Véronique Devoldère
Chair of Fine Arts
Artist and educator.
Education
BA (1986) in Fine Arts in printmaking and painting from Connecticut College, and a MFA (1989) in “Image Imprimée” (printmaking) from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
Work History
Involved in art education since graduating from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris, she has worked in many art schools in Paris, including ENSAD, Parsons Paris, and PCA. Her extensive experience teaching all levels of drawing at the bachelor’s and graduate levels allowed her to design and teach ‘Junior Studio Concepts’ and ‘Senior Studio Concepts’ courses. In 2009 she was appointed to create a bilingual French-English foundation course based on the European model called Atelier of Art, preparing students for international art schools. In 2011, she became the Chair of the Fine Arts department at Paris College of Art, and in 2017, created the MA/MFA in Drawing. Her educational research, including the writing and creation of various fine arts programs, is based on her years of experience teaching drawing, her artistic practice, residencies, and collaborations.
Since her first residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, her artistic practice is drawing based, with projects that focus on the archive, and forms of narratives. Narratives based on true stories or invented ones when the references or archives have gone missing are more often based on social issues related to women or to subject matters connected to humans.
Recent Exhibitions
The actual gesture and physical drawing process trace different experiences, facing time through a sudden awareness of the urgency, and praise resilience and courage. Each drawing becomes a daily notation or time fragment telling a person’s story in Chairs, and Notebook. Working in situ, she reveals the traces and leftover fragments through a reinvented cartography in Blue Wall, residency at the historical Atelier 11 Cité Falguière – Paris, 2021-2022; invested the confinement cells in Rooms with a view, drawing in situ for 7 months in a psychiatric hospital, 2021; or a shared exhibition and conference with a neuroscientist to talk about Alzheimer in 2022. In Chronicles, 2022, through a creative writing project, she creates new work for a group exhibition by the experimental drawing research group Phantom Limn. Phantom Limn is an ongoing collaboration between artists whose work incorporates different systems of experimental drawing. In Cartographies, entre Indices et Récits, 2022, in collaboration with Didier Clain based on their artistic practices, created a series of monumental drawings and drawing protocol for Drawing Now’s Printemps du Dessin.
Recent publications
She contributed to: “The Nabokov Paper”, an experiment in novel-reading, published by Information as Material, and “Collection 4 – Art & Design Education”, an essay about a collaborative drawing project designed in 2009 with Chloe Briggs titled “Paroles et Dessins”, a live performance/experimental class using Skype performed at the “CentQuatre” in Paris, Matt’s Gallery in London and Parsons the New School in New York.
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PCA Faculty Véronique Devoldère and Didier Clain to lead a Drawing Event during the Drawing Now Art Fair
PCA's Fine Arts Department has the pleasure to announce the opening of 'I never promised you a stone garden', an exhibition at the Fiminco Foundation, in partnership with Le Printemps du Dessin and the Foundation, during the Drawing Now Art Fair, on March...More
HELENE FROMEN '21 MFA in Drawing Alumna Update
Helene is pushing her practice both into drawing from life, especially as co-founder of Modele vivant.e collective, and performing. The image above is taken out of her recent Monstre-moi performed lecture that intends to push her body to the limit of grotesque...More
TURNING POINT with Jahnavi Gurrapu '22 Masters in Drawing
We hadn't heard a better answer than this when we asked Jahnavi Gurrapu '22 where she calls home. She told us, "Studio! It's 101 as of now!" If you've never had the pleasure of meeting this Masters of Fine Art in Drawing...More
A GROUP SHOW Featuring PCA alumna Christine Forni '17 BFA in Fine Arts
Christine Forni, who graduated from PCA in 2017 BFA in Fine Arts, is part of a group show featuring Abraham Cone, Hai-Wen Lin, Katie Vota and Jake Fagundo. Mu Gallery 1541 W. Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60642More
SHORT & SWEET WITH SAM
Have you talked to Sam Holzberg, '22 in BFA Fine Arts? Sometimes a man of few words and sometimes many but always interesting. Holzberg calls Paris home, thank goodness for us. We asked Holzberg what he has found most valuable about studying...More
OPPORTUNITY SEIZED with Camille Boulay
Camille Boulay '23, MFA Drawing calls her "little flat in Paris and many other places where I have friends and family" home. Boulay found her way to PCA after a six-month art residency with Véronique Devoldère and Didier Clain who encouraged me to...More
POWER OF PERSUASION with Suzie O'Mullane '22, Master of Art in Drawing
Suzie O'Mullane '22, Master of Art in Drawing may have been born in Ireland but she feels equally at home in Paris now. O'Mullane revealed that Vèro Devoldère, her program Chair, personally persuaded her to choose PCA and continues to be part of...More
IMPRESSIONS with Alicia González Ramírez '22
Alicia González Ramírez '22, is earning her Masters of Fine Art in Drawing and joins PCA by way of Spain. We asked González Ramírez what she felt was the most valuable thing she's learned here at PCA. She told us that she is "still impressed...More
