Clémence Gbonon, who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors in 2024, will benefit from the prize of Catherine and Mamadou-Abu Sarr, French entrepreneurs and collectors based in Chicago, for a one-month research residency at the Villa Albertine in Chicago in 2026.
A figurative painter with a strong emphasis on color, the artist will explore the political radicalism of art in Chicago's black communities, questioning black figuration in France and enriching her practice with these two approaches.
This is the fourth residency offered as part of this collaboration between Beaux-Arts de Paris, Catherine and Mamadou-Abu Sarr and Villa Albertine in Chicago.
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