Claude Viallat

Born in 1936, in Nîmes, France.

Lives and works in Nîmes, France.



   Education


1959   Montpellier Fine Arts School, France

1963   Paris Fine Arts School, France



   Awards


2007   Prix de peinture de la Fondation Simon et Cino del Duca, Institut de France

2011    Chevalier de la légion d'honneur



   Presentation


Claude Viallat is known for his contributions to the canon of modern painting through experimentation with texture, use of unstretched recycled fabrics, and mastery of color. A founding member of the Supports/Surfaces movement, Viallat studied at the École des Beaux-arts in Montpellier, France (1955–59), and the École des Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris (1962–63). While there, Viallat was exposed to the work of fellow artists such as Michel Parmentier and became interested in American Abstract Expressionist painters, above all Jackson Pollock. After completing his studies in Paris, Viallat leaned into abstraction and began experimentation with the formal elements of painting. A fundamental tenet of Viallat’s oeuvre is abandonment of the stretcher, allowing all kind of displays in the exhibition space and the use of materials such as draped canvas, tarpaulin, and recycled textiles such as sheets, rugs, curtains, and nets.



   Collections publiques


Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France

Musée national d’art moderne - centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille, France

Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain de Nice, France

Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France

Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France

Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

Frac Picardie, Amiens, France

Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne, France 

Musée Picasso, Antibes, France

Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France

Frac Normandie, Caen, France

Musée de Grenoble, France

Musée d’art de Nantes, France 

Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France 

CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France

Frac Provence-Alpes- Côtes d’Azur, Marseille, France

Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France 

Musée d’art moderne de Céret, France

Musée-Château d’Annecy, France

Collection départementale de la Seine-Saint-Denis 

Fonds d’art contemporain - Paris Collection, France

Frac Normandie, Caen, France 

Frac Normandie, Rouen, France 

Frac Occitanie, Montpellier, France 

Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

Collections du musée départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France

Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France 

Musée Cantini, Marseille, France

Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France

Musée d’Art de Toulon, Toulon, France

Fondation Cartier, Paris, France

ADAC, Saint-Priest, France

École des Beaux-Arts d’Annecy, France

Musée Sara Hilden, Tampere, Finlande

Musée de Bâle, Suisse

SMAK, Gand, Belgique

Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Belgique

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Canada

MOMA, New-York, États-Unis

The Sezon Fondation, Tokyo, Japon

The National Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japon

Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japon

Setagaya Art Museum, Setagaya, Japon

Collection Société Générale, paris, France

Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France

Collection départementale d’art contemporain du Var, Châteauvert, France

From 1966, the year he invented forms, up until today, one main characteristic distinguishes Claude Viallat's work: its complete freedom from aesthetic commitment. The 1970's offer Claude Viallat the possibility to develop his formal vocabulary further. Going beyond the systematization of his Supports/Surfaces years, the artist returns to innovative textures and materials. Tracing shapes, he uses strategies to distort them, superposing up to five canvases before painting them: it is the "bad painting" period. This brief moment in his career opened up on years of blossoming and deepening of his artistic researches.


These years demonstrate a real variety in his construction of forms. The latters are no longer solely flat, like in the works of the "Surface" years, but sometimes made of a myriad of kaleidoscopic colors. Unprimed canvases are used as blank space and forms, the key thread running through this decade, are delimited by colors. While keeping the systematization of his formal vocabulary, Viallat progressively frees himself from his monochromatic practice. The forms, painted on different panels, also throw the composition in new directions and enliven the patterns. The typical Supports/Surfaces grid progressively disappears. It is also a very productive period during which he pays several tributes to Matisse and Manet. These creations are probably among his most touching and accomplished.


Claude Viallat's work questions the practice of painting putting colors on a flawless surface by applying colors on a material surface, which existence itself interferes with colours. Using dirty and worn-out canvases makes it harder to achieve "a beautiful painting". The artist gives value to the underlying and preexisting color and tries to enhance it through his work. Vlieseline, tondi, doors, diptychs, and open canvases are some of the supports on which he playfully goes around or fills up forms with vivid and bright colors. Viallat dances with the canvas blank space to create unique vibrations and wave-like effects.


