Amandine Urruty lives and works on her bed, with a suitcase full of pens always nearby. After studying at the university for many years and with a brief career in underground music, Amandine Urruty now spreads her gallery of weird characters on all kinds of mediums, on paper as on walls. As she masters techniques of traditional drawing, Amandine Urruty offers a cheerful gallery of deviant portraits, associating grotesque outfits with baroque decorum – a way to miraculously reconcile lovers of alchemistic symbolism to young ladies with too much make up. Indeed, Amandine Urruty builds her images like we would wander in the alleys of a flea market, borrowing to the mass of objects and to second hand toys their fundamental ambivalence, being wicked and peaceful, decorative and saturated at the same time.
Since the beginning of her career, more than ten years ago, she has taken part in more than 70 exhibitions around the world. She has also published four monographic books. Her activity is now shared between exhibitions, illustration and a bit of wall painting.
SOLO SHOWS
2020
Made In The Dark – Dorothy Circus Gallery – London
2018
Mini Solo Show – Copro Gallery – Los Angeles
The Party ! – Arts Factory – Paris
2017
Mini Solo Show – Copro Gallery – Los Angeles
2016
3 Artist Show – Corey Helford Gallery – Los Angeles (Mini Solo)
Honey Honey – Hellion Gallery – Portland
2015
Little Secrets – Plastic Murs – Valencia
Bedtime Stories – La Halle Saint Pierre (en parallèle de Hey ! Act III) – Paris
2014
Dommage Fromage – La Mauvaise réputation – Bordeaux
Dommage Fromage – Arts Factory – Paris
2013
Chiot Devant – Le Lieu Unique – Nantes
2011
Solo Chiot – La Mauvaise Réputation – Bordeaux
Solo Chiot – La Place Forte / Arts Factory – Paris
2008
Des Etoiles Plein Les Fesses – GHP – Toulouse
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2021
Dreambags and Jaguar Shoes, Kirk Gallery, Denmark
2021
Rouge Noir – Galerie LJ – Paris
2020
White Spirit – Memento – Centre d’Art Contemporain – Auch
Dessin Art Fair – Bim Bam Gallery – Paris
2019
Don’t Wake Daddy XIV – Feinkunst Krüger – Hamburg
Memory Group Show – Bim Bam Gallery – Paris
Art Elysées 2019 – With Galerie Joël Knafo – Paris
District 13 Art Fair with Dorothy Circus Gallery – Paris
Cuadratura – Galeria Kreisler – Madrid
Teenage Kicks 2019 – Graffiti Festival – Rennes
Pampre It Up – La Mauvaise Réputation – Bordeaux
Cuadratura – Curated by Ink and Movement – Santander
Small Works – Beinart Gallery – Brunswick – Australia
Mother & Child – Dorothy Circus Gallery Rome & London
Urban Art Fair Paris – w/ Hey ! Modern Art & Pop Culture
2018
Don’t Wake Daddy XIII – Feinkunst Krüger – Hamburg
IAM Friends – Curated By Ink And Movement – Galeria Kreisler – Madrid
Cuadratura – Curated by Ink and Movement – Santander Art Fair
Monsters of Drawing – Feinkunst Kruger Gallery – Hamburg
2017
Pages From Mind Travelers Diaries – Dorothy Circus Gallery 10th Anniversary – Rome
The Blab ! Show – Copro Gallery – Santa Monica
Marquis de Sade 1977 – 2017 – Teenage Kicks / Les Ateliers du Vent – Rennes
Something Strange in the Neighborhood – Feinkunst Kruger – Hamburg
