Artist Bios

Ethan Assouline (b. 1994, Paris, France) lives and works in Paris. His practice explores various media, including sculpture, publishing, writing and drawing. In 2020, he published the magazine Disparaitre, focusing on the modern city and language. He is involved in various collectives, including Show magazine and Massage Production. His work has been exhibited at Treize (Paris); Zabriskie Point (Geneva); Macao (Milan); Le Crédac (Ivry-sur-Seine); Le Plateau-Frac Ile de France (Paris); Bonington Gallery(Nottingham); Villa Arson (Nice); and New Gallery (Paris); amongst others. @ethanass

Karen Barbour (b. 1956, San Francisco CA) lives and works in Inverness, California. Barbour earned her BFA from the University of California at Davis in 1978 and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981. She has had solo exhibitions at Moon Grove (Manchester); Harkawik (Los Angeles); Jack Hanley (New York); Jack Hanley (San Francisco); amongst others. She has been included in group exhibitions at Post Times (New York); Harkawik (Los Angeles); White Columns (New York); Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo); Museum of Contemporary Art (Rome); amongst others. @karen__barbour

Hélène Baril (b. 1978) lives and works in Paris. She has had solo exhibitions at Treignac Projet (Treignac, France); Pauline Perplexe (Arcueil, France); Cocotte (Paris); CAC Lausanne; Les Bains Douches Alençon (Alençon, France); amongst others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at La Salle de bains (Lyon, France); Palais de Tokyo (Paris); Maison des Arts Saint-Cirq-Lapopie; amongst others. @hhbaril

Anne Bourse (b. 1982, Lyon, France) lives and works in Saint Denis, France. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Bourse’s work incorporates swirling lines and letters that look like they came out of burlesque cartoons or psychedelic frescoes. She works across media including painting, drawing, and textiles. Recent exhibitions include Galerie Édouard Manet (Gennevilliers, France); Crèvecoeur (Paris); Le Crédac, Ivry- sur-Seine (Paris); Palais de Tokyo (Paris); Scheusal (Berlin); CAC Brétigny (Brétigny- sur-Orge, France); Frac Île de France (Paris); amongst others. @anne.bourse

Corentin Canesson (b. 1988, Brest, France) lives and works in Troyes, France. Canesson studied at the École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne in Rennes where he received a DNSEP in 2011. He is a professor of painting at the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts. Recently, he has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Sator (Romainville, France); Circuit art Center (Lausane, Switzerland); Visual Arts Center (Austin, Texas); Gallery Nathalie Obadia (Paris); Centre d’art Contemporain le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (Paris); Centre d’art Contemporain Passerelle (Brest); amongst others. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Crac 19 (Montbéliard, France); Villa Arson (Nice); Musée Zadkine (Paris); FRAC Bretagne (Rennes); Art au Centre (Liege); Frac Champagne-Ardenne (Reims); Les Abattoirs de Toulouse (Toulouse); Jean Brolly Gallery (Paris); amongst others. He is also the guitarist of the experimental band TNHCH. @corentincanesson

Sarah Chess (b. 1997, Palo Alt, California) lives and works in San Francisco, California. Chess received her BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020 and her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2023. Her work has been exhibited at Upper Market Gallery (San Francisco, CA); the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin (Austin, TX); the New Wight Gallery at UCLA; amongst others. She is a resident art teacher at the Town School for Boys in San Francisco. @sayyes2chess

Camille Girard (b. 1985, Quimper, France) and Paul Brunet (b. 1980, Angoulême, France). Girard and Brunet sustain a collaborative practice and live and work in Quimper, France. Girard and Brunet graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux- Arts de Quimper in 2008. Their work has been shown at Frac Bretagne (Brest, France); Quartier général, EESAB-site de Quimper (Quimper, France); FRAC Des Pays de la Loire (Carquefou, France); Mains D'Oeuvres - Saint-Ouen (Saint-Ouen, France); Project Room, Le Quartier (Quimper, France); Galerie Artem (Quimper, France); Visual Arts Center (Austin, Texas); amongst others. @camille.girard_et_paul.brunet

