Biography of Davor Vrankić

Education

• 1995 – 1999 University of Paris VIII, department of Arts Plastiques, Paris
• 1988 - 1991 Academy of Fine Art, Zagreb, Croatia
• 1986 – 1988 Academy of Fine Arts, department of graphics, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

One-Person Exhibitions

• 2020 Straight Story, Gallery Forum, Zagreb
• 2019 I Promise You a Miracle, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
• Meeting Point, CAC À cents mètres du centre du monde, Perpignan
• 2016 Que la lumière soit, Galerie Julio Gonzales, Arcueil
• 2014 Home Variations, 156 Project Art Space, New York
• Tentation d'éveil, Gallery Da-End, Paris
• 2013 In the house there were two of us, Gallery Alfa, Paris
• 2011 La tendresse de Cyclope, Galerie ALFA, Paris
• 2010 Love at first sight, Vasváry-Ház, Pécs, European capital of culture 2010, Hungary
• Let me make you real, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia
• Let me make you real, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
• 2009 Let Me Make You Real, Gallery Kranjčar, Zagreb, Croatia
• 2008 Go to sleep, you're too big for a lullabay", Gallery Deborah Zafman, Paris
• 2006 Arrivée du Magicien, La Lune en Parachute, Epinal, France
• Asphyxia and Scenes from the Interior, The Proposition, New York
• 2001 Kabinet Overholland, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• 2000 Galerie des Aéroports de Paris, Orly
• Gallery Le Lys, Paris
• Gallery P.P.O.W., New York
• Le Dernier Printemps du Siècle, Bordeaux
• 1999 Gallery of the City, Osijek, Croatia

• Les Usines Bertheau, Ivry–sur–Seine, France
• 1997 La Halle St. Pierre, Paris
• 1995 Ateliers Thorigny, Paris

• Château de Plaisir, Paris
• Cultural Center Mousseaux, Elancourt, France
• 1994 Château de Plaisir, Paris

Group Exhibitions

• 2022 HEY! Le dessin, La Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
• 2021 C'est la réouverture, on ferme! Galerie Tokonoma, Paris
• Chéri(e) fais toi plaisir, Galerie Marguerite Milin, Paris
• COLLECTIon COLLECTIve, Centre d'art contemporain ACMCM Perpignan, La Base de la Marina de Valencia, Espagne
• DDESSIN, 9 ème édition de cabinet de dessins contemporains, Galerie Mariska Hammoudi, Paris
• LANIAKEA#1 drawing session Fondation La Ruche-Seydoux, Espace Atelier Alfred Boucher, Paris
• Réminiscence, Galerie Popy Arvani, Paris
• Sur(Réel), Puzzle et Centre Jacques Brel, Thionville
• 2020 Dessins, Galerie Tokonoma, Paris
• Vous avez dit bizzare? Galerie Belem, Paris
• 2019 Fantômes Transitoires, Galerie Belem, Paris
• Hommage to V. K., Museum of Fine Arts, Osijek
• LANIAKEA#1 drawing session Fondation La Ruche-Seydoux, Espace Atelier Alfred Boucher, Paris
• Paper, Galerie Mazel, Bruxelles
• Spaces of Landscape, Gallery Prsten, Croatian association of artists, Zagreb
• 2018 5th Croatian Drawings Triennial, Department of Drawings and Prints of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Flowers, Galerie Mazel, Bruxelles
• La semaine du dessin#2, Galerie Mariska Hammoudi, Paris
• Le dessin contemporain, Galerie Sens Intérieur, Port Cogolin, Saint-Tropez
• Loup y es-tu ? Bestiaire et métamorphoses, Le château de Maisons (Maisons-Laffitte), Paris
• Luxembourg Art Week 2018, Gallery Mazel, Luxembourg
• Plus one, Project Art Space, New York
• The Cosmic Garden, Orticolario, Villa Erba, Lago di Como
• 2017 Arte Fiera Bologna, Galerie Mazel, Bologna
• Bonjour Monsieur Magritte, Galerie Mazel, Bruxelles
• Hey! Gallery Show, Arts Factory, Paris
• L’envers du Réel, Galerie 24b, Paris
• Mémoires suspendues, Galerie Sabine Detais, Paris
• 2016 Amsterdam Drawing, Gallery Kers, Amsterdam
• Biennale of painting – Exporting Zagreb, Constructing the Present of Memory, National Museum Gdańsk, Poland
• L’esprit singulier, Collection Abbaye d’Auberive, La Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
• Drawing Now Paris, Gallery Mazel, Paris
• La vie de château, Galerie Sabine Detais, Paris
• Mues, Gallery 24b, Paris
• We Will Control the Vertical, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York
• 2015 Art Paris, Gallery Da-End, Paris
• Blackout, Gallery Mazel, Bruxelles
• Cabinet Da-End 05, Gallery Da-End, Paris
• Drawing here, Gallery Schwab Beaubourg, Paris
• Hommage to a pencil, Gallery Josip Račić, Zagreb, Croatia
• The hand that draw by itself, Gallery Magda Danysz, Paris
• Underealism, Gallery Da-End, Paris
• Who’s afraid of picture(s), ACMDCM, Perpignan , France
• Who’s afraid of picture(s), ESAD, Grenoble
• 2014 ART PARIS, Grand Palais, Gallery Da-End
• 2014 Central and East European Artist Exhibition, Museum of Art Ningbo, China
• Drawing Now, Carreau du Temple, Gallery Mazel, Paris
• On the paper, Gallery Mazel, Bruxelles
• 2013 Soon, Gallery Mazel, Bruxelles
• 2013 Drawing Now - Le salon du dessin contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, editon 7, Paris
• Under-Realism, A cent metrès du centre du monde, Perpignan, France
• Under-Realism, La Lune en Parachute, La plomberie, Epinal, France
• ART PARIS art fair 2013, Grand Palais, Paris
• HEY! Modern art & Pop culture, Part II, Museum of Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
• 18th International Biennale of Drawing, Museum of modern and contemporary art , Rijeka, Croatie
• 2012 23rd Biennale of Slavonija, Gallery of fine arts, Osijek, Croatie
• Armory Show, New York
• Art Paris 2012
• Connivences Secrète, Topographie de l'art, Paris
• 2011 20 ans de Lune en parachute, La plomberie, Epinal, France
• Armory Show New York, Galerie ALFA, New York
• Drawing Now Paris, Galerie ALFA, Paris
• Inconscients ! Artistes et psychanalyse: Eros & Thanatos, part I, Galerie ALFA, Paris
• MELT, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
• 2010 Art Bruxelles, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Bruxelles, Belgium
• "Riders", Galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris
• 2009 3ème Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Deborah Zafman, Paris
• "All that drawing" Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art, Rijeka, Croatia
• 2008 4.Hrvatski Trijenale Crteza, Kabinet Grafike, HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia
• Art Elysees, Moderne & Contemporain, Champs-Elysees, Paris
• "La main qui dessinait toute seule" Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
• "L'oeil du cyclon" Galerie Deborah Zafman, Paris
• "Sur le Dessin, Dessin Contemporains" Galerie Alfa, Paris
• 2007 Le 1er Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Deborah Zafman, Paris
• “Raw Goo,” Galerie Deborah Zafman, Paris
• 2006 “Block Party,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
• SCOPE, Art Show, The Proposition Gallery, London
• “Twice Drawn (Part 2),” Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
• 2005 “Dessins pointus “Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
• "The sun rises in the evening", Feature Inc., New York
• 2004 “Disparities & Deformations: Our Grotesque,” SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico; curated by Robert Storr
• 2003 “Mighty Graphitey”, Feature Inc., New York
• 2001 Acquisition de l’ “Arrivée du Magicien” par le Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Drawing Biennale, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia

