Born: 1951

Hometown: Cruz Alta, Brazil

Lives and Works: New York, NY

Website: http://www.saintclaircemin.com/scc/@sculptures.htm

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Saintclaircemin

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Saint-Clair-Cemin/716080904

Education: École Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, 1978

About The Artist

Saint Clair Cemin is a Brazilian artist who arrived in New York by way of Paris in the 1970s. Known primarily for his sculptures, his practice is marked by its eclectic pilfering of historic subject matter. Surreally transgressing the tropes of High Modernism, Clair Cemin espouses a return to “craft.” As he stated recently: “I believe that whoever wants to separate craft from art, wants also to separate the upper class from the lower, intellect from the hands, work from pleasure, religion from philosophy, butter from bread—the list is endless. Craft, the use of one's hands and skill, is simply a way of thinking."

Saint Clair Cemin's sculptures have been exhibited worldwide in museums and museum exhibitions such as the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; the Stedelijk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; the 1989 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, New York, NY; 22nd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil; the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; and The Menil Collection, Houston, TX.

Galleries

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

Luciano Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

Bolsa de Arte, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

Select Permanent Collections

Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil

MARGS - Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, Porte, Alegre, Brazil

Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France

The Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY

S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium

The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA, New Orleans, LA

Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Long Island City, NY

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL

Reston Town Center, Reston, VA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

FNAC (Fonds National d'Art Contemporain), Paris, France

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico

Rooseum, Stockholm, Sweden

Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan

Telenor AS, Bergen, Norway

Bastads Kommun, Sweden

MEIAC - Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain