Presenter: Cadine Navarro

Cadine Navarro’s multidisciplinary practice cross-pollinates the fields of art, science, design and spirituality to create spaces of encounter and direct experience. The materiality of her work often finds source in a Japanese esthetic and worldview - the country where Navarro was born and raised with her French father and American mother. The arc of her research-based practice explores models to catalyze a shift in consciousness, and include community outreach and educational programs that aim to serve as an act of reciprocity and response to the damage we have to the earth.

She has an extensive international exhibition record including The Wexner Center for the Arts, Venice Biennale, Contour Biennale, Art Brussels, and Deitch Studios New York. Publications include Publication Studio Vancouver and Rotterdam, Rowman&Littlefield, and Billebaude.

Currently she is an artist-in-residence at The Wexner Center for the Arts and has received full scholarship to study landscape design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She holds a BA in Art History from Sussex University, UK, a BFA from the Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, an MFA from Goldsmiths University of London, and is a laureate of the HISK - a practice-based post-graduate research program in Belgium.

She was born in Kobe, Japan and is a French-American, based in Paris, France.

Education

  • Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA (2021-23)
  • HISK Laureate, BE (2015-17)
  • M.F.A. Goldsmiths University, London, UK (2006-08)
  • B.F.A Rietveld Akademie, NL (2005-08)
  • GradCert New York Academy of Art, painting focus, USA (2000-01)
  • B.A. Art History, French, Japanese, Sussex University, UK (1995-2000)

Exhibitions (Selection)

  • 2023 Seed Songs for the New Earth, The Box, Wexner Center of the Arts, Columbus, OH
  • 2022-2023 ‘Breathe’, Director’s Dialogue for Learning and Public Programming, Wexner Center of the Arts, Columbus, OH
  • 2022-2023 Grange Insurance Audubon Center, ‘It Sounds Like Love’, Columbus, OH
  • 2022 “9 Seeds”, Harvard Divinity School, Ecological Spiritualities, Cambridge, MA
  • 2021-2022 Frank Museum at Otterbein University, ‘It Sounds Like Love’, Columbus, OH
  • 2020 ING Off-Program, Cadine Navarro ‘WHAT IS IT WORTH?’, ING Art Center, Brussels, BE
  • 2019 ING LOVE/HATE DEBATE start a conversation with the ING Bank Brussels Collection, Brussels, BE
  • 2019 Fréquences Sauvages, Musée de la Chasse et Nature, Paris (FR)
  • 2019 Contour Biennale 9, curated by Natasa Petresin Bachelez, Mechelen, (BE)
  • 2018 SeedBalls performance
  • 2018 Two Fragments in collaboration with Bl!ndman, De Single Antwerp (BE)
  • 2018 Natuurlijk, CWART, curated by Corrine Walder and Mildreda Deleersnijder, (BE)
  • 2018 Mystic Properties, Art Brussels, curated by Elena Sorokina (BE)
  • 2018 De Visu, DRAC Foundation, Normandy (FR)
  • 2017 The Gird and the Cloud: How to Connect, Vanderborght, curated by Elena Sorokina, Brussels (BE)
  • 2017 Trust is Not a Mood, Barely an Emotion, ING Gent, curated by Elena Sorokina, Ghent (BE)
  • 2017 De Visu, l’Abbatiale Saint Ouen, selected by DRAC, Normandy (FR)
  • 2017 Open studios HISK, BE
  • 2017 Learn Tomorrow’s Language: Art and Science meets Spirituality in a Changing Economy, Cure Park with Louwrien Wijers and Egon Hanfstingl, Amsterdam (NL)
  • 2016 Anthropologies, Galerie La Forest Divonne Project Space, Brussels (BE)
  • 2016 La Traverser des Apparences, Le Portique, selected by DRAC, Normandy (FR)
  • 2016 Paratex 10, Hangar, Barcelona (SP)
  • 2016 Open studios HISK, BE2015 Dans le Silence ou dans le Bruit, Le SHED, curated by Julie Faitot, Notre Dame de Bonneville (FR)
  • 2014-15 Metamorphosis Project (series), Gallery UBI, Rouen (FR)
  • 2014-15 Le Petit Salut (series), in collaboration with Jason Karaindros and Guy Lemounier, ESDHAR Rouen (FR)
  • 2014 Fragments of a Former Moon, Concourse Gallery, curated by Kimberly Phillips, Vancouver (CA)
  • 2013 Cinémorphe, Galerie Le SeptCinq, Paris, curated by Romilly Walton Masters (FR)
  • 2012 ‘Breathe’, Making Sense Colloquium, American Foundation, Paris (FR)
  • 2011 Le Site Matrixiel, Treignac Project Space, curated by Sam Basu, Limoges (FR)
  • 2010 Snow-Ball Effect, Mains d’Oeuvres, curated by Charlotte Moth, Peter Fillingham, Paris (FR)
  • 2009 Playgrounds, Chowaiki Gallery, NYC (USA)
  • 2009 VB64, Performance model Vanessa Beecroft, Deitch Studios, New York (USA)
  • 2008 UNFAIR PROJECT, de Service Garage, Art Amsterdam (NL)
  • 2008 Auction in a Suitcase, 1:1 Project Space, Rome, curated by IM press (IT)
  • 2008 Rupture Series III, Making Waves, Plan B Space, Amsterdam (NL)
  • 2008 Rupture Series II, The Witness, Plan B Space, Amsterdam (NL)
  • 2007 Rupture Series I, Long Street Workshops, London (UK)
  • 2007 Fall-In-Theater, Ashwin Street Gallery, London (UK)
  • 2006 Lucky You Met Me, ////////////PACT, Amsterdam (NL)

