Plastic artist based in the Paris region, Mark Daovannary explores the origin, energy and consciousness of materials shaped by nature or by man. Between science and anthropology, he gives them body, life, movement, transforms them and personifies them, thus reviving the animism of childhood.

Trained at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the School of Visual Arts in New York and at Duperré, he enriched his training with the Japanese sculptor Tetsuo Harada.

His works have been presented at the 62nd Salon de Montrouge, at the Villa Noailles and at the Chapelle des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has also been awarded the Talents Emergents prize by the Île-de-France region.

 

Exhibitions & Prizes

2023

  • Paris Design Week at Galerie Basia Embiricos  – Paris

  • Exhibition Réminiscences at aiguille d’or – Paris

2022

  • Art residency 6 months – Seoul, South Korea

2021

  • Exhibition Artschild Faubourg Saint-Honoré – Paris

2020

  • Maison Contemporain x Espace Bertrand Grimont – Paris

  • Art Gallery Edouard Escougnou – Paris

  • Public Prize Icart Artistik Rezo at centre culturel Christiane Peugeot – Paris


2019

  • La Chapelle des Beaux-arts de Paris – Paris

  • Opéra Bastille – Paris

  • Lou Carter Gallery – Paris

  • Rue de Tanger – Casablanca, Morocco

  • Art & Design teacher, 1 school year at Lycée Germaine Tillion (93) – Le Bourget

    with the support of Frédérique Frin-Benslama

    and Talents Emergents prize by the Île-de-France region.


2018

  • Art Gallery Mansart – Paris

  • Awarded the Talents Emergents prize by the Île-de-France region, FoRTE program

  • Finalist of Pulsar Prize – The Open Art Prize – Paris


2017

  • 62th Salon de Montrouge – France

  • La Villa Noailles – Hyères, Festival international d’Architecture d’Intérieur – France
    in collaboration with Alice Louradour, Caroline Charrel and Samuel Bégis

  • In The Mood For Flowers, art installation at We Love Green’s festival – Paris
    in collaboration with Alice Louradour, Caroline Charrel and Samuel Bégis


2016

  • L’héritage de l’exil à l’EnsAD – Paris

  • Since 2010 | Design intervention at Microlycée (93) – La Courneuve


2014

  • The old beautifies everything, art installation, SVA Chelsea Gallery – New York

  • Tableau vivant, art performance at Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou – Paris
    in collaboration with Alice Louradour, Silja Piton and Simon Esbé

  • Il y a rien en dessous, art installation at l’Université Paris-Dauphine – Paris

  • Lève toi et chante, sculpture at centre International Bamboo Studio,
    with the National Institute of Design of Bengaluru (India) – Bengaluru

  • Mur du son, art installation at Blitz, avec the School of Applied Arts of Basel (Swiss) – Mulhouse
    in collaboration with Alice Louradour, Simon Burkhalter and Pan Thurneysen

  • Vivante, art installation at l’Open Sunday DMC – Mulhouse

 
 

Thanks to those who helped me in my projects:

 
 

© Mark Daovannary 2022