Nourished by modernity and the gothic, by A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and the tragedies of William Shakespeare, Théodore Melchior dedicates himself to creating the surreal artifacts of a polychrome society. Théodore’s plastic and narrative quest—sculpture, image, text—pursues the turmoils of the contemporary world with the same momentum of humor and romanticism, oscillating between splendors and catastrophes.
Théodore Melchior, born in 1990, lives and works in Paris. He graduated from ESAD in Reims in 2017 and was a member of the collective Chevaline Corporation from 2014 to 2020.
Born in 1990.
Lives and works in Paris.
EDUCATION
2016
École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims, under the professorship of Giuseppe Gabellone
2008-2010
Licence Arts du spectacle cinématographique, Université Paris 8
EXHIBITIONS
2024
PB PROJECT: Open locks, whoever knocks, PARIS-B, Paris, France
2023
Exhibition Duo#5: Chœur with Marion Bataillard, in partnership with CNAP, Maison Louis jardin, Marne, France
Poush Design Week, focus art & objets, Poush Manifesto, Aubervilliers, France
Fine Arts Dpt., Poush Manifesto, Aubervilliers, France
2022
Group show Global Pool Club, Poush Manifesto, Clichy, France
2021
Group show Miniatures, curators : Leïa Fouquet, Margot Rouas et Sarah Nasla. Confort Mental, Paris, France
2020
Presentation at the end of the residency at the Paris Centre for Cosmological Physics, with the Chevaline Corporation collective, Paris, France
Group show, Jeune Création, with the Chevaline Corporation collective, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, France
2019
Group show, with the Chevaline Corporation collective, Jeune Création and Galerie art-exprim, Paris, France
Lecture of Le Petit Déjeuner is the most important meal of the day, Feÿ Festival, Yonne, France
2018
Presentation of the Chevaline Corporation collective at the launch of Artist Run Spaces, around and about, organized by Rozenn Canevet, Fondation Ricard, Paris, France
Group show C’était l’été, with the Chevaline Corporation collective, Galerie des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
2017
Group show Freak Park, with the Chevaline Corporation collective, Villa Belleville, Paris, France
RESIDENCIES
2020
Paris Centre for Cosmological Physics, Paris, France
2019
Maison Louis Jardin, Marne, France
2016-2017
Chevaline Corporation residency at Villa Belleville, Paris, France
AWARD
2016
Winner of the Prisme prize, club of corporate sponsors, for the short film Escarmouche
PUBLICATION
« Le petit déjeuner is the most important meal of the day », Theodore Melchior, First Laid, 2021
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Théodore Melchior
PB PROJECT: Open locks, whoever knocks
10/31/2024 - 12/21/2024
