

| Birth | Born in 1936 in Nîmes, France |
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| Residency | He lives and works in Nîmes, France |
| Education | 1955 – 1959, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montpellier, France 1962 – 1963, Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France |
| 2025 | Avatar 2005-2025, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France |
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| 2024 | Tout est pour le mieux, Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China Le retour de Claude Viallat, Kunming Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunming, China Made in Nîmes, TEMPLON, New York, USA |
| 2023 | Hommage à la couleur - Toiles 1966-2023, TEMPLON, Paris, France Et pourtant si…, Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France Quelques pas de côté, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2022 | Formes en Vrac, Sainte-Marie Chapel, Annonay, France Libertad de Colores, MACBA Buenos Aires, Argentina Claude Viallat, Hôtel Richer de Belleval, Montpellier, France Éclectique, Bonisson Art Center, Rognes, France Claude Viallat, Médiathèque de Vauvert, Vauvert, France Claude Viallat, Maison Elsa Triolet-Aragon, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France |
| 2021 | Claude Viallat : Expandend painting in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA Sutures et Varia, TEMPLON, Paris, France |
| 2019 | Viallat Sérigraphie, Centre Culturel Bérenger de Frédol, Villeneuve-les-Maguelone, France Malereien, Kajetan Gallery, Berlin, Germany Claude Viallat, Venet Foundation, Le Muy, France Re-commencer, La halle des Bouchers, Vienne, France |
| 2018 | Les échelles de Nîmes, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium Claude Viallat, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Luxembourg El Horizonte del Color, Hotel Hilton, Panama City, Panama Art Basel Unlimited, TEMPLON, Basel, Switzerland Inside and Outside, HdM Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2026 | L’École des beaux-arts de Montpellier : une histoire singulière, MO.CO Panacée, Montpellier, France |
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| 2025 | Les 80 ans de l’UMAM, Viallat, Charbonnel et 15 dessinateurs contemporains, Chateau-musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France |
| 2024 | Encore et encore, rituels d’artistes, Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2023 | Amour Systémique, Capc musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France La Répétition, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France |
| 2022 | VIALLAT/SAYTOUR, Presbytery of Aubais, Aubais, France Collection Collective ACMCM, à cent mètres du centre du monde / Centre d’Art Contemporain, Perpignan, France Tribute to Jacques Girard, Ombres Blanches, Toulouse, France Tauromachies, Mouriès, France |
| 2021 | Supports/Surfaces : Abstractions plurielles 1950-1980, Musée d’art de Pully, Pully, Switzerland Supports/Surfaces : Viallat & Saytour, Musée National d’Art et d’Histoire, Luxembourg, Luxembourg Expanded painting in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA Les murs reculent, Musée Matisse, Nice, France |
| 2019 | East West Jazz - André-Pierre Arnal, Patrick Saytour, Claude Viallat, Musée Pouchkine, Moscou, Russie Mare Nostrum: Identités Méditerranéennes, Espace Monte Cristo, Fondation Villa Datris, Paris, France Histoire de l’art cherche personnage..., CAPC Bordeaux, France Unfurled : Supports/Surfaces 1966-1976, MOCAD, Detroit, Etats-Unis Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d’une femme – Musée d’art contemporain, Saint-Etienne, France Un autre œil d’Apollinaire à aujourd’hui, LAAC Dunkerque, France Gigantisme – Art et Industrie, FRAC Grand Large Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque, France Supports/Surfaces, Tsinghua Art Museum, Pékin, China Pattern, décoration et crime, Le Consortium, Dijon, France La composante Peintures, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France |
| Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France | |
| Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France | |
| Carré d'Art, Musée d'Art Moderne de Nîmes, France | |
| Musée Cantini, Marseille, France | |
| Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nice, France | |
| Musée d'Art Moderne de Strasbourg, France |
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Carré d’Art, Nîmes
From October 27, 2023 to February 11, 2024
The Carré d’Art in Nîmes is dedicating a solo show to Claude Viallat, Et pourtant si…, curated by Matthieu Leglise. This wide-ranging exhibition offers a glimpse of a ten-year period in the expansion of a practice that never ceases to extend its play of colour into unexpected forms.
