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Born in 1986, in Clermont-Ferrand, France.Lives and works in Paris, France.Claire Chesnier first encountered art through music and writing, which she practiced very early on. She devotes nearly twenty years to classical and contemporary dance, which she sees as a way to be at one with the music. Painting, which she has practiced since the beginning, is the decisive encounter experienced as an extension of the writing gesture and the incarnation of an extended dance gesture. Her commitment to painting is turned towards a physical and poetic relationship with the world, of apprehension of touch, and of the sensitive entanglement of things, of life. For her, "painting is a story of touch, of how to touch and be touched. She arrives where words fail by tactility and rhythm".Public collections (selection)Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris,FranceCNAP, Paris, FranceFRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FranceMusée Paul Dini, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Franceagnès b. - La Fab’, Paris, FranceFondation François Schneider, Fondation de France,Wattwiller, FranceMACVAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, FranceBanque de Luxembourg, LuxembourgYishu 8 Maison des Arts, Beijing, ChinaArt Collector, Paris, FranceCCNOA Collective Collection, BelgiumBibliography (selection)2025 - Claire Chesnier, monograph, text : Maylis deKerangal, Pierre Wat, Molly Warnock, Claire Chesnier, Ed.JBE Books, Paris, France2023 - Claire Chesnier - Les Jours, Semaine 03.23, dir.Philippe Piguet, chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-Bains, France2020 - Claire Chesnier, Le ciel aussi est un fracas,text : Karim Ghaddab, Ed. Galerie ETC, Paris, FranceMajor personal exhibitions2026JapanThe wind left in my hand, Ceysson & Bénétière, Tokyo,2025Une éclaircie à la verticale, curated by Isabelle Reiher,Marine Rochard, CCC OD, Tours, France2024Un rose, une rosée, un couchant, text : Maylis deKerangal, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France2023Les Jours, curated by Philippe Piguet, Chapelle de laVisitation, Centre d’Art de Thonon-les-Bains, France2021Par espacements et par apparitions, text : Pierre Wat,l’Ahah, Paris, France2020Le ciel aussi est un fracas, curated by Karim Ghaddab,Galerie ETC, Paris, France2019L’Art dans les chapelles, curated by Eric Suchère,Chapelle Trinité Castennec Bieuzy, France2018Fragments d’une déposition, Espace Commines, Paris,France2016Résonances, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France2014L’aire des aurores, commissariat : Léa Bismuth, le Patio,Paris, France2013Résonance, Yishu 8 Maison des Arts, Beijing, ChinaMajor collective exhibitions2025-2026Dans le flou, une autre vision de l'art de 1945 à nos jours,curated by Claire Bernardi, Emilia Philippot Musée del’Orangerie, Paris, France, travelling exhibition :CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain, and CaixaForum, Barcelone,Spain2024Le jour des peintres, curated by Thomas Gausserand &Thomas Lévy-Lasne, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, FranceLes Lois de l’imaginaire, curated by Laure Forlay, Muséed’Art et d’Archéologie - FRAC Auvergne, Aurillac, France2023Le Toucher du monde, curated by Sylvie Carlier, LaureForlay, Jean-Charles Vergne, Musée Paul Dini,Villefranche-sur-Saône, FranceBeautés, curated by Jean-Charles Vergne, FRACAuvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FranceDialogue avec les Collections du Musée Guimet, curatedby Sophie Makariou & Henry-Claude Cousseau, MuséeGuimet, Paris, France2020Regards hors champ et paysages, curated by Jean deLoisy, Collection agnès b., La Fab’, Paris, France