CONTACT
iannis.pledel@gmail.com
GENERAL INFORMATION
Iannis Pledel (b. France) is a painter and photographer.
This artistʼs recent solo institutional exhibitions in France include the Art Center of Saint Mandé, the Art Center of Chambéry, the Cale 2 Créateurs of Nantes, the Art Center of Rennes-Betton.
Internationally he exhibited in several Lumas Galleries and in China at the Xi’an Museum.
He was selected at the Salon dʼAutomne of Paris, exhibited in the Contemporary Art Show during FIAC and participated in several gallery exhibitions.
His background – Art school Gobelins Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I and a PhD at Sciences-Po Aix, learning different pictorial techniques ranging from painting to photography – gave him a plural heritage.
He is also distinguished by collaborations, notably with Colette Paris or Estée Lauder, with portraits of personalities and with other artists for creations such as the album covers of Génération Goldman, Electro Deluxe, Quintette Syntonia or more recently Acquin.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023, Inside Out, Art Center Cresco, Saint-Mandé, France (June)
2022, Floating Souls, Art Center Cresco, Saint-Mandé, France (Sept to December)
2022, Dédales, Town Hall Cultural Center, Paris 17e, France
2019, Fragments of Desires & Odyssey, La Cale 2 Créateurs Gallery, Nantes, France
2019, Fragments of Desires, Cité des Arts of Chambéry, France
2014, The Parisian Girls, Colette, Paris 1e, France
2014, The Parisian Girls, Le Saturne, Paris 2e, France
2014, Photographs, B Gallery with Art Center Betton Town Hall, Rennes, France
2014, Venetian Intrigue, 13 Regards Gallery, Paris 13e, France
2013, Vermilion, B Gallery, Pont-Aven, France
2012, Looks, Zigomar Gallery, Lorient, France
2012, Envy, Saint-Roch Chapel, Argentan, France
HONORS
2022 & 2023, Certificate of artistic merit, Luxembourg Art Prize, Pinacothèque Museum
2020, Antoine de Galbert Foundation
2018, Certificate of artistic merit, Luxembourg Art Prize, Pinacothèque Museum
CATALOGS & ARTICLES
Liberation of Arts — 20 Years of Lumas, teNeues, 2024
Catalog of the Cultural Season of St Mandé – Cresco Cultural Center, 2022
Catalog of the Cultural Season of St Mandé – Cresco Cultural Center, 2021
Lumas Art Magazine, vol. II, 2020
Le Parisien, article for the Mural Painting with la Maison Marceau, 2020
Exhibition Catalog, Cité Internationale des Arts, Xi’an, Chine, 2019
Ouest-France, article for the exhibition Fragments de désirs et L’Odyssée à la Galerie Cale 2 Créateurs, Nantes, 2019
Exhibition Catalog, Cité des Arts de Chambéry, 2019
Exhibition Catalog, Salon d’Automne, 2018
Estée Lauder Pink Ribbon Photo Award, Éditions Xavier Barral, 2017
Normal, Art Photography n° 6, 2015
Le Colette, Catalog of the concept store Colette Paris n° 11, 2015
Normal, Art Photography n° 5, 2015
Ouest France, Article for the exhibition with Galerie B de Pont-Aven and Betton, Rennes, 2014
Ouest France et le Journal de l’Orne, Articles for the exhibition L’Envie, Argentan, 2012
Paris-ci la Culture Magazine, Interview, 2012
BOOKS
Seven Deadly Sins :
Anger / La Colère – Blue Anger / Colère bleue (Work in progress)
Pride / L’Orgueil – The Little Red Model / Le Petit Modèle Rouge (90 p., 50 photographs), 2016
Envy / L’Envie – Vermilion / Sang Vermillon (170 p., 75 photographs), 2013
STUDIO
Resident of 6b
EDUCATION
2015, Art School, Ecole de l’Image Gobelins, Paris
2009, PhD Sciences-Po Aix
2004, Panthéon-Sorbonne University Paris I
TEACHING EXPERIENCES & RESIDENCIES
2022, Conference about « Floating Souls » exhibition, Art Center Cresco, Saint-Mandé
2020, Painting and drawing lessons, Maison Marceau Residencie, Paris 8e
2020, Mural painting, Maison Marceau Residencie, Paris 8e
2019, Conference about « Fragments of Desires » exhibition, Cité des Arts of Chambéry
2019, Visiting artist, Residencie, Cité des Arts of Chambéry
2019, Workshop, Musée des Beaux-Arts of Chambéry
