettre Volée, curated by Vincent Pécoil, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole with the Centre d’Art Mobile and the Frac Franche-Comté, France
2004 Cent8, Serge Le Borgne Gallery, Paris
2004 Douce France, (Collection of Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris), Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 Trésors Publics, 20 ans de création dans les Frac, Musée du Château des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France
2003 Stephane Ackermann Gallery, Luxembourg
2002 Roland Barthes, National Museum of Modern Art, Pompidou Center, Paris
2002 Le regard de l’autre, Frac Haute-Normandie & Musée des Beaux-Art de Rouen, France
2001 Miscellaneous landscapes, Stéphane Ackermann Gallery, Luxembourg
2001 Mur/murs - l’art dans le vent, Château d’Angers, France
2001 Le B.H.V. inspire les artistes, curated by Andrée Putman, B.H.V., Paris
2001 L’esprit de famille, curated by MAMCO in Geneva, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
2000 Stephane Ackermann Gallery, Luxembourg
2000 Mapping, territory, connexions, Anne de Villepoix Gallery, Paris
2000 The city, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2000 L’art dans le vent, curated by Dominique Marchès, Domaine de Chamarande, France
2000 Drapeaux d’artistes-World Wild Flags, Liège, Aachen, Knokke, Luxembourg
2000 Light Pieces, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
2000 The go-between, Erna Hécey Gallery, Luxembourg
1999 22 v’la le siècle !, Centre d’art contemporain, Vassivière en Limousin, France
1999 Faces, curated by Nadine Gandy, Hôtel Scribe, Paris
1999 L’écrit, le mot, le texte, curated by Philippe Piguet, Daniel & Florence Guerlain Foundation, Les Mesnuls, France
1999 L’art contemporain “français”, génération 2000, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
1999 Licht parcours, Haus “Salves Hospes”, Kunstverein Braunschweig e.V., Braunschweig, Germany
1998 Dix affiches autour de la Biennale, 9 bis Gallery, Saint-Étienne, France
1998 22 v’la le siècle !, 9 bis Gallery, Saint-Étienne, France
1998 Photographies, Erna Hécey Gallery, Luxembourg
1998 Centre d’art contemporain, Vassivière en Limousin, France
1998 Au nom du sport, curated by Charles-Arthur Boyer, Gabrielle Maubrie Gallery, Paris
1998 L’objet-dard, Hommage à Marcel Duchamp, curated by Stéphane Moreaux, SITA, Paris
1998 Les transports de l’image, curated by Dominique Païni, Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France
1998 Ici et maintenant (encore), A.P.S.P.V., Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Paris
1997 Ici et maintenant, A.P.S.P.V., la Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette, Paris
1997 1 minute scenario, curated by Jérôme Sans, Le printemps de Cahors, France
Public & Private Commissions
2017 Hôtel Beauregard, Geneva, Switzerland
2011 LVMH - La Veuve Clicquot, Hôtel du Marc, Reims, France
2007 La Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, France
2003 French Custom Building, Oullins, France, Architect: Jacques Ferrier
2001 Vincent Wapler Collection at Place des Vosges, Paris, France
2001 University of Saint Jean d’Angely, Nice, France, in collaboration with Philippe Gronon & Altyx.
1999 Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor, Egypt
1998 Court House Nice, France, Architect: Jacques Ferrier
Public & Corporate Collections
• Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
• MAMCO, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
• MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
• Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris
• Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris
• Fonds régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, France
• Fonds régional d’art contemporain Haute-Normandie, France
• Fonds régional d’art contemporain des Pays de la Loire, France
• Fonds régional d’art contemporain Rhône-Alpes, France
• Fonds régional d’art contemporain Provence-Alpes-Côtes d'Azur, France
• Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, France
• Capc Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
• Donation Albers-Honegger / Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans Sartoux, France
• La manufacture nationale, Sèvres, France
• Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Paris
• Arsfutura, Cannes, France
• La Veuve Clicquot, Reims, France
• Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat (BCEE), Luxembourg
• Belgacom Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