Sarah Holveck (b. 1987, Mulhouse, France) and lives and works in Paris, France. She is a visual artist and curator who writes extensively about French contemporary art. She opened founded an artist-run production and exhibition space called Pauline Perplexe, Arcueil, a suburb of Paris. Pauline Perplexe organizes 10-12 exhibitions per year, and is supported by the DRAC Île-de-France. Holveck’s work has been exhibited widely, and recent exhibitions include Paris Internationale (Paris), Pauline Perplexe (Paris); Presque tout, Bagnoler (Bagnolet, France); amongst others. Her work is included in the collection of the FRAC-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine. @sarahholveck

Em Kettner (b. 1988, Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in Richmond, California. Kettner earned her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions include François Ghebaly (New York and Los Angeles); Chapter (New York); Specialist (Seattle); Goldfinch (Chicago); amongst others. She is the recipient of the Wynn Newhouse Award, the MIUSA Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability, and an SAIC Teaching Fellowship. @em_kettner

Boris Kurdi (b. 1990) lives and works in Paris. He studied Germanic civilization and philosophy at the Sorbonne, and art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris. He has long assisted the artist Camille Blatrix. Following the Fin del Mundo exhibition organized by artist-run-space Bagnoler, and the publication of his book Physical Strategy, Epoxy and Crimes, self-published with artist Josquin Gouilly Frossard, he won the Ricard Foundation Prize for Contemporary Art. He currently works in a small auction house alongside his work as a visual artist. His work can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou museum in Paris (France) and many young collectors. @boriskurdi

Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán (b. 1999, Berkeley, California) lives and works in Berkeley, California. He studied at Parsons School of Design and the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. His first solo exhibition was held at Room 3557 Gallery (Los Angeles). His work has been exhibited the RISD Museum (Providence, RI) ; Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (Fall River, MA) ; Bureau (New York) ; Part 2 Gallery (Oakland) ; Good Mother Studio (Oakland) ; and the Watts Towers Art Center (Los Angeles). Muñoz-Guzmán recently published his first monograph, Brown Eyes from Russell Street, which was acquired by the SFMOMA Library, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley’s Latinx Research Library, the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), and the Oakland Public Library. Muñoz- Guzmán is a facilitator for artist William Scott at Creative Growth in Oakland, California. @hectorfmunoz

Florence Taburet (b. Paris, 1957 d. Brest, 2024). Taburet graduated from the École des Beaux Arts de Brest in 1982 and spent her career as the graphic designer for the city of Brest until 2019. She recently showed her work at the Le Virage (Quimper).

TNHCH is an experimental rock band with eclectic influences combining post-rock, post-punk, electronic and ambient music. Born in Rennes in 2013 under the impetus of Corentin Canesson (guitar) and Arthur Beuvier (machines, synthesizers), then joined by Damien Le Dévédec (bass, vocals), Tim Karbon (drums, percussion) and Maëla Bescond (vocals & bass). Previous albums: “Retrospective My Eye” (2017), produced with the support of Crédac; “Ultra” (2020); “Valda” (2023), in collaboration with artist Hilary Galbreaith, produced with the support of the Synagogue de Delme. @tnhch

Marine Wallon (b. 1985) lives and works in Montreuil, France. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2009. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Galerie Catherine Issert (Saint-Paul-de-Vence); Stoppenbach & Delestre (London); Under Construction (Paris); amongst others. In 2022, she received the 11th Prix Jean- François Prat, she was awarded the Prix de la Fondation Colas in 2020, the Prix Moly-Sabata at the 64th Salon de Montrouge in 2019, the 3rd Prix Antoine Marin in 2018, the Prix International de peinture Novembre à Vitry in 2017, the Print and Paper SMFA Boston Prize, which is a Collin-Lefrancq scholarship that enabled her to study at School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 2008. @marine_wallon

Marilyn Wong (b. 1949, Pennsylvania) lives and works in San Francisco, California. She has worked at Creativity Explored in San Francisco since 1985. Her work has been show at the San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco); Creativity Explored (San Francisco); California Museum (Sacramento); Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco); 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan); SOMArts (San Francisco); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco); amongst many others. @creativityexplored