Isabelle Le Normand

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Isabelle Le Normand
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Born1980
NationalityFrench
OccupationCurator
Organization Mains d'Oeuvres (2008-2013)

Isabelle Le Normand is a French contemporary art curator based in Los Angeles, California who has curated exhibitions and events internationally. [1] [2] After her double Master's from the Sorbonne in curatorial studies and art history, Le Normand curated for public institutions in Paris: at Mains d'Oeuvres where she was director and curator for six years; Palais de Tokyo; [3] at Galerie Anne Barrault; La Box in Bourges; in Los Angeles at ForYourArt, Machine Project, and 18th Street Arts Center; at private collector Danny First's house [4] [5] [6] and galleries Anne Barrault in Paris, [7] FKSE in Budapest. She completed residencies at the Total Museum and Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, the Stroom Foundation in the Netherlands, [8] Cité des arts in Paris, Komplot in Brussels, and Residency Unlimited in New York. [9] At Mains d'Oeuvres she built a large audience and distinguished the space in the international arts community through innovative, multidisciplinary programming.

Exhibitions

·Nuit Blanche: Wim Delvoye/ Laurent Grasso, Iesa, 2003 [10] ·Diagonal Argument, cocurated with Florence Ostende, Bétonsalon, 2008 [11] [12] ·Better Being a virus than catching a cold, Mains d’Œuvres, 2008 [13] ·23 minutes and 17 seconds, 2009 [14] ·Operation tonnerre, Mains d’Œuvres, 2009 [15] ·The Farrell Family, cocurated with Florence Ostende, Mains d’Œuvres, Maison Pop, 2010 [16] [17] [18] ·Who do you admire? Cocurated with Florence Ostende, La Box, Bourges, 2011 [19] ·Without you, nothing will happen, 2011 [20] ·An Auction, 2011 [21] ·Une chaînette relie toutes les pendeloques et forme le corps principal de l’objet,: Jean-Luc Blanc and Michel Blazy, Mains d’Œuvres, 2012 [22] ·Collective Fictions, cocurated with Albertine de Galbert; Jesse McKee; Andrew Berardini; Anca Rujoiu, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013 [23] ·Destiny the B's, Anne Barrault Gallery, Paris, 2013 [24] ·Sex in Museums: Jon Bernad, Swab, Barcelona, 2013 [25] In Los Angeles ·My next life, ForYourArt, Here is Elsewhere, Danny First's house, 2013 [26] [27] ·Confidential, The Impermanent Collection, 2013 [28] ·Argote and Bastard studios, 18th Streets Arts Center, Santa Monica, 2013 [29] ·Museum of Destiny, The Impermanent Collection, Los Angeles, 2013 [30] .The work of the work, UC Santa Barbara, 2014 [31] .

Residencies

·Public School, Brussels, 2010 [32] ·Gwangju Biennale, 2011 [33] ·18th Streets Arts Center, Santa Monica, 2013 [34] ·Residency Unlimited, New York 2014 [35] ·Roadshow Gyeonju, Total Museum, Seoul, 2014 [36] [37]

Events

·Diagonal Argument program, Betonsalon, 2008 [11] ·Talk with Thomas Hirschhorn, Mains d’Œuvres, 2008 [38] ·Concours de rhétorique, Maison Pop, 2010 [39] ·Emily Mast, Mains d’Œuvres, 2012 [40] ·Born to curate: by Pauline Bastard and Ivan Argote, Santa Monica, 2013 [41] ·Paris at your home / Los Angeles at your home, Machine Project and Mains d’Œuvres, 2013 [42] ·Dawn Kasper, Mains d’Œuvres, 2013 [43] ·Megan Daalder, Mains d’Œuvres, 2011 [44] ·Luke Fischbeck, Mains d’Œuvres, 2013 [45] ·Nikki Darling, Kulapat Yantrasast's house [46] ·Sarah Gail, Rachel Mason and Deenah Vollmer at Maryanne Tagney and David Jones house [47]

Publications

·Diagonal Argument [48] ·Who do you admire? [49] ·Under a Spell: The Witchcraft of Elena Bajo [50]

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