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Biography

The perception of impermanence
From matter to light... up to the glare

Born in 1966, Dominique Meunier is an award-winning artist working near Besançon whose works are exhibited internationally.

Painting is a family affair. He followed the teaching of his mother whose work on decorative art was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Besançon. 

A career in screen printing awakened and cultivated his taste for mixed media and the diversity of media.

After a serious road accident that turned his life upside down more than 20 years ago, he became resilient and devoted himself entirely to creation. 

His art celebrates the epiphanies of nature that he paints on the edge of absence and imperceptible. For him, it is a question of exploring the correlations between the brilliance of the visible and the opacity of the invisible in order to go beyond the appearances of reality and thus question our subjectivity to awaken our senses and the soul. By making perceptible the link between reality, the vital territory and the dark space of finitude, he seeks to bring man into this dialogue that eternalizes him so that he becomes aware of the power of Providence.

His permanent approach has been recognized in several museums, cultural centers, galleries and art fairs, both in France and abroad.

A member of the Société du Salon d'Automne Paris and the Jura Delegate of the Académie Arts-Sciences-Lettres, he is also a member of the Maison des Artistes, the Adagp and the Taylor Foundation.

  AWARDS

2023 - Circle Foundation for the Arts (CFA) Artist of the Year Award 2022

2022- Silver Medal landscape section International Art Academia World Professional Award.

2022 - Special Prize of the Jury at the great competition of the International Academy of Contemporary Art.

2021- Gold Medal International Art Academia World Professional Award "Art Academia World Choice".

2020 - Silver medal of the painting prize at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts - Paris 

2020 - Award winner “Artist of the Future” by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

2018- Public's first price - group exhibition (80 artists, 300 artworks) LIONS CLUB-Besançon, France

Artistic Statement

Dominique Meunier draws from nature an infinite register of shapes and colours. Poetry and meditative texts, especially those of the Far Eastern philosophies, nourish and soothe him, to better give spiritual meaning to his perpetual quest: to paint the cosmic breaths. It is for the Artist to transcribe the vital breaths of nature to provoke the awarenesses of the need to defend life and nature.

Thus, his artistic approach is spiritual and meditative, like an exploration of the symbolic balance of landscapes. Attentive to the passage of time, to the subtle modulations of light, he is particularly interested in translating transient and impalpable natural phenomena. By translating the invisible, space, time and light, he is the painter of impermanence. Dominique Meunier’s painting is an ode to nature, a visual poetry that takes the viewer on the path of light and appeasement. Beyond the symbolic representation of nature, it is the passage between the inner and outer worlds that the artist’s works allow to see.

Dominique Meunier’s artistic expression is characterised by three principles: materiality and its sensory dimension, meditative symbolism and the correlation of inseparable subjects, and chromatic unity with special attention to the balance given by light. Thus, the mineral is essential in the progression of the Artist who transcribes it through the interplay of textures on the canvas. Minerality reflects Dominique Meunier’s need for solidity and stability. It is then that his works are transformed into an invitation to meditation, like sanctuaries, preserved worlds. 

The human being has a marginal presence in the creations of the Artist whose Taoist conception of the world makes humanity an invisible presence in nature itself. The choice of colours allows him to express the depth of the landscapes and to reveal this invisible dimension, freeing the cosmic breath. This work on chromatic breathes is accompanied by a special attention to the light that bathes the works of Dominique Meunier, gradually becoming predominant. By giving life to matter, the Artist reveals all the asperities of the human soul.

 

Main exhibitions

 

2024

  • Seminary Chapel, Diocesain Center, Besançon France- Solo exhibition March 2024
  • Art Capital Paris Art Fair, Paris - Drawing and Watercolor Salon - February 2024
  • Salon d'Automne Art Fair, Paris - January 2024

2023 

  • Salon of the National Society of fine Arts, Paris
  • International Autumn Fair of Lunéville, France
  • Francis Barlier Gallery, Paris
  • Art Capital Paris
  • Beaune International Show, France
  • Fontaine-lès-Dijon Art Show, France
  • Val de Cher Art Show, France 
  • Museum of The Americas, Miami, "Christmas", Houston, Texas
  • Galerie d'Art et d'Or, Châtillon-sur-Seine, France
  • Concept store art Gallery, La Baule and Paris, France
  • Galerie 2023, France
  • Swiss Art Space, Lausanne, Switzerland 

2022 

  • Renoir Cultural Center- Essoyes (solo exhibition), France 
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Art Musem, Tokyo
  • Salon d'Automne Art Fair- Paris, Environnemental art section, Paris, France
  • Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts, Paris. 
  • International Autumn Fair of Lunéville, France
  • Museum of The Americas, Miami , "l'Alliance Française" de Dubaï.
  • Art Expo New York
  • Los Angeles Art Show
  • Scope Art Show Miami
  • Swiss Art Space, Lausanne, Switzerland
2021
  • Salon d'Automne Art Fair- Paris, Environnemental art section, Paris, France
  • Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts, at The House of Japanese Culture, Paris. Silver medal of the painting prize.
  • International Autumn Fair of Lunéville, France
  • Compiegne Sacred Art Festival, France
  • Vis'Art Gallery, Lyon, France
  • Angle d'Art Gallery, St Blaise Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Art Gallery 2023 , Lons-le-Saunier, France
  • Mamag Modern Art Museum, Austria
  • Art Shopping, La Baule, France
  • Concept Store Galery, La Baule, France
  • Mads Art Gallery, Milan, Italy

2020

  • Menduina Schneider Art Gallery - Los Angeles, California
  • Salon d'Automne Art Fair- Paris, Environnemental art section, Paris, France
  • Concept Store Gallery, Paris and La Baule, France
  • Paks Gallery, Munich, Germany
  • Paks Gallery, Vienna, Austria
  • Swiss Art Space, Lausanne, Switzerland - Selection 8° winter edition

2019

  • Paris Contemporary Art Show - by YIA Art Fair, Paris, France
  • Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, France
  • MAMAG Modern Art Museum, 2nd International Fine Art Biennale, Basel, Switzerland
  • Solo exhibition "In the intimacy of my workshop", Buthiers, France
  • Concept Store Gallery– Art center, La Baule, France
  • Swiss Art Space, Lausanne, Switzerland – Selection 7° Landscape edition

2018

  • Art Shopping Carrousel Fair– Paris, France
  • The Grand Kursaal Lions Club, Besançon, France. Public's first prize.
  • ‘Artists Workshop Club Paris’ selection.
  • Invitation to the exhibition "From reality to dream of Thibaut Froehly, Castel Peugeot, Audincourt, France
  • Concept Store Gallery Dauphine, Paris, France
  • Solo exhibition « Clarity » - Meadow studio, Buthiers, France

2017 - Solo exhibition « Reminiscence and resilience » - Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2016 - Solo exhibition « Material and sensations », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2015 - Solo exhibition « The trace », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2014 - Solo exhibition « Song of return », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2013 - Solo exhibition « Path », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2012 - Solo exhibition « Memory and the sea », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2011 - Solo exhibition « Read in oneself », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2010 - Solo exhibition « Blue Addict », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2008 - Solo exhibition « Green Addict », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2005 - Solo exhibition « Crossing to the other bank », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2004 - Solo exhibition « Interval », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France
2003 - Solo exhibition « Fertile wounds », Meadow studio, Buthiers, France