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RESUME
Stephen McClymont (1952) received an MFA from the National Art School in Sydney, Australia. In 1979 he relocated to New York where he continued his studies at the New York Studio School. In 1987 the artist moved to Paris where he now resides dividing his time between the Greek island of Paros and Paris.
With a career spanning forty years, Stephen McClymont has developed a visual vocabulary that echos the tradition of Abstract Expressionism, a language that the artist began to study in earnest in the early 1980’s following his conversations with his mentor at the time in New York, Robert Motherwell and then later with other distinguished Abstract Expressionist painters, notably Joan Mitchell who was a close friend for several years. Dore Ashton, who supported and encourage the young artist during his formative years in New York, said, of his friendship with Mitchell, “You picked a tough one there!”. Indeed, she was a though ‘cookie’, McClymont later confirmed adding, “For all the right reasons”.
Stephen McClymont’s art can be defined by its use of bold color translating ‘a brush stroke into a kind of rebus that tells of his response to what he calls the rhythms of nature’* bridging the fronters between abstraction and representation. The paintings are panoramas where line, different markings, color and form create suggestive sun filled landscapes. Collectively, McClymont’sart works are pictorial statements to the natural freedom of the creative act, spontaneity and a celebration of life,
Stephen McClymont lives in Paris, dividing his time between Paris and Greece.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Agnanti Hotel, Parikia, Paros. Greece
2022 Gallery Parian Marbel Paros, Greece
2021 Galery Manolis Fokianos Paros, Greece
2020 Natioal Archeological Museum Athens, Greece
2018 Galery Manolis Fokianos Paros, Greece
2016 Galerie Prodromus, Paris
2013 Galry, Paris
2012 Arts Arena, University Americian Paris
2011 Galerie Beckel Odille Boicos, Paris
2010 Meyer Residence, Greenwich CT USA
2009 Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago
2008 Galerie Beckel Odille Boicos, Paris
2007 Galerie Beckel Odille Boicos, Paris
2006 Philip Bacon Galleries. Brisbane Australia
2006 Galerie Beckel Odille Boicos, Paris
2005 Philip Bacon Galleries, Australia
2005 Galerie Beckel Odille Boicos, Paris, France
2004 Galerie Beckel, Odille, Boicos, Paris, France
2002 Lydon Fine Art. Chicago, U.S.A.
2002 Philip Bacon Galleries. Australia.
2001 Galerie. Beckel, Odille, Boicos, Paris, France
2000 Australian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
2000 Lydon Fine Art. Chicago, USA
1999 Australian Embassy, Washington D.C
1999 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
1998 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
1997 Southern Vermont Art Center, Vermont, U.S.A
1997 Galerie Toft. Paris, France
1997 The Australian Book Shop, Paris
1996 Villa Radet, Paris
1994 Cité International des Arts, Paris
1992 Parsons Gallery, Paris
1990 Villa Radet, Paris
1990 Princeton Paris Research, Paris
1989 Galerie Jean Pierre Haik, Paris
1987 Cité International des Arts, Paris
1987 Australian Embassy, Paris
1983 Gallery Hydrohoos. Athens, Greece
1977 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1975 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Galery Manolis Fokianos Paros, Greece
2020 Natioal Archeological Museum Athens, Greece
2018 Galery Manolis Fokianos Paros, Greece
2016 Galerie Prodromus, Paris
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Galerie Beckel Odile Boicos, Paris, France
2012 Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago, USA
2011 Galry, Paris, France
2010 Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago, USA
2010 Galerie Beckel Odille Boicos Paris, France
2009 Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago, USA
2008 Galerie Beckel Odille Boicos,Paris, France
2008 Philip Bacon Galleries, Australia
2007 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
2007 Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
2006 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
2006 Galerie Beckel, Odille, Boicos Paris, France
2005 Lydon Fine Art Chicago, USA
2004 Galerie Beckel, Odille, Boicos, Paris, France
2004 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
2003 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
2003 Philip Bacon Galleries, Australia
2003 Galerie Beckel, Odille, Boicos, Paris, France
2002 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
2002 Company Art Works, Houston, Texas, USA
2002 Galerie Beckel, Odille, Boicos, Paris, France
2002 Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Australia
2001 Absolut Vodka, ‘Absolut Secret’ Espace Tajan, Paris, France
2001 Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
2001 Galerie Beckel, Odille, Boicos, Paris, France
2000 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
2000 New York Studio School, Curated by Irving Sandler, NY, USA
1999 New York Studio School, Alumni show, NY, USA
1999 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
1998 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
1998 Parsons School, ‘Faculty Show’, NY, USA
1998 St. Stephens College, Rome, Italy
1997 New York Studio School, curated by Dore Ashton, NY, New York
1996 Salon du ‘TRAIT’, Paris, France
1996 New York Studio School, NY, USA
1995 Cité International des Arts, ‘Arts Graphic’, Paris, France
1995 Parsons School of Design, Paris, France
1995 Musée Adzac, Paris, France
1994 Salon du ‘TRAIT’, Paris, France
1994 Cite International des Arts, Paris, France
1992 Parsons School of Design, NY, USA
1992 Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
1992 Chambre de Commerce des Etats Unis, Paris, France
1991 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1990 Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
1990 Salon du ‘TRAIT’, Paris, France
1990 Biennial d’Arts Graphiques de Saint-Maur, Musée de Ville Medicis, Saint Maur, France
1989 Thomson Gallery, New York
1989 XXI International Festival of Painting, Cagnes sur Mer
1989 Hommage to Shakespeare, Cercle de l’Union Interalliée, Paris
1988 Cité International des Arts, Paris
1988 Vente Exceptionalle des Tableaux et Sculptures des Années 50 à 87, Rambouillet, France
1988 Galerie Galise. Thonon les Bain, France
1987 Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
1985 Gallery Hydrohoos, Athens, Greece
1983 Judith Selkowitz Fine Arts, NY, USA
1980 New York Studio School, NY, USA
1977 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1976 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1975 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
AWARDS
2005 Artist in Residence. Vermont Studio Center. Vermont USA
2000 Teaching Fellowship. Parsons School of Design. Paris
1986 Artist Studio Award Cite Internationale des Arts. Paris France
1980 Sony Corporation Donation Grant. Sony Corporation. Sony New York. New York
1979 Traveling Scholarship. New York Studio School. New York
1974 Scholarship Study. National Art School Sydney. Australia
1973 Audio Research Scholarship. ‘Revox’ Corporation. ‘Revox’ Sydney, Australia
TEACHING
2010 - present Member College Art Accociation. New York.
1991 - 2022 Senior Teacher, Parsons School of Design, France
2010 - 2018 Private teaching painting and print making instruction, France
2001 - 2003 Visiting Scholar, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
2000 - 2001 Master Printer of Lithography, Ville de Paris, France
1976 - 1978 Painting teacher National Art School, Sydney, Australia