Clémentine Bruno
Clémentine Bruno’s complex praxis can be condensed into a study of painting’s presets and indexicals, working through its genres and repetitions as a means of questioning the painter as singular genius. If we liken the writer to the painter, as Bruno posits in her work, words as much as images are infinitely interchangeable to produce different narratives and visual compositions.
Project Native Informant has held two solo exhibitions of Bruno’s work, Ironclad Contract, 2020 and Then We Are Both Satisfied, 2020, each exhibition held works as groupings that are suggestive of the form and grammar of language, Bruno draws attention to the constraints of painting to derive meaning in a linear sense. Throughout her practice, she mines the art historical canon, making use of both identifiable as well as obscure references, each work could be compared to a word that when seen together read as a disjointed narrative.
In 2021, she presented a solo booth, 10 to 16 at Frieze Art London, in 2022 and 2023 she has taken part in group exhibitions in various galleries including Fluxus Art Project at Nicoletti, London, Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing, Halle Nord, Geneva and Project Native Informant, London. Recently, One Gee in Fog, Geneva presented a solo show of Bruno’s works and TONUS, Paris opened a new solo show in September 2024.

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Clémentine Bruno
CITYBOX
One Gee in Fog, Geneva

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Clémentine Bruno
CITYBOX
One Gee in Fog, Geneva

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Clémentine Bruno
TOTAL, 2022
Paris Internationale, Paris

Clémentine Bruno
TOTAL III
2022
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
30 x 50 x 3.5 cm
11 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 1 3/8 in

Clémentine Bruno
TOTAL IV
2022
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
37.5 x 120 x 3.5 cm
14 3/4 x 47 1/4 x 1 3/8 in

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Clémentine Bruno
TOTAL, 2022
Paris Internationale, Paris

Clémentine Bruno
TOTAL VII
2022
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
130 x 88 x 5 cm
51 1/8 x 34 5/8 x 2 in

Clémentine Bruno
Detail: TOTAL VII
2022
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
130 x 88 x 5 cm
51 1/8 x 34 5/8 x 2 in

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Clémentine Bruno
Ironclad Contract, 2020
Project Native Informant, London

Clémentine Bruno
A song is a song, dig it or you don’t
2020
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
40.5 x 30.5 x 3 cm
16 x 12 1/8 x 1 1/8 in

Clémentine Bruno
Ironclad-contract - A song is a song, dig it, or you don't
2020
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
35.5 x 25 x 3 cm
14 x 9 7/8 x 1 1/8 in

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Clémentine Bruno
Ironclad Contract, 2020
Project Native Informant, London

Clémentine Bruno
Storage for apparition
2020
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
26 x 19.5 x 2.5 cm
10 1/4 x 7 5/8 x 1 in

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Clémentine Bruno
10 to 16, 2022
Frieze London, London

Clémentine Bruno
10 to 16
2021
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
152 x 92 x 5.5 cm
59 7/8 x 36 1/4 x 2 1/8 in

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Clémentine Bruno
10 to 16, 2022
Frieze London, London

Clémentine Bruno
10 to 16
2021
Oil, aluminium, paper and traditional gesso on wood
37 x 65.5 x 4 cm
14 5/8 x 25 3/4 x 1 5/8 in

Clémentine Bruno
10 to 16
2021
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
20.5 x 15.5 x 3 cm
8 1/8 x 6 1/8 x 1 1/8 in

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Clémentine Bruno
Then we are both Satisfied, 2020
Project Native Informant, Soho Offsite, London

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Clémentine Bruno
Then we are both Satisfied, 2020
Project Native Informant, Soho Offsite, London

Clémentine Bruno
May I offer you a drink, may we never; apart II
2020
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
25 x 35 x 2.5 cm
9 7/8 x 13 3/4 x 1 in

Clémentine Bruno
Storage for apparition
2020
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
20.5 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
8 1/8 x 6 1/8 x 1 in

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Adam Gordon & Clémentine Bruno, 2021
Chapter NY, New York

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Adam Gordon & Clémentine Bruno, 2021
Chapter NY, New York

Clémentine Bruno
The name
2021
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
35 x 25 x 2.5 cm
13 3/4 x 9 7/8 x 1 in

Clémentine Bruno
Higher beings commanded II
2021
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
20.5 x 15 x 2 cm
8 1/8 x 5 7/8 x 3/4 in

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Clémentine Bruno
Oceans of Milk, 2021
Aspara Studios, London

Clémentine Bruno
Total XXIII
2023
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
20 x 30 x 3 cm
7 7/8 x 11 3/4 x 1 1/8 in

Clémentine Bruno
Total XXII
2023
Oil and traditional gesso on wood
20 x 30 x 3 cm
7 7/8 x 11 3/4 x 1 1/8 in
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Clémentine Bruno
The Sky Above the Roof, 2022
Tabula Rasa, Beijing
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Clémentine Bruno
The Sky Above the Roof, 2022
Tabula Rasa, Beijing
Solo Exhibitions
Group Shows
Clémentine Bruno
Not Before It Has Forgotten You
Fluxus Art Projects, London

Clémentine Bruno
Bambi Woods Presents
Space 52 and ERGO Collective, Athens
Adam Gordon, Alan Miller, Andrew Stahl, Clémentine Bruno, ...
Gubbinal, co-curated with Sean Steadman
PNI, London

Clémentine Bruno
One Kiss is All It Takes
Halle Nord, Geneva

Clémentine Bruno, Dozie Kanu
Art Basel Miami Beach 2020
Art Basel, Miami Beach

Anna Jung Seo, DIS, Clémentine Bruno, ...
Frieze LA 2023
Frieze, Los Angeles
