Exhibitions, honors & publications

1. Francine LeClercq was born in Belfort,
France in 1966. She completed her educa-
tion in interior architecture and fine arts with
honors from the School of Decorative Arts
in Strasbourg/ France. Recipient of the Rit-
leng Prize, she was invited to collaborate on
works with the International architect/artist/
designer Gaetano Pesce in New York City.
FRANCINE LECLERCQ
She has had the privilege to see her work se-
“There is no white picture. And there is no old picture. It is always a ques-
lected in juried competitions by eminent cu- tion of current experience and current perception.”
rators such as Peter Blum/Peter Blum Gallery,
Rainer Borgemeister on Rémy Zaugg
James Cuno/Art Institute Chicago, Lynne War-
ren/ Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art of
Chicago, and Maxwell Anderson / Whitney Exploration of the process of painting and the “idea of painting” with a
deeper focus on the complementary dialogue between materiality, con-
Museum, to mention a few. Museum exhibi-
tions include The McCormick Freedom Mu-
seum (Chicago/IL), The Holter Museum of Art tent, the space of the exhibition, perceptual process and encounter with
(Montana), The Allentown Art Museum (Allen-
the viewer.
town, PA), The Islip Art Museum (Islip, NY).
Her work has been reviewed in The Star-Ledger, Displacement, sequences, stratification, viscosity, morphological and se-
The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, mantic registers, curatorial and historical operations, are the elements with
which I explore these notions.
The Allentown Morning Call, The Easton PA Ex-
press Times, The New York Times, The New York
Times Weschester, The Boston Sunday Globe,
Octogon International Magazine , American
Style Magazine, Interior Design Magazine,
Arhitext International Magazine, Azimuts and
the Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace ( DNA ). She
recently won the 5th round of the Saatchi online
competition “Showdown”and was invited to
show in the new Saatchi galleries in London.
She has lived in New York City since 1992, where
aside from art, she practices architecture and
design.
“Last Supper Untitled”, fragment #1-6, 2007
Websites:
http://Francineleclercq.blogspot.com
http://www.soltani-leclercq.com
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2. Biography and Selected Exhibitions Awards, Selected Reviews and Publications
1966
Born in Belfort (90), France
1984-89 1983
School of Decorative Arts Strasbourg, France 3rd prize of drawing, 8th Festival of Painting and
Sculpture
Centre Culturel Belfort, France
1984
3rd prize of painting, 9th Festival of Painting and
In-Out,1993 Sculpture
Centre Culturel Belfort, France .
Review: Le Pays [Oct.] 21
1986
2nd prize of painting, 11th Festival of Painting and
Sculpture
Centre Culturel Belfort, France.
Review: Le Pays, [Nov.] 18
1989 1989
Bachelor of Interior Architecture Ritleng Prize (1st prize Thesis)
Master of Fine Arts
Elizabeth Kiel Lamic: “Francine Leclercq, entre peinture
Les diplômes s’exposent et architecture” Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace (DNA)
Centre d’Expositions du Wacken, Strasbourg France [June]
Invitation card, “opening” 1999 Soho2o Gallery NYC
1996
Happy Returns
Soho20 Gallery, New York
1997
Diversions
Soho20 Gallery, New York
Looking Ahead.. Glancing Back
Muse Gallery, Philadelphia
1998
Random Access Realities
The Art Building, New York
Entr’acte
Soho20 Gallery, New York
Installation view, “opening” 1999 Soho2o Gallery NYC
1999 1999
Francine LeClercq: Opening [solo exhibition] Award of Excellence, Manhattan Arts International
Soho20 Galleries I & II, New York
2000 2000
Untitled, a group show Winning selection from the 27th juried show, Allen-
Soho20 Gallery, New York town Art Museum
27th Juried Show Ali Soltani: “An Odyssey”, Octagon International
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown PA #3/2000 p.25, 26, 27
Juror: Judith Tannebaum/Institute of Contemporary
Art, PA
2001 2001
Thrown Together
Soho20 Gallery, New York
Invitation card, “Paintings” 2003 Soho2o Gallery NYC Small Works
Washington Square East Galleries, New York
Juror: Peter Blum/ Peter Blum Gallery NY
International Octogon Exhibition
Romanian Cultural Center, New York
Breaking the Rules Review: Breaking the Rules
Katonah Art Museum, Katonah NY Dominick Lombardi “Exploring the gamut of contempo-
Juror: Eugenie Tsai/ Brooklyn Museum NY rary art”, New York Times Weschester 06/17/01
National Prize Show Review: National Prize Show
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA Cate McQuaid , Boston Sunday Globe 07/08/01
Juror: Maxwell Anderson/ Whitney Museum NY
Installation view, “Paintings” 2003 Soho2o Gallery NYC 2

3. Biography and Selected Exhibitions Awards, Selected Reviews and Publications
2001
Ready or Not
Soho20/Chelsea Gallery, New York
2002 2002
Ten Contemporary Artists, 5 x 2 part II Review : Ten Contemporary Artists, Part II
“Cézanne’s Tablecloth”, Stilled life/Islip Art Museum 2006 Allentown Art Museum, Allentown PA Geoff Gehman “Works unnerving to nervous pace
at museum show”, The Allentown Morning Call.
