BIOGRAPHY
-Le Chevallier’s great-grandfather, Joseph Blitz, born in Milan, Italy, was an exhibiting painter during the turn of the Twentieth Century.
-Georges Le Chevallier’s grandfather’s cousin, Jacques Le Chevallier, was one of France’s most important stained glass window artists. Among his greatest achievements was to be selected to create between 1957 and 1967 thirty stained glass windows at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
-Currently Guy Le Chevallier (Jacques Le Chevallier’s son) and his wife Anne run the family stained glass atelier at Fontenay-aux-Roses, in France.
-Georges Le Chevallier’s cousin, Cecile Page Le Chevallier, is an exhibiting artist, who graduated from the “Academie de Beaux Arts”. She is married to Alain Page, one of France’s leading fiction writers.
Georges Patrick Le Chevallier, the youngest son of Michel Le Chevallier (Born in Clichy [Paris] France) and Maria Marrero (born in Morovis, Puerto Rico) is born on February 8, in Garges-les-Gonesse, Sarcelle, a suburb of Paris in France.
Le Chevallier’s family moves to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Attends “Academia San Jorge” in Santurce, Puerto Rico.
(13 years old)
Le Chevallier’s family moves to El Segundo (Los Angeles County) California. His father works for Air France at Los Angeles International Airport.
(16 years old)
Travels throughout Mexico: Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Taxco.
(18 tears old)
Graduates from El Segundo High School, where he excels in sports: football (team captain), soccer, tennis, and wrestling.
Receives a Bank of America Achievement Award in Art and attends life drawing and graphic design classes at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Performs as a cowboy settler in the Western dance scene at the Opening Ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Attends El Camino Community College to study Graphic Design. Later changes his major to Fine Arts.
(19 years old)
Driving through the Mojave Desert from the Grand Canyon, Le Chevallier is involved in a major car accident just outside of Barstow, California. The car he was in drives off the desert road and turns upside down. He is hospitalized for a few weeks.
(20 years old)
Visits Mexico City for FIFA’s World Cup Soccer Tournament. He attends the game between France and Italy at the Olympico 68 Stadium in Mexico City.
Backpacks throughout Europe: France (Paris, Giverny, Antibes, Avignon, Aix-en-Provence, La Coste, Arles, Nice, and Cannes), Monaco, Spain (Irun, Pamplona, Vitoria, Segovia, and Madrid), Portugal (Figuera da Fos), Italy (Genova, Lerici, Pisa, Florence, Milan, and Porto Venese), and Switzerland (Bris, Morges, Rolle, and Laussane).
(21 years old)
Drives to Mexicali, and crosses the border into Mexico. Travels by train through Hermosillo, Guaymas, Culiacan, and visits Mazatlan.
Le Chevallier receives his Associate in Arts Degree in Art from El Camino Community College
Moves to Madrid, Spain. Lives at Calle las Ballestas, before settling at Calle Galileo 66 in the neighborhood of Moncloa in Madrid.
Attends the “Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Universidad Complutense de Madrid”, where he studies Life Drawing, Abstract and Landscape Painting, and Spanish Art History. Le Chevallier is also the starting goalkeeper for the college’s soccer team.
Group Exhibitions:
- El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, California
(22 years old)
Travels throughout Spain: Ayllon, Guadamour, Toledo, Barcelona, Segovia, Valencia, Avila, Trujillo, Extremadura, Salamanca, Cudillero, Gijon, Ruesga, Valladolid, and Alicante.
Travels throughout Morocco: Tangiers, Rabat, Marrakesh, Telovet, Ovarzazate, Erfoud, Er Rachidia, Fez, Voulubilis, and Chauen. Drives through the Sahara Desert, almost reaching the border with Algeria. Visits Gibraltar
Moves to Long Beach, California.
One Person Exhibition:
- Galeria Oleo y Piano Bar, Madrid, Spain
Group Exhibitions:
- Muestra de Pintura y Escultura Latinoamericana, El Centro Cultural de Lavapies, Madrid, Spain.
- IV Jornadas Culturales Iberoamericanas de Espana, Palacio de la Conquista de Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain.
- Artist of the Peninsula, (Best of Show Award), The Distinctive Edge Gallery, San Pedro, California.
