Cooper Hewitt says...
Born March 2, 1942, Dakar, Senegal; raised in France.
Graduated from Academie Charpentier, Paris, 1962.
Graduated from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1966.
Head, graphics department, Tunisian Tourist Bureau, Tunisia, 1966-68.
Relocated to NY and became U.S. Permanent Resident, 1968.
Editorial illustrations featured in publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Forbes, GQ, The New Yorker, New York, etc.
Book illustrations include "Precautions d'Usage" by Charles Brutini, Etre Editions; "Slash: An Alligator Story" by Ann Kesselman, Editions Harlan Quist; "Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener, The Franklin Library, etc.
Corporate clients have included British Telecom, Adobe, Champion Paper, New York University, Apple, etc.
Selected exhbitions, beginning in 1975 with "Art of the Times", Musee du Louvre, Paris; "Works on Paper" (group show), Steven Rosenberg Gallery, New York, 1982; "Figure It Out:Visual Body Language", (group show), Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, 1989; Seven Years in the Village Voice: A Solo Retrospective, The Illustration Gallery, New York, 1990; Gallery Victor Saavedra, (solo show), Barcelona, 2001.
Awards include: Clio, for ABC travel brochure, 1987; Silver from Art Direction Club of London, for Deutsche Handelsbank Annual Report, 1996; numerous awards from AIGA, the Society of Illustrators, various Art Directors Clubs, etc.
Illustrated "A Distinct Reality" by Steven Heller, Print Magazine, January-February 1987;
"Shape" by Hiroko Tanaka, Illustration Magazine, Japan, 1988, etc.
