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Christophe Ronel  

Christophe Ronel was born in 1964 in Rouen. His father, a painter, introduced him to painting at a very young age. He lives and works in Normandy and Paris.

Having passed his Agrégation in the visual arts, Ronel has been teaching at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art since 1990.

Over the last thirty years, there have been more than eighty personal exhibitions devoted to him, in France and abroad, both in galleries and in cultural centers and museums in Paris, Lille, Amiens, Le Touquet, La Baule, Rouen, Barbizon, Brest, Chartres, Grenoble, Lyon, Montpellier, Nice, Saint Jean de Luz, Saint Malo, Brussels, Casablanca, Marrakech, Sousse, Hanover, Palm Beach, Singapore, Tokyo.

His paintings have shown at the Vascoeuil castle, at the Cercanceaux abbey, the Benedictine Palace of Fécamp, the Hôtel de Région de Rouen, the Chartres Archives, the General Council of Seine Maritime, the Brittany Ferries collection and the Bourdelle Museum, Paris - musée de la Poste, Paris - Museum of Fine Arts, Le Havre - de Louviers, Chateauroux, Chartres, Brive, Aix en Provence, Girona, in Sarajevo, in Shanghai, in the Center for Art and Culture - Taegu, Korea, Sarria - Spain, in the Japanese museums: Matsumoto, Fukuoka, Nagano, the Tokyo International Forum, the Aoyama Spiral Hall in Tokyo, the National Museum of China in Beijing and at the Chinese National Museum of Tianjin, or the National Museum of Taiwan.

Ronel has participated in numerous exhibitions and biennials: Salon de Mai Grand Palais Paris, Grands et Jeunes Grand Palais Paris, Comparaisons Grand Palais Paris, Art en Capital Grand Palais Paris, Salon d'Automne, Groupe 109 Grand Palais Paris, Art Paris, Saga, Linéart Ghent, SIMAA Fair in Beirut, International Beijing Biennial, Artelys Bourg en Bresse, Start Fair in Strasbourg, International Symposium of art on paper in Taiwan, etc.

His works are part of various public and private collections.