Jérôme Lagarrigue

Jérôme Lagarrigue
Period: 2006-2007
Profession: Visual artist Born in Paris in 1973 to a French father and an American mother. After high school at the Ecole Active Bilingue in Paris, he continued his university studies in the United States at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), graduating in 1996 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and a prize for excellence in painting. Living in New York for the past ten years, he divides his time between teaching, illustrating and painting. He has been teaching drawing and painting at New York’s Parsons School of Design since 1997 (1st and 2nd year students). He has illustrated nearly a dozen children’s books, designed the covers of several records and books, and collaborated with a number of prestigious magazines and journals. As a painter, he has been the subject of numerous articles in the American, French and Italian press, as well as a documentary entitled “Jerome Lagarrigue, portrait d’un artiste” by Richard Motte and Laurence Bizeau, selected by the Centre Georges Pompidou as part of the 6th International Documentary Film Festival. Since 1995, he has also taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York. His Roman project consists in establishing parallels between Rome and New York, through a series of large-scale portraits (2m x 2m) and street scenes.