Michel Bouvet

Michel Bouvet (born 1955 in Tunis) is a French designer and poster artist. He is professor of visual culture at ESAG Penninghen (Paris).
Biography
Bouvet studied and graduated at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A).
His design influences include Fernand Léger, Raymond Savignac, André François and Roman Cieslewicz.
His posters are very often the result of a mixture of techniques (photography, collage, sculpture, painting), which gives them a highly poetic graphic dimension.
He has won many national and international design awards in Poland, Finland, Japan, China, Czech Republic
Since 2002, he designs the corporate identity for the Rencontres d'Arles.
He has been the curator of several international graphic design exhibitions.
He is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).[1]
Honors and awards
- Lenica Prize, 18th International Poster Biennial in Warsaw, 2002[2]
- Alphonse Mucha Prize, 22nd Brno International Graphic Design Festival, 2006[3]
- Grand Prix for Cultural Poster Design, International Poster Biennial in Mexico, 2014[4]
- Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France, 2023[5]
Exhibitions
- 1991: Long Live the Poster, Lalit Kala Akademi, National Academy of Art, New Delhi
- 1994: Third International Biennial of Poster in Mexico
- 1995: 38th DDD Gallery Exhibition (Japan)[6]
- 2001: The 2nd International Poster Exhibition, Ningbo (China)
- 2005: Michel Bouvet Plakaty Posters, National Museum in Poznan, curated by Irena Przymus (Poland)[7]
- 2008: Arrivage, affiches récentes de Michel Bouvet, Centre Culturel Français, Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
- 2009: 16th Biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition[8]
- 2010: Carteles de Michel Bouvet, Sala de exposiciones Riviera del Mar Salinas & Alliance Française, Quito (Ecuador)
- 2011: Manzana Uno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia)[9]
- 2012: The Typo in All its Forms, Gobelins School of the Image (Paris)
Curator
- 2006: 9 Women in Graphic Design,[10] Échirolles European Graphic Center (France)
- 2008-2009: We Love Books: A World Tour,[11][12] Échirolles European Graphic Center (France) with Philippe Di Folco, deputy curator
Conference and jury
- 2005: CAFA Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), China
- 2007: Taiwan International Poster Design Award[13]
- 2008: Chicago International Poster Biennial Jury Exhibition[14]
- 2009: The 9th International Poster Triennial in Toyama, Museum of Modern Art (Japan)
- 2010: Agidies International Design Week,[15] Melbourne (Australia)
- 2010: Positive Posters International Annual Exhibition (Melbourne)
See also
References
Notes
- ↑ AGI Members
- ↑ "International Poster Biennale in Warsaw: Historic Laureates". Warsaw Poster Biennale. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
- ↑ Brno Biennale Association
- ↑ "Ganadores e Historia de la Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México" (in Spanish). BICM. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
- ↑ "Nominations ou promotions dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres" (in French). Ministère de la Culture. 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
- ↑ DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion
- ↑ Cf. René Wanner
- ↑ Today at Colorado State
- ↑ Gallery Views
- ↑ Yuko Araki - Landsat Grafico (Japan), Joanna Gorska - Homework (Poland), Marta Granados (Colombia), April Greiman (California), Natalia Iguiñiz Boggio (Peru), Leila A. Musfy (Libanon), Clotilde Olyff (Belgium), Kveta Pacovska (Czech Republic), Lizá Ramalho - R2 design (Portugal)
- ↑ Graphic Art Month in Échirolles 21 November 2008–31 January 2009 Program
- ↑ Cf. Andrew Howard Comments
- ↑ Dexigner
- ↑ Cf. Icograda June 2008 News Deprecated link archived 2 August 2012 at archive.today
- ↑ Agldeas Program Archived 20 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- A Conversation with Michel Bouvet: La Lettre de la photographie
- Michel Bouvet's Official Website
- French poster artists
- 20th-century French painters
- 21st-century French painters
- 20th-century French photographers
- 21st-century French photographers
- French typographers and type designers
- French graphic designers
- French art educators
- French curators
- 1955 births
- Living people
- 20th-century French male painters
- 21st-century French male painters
- 21st-century French male photographers
- 20th-century French male photographers