• “New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 2000 Biennale of Slavonia, Croatia
• Espace Belleville, Paris
• Galerie Béatrice Soulier, Paris
• 1999 Biennale of Slavonia, Croatia
• Salon de Juillet, Galerie La Bacheca, Cagliari, Italie
• 1998 Galerie Béatrice Soulier, Paris
• “L’Art contemporain Croate”, City Hall of the 6th Arrondissement, Paris
• Musée de l’Erotisme, Paris
• 1996 Galerie Procréart, Paris
• Galerie Varnier, Paris

• 1994 Biennale of Slavonia, Osijek, Croatia
• 1993 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
• 1990 Biennale of Slavonia, Osijek, Croatia

Collections

• Modern Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
  
• MOMA, New York, USA
  
• Museum Cognacq-Jay, Paris, France
  
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
  
• Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
  
• Museum of Slavonija, Osijek, Croatia
  
• Musum of Art Ningbo, Ningbo, China
  
• Ronald S.Lauder, New York, USA
  
• Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, USA
  
• Museum OVERHOLLAND, Amsterdam
  
• Centre d'art contemporain A cent metrès du centre du monde. Perpignan
  
• Museum of Fine Arts Osijek, Croatia
  

Bibliography

• Feđa Gavrilović, Hommage to a pencil, Catalogue, Zagreb
  
• Danchin, Laurent, HEY, Magazine for Pop Art and Modern Culture, Paris
  
• Babić Vanja, 15 Days, Davor Vrankić, Ilustrated Magazine for Art and Culture, br 1-2, 2010., Zagreb
  
• Catalogue Davor Vrankić
  
• Kusik, Vlastimir: Personal Realism of Davor Vrankić's pictorial world
  
• Danchin, Laurent. "Le Dessin a l'ere des nouveaux medias" Le retour du dessin pur dans l'enfer graphique de Davor Vrankic le livre d'art, collection mycelium, 209-219, Paris, 2009
  
• Baitinger, Frederic- Charles."Davor Vrankic ou la violence tenue en respect", Artension n*44, Novembre/Decembre
  
• Grgić, Dario: Povratak sposobnosti normalnog uočavanja
  
• Riječi, časopis za književnost, kulturu i znanost, 1–3, 2008.
  
• The Appetition of The Sensible, Catalogue Davor Vrankic
  
• Zafman, Deborah: Rolling the Fabric of Fetal Form
  
• Grgić, Dario: Umjetnost je koncentrirana energija, Zarez, VIII/171, 12. 01.
  
• Jonhson, Ken."Asphyxie and Scenes from the Interior", New York Times, 28 April
  
• Johnson, Ken. “Richard Bloes / ‘The Sun Rises in the Evening,’” New York Times, 10 June, E44
  
• Rose, Sean James. Traits de caractères, Liberation, 21.09
  
• Kimmelman, Michael. “The Convention of Beastly Beauty,” New York Times, 6 August, E29 (reproduction)
  
• Storr, Robert: Disparities & Deformations Our Grotesque, Catalogue, Santa Fe Biennial, 2004., E128
  
• Smith, Roberta. Review, New York Times, 8 August, E31
  
• Danchin, Laurent: L'enfer graphique de Davor Vrankic, Graphis 336, November / December 2001.