Artist Talks/ Workshops

  • 2023 Seed Saver Exchange, livestream video of ‘It Sounds Like Love’
  • 2023 EPRI Pollinator Party, livestream podcast of ‘Seed Songs’
  • 2022 ‘It Sounds Like Love’, art and science outreach has included:
    • Harvard Divinity School
    • Denison University
    • Ohio Wesleyan University
    • Kenyon College
    • Ohio State University
    • Otterbein University
    • John Loghan High School
    • Hartford Middle School
  • 2017-18 De Visu, DRAC (FR)
  • 2016 Hangar Paratex 10 (SP)
  • 2016-17 HISK (BE)
  • 2014 ESDHAR Beaux Arts Rouen (FR)
  • 2013 Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver (BC)
  • 2010 Parsons School of Art and Design, (FR)

Publications

  • 2023 Harvard Divinity Bulletin “Repose”
  • 2021 Illustrations for: ‘Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices’, Rowman & Littlefield
  • 2019 Sounds Like Rain, Billebaude, Editions Glénat
    https://www.chassenature.org/en/rendez-vous/frequences-sauvages
  • 2017 The World that Would, Publication Studio Rotterdam
  • 2017 40 Things I’ve Learned, Publication Studio Rotterdam
  • 2017 Drawing With the Third Eye, Publication Studio Rotterdam
  • 2014 Fifty-Five Homes, Publication Studio Vancouver
  • 2009 A Rupture Event, Ana Genovés catalogue raisonné, Aldgate Press, London
  • 2009 Recession Proof, Unfair Project catalogue, Art Amsterdam
  • 2008 A Fine Red Line, IM Press, London
  • 2008 Drawing a Line between the Artist and the Curator, Archival collection at Gallery Apollinaire, Milan, mentored by Daniel Buren, Fondazione Ratti, IT
  • 2007 On Intuition and Beauty, Celeste Painting Prize, London

Reviews/ Articles

Residency Awards

  • 2022-2023 Wexner Center of the Arts Artist Residency Award in Learning and Public Practice
  • 2022 Land-Based Bioregional Artist-in-Residence for ‘It Sounds Like Love’, support from Otterbein University, Denison University, Kenyon College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio State University
  • 2017 Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
  • 2016 Hangar residency, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2014-15 Emily Carr School of Visual Art, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2012 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Canada
  • 2011 ACSI, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2010 Dena Foundation, Le Centre de Récollets, Paris, France
  • 2009 SVA Summer Residency Fellowship, New York, USA
  • 2007 CECAC (European Course for Contemporary Art Curators), Milan with mentorship with artist Daniel Burren and curator Zdenka Badovinac, Italy

Grants

  • 2022 Wexner Center of the Arts Artist Residency Award in Learning and Public Practice
  • 2022 Land-based artist-in-residence, Otterbein University
  • 2021 Deans Merit Scholarship Harvard University
  • 2017 DRAC Haute Normandie, Production Grant
  • 2015 DRAC Haute Normandie, Travel grant, Japan
  • 2008 Royal Talens Painting Prize, Amsterdam
  • 2006-08 UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship (AHRC)

Professional Experience

  • 2023 Creative Director, Stinner Climate Ambassadors summer training program
  • 2022 Consultation and teaching: participatory and experiential workshops and retreats with unique, creative curricula
  • 2019 Drawdown Facilitator
  • 2010 NEOMA Business School Rouen/Paris, undergraduate and graduate faculty member (Communication, Arts Management)
  • 2010- Kundalini Yoga, Meditation and Breath Instructor
  • 2010-14 CELSA-SORBONNE Paris, Department for Language, Media and Communication, graduate instructor
  • 2009-10 Parsons School of Art and Design Paris, academic student advisor, summer residency program coordinator, lecturer
  • 2008 Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, director assistant work placement
  • 2004-08 Kvadrat Interior Design, Paris/ Amsterdam, administrative advisor
  • 2002-03 Galerie Ludovic de Wavrin, Paris, director assistant, curatorial assistance
  • 2000-01 Roger Smith Gallery, New York, director assistant, curatorial assistance
  • 1998-99 CAPC Museum Bordeaux, curatorial intern for Anish Kapoor, Cindy Sherman