EDDA RENOUF –  BIOGRAPHY

American born in Mexico City. Lived in New York City 1968-1991 and in Paris 1971-1975. Presently lives and works in Paris, since her return in 1991.

EDUCATION

1968-71            M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY, USA

1969-70            Academie der Bildende Künste, Münich, Germany

1967-68            Art Students League, New York, NY, USA

1963-64            Académie Julian, Paris, France

1961-65            B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA

GRANTS

1996                  Commission for etching - C.N.A.P (Centre National des Arts Plastiques) France

1990                  The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, NY, USA

1976                  N.E.A. Grant, USA

1971-72             Painting fellowship, Columbia University, Paris, France

LECTURES

                         Has given lectures at the University of Michigan; New York University; Brown University; Rhode
                         Island School of Design; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Artothèque, Valence, France;  École                          de Beaux Arts, Caen, France; École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux Arts, Paris; Staatliche Kunsthalle                          Karlsruhe, Germany; Brenau University, Gainsville, GA; Emory University, Atlanta.
                         

1995-96            Guest professor in painting and print-making at École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux Arts, Paris

TRAVELS

1978-1981         Travels and works on her art during three summers in Oaxaca, Mexico 

1984                  Travels in India

 2004                 Travels in Japan

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1977                   Marries Alain Middleton, the French-British contemporary music composer.
                           Several artistic collaborations include "Overtones" (1977), a portfolio of etchings with music,
                           published by Parasol Press, New York; and a concert of "Polyrhythms" for the 1997 retrospective

                           "Edda Renouf  Werke 1972 - 1997" at the Karlsruhe Kunsthalle, with a CD and a catalogue.
                           Birth in 1979 of their daughter Mélisande.