Born in 1988 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Claudia tennant lives and works in Paris.
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Beaux-Arts de Paris (2014 - 2017)
ArtCenter College of Design (MFA), Los Angeles, USA (2016)
École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts Paris-Cergy, France (2009 - 2014)
Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (Erasmus), Germany (2013)
National School of the Arts (option music), Johannesburg, South Africa (2004 - 2007)
Residencies
2022 Kinshasa Biennial (Yango Biennale), RDC
2020-2019 Capsule, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris
2015 Zone d'utopie temporaire, L'Amour (artist-run-space), Paris
2015 Rencontres - Festival Éclats, Caromb, France
Solo shows
2022
The Nile is longer and more romantic than the Amazon, Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
2021
Waking the Dead, Cité internationale des arts (cur. Karin Schlageter), Paris
2019
I & US, Premier regard (presented by par Jany Lauga), Paris
2018
It's Alive !, Cc's Dojo (artist-run-space), Gentilly, Paris
Group shows
2022
Kinshasa Biennial/ Yango Biennial (cur. Nadia Yala Kisukidi and Sara Alonso Gómez), Kinshasa, RDC
Artais exhibition, Paris
Oyo Ntondo Na Biso (carte blanche : Yango Biennale upon invitation by Marie Ann Yemsi), Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2021
Salon Globalisto, (cur. Mo Laudi) galerie Bonne Espérance, Paris
About Now, galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal
About Now, galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2020
Maison Contemporain, Paris
Parcours young graduates of Beaux-Arts (cur. Armelle Pradalier),
galerie Berthet-Aitouarès, Paris
Crude Saturdays, TacTac Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Soum soum 3, Carbone 17, Paris
Round 11, Thunder Cage (cur. Romain Vicari), Paris
Street art, (cur. par Elsa Werth et Camila Oliveira Fairclough), rue Louis Délgrès, Paris
Éléments de langage III, (cur. Camila Oliveira Fairclough), Programm of acceleration Centre Pompidou, Paris
Festival 100 %, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris
2018
Félicita 18, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Tendre jeudi, Confort Mental (cur. Thierry Leviez), Paris
2017
The Big Mosaic, Ibrahim's Khan (with atelier Dominique Gauthier -
Beaux-Arts de Paris and Kimonos Art Center),
European Capitale of Culture 2017, Paphos, Cyprus
2016
Open Studios, ArtCenter College of Design (MFA exchange), Pasadena,
Los Angeles
2015
Unbearable Lightness, Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, Germany
DWELL (cur. Azad Asifovich), galerie Mansart, Paris
YES TO ALL, Treize, Paris
Zone d'utopie temporaire (cur. Alice Bonnot), L'Amour, Paris
Festival Éclats, Caromb, France
Et après, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, galerie Placido, Ygrec, Paris
2014
18e Prix Antoine Marin (presented by Carole Benzaken), Arcueil, France
La vie c'est comme une dent, La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres, France
2013
Blombos tot rooibos (Crossed seasons France - South Africa, Ygrec, Paris
Geschmack Vom Feinsten, Team Titanic, Berlin, Germany
2012
Mythologies Online, Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, Russia