Post This, An Art Critic Choice 12/06/01.
Studio Gallery, Washington DC
Juror: Michael O’Sullivan/ Art critic Washington Post Review : Ten Contemporary Artists, Part II
Kenneth Endick “Contemporary art inspires contempla-
New/ New Old, Evolution, Conceptual Links tion”, Easton PA Express Times. 01/11/02
Soho20/Chelsea, New York
2003 2003
Red Ali Soltani “The Painting and the Gorgon, a reading
Gallery 218, Milwaukee WI onto the work of Francine Leclercq”
Arhitext International #9
Francine LeClercq: Paintings [solo exhibition]
Soho20/Chelsea Gallery, New York
Xpo Spring
Proda Studios, DUMBO NY
The carriage House, Islaip Museum- proposal
2004 2004
Ascent, (AIS annual exhibit) Dr. Livio G. Dimitriu: “The Unbearable Lightness of
Local Project Gallery Queens Tectonics”, Arhitext International [Oct.]
Curated by Byron Kim
Ali Soltani “ The [Un (for) seeable] Paintings of Fran-
Outside the box cine LeClercq” Arhitext International [Nov.]
Robert Schonhorn Arts Center, NJ
Juror: Tim HildeBrandt, Gary Snyder 1st Prize, Anna 33 National Juried Exhibition
Juror: Larry Thomas /San Francisco Art Institute
Anna 33
The Holter Museum of Art, MT
2005 2005
Public process for public architecture 3rd Prize McCormick Freedom Museum International
Chicago Architecture Foundation, IL Competition for a “signature” Art Piece
Jurors: James Cuno/Art Institute Chicago, Susan
McCormick Freedom Art Competition Fisher Sterling/National Museum Women in the Arts
“Drawing Stage”, CWOW 2006
McCormick Freedom Museum, Chicago IL
Charles Storch “ Finalists named for sculpture at Tribune
Small Works Tower Museum” Chicago Tribune 04/2005
Soho20Chelsea Gallery, New York Lara Allison “ Exhibit showcases monumental debates”
Chicago Tribune 04/2005
New Directions ‘05 Charles Storch “ Bill of Rights inspires artwork” Chi-
Barrett Art Center NY cago Tribune 07/2005
Juror: Steven Evans / Dia Foundation Beacon
3rd Prize Chicago Prize International Competition:
Water Tanks, The Chicago Prize Competition Water Tanks
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL Jurors: Thom Mayne (Pritzler price architecture 2005),
Martha Thorne Assistant Curator, Art Institute of Chi-
cago, Lynne Warren Curator, Museum of Contempo-
rary Art, Chicago
Blair Kamin “ World’s designers aim at tanks” Chicago
Tribune 10/27/2005
Nano Paintings, 2007, Soho2o Gallery NYC
Kevin Nance “ Idea for city’s water tanks generates
award” Chicago Sun-Times 10/27/2005
Blair Kamin “ Invention can be a double-edged sword”
Chicago Tribune 10/30/2005
Nancy Maes “ Can water tanks be art” Chicago
Tribune 11/04/2005
2006 2006
Ideas, Images, structures Benjamin Genocchio, “ Objects at Rest” Review:
Soho20Chelsea Gallery, New York “Stilled Life”/Islip Museum, The New York Times
07/22/2006
Stilled Life
Islip Art Museum, NY Drawing Stage, Exhibition Catalogue CWOW, Intro-
Juror: Daria Brit Shapiro, historian duction by Carmen E. Ramos [Oct.]
