Melik Ohanian Born in 1969, France Lives and works in Paris, France PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS / 2006 Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherland *c Let’s Turn or Turn Around, IAC Villeurbanne, France *c M100, Santiago, Chili 2005  ArtPace, San Antonio, USA  With Sean Snyder and Pia Ronicke, FruitMarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Seven Minutes Before, French Representation XXVIe Sao Paulo Biennal, Brazil *c Revolving Analogia, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, USA {T}HERE, Centre pour l’image Contemporaine, Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland Welcome to Hanksville, Galerie Dvir, Tel Aviv, Israël SlowMotion, from Slave to Valse, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan *c Welcome To Hanksville, Studio Yvon Lambert, Paris Sound Bilboard, Museum in Progress, Wien, Austria You are mY destinY, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, USA AlightningtruckonablueracetracK, Galerie BF15, Lyon, France 2002 Nightsnow, Galerie Navona, Rome, Italia Island of an Island, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland *c Nightsnow, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Island of an Island and Peripherical Communities, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Freezing Film, FRAC, Montpellier, France GROUP EXHIBITIONS / 2006 Satellites TV, Witte de Whit, Rotterdam, Netherland Tell Me, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg *c The Datcha Project, Session #01, Kamaris, Armenia Collective Show, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, USA 2005 Collection, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Vitry, France Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multimédia, Marseille, France Leçon Zéro, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Istmo, Galerie Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil Experiencing Duration, 8. Biennale de Lyon, France *c Dialectic of Hope, Biennale de Moscou, Russia *c Tell Me, MNBA Québec, Canada *c October Art Salon, Belgrade, Serbia *c Multipistes, Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium *c Nach Rokytník, EVN Collection, MUMOK Wien, Austria *c Greengrassi Gallery, London, England Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Remagine, Collection du FNAC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France Collection, Macro-Mattatoio, Roma, Italia *c Documentary Creations, Kunst museum, Luzern, Switzerland *c Universal Experience, MCA Chicago, USA *c 2004 ReasonEmotion, Biennale de Sydney, Australia, *c 3. Biennale de Berlin, Germany *c Biennale de Pontevedra, Spain *c Communautés, IAC Villeurbanne, France Mediterraneo, Macro-Mattatoio, Roma, Italia *c Nuit Blanche, Paris, France Eblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris 2003 Geographies # 3, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Freezing Film, Gare de Lyon, Festival d’Automne, Paris, France Through the Eye of a Needle, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Collective Exhibition, CRAC Sète, France Embassy, Galleri F15, Moss, Norvegia 2O ans des FRAC, Musée d’art Contemporain de Strasbourg, France Moltitudini–Solitudini, Museion, Museo d’arte contemporanea Bolzano, Italy *c No ghost Just a Shell, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Pays-Bas / San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, U.S.A *c ARCO, Madrid, Spain 2002 No ghost Just a Shell, Institute for Visual Culture, Cambridge, England Toasting Agency at Openspace, Curated  by Alexis Vaillant  Piazza Duomo, Milan, Italy No ghost Just a Shell, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland / SFMOma, San Franscico Migration de l’image, Erevan, Armenia Haunted House, curated by Gabriel Lester, Outline, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas Stories, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany *c Less Ordinary, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Museum of Modern Art, Kyungju, Korea *c 2001 Traversées, ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris *c A comme Accident, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Rencontres Vidéo, Galerie Piazza Navona, Roma, Italy 2000 Institut d’art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, Residency in Die, Drôme, France Soirée Nomade, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris 1999 ThirtyFiveSecondsLater Interval Program, Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, France Icono Festival Printemps du Québec à Paris, Métro Stalingrad, France 1998 Collective Exhibition, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris Junge Szene 98, Secession, Vienna, Austria *c In Vitro, Glassbox, Paris Mobile TV, with Pierre Huygue, Le Consortium, Dijon, France Histoires en Forme, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France *c Galerie de Portraits, Collection FRAC Rhône-Alpes, France Biennale du Montenegro, Cétinié, Montenegro *c 1996 Bande Sonore pour un Film Potentiel, with Pierre Huyghe, Le Hall, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France Arte Fiera di Bologna, Galerie Nuova Icona, Bologna, Italy 1995 Critique, Critique, Post-diplôme, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Cité de l’image, Lyon-Vaise / Galeria Nuova Icona, Venise *c  08152758, Embarcadère, Lyon, France *c  - Group Exhibition Catalogue. BOOKS / 2005   SlowMotion, from Slave to Valse, Ed. CCA Kitakyushu, Japan Cosmograms, Melik Ohanian et Jean Christophe Royoux, Ed. Lukas&Sternberg, New York Cosmograms Newspaper Edition distributs by EXO, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2003 KRISTALE Company, Monography Melik Ohanian, Edition HYX, Paris EDUCATION / 1988 Ecole des beaux-arts de Montpellier, France 1993 DNSEP Art et Média, École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France           1994 Post-Diplôme Art et Média, École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France GRANTS & RESIDENCIES / Montalvo Arts Center, Sally and Don Lucas Artist Program, USA, 2006 Prize of October Art Salon, Belgrade, Serbia, 2005 ArtPace 2005, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Villa Medicis 2003/2004, Rome, Italia FIACRE, aide à la première exposition, 2002 Institut Art Contemporain, Residency, Die, France, 2000 Image en Mouvement CNC/DAP, 2000 Prix Linossier, Beaux Arts de Lyon, 1995 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS / 2004 Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, Seven Minutes Before 2004 2003 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Nightsnow 2002. MUDAM Luxembourg, Island of an Island, 2002. Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, Freezing Film 2002 FRAC Rhône Alpes, White Wall Travelling 1997, Edition 1/3 2001 Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Peripherical Communities, Paris 1999 Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Puteaux, At Late 1998, film  S16mm ed.1/3 FRAC Rhône Alpes, Les Marques de L’instant (4) 1991-94                     GALLERY / chantal crousel gallery, paris _ www.crousel .com _ contact / lara@crousel.com yvon lambert gallery, new york _ www.yvon-lambert.com _ contact / zak@yvon-lambert.com