2022
Salon Révélations, Grand Palais, Paris
Grassimesse, Leipzig, Allemagne
Woodsymphony Gallery, Los angleles, USA
Solo Show, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, Caroline du Nord, USA
Kirsten Muenster Gallery, San Francisco, Californie, USA
2021
Paris Occitan, Bruxelles, Belgique
Woodsymphony gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, Caroline du Nord, USA
Kirsten Muenster Gallery, San Francisco, Californie, USA
2020
Blue Spiral Gallery, Caroline du Nord, USA
Kirsten Muenster Gallery, San Francisco, Californie, USA
Carrefour des Arts, Lalouvesc, France
2019
Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC, USA
Abbaye de Saint-André, remarquable garden, Villeneuve-Lez-Avignon, France
Salon Révélations, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Messler Gallery, Rockport, ME, USA
2018
Salon Collect Londres, Saatchi Gallery, Grand-Bretagne
Galerie L’Art à tous Égards, Bellême, Perche, France
Homo Faber, Michelangelo Foundation, Venise, Italie
De Mains de Maitres, Luxembourg
Kirsten Muenster Gallery, SOFA Chicago, USA
2017
Maison et Objet, Espace Craft, Paris
Salon Révélations, Grand Palais, Paris
Exposition Show room Carpenter Tan, Jurong, Jiangsu Province, Chine
Kirsten Muenster Gallery, SOFA Chicago, USA
Saint-Leu Art Expo, Saint-Leu la Foret, France
2016
Maison et Objet, Espace Craft, Paris
Exposition solo Arthus Gallery, Bruxelles
Expo La combe du Lynx, Saint-Alban, France ( 01)
Adam Blaue Gallery, SOFA Chicago
De mains de maitres, Luxembourg
2015
Révélations, Grand Palais, Paris
Riley Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, SOFA Chicago, IL
SOFA Chicago, Collectors of Wood art Exhibition, IL
Expo La combe du Lynx, Saint-Alban, France ( 01)
Maison Parisienne, Bruxelles, Londres, Belgique
La Nef, AAF, Montpellier, France
Del Mano gallery, Small Treasures+Turned and Sculpted Wood, Los angeles, CA
Maison et Objet, Espace Craft, Paris
2014
The Future is handmade, Sweden
Grovewood Gallery, permanent exhibition, Asheville, NC
Riley Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, SOFA Chicago, IL
Eclats d’âme, with Maison Parisienne, Bruxelles, Belgium
Expo La combe du Lynx, Saint-Alban, France ( 01)
Turn Around, Handwerksform, Hannover, Allemagne
2013
Turned Wood – Small Treasures (Fall), del Mano – A Gallery of Fine Contemporary Craft,
Riley Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, SOFA Chicago, IL
Grovewood Gallery, Asheville, NC
Humeur baroque, with Maison Parisienne, Bruxelles, Belgium
Objets du désir,with Maison Parisienne, Bruxelles, Belgium
Rouge Plaza, with Maison Parisienne, Studio Harcourt, Paris
Résonances, Strasbourg, France
2012
Simeon B.Chapin ARt Museum, Myrtle Beach, Soiuth Carolina, USA
Folk Art Center, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Eunique Arts and Crafts, Karlsruhe, Germany
Saint-Leu Art Expo, near Paris, France
San Jose, AAW Symposium, Califronia, USA
2011
Collect 2011 with AAF, Saatchi Gallery, London
Emerging patterns : an international exhibition of woodturning
in North Carolina Arboretum’s Exhibition Gallery, Asheville NC, USA
Galleria Leukos, Luxembourg
Riley Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, at SOFA Chicago
2010
Ateliers d’Art de France, Paris : Ultra-Dentelles
Collect 2010 with AAF, Saatchi Gallery, London
Musee Roybet-Fould, Courbevoie, near Paris, France
Del Mano gallery, Los Angeles : current exhibitions
Simon gallery, Yakima, Washington State, USA
2009
Simon gallery, Yakima, Washington State, USA
Del Mano gallery, Los Angeles : current exhibitions
2008
Rakova Brecker Gallery, Miami, USA
Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles : current exhibitions
Exhibition at Saint-Georges Museum, Utah, USA
Saint-Leu Art Expo, France
Nina Bliese galllery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2007
Espace Art et Objets, Lausanne, Suisse
Del Mano Gallery : current exhibitions
2006
Del Mano Gallery
Ohio Craft Museum , Columbus, Ohio, USA “Our turn now : artists speak in wood “
Center for turning and furniture design – Pennsylvanie, USA
2005
Del Mano gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Small treasures
Hot tea
Handwerksform Hannover Gallery, Germany
« Vessel : turned-twist-with a twist »
AB ORiGINE Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2004
Del Mano Gallery, Los angeles, USA
Small Treasures
Hot Tea
SOFA New-York
Exhibition at the Galeire “Art et Creation in Lyon, France
Saint-Leu Art Expo, France “Bois Passion”
2003
Del Mano gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Collectors of wood art forum, Santa Fe, USA
Turned wood SOFA New-York
2002
Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, USA :
SOFA/New-York .
Turned and sculpted Wood.
SOFA/Chicago
2001
“Evocations de la nature”, gallerie Art et Création, Lyon, France
Show « Turned Wood » at Sybaris Gallery Royal Oak, Michigan (USA)
Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California (USA).
Small treasures
Turned Wood
« Mastercraft Show » at Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco, California (USA).
2000
Exposition “Bois-Passion”, Saint-Leu-La-Forêt, near Paris
Exposition “The fine Art of Wood at the Millenium”, Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan, USA
1999
Del Mano Gallery , Los Angeles (USA).
1998
Two months residency of the I.T.E. program (International Turning Exchange) organized by the Woodturning Center of Philadelphia (USA), closed by the exhibition : allTURNatives
« Form and Spirit » with the other residents.
1959 – 1997
Develops his own techniques of turning and carving
Starts as a production woodturner using green wood.
Becomes professionnal woodturner in 1993
Work as carpenter and cabinet maker untill 1993
First course of woodturning in 1987
School of art of Cergy-Pontoise
Grew up and studied near Paris.
Born in 1959 in Ivory Coast
Alain travels over the world to demonstrate and teach his techniques :
USA
Canada
England
Ireland
Spain
France
Germany
Australia
Belgium
Luxembourg.
Museums :
Musées des Pays de l’Ain, Lochieu, France
UMMA – University of Michigan Museum of Art – Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Long Beach Museum of Art, California, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, USA
New-York Museum of Art and Design, USA
Coral Springs Museum, Florida, USA
Figge Art Museum, Davenport – Ohio, USA
Woodturning Center Philadelphie, Pennsylvania, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Present in major collections in USA and France.