Solo shows at Ceysson Gallery
Claude Viallat , Saint-Etienne
December 16, 2023 - February 17, 2024

Claude Viallat, New York
September 08 - October 22, 2022

Claude Viallat, Panéry, Pouzilhac
July 09 - September 30, 2022

Claude Viallat, Lyon
June 18 - July 31, 2021

Claude Viallat, Wandhaff
February 13 - March 20, 2021

Claude Viallat, Paris
May 24 - June 23, 2018

Claude Viallat, New York
May 06 - July 15, 2017

Claude Viallat, Offsite
July 23 - July 24, 2016

Claude Viallat, Paris
March 31 - May 28, 2016

Claude Viallat, Genève
May 28 - August 02, 2015

Claude Viallat, Luxembourg
May 01 - May 10, 2014

Claude Viallat, Saint-Etienne
September 29, 2011 - January 31, 2012

Claude Viallat, Luxembourg
March 03 - May 01, 2010

Claude Viallat, Luxembourg
June 12 - July 27, 2008


Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
The Spaces In Between, New York
September 09 - November 07, 2020

At Jean Prouvé, Offsite
July 26 - July 28, 2020

Spring Paris, Paris
May 18 - July 23, 2020

Guerre(s), Paris
December 18, 2019 - February 01, 2020

Le grand détournement , Paris
June 27 - August 03, 2019

Tribute to Vicky Rémy, Offsite
July 13 - July 14, 2019

Unfurled: Supports/Surfaces 1966-1976, Offsite
February 01 - April 21, 2019

Joe Fyfe - Claude Viallat, Saint-Etienne
December 21, 2018 - February 23, 2019

Jacques Lepage. Dossier Supports/Surfaces, Paris
December 19, 2018 - January 26, 2019

10 YEARS in Luxembourg, Wandhaff
June 02 - August 04, 2018

Inflatable tear, New York
January 23 - February 24, 2018

Animals : intimates works, Paris
December 15, 2016 - February 04, 2017

Sculptures, Matters, Materials, Textures..., Offsite
September 10 - October 16, 2016

Messagier - Viallat, Wandhaff
March 12 - May 21, 2016

Claude Viallat, Luxembourg
June 20 - September 20, 2013

Olivier Mosset - Claude Viallat, Genève
March 15 - April 28, 2012

Group show, Genève
February 04 - March 10, 2012

Bagarre Générale - 5 Ans, Saint-Etienne
March 24 - May 15, 2011

Thema 4 : Abstraction(s), Luxembourg
December 06, 2009 - January 11, 2010

Thema 01 / object  / sculpture, Luxembourg
January 22 - March 02, 2009

SUPPORTS / SURFACES, Saint-Etienne
May 30 - August 30, 2008




Solo shows (selection)

2023
A Couple of Sidesteps, Galerie Templon, Brussels
Et pourtant si…, Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France
Recent Paintings, Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Claude Viallat, Johyun Gallery, Dalmaji, Busan, South Korea

2022
Claude Viallat, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, Upper East Side, NY, USA
Libertad de Colores, MACBA, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires, San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2021
Et pourtant si..., Carré d'Art, Nîmes, France
Bâches Militaires & Taun, Ceysson & Bénétière, Lyon, France
Dans tous les sens, Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff, Luxembourg
Suture et Varia, Galerie Templon, Paris, France

2019
Viallat Sérigraphie, Centre Culturel Bérenger de Frédol, Cairove-les-Marguelone, France
Malereien, Kajetan Gallery, Berlin, Allemagne
Claude Viallat, Libérer la couleur, Venet Foundation, Le Muy, France
Re-commencer, La halle des Bouchers, Vienna, France

2018
El horizonte del color, curated by Nicolas Martin Ferreira, Casa Blanca - Hotel Hilton - Papaya Planet, Panama City, Panama
Objets, Cerceaux, Filets, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Art Basel Unlimited, Galerie Daniel Templon, Basel, Switzerland
Inside and Outside, HdM Gallery, Beijing, China

