FRANCOISE STUDER
Selected works:
BIO
In my twenties I was living in artist communities in Geneva, Switzerland. I painted portraits of my friends and relationships between people in an alternate environment. Painting and exploring new ways of interacting and living was an inspiration. Living Los Angeles I was attracted to the wide open spaces, the Pacific, by the semi-tropical lush vegetation. Exploring new inner spaces, I experimented with abstract painting for 7 years going to the edges of its possibilities.
Currently in Costa Rica, I am finding new inspiration by the tropical climate and its scapes, and a variety of people I meet. For me painting is a never ending mirror of myself and my environment, personal and universal at the same time.
Mid-program Review Show 2008, CalStateLA, Los Angeles, CA. Photo Credit: Ellie Zenhari
EDUCATION
2010-11 Exhibition Certificate program w/Peter Frank, Mt. Sac College
2009 CalStateLA, Los Angeles, CA, MFA program Studio Art w/Tim Ebner
1998-1999 Hunter College, New York, NY, MFA program Studio Art
1994 Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Geneva, Switzerland, BFA
CURATED
2011 Similar Sensibilities: Lifelong Painting. Jonathan Allmaier, Jennifer L. Friedman, Anne McCaddon.
Show curated as part of Exhibition Certificate program, Mt. Sac College.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021: Lifeguard Fundraiser Art Competition, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica2020: Grand View Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA; Pomona Art Walk, Pomona, CA
2011 Urban: Sanctuary, Los Angeles, CA
2009 The Gayle & Ed Rosky MFA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA , CAA LA MFA at USC
2008 CalStateLA, Los Angeles, CA
2008 CalStateLA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Municipal Gallery Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA
2007 CalStateLA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Found Gallery, Silverlake, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Juried by Christopher Miles
2006 CalStateLA, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Gallery Revisited, Silverlake, Los Angeles
2004 BambooLane/Revisited, Chinatown
2004 Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
1999 I-20, New York City
1998 Hunter College Gallery, NYC
1997 Halles de L'Ile, Geneva, Switzerland
1996 La Villa Arson, Nice, France
AWARDS
2010 Fabrik Magazine Juried Competition Honor
2009 Scholarship and Art Department Memorial Award, CalState LA
2008 Scholarship and Art Department Memorial Award, CalState LA