Biography
Born in Montreux in Canton Vaud Francine Mury, after attending schools in Basel, studied visual arts and graphic design from 1963 to 1970, first at the Shrewsbury School of Art in England and then at the Kunstgewerbeschulen in Basel and Bern, where she graduated as a graphic designer.
She then worked as a painter and scientific draftsman in the Canton of Neuchâtel.
In the early 1970s she began her artistic research: in 1974 she was awarded the Federal Applied Arts Grant; five years later, in 1979, Galerie Schneider in Le Landeron organized her first solo exhibition; and in 1983 she was the creator and organizer of the International Exhibition La femme et l'Art in Le Landeron, Canton Neuchâtel.
From 1983 to 1988 she lived in Paris, where she deepened her etching technique. During the same years she makes several sojourns in Milan, coming into contact with exponents of the Transavanguardia movement; receives numerous scholarships, including those awarded by the Cantons of Neuchâtel and Bern (1984); and begins a series of study trips to various countries including, in particular, the repeated sojourns made since 1987 in South India, which decisively influence her thinking and her art.
Since 1989 she has lived and worked in Meride, where her artistic and exhibition activities have developed and consolitated considerably.
In 2010 she was awarded the Swiss Prize in Chalcography from the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich, and in the same year she exhibited Vita silente at the Ikonen Museum in Frankfurt. In 2016 she spent six months in Paris at the “Cité Internationales des Arts.”
In 2017 she initiates a cultural synchronicity collaboration with artist Jiang Zhuquin of Tsinghua University in Beijing, which will lead to the elaboration of the ongoing One Leaf One World project (2019-2023).
In addition to her artistic activity, she collaborates with the “Centre Culturel Suisse” in Paris. She has been involved in teaching for 20 years at CSIA (School Center for Artistic Industries) and DACD (Department of Environment Construction and Design) at SUPSI. She was president of Visarte Ticino from 2010 to 2013 and collaborates with Guido Magnaguagno as coordinator on Luciano Benetton's “Imago Mundi Helvetia” project.
Her extensive exhibition activity includes group and solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in Switzerland and abroad, including: Lokaltermin at the Kunstmuseum in Bern (1986); the Ragamala project with Indian painter Tilak Gitai at the Musée d'Ethnographie in Geneva (1998); Hortus Rerum I at the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano (2002); a solo show at Spazio Officina in Chiasso (2007); Eden, at the Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna di Ascona (2009); Derive of Time and Memory at the Pinacoteca Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea Giovanni da Gaeta (2017); Sur Papier, at the MAHN Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Neuchâtel (2021). Sur Papier, at MUSEC (Museo delle Culture), Lugano (2021-2022); Yesterday.today.on the Threshold, at Galleria consarc Chiasso (2023); and Sur Papier at Hanshan Art Museum Suzhou in China.
Her works are in numerous public and private collections in Switzerland and abroad.
Biography
Born in Montreux in Canton Vaud Francine Mury, after attending schools in Basel, studied visual arts and graphic design from 1963 to 1970, first at the Shrewsbury School of Art in England and then at the Kunstgewerbeschulen in Basel and Bern, where she graduated as a graphic designer.
She then worked as a painter and scientific draftsman in the Canton of Neuchâtel.
In the early 1970s she began her artistic research: in 1974 she was awarded the Federal Applied Arts Grant; five years later, in 1979, Galerie Schneider in Le Landeron organized her first solo exhibition; and in 1983 she was the creator and organizer of the International Exhibition La femme et l'Art in Le Landeron, Canton Neuchâtel.
From 1983 to 1988 she lived in Paris, where she deepened her etching technique. During the same years she makes several sojourns in Milan, coming into contact with exponents of the Transavanguardia movement; receives numerous scholarships, including those awarded by the Cantons of Neuchâtel and Bern (1984); and begins a series of study trips to various countries including, in particular, the repeated sojourns made since 1987 in South India, which decisively influence her thinking and her art.
Since 1989 she has lived and worked in Meride, where her artistic and exhibition activities have developed and consolitated considerably.
In 2010 she was awarded the Swiss Prize in Chalcography from the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich, and in the same year she exhibited Vita silente at the Ikonen Museum in Frankfurt. In 2016 she spent six months in Paris at the “Cité Internationales des Arts.”
In 2017 she initiates a cultural synchronicity collaboration with artist Jiang Zhuquin of Tsinghua University in Beijing, which will lead to the elaboration of the ongoing One Leaf One World project (2019-2023).
In addition to her artistic activity, she collaborates with the “Centre Culturel Suisse” in Paris. She has been involved in teaching for 20 years at CSIA (School Center for Artistic Industries) and DACD (Department of Environment Construction and Design) at SUPSI. She was president of Visarte Ticino from 2010 to 2013 and collaborates with Guido Magnaguagno as coordinator on Luciano Benetton's “Imago Mundi Helvetia” project.
Her extensive exhibition activity includes group and solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in Switzerland and abroad, including: Lokaltermin at the Kunstmuseum in Bern (1986); the Ragamala project with Indian painter Tilak Gitai at the Musée d'Ethnographie in Geneva (1998); Hortus Rerum I at the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano (2002); a solo show at Spazio Officina in Chiasso (2007); Eden, at the Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna di Ascona (2009); Derive of Time and Memory at the Pinacoteca Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea Giovanni da Gaeta (2017); Sur Papier, at the MAHN Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Neuchâtel (2021). Sur Papier, at MUSEC (Museo delle Culture), Lugano (2021-2022); Yesterday.today.on the Threshold, at Galleria consarc Chiasso (2023); and Sur Papier at Hanshan Art Museum Suzhou in China.
Her works are in numerous public and private collections in Switzerland and abroad.
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