2017
Sans titre, FIAC Hors les Murs, Galerie Ceyson & Bénétière, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
Major works 1967 - 2017, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, United States
La peinture à perte de vue, curated by Nicolas Martin Ferreira, Casa França - Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Toiles, Objets, Filets, L'aspirateur, Narbonne, France
in situ, Palais des archevêques, Narbonne, France
FIAC Hors les Murs, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

2016
Cerceaux, Objets, Filets..., Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
Années 80, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Peindre sans retenue : Jean Messagier - Claude Viallat, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Wandhaff, Luxembourg
Claude Viallat chez Jean Prouvé, Beauvallon, France

2015
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Andres Thalmman, Art Fair at Punta del Este, Uruguay
Galerie Bea Ba, Marseille, France

2014
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Claude Viallat - Der Stoff der Malerei, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
La Simplicité évidente, Galerie Fumagalli, Milan, Italy
Rétrospective - Claude Viallat, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Claude Viallat - Der Stoff der Malerei, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Château de Ratilly, Ratilly, France
Claude Viallat, Foundation of Contemporary Art, Bratislava, Slovakia
Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium

2013
Als marges de la pintura, National Gallery, Andorra
Galerie Delacroix, Tanger, Morocco
Galerie Petits Papiers, Brussels, Belgium
300 Peintures 1979 - 1995, Fragments d’une oeuvre initiée en 1966, Rue de Hanovre, curated by Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
Hommage à Chabaud, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
Arsenal, Museum of Soissons, France
Claude Viallat - Tauromachies, Aubais, France
Claude Viallat - Der Stoff der Malerei, Grounds for painting, Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany

2012
Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Peintures et objets, Museum of Louviers, France
Claude Viallat, Peintures, cerceaux & Toros, Musée de l’hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France
Claude Viallat aux marges de la peinture, Museum of Touquet-Paris-Plage, Le Touquet, France
Galerie Quadri, Brussels, Belgium

2011
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Museum of Ferrières, France
Maison des arts, Bages, France
Musée Faure, Aix les Bains, France
Arènes d’Arles, Arles, France
Frost Art Museum, Miami, United States
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Saint Etienne, France
Espace Villeglié, Saint Gratien, France
Galerie Matisse, Casablanca, Morocco
Centre d’art, Enghien les Bains, France
Claude Viallat aquarelles récentes, Galerie Quadri Ben Durant, Brussels, Belgium
Claude Viallat, Recent Works, Hélène Lamarque Gallery, Miami, United States

2010
Cultural Center Damas, Syria
Oeuvres récentes et objets, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
Galerie Jean Greset, Besançon, France
From point to point, Nîmes, France
La Verrière, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Brussels, Belgium

2009
Raboutages, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
Musée National du Mali - Quartiers d’Orange, Bamako, Mali
Toiles, objets, cordes et filets, Galerie Fumagalli, Milan, Italy
Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Museum of Fine Art, Brest, France
Centre La Passerelle, Brest, France
Galerie Matisse, Marrakesh, Morocco
Collège Pierre Mendès France, Saint André, France
Galerie Thérèse Roussel, Perpignan, France

2008
Fondation Zapettini, Milan, Italy
L’ivresse absolu, Fondation Salomon, Annecy, France
Claude Viallat annonce la couleur !, Maison Carré - Arènes - Mur Foster Carré d’Art - Museum of Fine Art, Nîmes, France
Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
Espace Riquet, Béziers, France
Keumsan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Claude Viallat - Papier, Gallery Itsutsuji, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie des accumulations - FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France

2007
Maison des arts, Malakoff, France
Claude Viallat - Estampes, Espace del arte, Château de Grèzes, France
Galerie Hélène Trintignan, Montpellier, France
Claude Viallat en Ré, Galerie Kahn, Ars en Ré, France
Comptoir international du livre d’artiste, Marseille, France
Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Claude Viallat - GIANTS, Airport of Butzweilerhof, Koln, Germany
La haute note jaune, Fondation Van Gogh, Arles, France
Tauromachies, Beaucaire, France
Les toiles postales, Musée de La Poste, Paris, France
12e Rencontres d’Art contemporain, Villa saint Cyr, Bourg la Reine, France
Hôpital Bicêtre, Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