Group Exhibitions:
- El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, California
(23 years old)
Attends California State University at Long Beach, where he studies Drawing and Painting. Studies under figurative painters Domenic Cretara and John Lincoln, sculptor Richard Glazer Danay, and visiting New York artists May Stevens and Rudolf Baranik.
One Person Exhibitions:
- Visions of Spain, The Distinctive Edge Gallery, San Pedro, California.
- Pinturas 1987-1989, Pastel Restaurant and Gallery, Beverly Hills, California.
- Recent Abstract Work, El Segundo Public Library, El Segundo, California.
Group Exhibitions:
-Gorky’s Café, Los Angeles, California.
Publication and Reviews:
- Albert, Corey. “Artist’s Landscapes Part of Exhibition,” El Segundo Herald, El Segundo, California, March 16, 1989, p.6.
(24 years old)
Apprentices as an assistant to renowned Los Angeles muralist Elliot Pinkney on different murals throughout the city.
Graduates from California State University at Long Beach, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in drawing and painting.
One Person Exhibitions:
-Nuevas Visiones, Gallery B at California State University Long Beach
Group Exhibitions:
-Arts for AIDS, Amani Gallery. Long Beach, California.
-Insights 90, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
Public Art Installation:
- El Sol Naciente (mural: 12’x20’) Long Beach School for Adults, Long Beach, California.
Publication and Reviews:
-Salata, Frank. “Nuevas Visiones at CSULB,” The Union, Long Beach, California, October 8, 1990, p.7.
(25 years old)
- The Sixth Annual Long Beach Art Expedition at The Walker Building in Long Beach,
- Abstraction: Four Long Beach Artists at The Long Beach Arts Gallery.
908 Art Show at The Long Beach Arts Gallery.
- The Works We Always Wanted To Show But Never Did. Alternative Spaces throughout Long Beach.
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow at The Parks, Recreation and Marine Building in Long Beach.
Public Art Installation:- Harmony (mural: 10’x76’), collaboration with Trace Fukuhara, 218 Promenade North, Long Beach, California.
(26 years old)
The painting process of the mural Student Life at Woodrow Wilson High School is temporally suspended due to martial law imposed by the LAPD due to the L.A. Riots.
Travels to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Visits CanCun, Playa del Carmen, Isla Mujeres, Tulum, and small fishing villages and Mayan ruins throughout the region.
Moves to New York City, New York. Enrolls in the Hunter College of the City University of New York’s Masters of Fine Arts Program in Painting. Studies under artists Robert Morris, Juan Sanchez, Susan Crile and George Hofmann. His painting studio is located at 41st Street and 9th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan.
Group Exhibitions:
- Mid Program Exhibition at the Hunter College MFA Gallery at 41st Street
- MFA Program: A Selection at Grennan WexlerLibrary, in Hunter College at 68th Street
Public Art Installation:
- Student Life (mural: 15’x71’) Woodrow Wilson High School, Long Beach, California.
(27 years old)
Through the next seven years Le Chevallier will work in Fine Dining Restaurants throughout Manhattan as a waiter, bartender, and cook. He worked at Martini’s Restaurant in the Broadway Theater District (Executive Chef Richard Krauss), Tavern in the Green in Central Park (Executive Chef Patrick Clark), Oceana in Midtown (Executive Chef Rick Moonen) Steak Frites in Union Square and The China Club in Times Square.
Publication and Reviews:
- Dunitz, Robin J. Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Los Angeles, California: RJD Enterprises, 1993, Pp. 260, 267, 270, 388.
(28 years old)
Attends the soccer game between Italy and Norway at Giants Stadium for FIFA’s World Cup Soccer Tournament held in the USA
Travels to San Diego, California. Crosses the border to Mexico at Tijuana and drives down the Pacific Coast to camp at La Fonda in Baja California, Mexico. Visits Northern California: San Francisco, Hayward, Oakland, San Jose, Los Gatos, Santa Cruz.
One Person Exhibition:
- Recent Paintings, (curated by Puerto Rican Art Dealer, Mauricio Laffitte-Soler) Denise Bibro Gallery, New York City, New York.
Group Exhibitions:
- Integration, Disintegration, Reintegration, curated by Janet Saleh Dickson (Curator at Yale Art Gallery), The Strouse-Adler, Smoothie Foundation Building, New Haven, Connecticut.
