Saint Clair Cemin

Saint Clair Cemin was born in Brazil in 1951. He attended the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he learned printmaking for three years.

After moving to New York, Saint Clair Cemin worked in carpentry, renovating lofts and cabinet making, before moving to sculpture. His works, built on a blend of precision crafting, noble materials and references to ancient Greece, Art Nouveau and surrealism, are strangely humorous and sensual. Feeling restless after staying long in one place, Saint Clair Cemin often moves residences to live in cities like Sao Paolo, New York, Paris, Cairo, Bali, or Beijing. As a result, the artist explores with different approaches and materiales so that his sculptures are influenced by different environments and encompass multiple styles. 

Saint Clair Cemin lives and works in New York City and Beijing.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016

• Psyche, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
• Saint Clair Cemin: Sculptures, Brasiilea Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland

2014

• Myth and Math, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

2012

• Espejo Borroco, Centro Atlàntico de Arte Moderno, Canaria, Spain
• SIX, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
• Saint Clair Cemin on Broadway, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

• Drawing Room, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
• Surrealism: The Conjured Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

2015

• 10th Mercosul Biennial, Messages from a New America, Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Là où commence le jour, Dans le cadre de lille3000, Renaissance, Lille Métropole musée d’art modern, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

2014

• Cruce de colecciones, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• Literary Devices, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York, NY
• Uber Bodies, Sachtourio High School, Hydra, Greece

COLLECTIONS

• Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
• The Bellevue Hospital, New York
• S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
• The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MASS.
• Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA, New Orleans
• Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, California.
• Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Long Island City.
• Chase Manhattan Bank, New York.
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
• Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey.
• Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois.
• Reston Town Center, Reston, Virginia.
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
• 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, Båstad, Sweden.
• MEIAC - Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain.