Wilfrid Almendra

(Cholet, France, 1972)

Lives and works in Cholet. Recent solo exhibitions include Killed in Action (Case Study Houses), Bugada & Cargnel, Paris; Wilfrid Almendra – Go, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; and Wilfrid Almendra – & Return, Zoo Galerie, Nantes (all 2009); Cuts Across the Land, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris (2008); Goodbye Sunny Dreams, Buy-Sellf Art Club, Marseille (2007); Rock Garden, FRAC-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux (2006); and De natura, Centre d’art contemporain de Meymac, Meymac (2005). Recent group exhibitions include Biennale de Belleville, L’Antenne, le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France, Paris; America Deserta, Parc Saint Léger – Centre d’art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux; Perpetual Battles, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow; and Collection Frac Basse-Normandie, Frac Basse-Normandie, Caen (all 2010). Almendra studied in Lisbon, Manchester and at the École des Beaux-arts de Rennes, Rennes (1996-2000).