Chapelle Sainte-Marie-Claude, Annonay
Through August 19, 2022
Provocative and sumptuous, rigorous and ironic, Claude Viallat’s painting shows the power of color through the repetition of a simple form. At La Chapelle, the artist display a selection of recent, unstructured canvases that respond to the architecture of the place by the audacity of their form and the flamboyance of the color.
Claude Viallat - Libertad de Colores
MACBA, Buenos Aires
From March 4 to June 12, 2022
This exhibition brings together the most representative works of his oeuvre, which, grouped by theme, pay homage to one of the most important contemporary colourists, whose abstract pictorial syntax is constantly being renewed while still identifiable among all the others through its serial imprints, its materiality, the nature of its support, its manufacture, the surface treatment and its presentation. A prolific and demanding artist, Claude Viallat, who was one of the founders of the Supports-Surfaces movement created in 1970, has been creating for more than 60 years a universe that explodes with colours, leaving traces of his universal poetry in space and time.
Claude Viallat - Eclectique
Bonisson Art Center, Aix-en-Provence
From February 26 to June 12, 2022
Claude Viallat’s work is based on the conviction that “the object of painting is painting itself”, in a movement of repetition and overcoming: “The notion of repetition, of series or repetitions, becomes a de facto necessity”. The absence of subject matter allows him to concentrate on forms and structures, on the relationship between colours, on pictorial matter, generating a unique work on colour.
Claude Viallat - Kitchissime
Fondation GGL Helenis, Montpellier
Through May 30, 2022
The exhibition sheds light on a selection of recent works, objects made of rope with a vernacular rusticity, but also on fabrics painted with repeated motif, which became his signature. An always-renewed shape while the artist plays on the diversity of the materials and appropriates the raw support for a sound and rhythmic colourism transcending the simplicity of the motif.
Fall 2021
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia
The exhibition “Expanded Painting in the 1960s and 1970s” presents radical innovations in painting that testify to a pursuit of freedom and expression in the midst of a period marked by social and political unrest in the United States and abroad. From Alma Thomas’s mosaic-like painting of flowers to Sam Gilliam’s suspended, draped canvas, these works speak to an upending of barriers-be they artistic, ideological, racial, or rooted in gender stereotypes. By rethinking and systematically probing conventions associated with the painted canvas, these works ultimately speak to the desire for a deeper, more fundamental connection to nature, the body, movement, and light.
Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art
Marché-aux-Poissons L-2345 Luxembourg
Until August 29, 2021
In this exhibition important acquisitions from recent years are shown, focusing on works by two founding members of the Supports/Surfaces movement: Patrick Saytour and Claude Viallat. As a representative of the Nouvelle Peinture, Claude Viallat focuses on the primary and structural elements of painting: the canvas, the colour and the surface. Since 1966, he has been working on colour, which is both the subject and the object. The stretcher disappears. The free canvas is painted and against this background of colour, Viallat places stencil prints, repeatedly and in series. Most of the works presented here show that for him color is elementary to convey the repeated forms that lend his art coherent dimensions and rhythm, so characteristic of Supports/Surfaces.
From October 9, 2020 to March 31, 2021
The Musée Matisse, 164 Avenue des Arènes de Cimiez, 06000 Nice
The new exhibition of Matisse Museum in Nice shows the work of Henri Matisse’s posterity in the second half of the XXth century. This new circuit entitled “Les murs reculent” is inspired by a quote of the artist to the critic Georges Duthuit about Fauvism that summarise an essential aspect of his research. American and European Artists are presented in dialogue with the artworks of the museum collection incuding Jean Arp, Joseph Albers, Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, Ellsworth Kelly, Shirley Jaffe, Kenneth Noland, Al Held, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Aurélie Nemours, Simon Hantaï, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Claude Viallat, Daniel Buren.