Richard Conte (born June 12, 1953) is a contemporary artist and art professor.
Conte studied plastic arts and art history at the French University University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He then completed a PhD dissertation entitled Une Pratique Négative en Peinture, Poïétique de la Fragmentation, de l'Enlevage et de l'Obturation [1] supervised by René Passeron. An Agrégé and a Doctor in Plastic Arts, [2] he began teaching at the École Normale of Douai, l'Essonne and Cergy, and then at the university from 1983 onwards. In the mid-1990s, Conte obtained an accreditation to supervise research. [3] He was subsequently elected director of the CERAP (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche en Arts Plastiques) by the Scientific Council of the university and has been responsible for coordinating the seminar entitled Interface at the Sorbonne since 1999.
Since 2012, Conte is the director of ACTE Institute a research Mixt Unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Conte has been director of the CERAP since the early 2000s. At about the same period, he was elected member of the Scientific Council of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. As part of his mandate, Conte is also a member of the Council of the Doctoral School for Plastic Arts and Art Sciences at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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