Theriomorphism IV – Ink & Movement / Galeria Kreisler – Madrid
LA Art Show 2017 w/ Copro Gallery – Los Angeles
Le Monde à l’Envers – La Mauvaise Réputation – Bordeaux
2016
Don’t Wake Daddy XI – Feinkunst Kruger – Hamburg
Corey Helford Gallery’s 10 Years Anniversary Exhibition – Los Angeles
Cluster – Jonathan LeVine Gallery – New York
LA Art Show – w/ Copro Gallery – Los Angeles
Lápiz, Papel o Tijera – Plastic Murs – Valencia
Urchins – Lump – Raleigh
20×16 – CASS Contemporary – Tampa
2015
AQUA Miami – w/ CASS Contemporary – Miami
SCOPE Miami – w/ Copro Gallery – Miami
Corrosively Bright – CASS Contemporary – Tampa
Un Dessin est Beau si la Ligne est Vivante – Le Pilori – Niort
Oh, The Places We Have Been – Jonathan LeVine Gallery – New York
Welcome Home – Plastic Murs – Valencia
The EMA Show – Hellion Gallery – Portland / Tokyo
The Lost Mitten Society – Annual Winter Salon Show – Jonathan LeVine Gallery – New York
2014
X – Collab Show with Salao Coboi – Colette – Paris
Knotenpunkt Festival / Affenfaust Gallery – Hamburg
Pictoplasma’s Portrait Gallery – Mexico – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey
Pictoplasma’s Portrait Gallery – Berlin
B&B Winter Group Show – Bradbury & Blanchard – Sheffield
2013
White Noise – Pictoplasma – La Casa Encendida – Madrid
Rêves – L’Attrape-Rêve Galerie – Paris
Famille Recomposée – Jekyll & Hyde – Open Space Gallery – Paris
Bukruk – Thai – Europe Connection – Bangkok Art and Culture Center – Bangkok
2012
Pictoplasma XXL # 2 – Berlin
Arts Factory Winter Show – Paris
Pure Drawing – Spacejunk Gallery – Bayonne – Grenoble – Lyon – Bourg Saint Maurice
Quarante par Trente – Galerie LJ – Paris
Rencontres du 9ème Art – Aix-en-Provence
2011
Pictoplasma’s Character Walk – Galerie LJ – Paris
La French Touche – Sergeant Paper – Paris
Hey ! – Halle Saint-Pierre – Paris
Estivale 2011 – Galerie LJ – Paris
Crème de la crème – Pictoplasma’s Character Walk – Berlin
2010
Fondation Méroll pour l’Art Contemporain – Espace Beaurepaire – Paris
Sweet Streets 2 – Nucleus Gallery – Alhambra – California – USA
Park’n’Rock – La Villette – Paris
School’s Out – Artoyz – Paris
Burning Ink – Bleu Noir – Paris
Pen to Paper – Galerie LJ – Paris
Itinéraires graphiques – Lorient
Paris Calling ! – Arts Factory / Mekanik Strip / Anvers
2009
Arts Factory Winter Show – Espace Beaurepaire – Paris
Le Bureau des Ouragans – Lieu Commun – Toulouse
Slick – 104 – Paris
Rock Art – Rock en Seine
Drawing Group Show – Galerie LJ – PAris
Stringbreak – GHP – Toulouse
Petits Papiers – Blois
Forward 3 – Agnès B. – Paris – New York
2008
Roadstrip – Colomiers
Trois Jambes, Un Bigoudi – Lyon
Panos, Fake Roadsigns – Lyon
Whaleless, True Hate Gallery – La Rochelle
Une Estivale 2008 – Galerie LJ Beaubourg – Paris
Group Show – Andeken Gallery – Denver – USA
Freaks Club – L’art de Rien – Paris
L’Ecole de Toulouse – L’art de Rien – Paris
Group Show w/ Studioburo – Recyclart – Bruxelles
The Bic Show – L’Art de Rien – Paris
Ho, Ho, Ho – GHP – Toulouse
CONFERENCES / LECTURES
Pictoplasma – Berlin – April 2011 – Kino Babylon
Pictoplasma – Paris – December 2011 – La Gaité Lyrique
Pictoplasma – New York – November 2017 – Parsons School of Design