Born in 1959, Frédéric Choisel lives and works in Paris. A photographer since childhood, he studied film, photography and visual arts at the École d'études cinématographiques de Paris and at Université Paris VII (1980–1982). This filmmaker's eye still shapes his method: he captures fleeting images, which become the starting point of his canvases.
His painting draws on the Dutch and Spanish Baroque masters, on Courbet and Corot, as well as on Cézanne, Willem de Kooning and Nicolas de Staël. He moves freely between figuration and abstraction. Working between France and California, he has exhibited since the early 2000s in France, Belgium and the United States. He is now exhibited at Galerie ELHABIBI.
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2022 — Parmi le ciel, Ferney-Voltaire, France
- 2019 — Entre ciel et terre, Galerie La Maison des Quais, Île d'Yeu, France
- 2018 — Château de Lésigny, Lésigny, France
- 2016 — Le Pari du ciel, Galerie Caroline Tresca, Paris
- 2015 — Inextricable, Galerie La Maison des Quais, Île d'Yeu, France
- 2015 — New York : l'horizon vertical, Galerie Caroline Tresca, Paris
- 2014 — Akua, Galerie Caroline Tresca, Paris
- 2013 — Le Bruit dans les arbres, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, California
- 2012 — Epicenter, San Francisco
- 2009 — Still Life, Fringale, San Francisco
Selected group exhibitions
- 2018–25 — Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, California: Undercurrents, Aspire, The Distance Between, Resonance, Silver Lining, Evening Light, Land's End
- 2019 — Nature morte, Galerie Melissa Ansel, Brussels
- 2016 — Blanc, Galerie Caroline Tresca, Paris
- 2015 — Artcité, Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
- 2014 — Sojourn, Wilkes Basford, San Francisco and Palo Alto
- 2011 — Local Connections, Long Island City, New York
- 2006–08 — Park Side Gallery, Carmel, California
- 2005 — Winstanley-Roark Fine Arts, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- 2004 — Fresh Faces, Wilde Meyer Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Education
- 1980–82 — École d'études cinématographiques de Paris
- 1980–82 — Université Paris VII: film, photography and visual arts
Portrait © Frédéric Choisel