2006
Tentes militaires, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
RECTO-VERSO, FABRIKculture, Wittersdorf, Germany
Galerie Athanor, Marseille, France
Claude Viallat - oeuvres récents et Tauromachies, Crypte Sainte Eugénie, Biarritz, France
Galerie IAC, Saint Etienne, France
Galerie Estiarte, Madrid, Spain
Centre européen d’actions artistiques contemporaines - CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
University of Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
Art center of Yonne, Auxerre, France
Pont du Gard, Remoulins, France
Hiyake Galerie, Grimaud, France
Claude Viallat, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2005
Galleria d’arte Marchetti, Roma, Italy
Claude Viallat - Hommage(s) à Matisse, Musée Matisse, Le Cateau Cambrésis, France
Théâtre du Hangar, Montpellier, France
Peintures récentes et objets, Center of Mediterranean Art, Toulon, France
E.S.P.A.C.E. Peiresc, Toulon, France
Eglise Saint Augustin, Bergamo, Italy
Galerie Philippe Kang, Seoul, South Korea
Art Museum Roger-Quilliot, Clermont Ferrand, France
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy

2004
Portes et fenêtres, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Galerie Jacques Girard, Toulouse, France
Objets, Galerie d’art contemporain de l’Université de Toulouse - Le Mirail, Toulouse, France
Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
Jardin Borda, Cuernava, Museo metropolitano, Monterrey ; Mérida, Museo Macay, Mexico
Espace Jean Legendre - Théâtre de Compiègne, France

2003
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
Cordes et filets, Musée Pierre-André Benoit, Alès, France
La galerie frontière, Armentières, France
Art Vailhan, Vailhan, France
Galerie Léa Grdt, Luxembourg
Claude Viallat without frame, Jendela, Esplanade Mall, Singapore
Claude Viallat- Hommage à Chabaud, Musée Chabaud, Graveson, France

2002
Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, United States
Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-Paul de Vence
Espace Gustave Fayet, Serignan, France
Claude Viallat - Tauromachies, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, France
Galerie Estiarte, Madrid, Spain
L’art dans les chapelles, Morbihan, France
Museum of Modern Art of Céret, Céret, France
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
Chapelle des Capucins, Aigues Mortes, France

2001
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
National Gallery of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Marseille et après …, Galerie de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
Museum of MuBe, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fundaçao cultural de Curitiba, Brazil
Imperial Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2000
Objets, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Claude Viallat, oeuvres sur papiers (1968-1990), Museum of Modern Art of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
Festival de la Garonne, Toulouse, France
Une oeuvre - Claude Viallat, Château de Villeneuve - Fondation Emile Hugues, Vence, France
Claude Viallat - Estampes, Châtellerault, France
Claude Viallat, oeuvres sur papier 1999, Galleria Peccolo, Livourne, Italy
Claude Viallat dans les collections du Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, IUFM, Lyon, France

1999
Claude Viallat, Galleria Plumira, Udine, Italy
French Institute - Galerie 121, Casablanca, Morocco
Claude Viallat, Répétitions, Shangai - Art Museum, Chengdu - Kunming City Museum, Kunming - Heping Museum, China
Ryhmus, Farben, Raum, St. Petri Kirche, Lübeck, Germany
Itsutsuji Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Won Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
French Institute, Galerie Bab Kebir, Rabat, Morocco

1998
Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Claude Viallat, la période de Nice 1964-1967, Foundation Emile Hugues, Vence, France
L’Échelle, Hôtel Beury, Epernay, France
Claude Viallat : Bannières et filets, French Institute of Florence et Fiesole Musei, Italy
Claude Viallat - Acquisitions 1985-1998, Arthotèque du Limousin, Limoges, France
Galerie Akhnaton, Cairo, Egypt
Course libre, Contemporary Art Center, Le Cailar, France