Drawing Stage Dan Bischoff, “ Make Room for Drawings” Review:
CWOW (City Without Walls) Newark, NJ “Drawing stage CWOW Newark, The Star-Ledger
Juror: Carmen E. Ramos/New Jersey Art Museum 09/22/2006
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4. Biography and Selected Exhibitions Awards, Selected Reviews and Publications
2007 2007
Access: A feminist perspective “ Access: A feminist perspective” Exhibition Catalogue,
Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York Blue Pearl Press, Jan. 2007
Francine LeClercq: mise en [s]cène (Solo Exhibition) Patrick Mimran Billboard Project Competition, Chelsea
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, New York
Honorable mention, Metro25, CWOW NJ
Metro25 Juror: Heather Darcy (Mixed Greens), Erin Donnely
“Last Supper Untitled”, fragment #1-6, 2007 CWOW (City Without Walls) Newak, NJ (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council), Carlo McCor-
mick (Paper Magazine)
Small Works (Benefit)
Soho20Chelsea Gallery, New York Dan Bischoff, “Working small but thinking big”
Review: “Metro25” CWOW Newark, The Star-Ledger
Postcards on the Edge, (Benefit) 11/30/2007
James Cohan Gallery, New York
Winner Round #5 Second Showdown
Night of 1.000 Drawings (Benefit) Saatchi Online Gallery, London UK
Artists Space, New York
Francine LeClercq, mise en [s]cène, Exhibition cata-
PAWNSHOP, e-flux, New York logue 32 pages, with text by Ali Soltani “Ghost in the
Project by Julieta Aranda, Liz Linden and Anton Machine” LuLu publications
Vidokle
“mise en [s]cène” fragment #7, 2007
2008
Metro25, (traveling exhibition):
[April ]: Monmouth County Library, Manalapan NJ
[June]: Johnson Public Library, Hackensack NJ
[July- Sept.]: B. Beamsderfer Gallery, Highland park NJ
[Sept-Oct]: Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
Circulation
Gallery Kunstler, Rochester NY
The Hague Red Cross Exhibition, Nuithus Centre, The
Hague, Netherlands 2008
(Auction by Christie’s) Jury 2nd Award, The Hague Red Cross Exhibition,
Nuithus Centre, The Hague, Netherlands
Postcards on the Edge, (Benefit)
Metro Pictures, New York Art Interview, Honorable mention, 11th International
online competition
“mise en [s]cène” fragment #8, 2007 Merry Go Round, Soho20Chelsea Gallery, New York
Francine LeClercq, The Painting and The Gorgon,
Make Me An Offer, Gallery 350, The Illinois Institute Exhibition catalogue 36 pages, with text by Ali Soltani
of Art, Chicago IL LuLu publications
Curated by Lindsay Grace and Lu Rosenheim
2009
Image & Word, TAC (The Art Center) Highland Park, IL
Juror: Renee Hansen/ Editor of South Loop Review
City Arts, (Benefit Auction)
Sotheby’s, New York
Invitation card , e-flux Pawnshop, 2007 Francine LeClercq: [3:2] (Solo Exhibition)
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, New York
Deborah Baldwin, Artists In Residence , Habitats, The
New York Times, 11/16/2008
2009
2010 Valentine Robert,Quand le film raconte l’image.
The Dinner Table and Feminist Influences, Curated by Variations cinématographiques autour de La Cène de
Anna Lise Jensen (tART) @ AIR Gallery, New York Léonard de Vinci, Cahiers de Narratologie, Lausane
University, Switzerland/2009
Between the Lines, Annual Exhibition, Soho20Chelsea
Gallery, New York 2010
Artist Profile: Francine LeClercq, Creative Quaterly
12-11-10 Countdown, Soho20Chelsea gallery, NYC #18, pp.21- 71-75, April 2010
Artslant, Second 2010 showcase, online competition
[3:2], 2009 Soho2o Gallery NYC Artslant, Fifth 2010 showcase, online competition
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5. Biography and Selected Exhibitions Awards, Selected Reviews and Publications
2011 2011
“Viimeinen Ehtoollinen/The Last Supper in Turku Perttu Ollila :“Viimeinen Ehtoollinen/The Last Supper
Cathedral: Francine LeClercq, Andy Wahrol, Pauno in Turku Cathedral: Francine LeClercq, Andy Wahrol,
Pohjolainen”, Curated by historian Perttu Ollila, Pauno Pohjolainen”, ISBN 978-952-99828-1-3
Turku Cathedral, (Kaarina Parish Union and Turku Publisher:Turku and Kaarina Parish Union, Turku 2011
Foundation 2011), Turku-Finland
“Viimeinen ehtoollinen”, Turku Cathedral/finland, 2011
Lasse Raitio: “Neljä tulkintaa viimeisestä ehtoollisesta”
(“Four interpretations on The last Supper”), Turun Sano-
mat/Finland April 16, 2011
“Viimeinen ehtoollinen”, Turku Cathedral/finland, 2011 Maria Thollix: “Warhol i domkyrkan”, Abo Underrat-
telser/Finland April 16, 2011
Turku 2011 foundation: “Turku/Abo 2011 Capital of
Culture”, catalogue
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