Niki de Saint Phalle

1930 Born Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
2002 Died in San Diego, California

Member of the group 'Nouveau Realistes'
Participates with Bob Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Jean Tinguely in concert-performance Variations II of John Cage, given to the abassador of the United States in Paris.
With Jean Tinguely and Per Olof Utvedt, builds la Hon, a gigantnic pregnant Chick, laid down on the back, for Moderna Muse and of Stockholm
Wrote and produced her first film, Daddv, in collaboration with Peter Whitehead. Launch a range of perfumes to finance the construction of the II giardino dei Tarocchi,
Francois Mitterrand orders from Niki Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely a fountain for the place of the town hall of Castle-Chinon
Creates a series of kinetic reliefs or moving paintings, Tableaux eclates
Receives the prize 'Caran d' Ache'
Works with the architect, Mario Botta, on the project of the construction, Arche de Noe, a monument for a village in Jerusalem.
She created a head of death of 5m high top, decorated of mosaics on the surface. The interior is a space of meditation entirely covered with mirrors.
In October of 2000, Niki de Saint Phalle received an imperial prize, the same time the American composer, Stephen Sondheim, the American painter, Ellsworth Kelly, the German composer, Hans Werner Henze and the British Architect, Richard Rogers.
In November 17, was signed as the donation of Niki de Saint Phalle in Sprengel Museum of Hanover.
She made a donation at the Musee d'Art decoratifs in Paris
Donation made of Niki de Saint Phalle in Nice, for the Musee d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain.

Selected Exhibitions

1999 - 2000
Under the title 'Niki de Saint Phalle' --love, protest, imagination the Museum Ulmer organized a retrospect shown in the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen and the Kunsthale of Fremded. In the space of Jean Tinguely, for the exhibition of Niki de Saint Phalle.

1999
Traces, Galerie JGM Paris

1994 - 1999
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia
Casa Franca-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sala de Exposiciones Edificio CTC, Santiago de Chile, Chili.
Created for a dragon for children in stone, glass and cermanic in the south of California
Created an angel of 10 meters high installed for the Swiss Federal Railroads installed in the Zurich train station.
Exposition at the Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego
Retrospective in South America
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, Venezuela

1997
Made in France, Centre George Pompidou Paris

1979 - 1996
Principal construction of Il giardino del Tarocchi, to Garavicchio, in the south of Tuscany. It is about a unit of 22 monumental sculptures, some livable, are inspired by the major mysteries of the Tarot. Built out of concrete and are covered with a mosaic of mirrors, glass and ceramics colored

1994
Portraits de Femme, Chateau Notre Dame des Fleurs Vence, France

1993
Retrospective, Musee d'Art Moderne Paris

1987 - 1993
Retrospect of work Niki de Saint Phalle organised for by Kunst and Ausgestellungshalle of Bonn, Germany and then shown in McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland, with the Museum of Modern art, Paris, with the Museum of Art and History in Freiburg, Switzerland
Permanent Installation in Duisburg, a large sculpture called, Lebenretter

1980 - 1986
Devoted retrospect to Niki de Saint Phalle at the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris
Realised project with Jean Tinguely la Fontaine Stravinsky, , next to the Centre George Pompidou
Installation of a monumental sculpture Sun God to the University of Calfornia in San Diego, USA
Take an active part in the fight campaigns against the AIDS. In collaboration with Professor Silvio Barandum, she writes and illustrates a book: Aids, You Can' T Wrestling it With Hands, translated into five languages.

1985
Nouveau Realsime and Pop Art, , Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

1980
Retrospective, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris

1977
Paris, New York: Unalbum, Centre George Pompidou Paris

1972 - 1975
In Jerusalem, in the Rabinovitch park, built a monster - house of games for children, LeGolem
In Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium, built a house of games for children: Le Dragon
The Nanas Conquer the City, permanent installation of of three monumental nanas in the center of the town of Hanover

1971
Serigraphen and Kleine Skulpturen, Kammer Kunsthalle Reine

1966 - 1970
The Paradis Fantastique, an ensemble of nine sculptures of Saint Phalle and Tinguley for the Expo '67 of Montreal.
The first creation on an architectural scale in the south of France. Built three houses. Collaborate with Jean Tinguely in the realization of a monumental sculpture in Milly-the-Forest: the Head or the Monster of MiIly.
L'European Artist and the Figure, Art Institute of Chicago Chicago

1965
First exhibition Nanas in New York and Paris
Alexandre Iolas Gallery New York

1964
Mythologies Quotidiennes, , Musee d'Art Moderne Paris

1961
Le Nouveau Realisme Paris et NY, Galerie Rive Droite Paris
Bewogen-Beweging, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

1956
First exhibition of paintings in St. Gallen (Switerland)