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT with Laura Fisher
Laura Fisher '22 MFA in Drawing, comes to PCA from Chicago, USA because she "knew I didn't want to go to school in the US again ... as soon as I visited PCA I fell in love with it. "We asked Fisher...More
TALK THE TALK with Laura Scialdone '22, Masters in Fine Arts in Drawing
Laura Scialdone '22, MA in Drawing told us what they values most about their studies at PCA. "While I certainly have improved on the technical skills aspect of my artistic practice, I have to say one of the most valuable things I have...More
Degree Exhibition at Bastille Design Center
Join us for Liminal the final degree exhibition of the Paris College of Art graduating class of 2022. Featuring the works of students completing their MAs & MFAs in Drawing, Photography and Image-making, Transdisciplinary New Media, and BFAs in Fine Arts and Photography.More
Liberal Studies & Art History Talk
Borrowing its title from Nikolaus Pevsner’s 1956 ground-breaking essay The Englishness of English Art, the lecture is meant as an introduction to some of the key figures of contemporary English art, from the 1970s to the present day. With a specific focus...More
Paris College of Art MFA Drawing Student, Camille Boulay, Presents an Exhibition in La Vitrine
Camille Boulay's work explores rebuilding identity through the creative process. She is interested in representing movement, closeness and distance, links between people through maps and diagrams using "office supplies" but also contrasting this through more intimate mediums such as printmaking and textiles...More
Drawing Event: PCA Fine Art & Plymouth College of Art Drawing Sessions
Life Drawing Sessions in the Studio & Online Between : Paris College of Art & Plymouth College of Art Room 101 Curator : Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge In Paris : MA & MFA drawing students Guest artist - Hélène Fromen for Modèle Vivant.e Model...More
PCA Fine Arts Department Chair, Véronique Devoldère, Takes Drawing Research Residency in L’Air Arts
PCA’s Fine Arts department chair, Véronique Devoldère, takes part of Past Memories/ New Narratives Drawing Research Residency in L’Air Arts. L'AiR Arts invites you for the last opportunity to visit Atelier 11 - the only preserved workshop of the historical artists community of Cité Falguière...More
Mois du Dessin 2020 at PCA - BFA Fine Arts Workshop and PCA Talk
As part of Mois du Dessin, from 25-26 March, 2020, PCA will host: a BFA Fine Arts workshop, a PCA Talk with guests Emilie McDermott and Nour Awada, and an opening reception hosted by L’Air Arts, Artists-in-Residence Program.More
Mois du Dessin 2020 at PCA - Workshop: BEASTS
The Mois du Dessin created by the Drawing Now Art Fair, will take place this March 2020 in various Parisian institutions and art centers. PCA's Chair of MA/MFA Drawing Véronique Devoldère, and Chair of Foundation and founder of Drawing is Free Chloe...More
MDRW 4 - Independent Work Week
Every week, we bring you Masters in Drawing (MDRW) happenings. This is MDRW 3 by Taline Shahinian.More
MDRW 3 - Preparing for Final Projects
Every week, we bring you Masters in Drawing (MDRW) happenings. This is MDRW 3 by Taline Shahinian.More
MDRW 2 - Start of New Masterclass
Every week, we bring you Masters in Drawing (MDRW) happenings. This is MDRW 2 by Taline Shahinian.More
Drawing My Body / My Body Drawing Workshop
PCA's Department Chairs Véronique Devoldère and Chloé Briggs have been invited to offer a workshop to artists in residence of the l'Air Arts program.More
PCA X Drawing Now
March 19, 2019 PCA Department Chairs, Véronique Devoldère and Chloé Briggs lead a Skype drawing workshop as part of the Drawing Now calendar.More
The Duration of Drawing Symposium
The 'Duration of Drawing' Symposium will take place on October 25 and 26, 2018 at Paris College of Art, and is open to all students.More
Make My Drawings Move: A Master-Class with Artist Alys Scott Hawkins
Starting March 21, 2018 Paris will be presenting many drawing events. PCA will organize a talk with guest Tania Kovats and a workshop on Friday March 23, 2018. All events are open to the public.More
Véronique Devoldère and Chloe Briggs to Participate in 'The Embodied Experience of Drawing' One-Day Symposium
PCA chair and coordinator of MA/MFA Drawing Véronique Devoldère and Chloe Briggs will run their "Drawing My Body/My Body Drawing" workshop at the symposium in Plymouth, UK on Friday April 13, 2018.More
Fine Arts Class of '13 Elena Gileva Solo Exhibition 'Cultural Landscapes'
Elena Gileva is showing her ceramic work at Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste in Toucy, France starting September 9, 2017.More
PCA Department Chairs Chloe Briggs and Véronique Devoldère Drawing Residency at Dovecot Studio in Edinburgh, Scotland
Chloe and Véronique will be working with six other UK and European artists on a drawing-based collaborative project starting today, Wednesday July 5, 2017.More
Les Ateliers d'Aubusson x PCA: Winning Design!
The winning design of the Contemporary Tapestry Project with Les Ateliers d'Aubusson has been announced!More
were speaking alone, together - A Senior Fine Arts and Photography Degree Show
Join us for the opening of "were speaking alone, together" on May 17, 6pm at Galerie du Crous featuring Ruhi Parmar Amin, Ekaterina Costa, Larissa Barddal Fantini, Christine Forni, Judy Karkour, Paola de la Peña, Isabella Puiatti.More
I Wish I Could Draw
I Wish I Could Draw: A practical study of drawing manuals - A collaboration between the PCA Fine Arts department, and designer, curator, and educator Nina Paim.More