Valentin Carron, born in Martigny in 1977, is one of the most important Swiss artists of his generation. Carron has developed an oeuvre which combines central traditions of contemporary art making, while questioning them in terms of their current meaning. In this way, he includes approaches to appropriation in his work as well as Pop Art traditions, the sociological search for clues and post-studio production. In 2015, he curated the group exhibition, “Work Hard: Selections by Valentin Carron” for the Swiss Institute, New York. Carron represented Switzerland at the 55th Venice Biennale and has had solo exhibitions at Centre d’Edition Contemporain, Geneva (2016); Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck Kunstverein (2016); and Kunsthalle Bern (2014). Notable recent group exhibitions include SI ONSITE, Swiss Institute, New York (2018); Wanderlust, High Line, New York (2016); and Elevation 1049: Between Heaven and Hell, LUMA Foundation, Gstaad (2014).
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2018 SI Onsite, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
2016 Wanderlust, High Line, New York, NY
Kunstverein, Lübeck, Germany
2014 Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Elevation 1049: Between Heaven and Hell, LUMA Foundation, Gstaad, Switzerland
2013 55thInternational Art Exhibition – La Biennale de Venezia, Swiss Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Hotel Abisso, Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
2012 The Old, The New, The Different, Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland
Le Monde Comme Volonte et Comme Papier Peint, Le Consortim, Dijon, France
2010 Palais du Tokyo, Paris, France
2007 Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
PRIZES & AWARDS
2015 Overbeck Prize for the Visual Arts
2001 Prix Moet Hennessy, Switzerland
Eidgenössischer Kunstpreis
2000 Prix fédéral des Beaux-Arts
1999 Prix Odette Steinmann
Prix de la Fondation Ernest Manganel
Prix dʼencouragement à la création de lʼEtat du Valais
COLLECTIONS
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Migros Museum, Zurich