1997
Hall du Palais des Congrès, Paris, France
Galerie Yahia, Tunis, Tunisia
Galerie Athanor, Marseille, France
Galerie Plurima, Udine, Italy
Musée de la Mine, Salle des Pendus, Saint Etienne, France
Temple de Caussade, Caussade, France
Claude Viallat, Oeuvres récentes 1990-1996, Pavillon du musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Claude Viallat. Espaces limitrophes, Musée de l’Hôtel - Dieu, Mantes la Jolie, France
Claude Viallat, toiles récentes, Maison Coccoz, Saint Tropez, France
Galerie Orenga de Gaffory, Patrimonio, France
Courses libres, Dessins de Claude Viallat, Contemporary Art Center, Le Cailar, France
Obaine Gallery, Piran, Slovenia

1996
Claude Viallat, Objets 1974-1996, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
Musée de la Cour d’or, Metz, France
Claude Viallat, 1986-1996, Anciens couvents des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France
Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand, France

1995
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung, Ludwig, Wien, Austria
Arthotèque de Nantes, France
Galerie Adolf & Christiane von Ribbentrop, Eltville am Rhein, Germany
French Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel

1994
Galerie Athanor, Marseille, France
Galerie Hélène Trintignan, Montpellier, France
Claude Viallat : Objets 1973-1993, Galerie Itsutsuji, Tokyo, Japan
Won Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Musée Victor Charreton, Bourgoin-Jallieu, France
Fine art academy, Beyrouth, Liban
Galerie Espace Ecureuil, Toulouse, France
Galerie art & Essai, Université de Rennes, France
Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France



Group shows (selection)

2023
Albert Baronian: Quinquagesimum, Fondation CAB Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Vestiges Du Futur, MRAC Occitane, Sérignan, France
The Truthful Eye: The Museum in the Second Degree, MAC/VAL, Paris, France
Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat: Encounter, Pace London, Mayfair, London, UK
Artist/Artisan? - New presentation of the Daniel Cordier collection, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

2022
Small Sizes 2022-2023, Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Exposition de groupe, Foreland, New York, USA
Hommage à Shirley Jaffe, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Naissance et vie des formes. Dessins contemporains de la collection, MCBA, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Artists of the Gallery: Christmas Edition, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland

2021
Small Sizes 2021-2022: Twelve.21 - One.22, Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Exposition de collection, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
SOL! The Territory Biennial, MO.CO Panacée, Montpellier, France
La vie Dans L'espace, Accrochage des Collections, MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan, France
Exposition de groupe, Galerie Claire Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Collection 2: Focus on Contemporary Art from the U.S., France, Germany, and the U.K., National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2020
Small Sizes 2020-2021, Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Signées et numérotées, Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, France
The Spaces In Between, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
Accrochage des Collections, MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan, France
Spring, Paris, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Exposition de groupe, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France

2019
Guerre(s), Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Repetition: Slide, Plie, Repeat, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan
Petits Formats 2019-2020, Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Supports/Surfaces: Objects of Knowledge, Document, Chicago, West Town, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Twenty-four Hours In The Life Of A Woman, MAMC Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
André Marfaing: Derniers Jours, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
Back To Simple Radical Gestures - The Supports/Surfaces Movement: Within And Around, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China
Le grand détournement, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Collection. La composante Peintures, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
Unfurled: Supports/Surfaces 1966-1976, MOCAD, Museum of contemporary art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA

2018
Joe Fyfe & Claude Viallat: Parasols, Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Étienne, France
Jacques Lepage et Supports/Surfaces, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Modern Art Revisited: from the collection of Fukuoka Art, Hiroshima city Museum of contemporary art, Hiroshima, Japan
The Surface of the East Coast: Supports/Surfaces from Nice to New York, Bienvenu stein berg & Partners Gallery, New York, USA
The Surface of the East Coast, Turn Gallery, New York, USA
The Surface of the East Coast, HDM Gallery, Beijing, China
Pizza is God, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
Human Applause, Bortolami, New York, USA
Inflatable tear, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, USA
Around The World Through Tondos, Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris, France

2017
Supports/Surfaces, L’histoire Continue…, Galerie Dutko, île Saint Louis, Paris, France
Summer Trip, Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, New York, USA
Non-Rétrospectif, Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Voyelles, Huberty & Breyne, Paris Matignon, France
Based on a true story, Galerie Debrouillon (Haut Marais), Paris, France
Supports / Surfaces, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, California, USA

