Alix le Méléder
Alix Le Méléder was born in 1955 in Boulogne sur Seine, France. She lives in Burgundy and Brittany, France. She studied sculpture at Beaux-Arts, Paris and L'Atelier César from 1974 to 1979. In 1990, the building where she had her studio burned down. She lost all her works. In 1992, Alix met Shirley Jaffe who introduced her to Galerie Fournier in Paris.
Alix Le Méléder was exhibited in numerous exhibitions at Galerie Fournier in 1995, 1997, and 2001-2002. In 2004, she joined Galerie Zürcher and was exhibited regularly in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2010 with solo exhibitions and several group exhibitions in Paris and New York. In 2020, the Chateau de Tours (Tours, France) presented a retrospective of her paintings from 1987 - 2011, taking up an entire floor of their exhibition spaces. She was also recently included in a group exhibition at Zürcher Gallery NY with Tom Doyle, Kazuko Miyamoto and Lynn Umlauf.
Zürcher Gallery has published a catalog on the occasion of Le Méléder’s retrospective: 94 pages, paperback with color reproductions of works 1987 - 2011 and essays by Philippe Dagen and Joe Fyfe. Available for purchase at Zürcher Gallery, NY and by mail for customers outside of New York City.
Notable exhibitions include:
1998 Alix Le Méléder, Maison d’art contemporain de Chailloux, Fresnes
2003 Voir en peinture, Le Plateau/Frac Île-de-France
2004 Alix Le Méléder, Le 19 CRAC, Montbéliard
2004 Le corps, son image, ses représentations, Maison d’art contemporain de Chailloux, Fresnes
2011 Reverie, curated by Stephen Westfall, Zürcher Gallery, NY
2016 Alix Le Méléder, Traces, peinture, La Maison des Zervos, Vézelay
2018 Sortie du catalogue du Festival « Piano aux Jacobins », Toulouse
2018 Alix Le Méléder, Galerie Pixi, Paris (curated by Gwénolée Zürcher)
2019 Pause, Atelier du Hezo (avec notamment Geneviève Asse)
2020 Alix Le Méléder - Peintures, Chateau de Tours, France (Retrospective)
Collections include:
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France
Le Bon Marché, Paris
Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Bureau du Patrimonie
Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Tia Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Essays:
Foreword by Philippe Dagen
