On the bridge, 2020
Roger Dale

1950 Birth of Roger Dale near Liverpool, England 1952 Relocation of his family to Alberta, Canada 1968 - 71 Solo travels. New York, London, Paris. Meet the artist-shaman ManWoman. Confirmation of the vocation of artist. 1972 Entered the Alberta College of Art in Calgary Canada. Meetings with Jean Deteux who revealed the importance of the gaze, Christo and Chris Burden who shaped the approach to performance. ACA Painting graduate (Canada). Queen Elisabeth Prize for Drawing, Canada. Elisabeth T. Greenshields Award, Canada. 1977 Entrance to the Schiller European University at the Château Pourtalès in Strasbourg. Study trip to Berlin and East Berlin, Florence and Rome. Meeting with Luis Fantasia, man of the theater, who revealed the importance of the theatrical aspect in teaching. Master of Fine Arts graduate (United States). 1979 First personal exhibition in Geneva. Beginning of his career as an art teacher at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin (formerly Decorative Arts in Strasbourg). 1981 Meets Peter Dreher, German artist, a major influence on the infallible commitment that the practice of art requires. Obtained the Higher National Diploma of Plastic Expression (France). 1983 Residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis in the former studio of Winston Churchill. 1984 Residence in Cargèse Corse. 1985 Residency in Egypt in Cairo and Luxor. 1986 Residence in the Black Forest, Germany. 1989 First exhibition in Paris. Lecturer at Polytechnic Leicester in England and at the Alberta College of Art. Establishment of a Franco-Canadian student exchange program. 1990 First exhibition in Berlin. Accompaniment of a humanitarian convoy in Romania. Realization of paintings and exhibitions of French, Moldavian and Romanian painters. 1992 Teacher at the Higher School of the National Theater of Strasbourg. 1993 Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe at the invitation of Peter Dreher. Birth of his son Tristan. 1994 100 views of freedom: one hundred paintings produced in 50 days in the confines of the Struthof concentration camp. Presented at Natzwiller, Strasbourg, Freiburg, Zagreb, Macon, Paris, Sarajevo, Brussels, Rostock, Hemicycle of the Council of Europe Strasbourg. 1996 Unfinished portrait: production of a series of portraits of survivors of the siege of Gorazde, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Residence in Vermont, United States. Birth of his daughter Alexia-Ena. 1998 Landscapes after eclipse: series of paintings produced in Pocitelj, a city destroyed in 1992, Bosnia-Herzegovina. 2002/2005 Residence in Berlin. Teacher at the Weissensee Kunsthochschule. 2003 Birth of his son Elias. 2006 Residency in Luxor, Egypt. Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, South Valley University and setting up of a Franco-Egyptian student exchange. 2007 Alsace region prize, awarded by CEAAC. 2009 Residency in Munich and Chiemsee in Bavaria. 2011 Residency in Lausanne, Switzerland. Series of paintings around Lake Geneva. 2012 Residency in South Carolina, United States. Conferences in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, around the Guernica-Homs university project, in support of the Syrian Sunrise Foundation. 2014 Appointed Member of the Académie d'Alsace. 2015 Named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, France. 2016 Invited by the Russian government, as European representative, to produce a series of paintings on the Lena River site, in order to participate in the promotion of the Siberia region. Personal exhibition Since 1979 Numerous international exhibitions: Ajaccio, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Freiburg, Ghent, Geneva, Grenoble, Los Angeles, Luxor, Marseille, Munich, Paris, Rostock, Sarajevo, Strasbourg, Woodstock, Zagreb etc ... GALERIES Galerie l'Estampe, Strasbourg (website) AAART Foundation, Austria (website) Galerie Roy Sfeir, Paris (website) EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES See the complete list WORK OF PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT 100 view of freedom: one hundred paintings created in the enclosure of the Struthof concentration camp, from August 1 to September 20, 1994. Presentations at Natzwiller, Strasbourg, Freiburg, Zagreb, Macon, Sarajevo, Brussels, Rostock, Council of Europe. Unfinished portrait: realization of a series of portraits of survivors of the siege of Gorazde, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Landscapes after eclipse: series of paintings made in Pocitelj, a city destroyed in 1992, Bosnia-Herzegovina. OTHER ACHIEVED PROJECTS Portrait of Corsica: production of series of paintings for a private commission, Marseille. Two months in Egypt, realization of series of paintings for the El Zanaty foundation, Cairo, Luxor. Accompaniment of a humanitarian convoy, realization of paintings and exhibitions of French painters, Moldavia, Romania. Assistant scenographer, "JAB-Filmoproduction" company, Munich, Germany. Painting for the Inauguration, European Parliament, Strasbourg. Face to face: 100 self-portraits in 10 days, Nicole Buck Contemporary Art, Strasbourg. OFFICIAL ACQUISITIONS Minister of Industry, France. City of Geneva, Switzerland. European Parliament, Strasbourg, France. Minister of Culture, Bosnia and Herzegovina. National Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. UBS Bank, Strasbourg, France. March, Freiburg, Germany. The National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia. PRIX / AWARDS Queen Elisabeth Prize for Drawing, Canada. Price of the Alsace region, France. Member of the Académie d'Alsace, France. Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, France. PROFESSOR HEAR - Haute école des arts du Rhin, France. SPEAKER Kunsthochschule, Weissensee, Berlin, Germany. Leicester Polytechnic, England. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Freiburg, Germany. Alberta College of Art, Canada. Faculty of Fine Arts (South Valley University) Luxor, Egypt. Kunstakademie Bad Reichenhall, Germany.