2016
Animals: Intimates Works, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Sculpture, Matters, Materials, Textures…, Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff, Koerich, Luxembourg
Cinq tableaux pour Jean Fournier, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Messagier - Viallat: Peindre Sans Retenue, Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff, Koerich, Luxembourg
Petits Formats et œuvres Sur Papier, Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France

2015
Entre Eux Et Moi, Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, France
HOW TO DRAPE THE CONCRETE, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels, Belgium

2014
Picture/Painting/Object, Baronian Xippas, Brussels, Belgium
Mono-ha (School of Things) vs. Support / Surface, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan
Hors-champ. De la pensée à l'oeuvre [Outside the Box: From the Thought to the Work], Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Supports/Surfaces Is Alive And Well, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, California, USA
Exposition de groupe: Transition Colors, Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Collections, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
Monographs

2021

Claude Viallat, Taureaux, Edited by Aymeric Mantoux, Ceysson Éditions d’Art, Collection Modernes

2017
Claude Viallat, Dessins, Éditions Ceysson, collection Modernes, French-English edition

2014
Claude Viallat, Écrits, Ceysson Éditions d’Art, collection L'Âge Moderne, French-English edition

2012
Claude Viallat - Cerceaux, 1972/2011, Montcouquiol Alain, Éditions Voix

2011
Le Psychiatre et le Torero, Ceysson Éditions d'Art, Essay by Michel Steyaert, with illustrations by Philippe Favier and Claude Viallat

2006
Claude Viallat, Oeuvres, écrits, entretiens, Pierre Wat, Tours, France



Solo exhibition catalogs

2017
Claude Viallat – Toiles, cerceaux et objets, Text by Pierre Manuel, Narbonne, France
La couleur à perte de vue, Casa França Brasil, Éditions Ceysson

2016
Claude Viallat, les années 1980, Alfred Paquement, galerie Daniel Tampon, Paris, France

2014
Viallat, Une rétrospective, Musée Fabre exhibition catalog, Montpellier, France

2013
Claude Viallat, Matmut Foundation for the Arts in Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville and Soissons, Éditions Ceysson



Group exhibition catalogs

2018
Dossier Supports / Surfaces, Jacques Lepage, Ceysson Éditions d'Art

2017
Supports / Surfaces – Les origines 1966 - 1970, Éd. Carré d'Art / Ceysson & Bénétière

2014
Supports / Surfaces, A moment / A movement, Bernard Ceysson and Rachel Stella, exhibition catalog, Ceysson Éditions d’art

2013
Supports Surfaces… et après, exhibition catalog, Beaulieu Abbey, Contemporary art center, France

2012
Robinson, ou la force des choses, Daniel Dezeuze, Patrick Saytour, Claude Viallat, Ceysson Éditions d’Art

2011
Dezeuze, Saytour, Viallat, Ceysson Éditions d'Art, exhibition catalog, Déborah Laks

2010
Le Moment Supports/Surfaces, Ceysson Éditions d’Art, Deborah Laks and Bernard Ceysson




Press

2023
Fad Magazine, « The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to See in London in Late July »
Art Review, "ArtReview Asia Summer 2023 Issue out Now »
Artdaily, « Pace Gallery presents Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat in a two person show in London »
Art Review, « Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat: Analogous Tendencies »
Art in Amercica, « From the Archives: Why Don’t Critics Make Judgments Anymore? »

2022
Two Coats of Paint, « NYC Selected Gallery Guide: August »
Art in America, « An American in Paris: How Painter Shirley Jaffe Mastered the Secret of Hard-Edge Vitality »
Ignant, « Artmonte-Carlo 2022 Satisfies the French Riviera’s Vociferous Appetite for Art »

