The Anglo-French artist Alice Anderson was bought up in France. When Anderson was aged three, her French-speaking Algerian mother and her English father separated. Anderson and her mother left England and she was forbidden from mentioning the country or her father again. It was then that Anderson began storytelling and making paintings about her family.

Alice Anderson considers Time to be her most significant working material. For her, memories can be described as reconstructions, often distorted to the extent that each becomes a creation or fiction itself. She views memory as the ‘master of fiction’.

Working from film to sculpture, she also uses wax dolls and dolls’ hair, objects and effigies to reinvent her childhood through the re-imagining of her own memories: Autobiography is becoming fiction.”

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

2002-2004 M.A Goldsmiths College, London

1998-2001 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris

Awarded Gilles Dusein Prize given by the European House of Photography

2010

- Elles@CentrePompidou, Pompidou Centre, Paris

- Alice Anderson’s Time Reversal, Riflemaker, London

- Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, Busan Contemporary Art Museum, Korea

- Wonderland, Assab One, Milan

- Cher Monsieur Boltanski, Fondation Agnès b, Paris

- Identify: Body it, Nichido Contemporary Art Museum, Japan

- Concrete and Glass, Hoxton Square, London

- The Digital Hand, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei

- Istanbul- Athenes- Marrakech- Palermo, RisoContemporary Art Museum, Sicilia

- Brunes, Blondes, La Cinematheque Francaise, Paris

2009

- From John to Sebastian, Tate Modern, Londres

- The Dolls’ Day, Artprojx Space, Londres

- Invisible Adversaries, Northern public Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

- Voo-Doo, Riflemaker, Londres

- Once upon a time, Saison Vidéo #33, Musée des Beaux, Calais

- Mediterranean, Palazzo Rospiglosi, Rome

- She’s Devil, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome

- Ce qui demeure est le futur, Musée des Beaux Arts, Amiens

- The invention of a world, Institute Itaú Cultural São Paulo, Brésil

- 3rd AiM International Biennale, Marrakech, Maroc

- The Blue Woman, Cinema Arts Houston, Alabama Theatre, Houston, USA

- Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan

2008

- T Blouin Fondation, Light after Dark, London

- Tate Britain, Late Opera, London

- Palais de Tokyo, Peur et Desir, Paris

- Pompidou Centre, Hbox, Paris

- Tate Modern, Hbox, London

- National Museum Marc Chagall, Nice

- National Museum Pablo Picasso, Spectres, Vallauris

- Anthology Film Archives, Artprojx, New York

- Espace Croisé/Le Fresnoy, The Doll’s Day, Lille

- Parcours Saint Germain, Once Upon a Time, Paris

- Contemporary Art Centre of Annecy, La Main Numerique, Annecy

- FRAC PACA, La Traversée des apparences, Marseille

- Montehermoso Kulturunea, The Firious Gaze, Vitoria

- Musa Museum, Mutation II, Moving Stills, Vienna

- Danielle Arnaud, Riddle Me, London

- Chromophilia, Bear Space, London

2007

- Hi FI, artprojx, Tate Britain, London

-Surrealistxs, CentrePasquArt, Bienne

-Dunkelheit –Flora Fairbarn special projects-St Pancras Church, London

-Tina b, Contemporary Art festival, Prague

- Abracadabra, Fabrica, Brighton

- AA’Journal, Artprojx, Greenland St, Contemporary Art Centre, Liverpool

- The Woman Who saw Herself Disappear, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris

- Peyolt, Centre d’Art de Gennevilliers, paris

- SaisonVideo, Espace Croisé, Roubaix

- From a believer, Ubu Art Foundation, Barcelone

- Locarno Film Festival –1 artist, 1 room, Switzerland

2006

- Kunstfilm Biennale, Cologne

- Art Unlimited / Art Film, Basel

- Beauty and the Beast, Fieldgate Gallery, London

- Rencontres Internationales Film and Video, Berlin

- Body and Soul, Frac Paca, Marseille

- Invisible Cities, Factory-Berlin, Berlin

- Bienvenue, Frac Alsace, Alsace

- Sweetex, Standpoint Gallery, London

- Woman of Europe, Part 1, U.K

- La Force de l’Art, Grand Palais, Paris

- Partenaire Particulier, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris

2005

- Modern Time, Man Museum, Italy

- Vertigo, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse

- Yvon Lambert at Trans Area, New York

- News Revisited, Tabacalera, Spain

- New Spectrum of Art, EMAP Museum, Korea

- Alice Anderson’s Journal, Jeu de Paume Museum, Paris

- Old and new Dreams, Prince Charles Cinema, London

- Dr Edwards’ House, Marnay Art Centre, Marnay

- 3 to the Power of 3, Prince Charles Cinema, London

2004

- Artfog Video, Anna Norlander Museum, Sweden

- No More Fears, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris

- Nuit Blanche, Cinema l’Entrepot, Paris

- A fripon, fripon et demi, Collection Lambert, Avignon

2003

- Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris

- Gilles Dusein Prize, European House of Photography

- Jean Cocteau, sur le fil du siècle, Centre Pompidou, Paris

- Paris Vertical, Frac Paca, Marseille

- Bowieart, Portobello Film Festival, London

- Arty, Arty, Transition Gallery, London

- Fables d’identité, National Centre for Photography, Paris

2002

- Belle Rive, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris

- Les Enfants du Paradis, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris

- Nuit Blanche, Pompes Funèbres de la Ville de Paris

2001

- Traversées, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

- La rencontre, Frac Champagne-Ardennes, Reims

- Behind Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, New York

- Gardening tips, Zadkine Museum, Paris

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