Paul Devautour

Paul Devautour is a French artist born in 1958 who lives and works in Shanghai.^[1][2]

Life and career

In collaboration with Yoon Ja Choi he created in 1985 the Collection Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour.^[3] They conceived works and exhibitions until 2004 under the names of Buchal et Clavel, Cercle Ramo Nash,^[4] Gladys Clover, J. Duplo, Manuel Ismora, Art Keller, Claude Lantier,^[5] Alexandre Lenoir, Martin Tupper and David Vincent.^[6] Some of their collected pieces are kept at the MAMCO in Geneva.^[7] Others are part of the Frac Poitou-Charentes collection (registered under the pseudonym Martin Tupper),^[8] the Villeurbanne Institut d'Art Contemporain collection,^[9] the Centre national des arts plastiques collection.^[10]

From 2004 to 2008, Paul Devautour held the position of dean of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges.^[11]

Since 2008 he is the director of XiYiTang in Shanghai, an exchange platform for art school students and a residency program for young artists.^[12]

He created with Xia Yilan DeYi Studio.^[13] Their manifesto^[14] was published in 2015 in Art Press.^[15]

He opened in 2011 in a Shanghai market an independent art space named Bazaar Compatible Program.^[16][17]

Selected exhibitions

• Mobiles d'emprunt, Paris, Sylvana Lorenz Gallery (1989)
• Objectif Documenta, Kiel, Sfeir-Semler Gallery (1991)
• Générique vers une solidarité générationnelle, Meymac, CAC (1992)^[18]
• Aperto '93, Venice Biennale (1993)
• 21st National and International Studio Artists Exhibition, New York, MoMA PS1 (1997)^[19]
• Martin Tupper, Angoulême, Frac Poitou-Charentes, (2006)^[20]
• DeYi Studio Shanghai Paul Devautour, œuvres tardives, Quimper, Le Quartier (2014)^[21]