Cécile B. Evans

Cécile B. Evans is an American-Belgian artist living and working in the suburbs of Paris. Evans’ work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures. They have recently completed a fellowship at Lafayette Anticipations, producing a new film Reality or Not co-commissioned with Le Fresnoy, Singapore Art Museum, and Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna. Evans has recently completed a major new commission for the Ulsan Art Museum (KOR), after having been on a residency with the National Ballet of Marseille in collaboration with the Kistefos Museum (NO) and exhibited a new installation commission at Centre Pompidou Paris (FR), all part of an multiversal adaptation of the Industrial Era ballet Giselle.

Recent selected solo exhibitions include Tramway (UK), Tate Liverpool (UK), Castello di Rivoli (IT), 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine (FR), Museum Abteiberg (DE), Chateau Shatto (US), Museo Madre (IT), mumok Vienna (AT), Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT), Kunsthalle Aarhus (DK), M Museum Leuven (BE), De Hallen Haarlem (NL), and Serpentine Galleries (UK). Evans’ work has been included amongst others at Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Haus der Kunst (DE), Mito Art Tower (JP), Renaissance Society Chicago (US), the 7th International Moscow Biennale (RU), the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial (RU), Galerie Kamel Mennour (FR), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK), the 9th Berlin Biennale (DE), the 20th Sydney Biennale (AUS), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (ES), and Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (FR). Evans’ films have been screened in festivals such as the New York Film Festival and Rotterdam International. Public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US), The Rubell Family Collection, Miami (US), Whitney Museum of American Art (US), De Haallen (NL), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK), and FRAC Auvergne (FR)