Gérard Titus-Carmel

Born on October 10, 1942, in Paris. Lives and works in Oulchy-le-Château, in the Aisne department. Studied at the École Boulle in Paris from 1958 to 1962, where, between drawing, style analysis, and modeling classes, he chose to spend his long hours in the workshop engraving on silverware. First solo exhibition in 1964. A painter, draftsman, and engraver, he has participated in more than 500 group exhibitions and nearly 300 solo exhibitions—including a dozen retrospectives—dedicated to him around the world, where his work is represented in some 100 museums and public collections. He has created monumental works for the Ministry of Finance in Paris, the Grand Hall Olivier Messiaen of the DRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Châlons-en-Champagne, and the Palais des Congrès in Nantes.

He officially represented France at numerous international events, including the Paris Biennale (1969), Expo '70 (Osaka, 1970), the Alexandria Biennale (1972), “Amsterdam-Paris-Düsseldorf” (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1972), Documenta VI (Kassel, 1977), European Dialogue (Sydney Biennale, 1979), Biennale Internazionale d'Arte (Venice, 1972 and 1984), "Art in France: A Century of Inventions (Moscow, Leningrad, 1989), Contemporary Art in France (Seville World's Fair, 1992), etc.

Also an engraver, he has participated in the most important international print exhibitions, such as the biennials in Ljubljana, Krakow, Tokyo, Vienna, Grenchen, Biella, Bradford, Baden-Baden, Prague, etc. He has illustrated numerous works by poets and writers and has himself published some fifty books to date, including more than twenty collections of poetry and as many essays on art and literature.

He has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, including the 2014 Grand Prix de Peinture from the Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation for his entire body of work, under the auspices of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France.