2021
Artlyst, « FIAC Paris 47th Edition What the Dealers Had to Say »
New City Art, « The Illusion of Painting: A Review of Claude Viallat at Document »
Hyperallergic, « When Abstraction Exploded in Form and Meaning »
Art Review, « Art Supermarket: Exhibitions to See in Paris »
ArtDaily, « Radical Exhibition at Galerie Templon Defies the Codes of Painting, Volume and Space »
LE POINT.FR - Panéry - Jean-Michel de Alberti - 10 septembre 2023
LE POINT - Jean-Michel de Alberti
September 10, 2023
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At TEFAF, Old Master Art Remains the Majority
LE JOURNAL DES ARTS - Marie Potard
April 03, 2023
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At TEFAF, Old Master Art Remains the Majority
LE JOURNAL DES ARTS - Marie Potard
April 03, 2023
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LUXUS + - Art Basel Miami : découvrez le programme - 2022
LUXUS + - La Redaction
December 01, 2022
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Claude Viallat - Le petit bulletin Lyon
LE PETIT BULLETIN -
June 30, 2021
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L'OEIL - Anne-Charlotte Michaut
April 01, 2021
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THE ART NEWSPAPER - Stéphane Renault
March 01, 2021
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Supports/Surfaces: Viallat & Saytour
CITY -
February 25, 2021
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MIDI LIBRE - Jean-Marie Gavalda
February 20, 2021
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Claude Viallat GALERIE CEYSSON & BÉNÉTIÈRE Sous le signe de la couleur
LE QUOTIDIEN DE L'ART - Rafael Pic
February 18, 2021
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LE MONDE -
March 23, 2020
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L'ESSOR LOIRE - Daniel Brignon
January 05, 2019
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LE SOIR - Aliénor Debrocq
August 22, 2018
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Claude Viallat - Cerceaux, filets, objets
TELERAMA -
June 06, 2018
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LES LETTRES FRANÇAISES - Marc Sagaert
June 01, 2018
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Claude Viallat
TELERAMA - Laurent Boudier
May 30, 2018
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Claude Viallat. Radical Abstraction
ART PRICE -
May 29, 2018
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THE ART NEWSPAPER -
May 24, 2018
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10 galeries incontournables du Paris Gallery Weekend
A NOUS PARIS - Romain Salomon
May 17, 2018
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ABCDESEVILLA - Claude Viallat / a colorist poster for the 2018 bullring - 2018
ABCDESEVILLA - Lorena Munoz
February 06, 2018
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LE JOURNAL DES ARTS - Stéphane Renault
December 15, 2017
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CONNAISSANCE DES ARTS - Jean-François Lasnier
November 23, 2017
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LES INROCKUPTIBLES - Ingrid Luquet-Gad
October 25, 2017
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From Mao to Matisse: Claude Viallat in New York
ART CRITICAL - David Carrier
September 02, 2017
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Claude Viallat oeuvres majeures 1967-2017
TIME OUT - Howard Halle
July 05, 2017
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What to see in New York Art Galleries this week
THE NEW YORK TIMES - Jason Farago
June 15, 2017
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PAPERJAM - Céline Coubray
May 03, 2017
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Ceysson & Bénétière ont passé des Bains à New York
BILAN - Etienne Dumont
April 27, 2017
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Ceysson & Bénétière to Open New York Space in May
ARTFORUM -
April 24, 2017
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Supports/Surfaces
ARTFORUM - Andy Campbell
February 11, 2017
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International artists for exhibitions XXL
LUXEMBOURG WORT - Nathalie Becker
September 14, 2016
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LE MONDE - Philippe Dagen
August 28, 2014
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Supports/Surfaces
THE NEW YORK TIMES - Roberta Smith
June 27, 2014
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Supports / Surfaces: Revival and reminiscences at the FIAC
LE QUOTIDIEN DE L'ART - Roxana Azimi
October 26, 2013
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LE JEUDI -
November 30, -1
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Claude Viallat
Claude Viallat
April 01, 2021
Claude Viallat - Cerceaux, Objets, Filets, Paris
Claude Viallat - Cerceaux, Objets, Filets, Paris
March 31, 2016
Claude Viallat FIAC Hors les murs 2017
Claude Viallat FIAC Hors les murs 2017
November 23, 2017
Claude Viallat :major works 1967-2017
Claude Viallat :major works 1967-2017
May 24, 2017
Animaux : oeuvres intimes
Animaux : oeuvres intimes
December 22, 2016
FIAC 2016
FIAC 2016
October 18, 2016
Sculptures, Matters, Materials, Textures... Foetz, Luxembourg
Sculptures, Matters, Materials, Textures... Foetz, Luxembourg
September 10, 2016