Jerome Lagarrigue

Jérôme Lagarrigue (born August 18, 1973 ) is a French painter living in New York city.

Biography
Lagarrigue was born in Paris, to a French father who was an illustrator and painter, and an American mother who was a journalist and writer. As a child, he was schooled in France, but spent summers in New York City, where he now lives. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, with a major in illustration, in 1996.

Two years after graduation, Parsons School of Design made Lagarrigue professor of drawing and painting.

Solo exhibitions

 * 2001 - "Boxers", The Cutting Room Gallery, 19 W 24th St, New York City.
 * 2002 - "Recent works", Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles.
 * 2003 - "Paintings", UFA Gallery, 526 W 26th St, New York City.
 * 2005 - "Synchresis", TheXpo Gallery, 63 Pearl St, Brooklyn, New York City.
 * 2006 - "Paesaggio Del viso", Villa Medicis, Rome, Italy and Oliver Waltman Gallery, Paris.
 * 2007 - "Boxing", Galerie Olivier Waltman, 74 Rue Mazarine, Paris.
 * 2009 - "Brooklintimate", Galerie Olivier Waltman, 74 Rue Mazarine, Paris.
 * 2010 - "Urban Boxing United", Palais de la Bourse, Marseilles, France.
 * 2011 - "Anne Claire", BDG Gallery, 535 W 25th St, New York City.
 * 2012 - "Closer", Waltman Ortega Gallery, 2233 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL.
 * 2014 - "Visible Man", Driscoll Babcock Gallery, 525 W 25th Street, New York City.
 * 2017 - "The Tipping Point", Lazarides Gallery, 11 Rathbone Place, London, UK.

Books illustrated

 * 1999 - "My Man Blue", text by Nikki Grimes. ISBN 978-0-14-230197-5
 * 2002 - "Freedom Summer", text by Deborah Wiles. ISBN 978-0-689-87829-9
 * 2003 - "Me and Uncle Romie", text by Claire Hartfield. ISBN 978-0-8037-2520-1
 * 2004 - "Going North", text by Janice N. Harrington. ISBN 978-0-374-32681-4
 * 2004 - "Freedom on the Menu", text by Carole Weatherford. ISBN 978-0-8037-2860-8
 * 2007 - "Poetry for young people", poems by Maya Angelou. ISBN 978-1-4027-2023-9
 * 2007 - "Pleine Face", text by Sylvain Coher, publisher: Éponyme. ISBN 2-84809-069-3