- Images’ 94, HUB Gallery at Pennsylvania State University.
Westmoreland Group Exhibition, Westmoreland Community College Art Gallery, Youngwood, Pennsylvania.
- New Faces of Puerto Rican Art (Traveling Exhibition), Peter Madero Gallery, New York City, New York, and El Ateneo Puertorriqueno, San Juan, Puerto Rico.Publication and Reviews:
- Lopez Aviles, Ileana. “De Puerto Rico al Mundo Entero,” Caras de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 1994, p. 122.
- Weinstein, Kim. “Learning How to Read Again,” The Hunter Envoy, New York City, New York, July 26, 1994, p.6.
(29 years old)
After a successful Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition, Le Chevallier receives his Masters of Fine Arts degree in painting from Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Teaches 1st through 5th grade painting classes at Daniel Webster Elementary School in New Rochelle, New York.
Drives across the United States: San Diego and Los Angeles (California), Las Vegas (Nevada), Sedona (Arizona), Gallup and Albuquerque (New Mexico), Amarillo (Texas), Oklahoma City (Oklahoma), Little Rock (Arkansas), Memphis and Nashville (Tennessee) , Raleigh (North Carolina), Richmond (Virginia), Washington D. C., Baltimore (Maryland), Atlantic City (New Jersey), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and New York City (New York).
One Person Exhibition:
- Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition, MFA Gallery at Hunter College, New York City, New York.
Group Exhibitions:- What’s Happening on Earth?, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan.
- Hell Kitchen’s Arts: Rites of Spring, Alternative Spaces throughout Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, New York City, New York.
- Picacoc II, curated by Patrick Murphy (Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia) at Rodger LaPelle Gallery, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Invitational Exhibition, Denise Bibro Gallery , New York City, New York.
- Small Paintings, curated by Guadalupe Tofoya (Director, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico) at The New Mexico Art League Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(30 years old)
Group Exhibitions:
- Latin American Paintings and Sculptures, The Oller-Campeche Gallery, New York City, New York.
- Pigment, Paper and Clogs, Ah! Space Gallery, New York City, New York.
Publication and Reviews:
- Ramos-Perea, Roberto. Callando Amores. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1996 (Cover Illustration).
(31 years old)
Le Chevallier and his fiancee Carrie Shafer renovate an old factory in Long Island City, Queens, and turn it into a painting studio and home.
Works as an Artist Educator at El Museo del Barrio in Upper Manhattan. Le Chevallier also travels to several public schools throughout New York City to give art classes to Spanish speaking students, for whom English was a second language. He lectures at several schools about celebrated Latino artists endorsing the importance of the arts in the Latino Community.
One Person Exhibition:
- Canales Pictoricos, El Taller Boricua Gallery, New York City, New York.
(32 years old)
Le Chevallier teaches an undergraduate course of Early Childhood Art Education at Lehman College of the City University of New York in the Bronx. At this University he also works as an Artist Educator at the University Gallery.
Teaches Kindergarten art classes at P.S. 95, The Sheila Mencher Van Cortlandt Elementary School in the Bronx.
Marries Carrie Shafer at la Mairie de Puteaux, in Paris, France.
Runs the New York City Marathon (26.2 miles/ 42 kilometers)
Publication and Reviews:
- Schlesinger, Toni. “Shelter: Loft in Former Factory,” The Village Voice, New York City, New York, March 3, 1998, p.13.
(33 years old)
Group Exhibitions:
- Pop@ o.p. art, Museo de las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- Group Exhibition. L’Atelier Gallery, Long Island City, New York.
- Group Exhibition. Curated by Beth Handler (Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Phyllis Braff (art critic, New York Times) Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, New York.
- Group Exhibition. Curated by Milton Esterow (Editor ARTnews magazine) Great Neck Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Great Neck, New York.
(34 years old)
Moves to Raleigh, North Carolina.
Is hired to teach “Art Appreciation” at Vance Granville Community College at Franklinton, NC
Group Exhibitions:
- Contemporary 2000. Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska.
Public Art Installation:
- Tattooed Bovine, Cow Parade New York, New York City, New York.
- Question 2000, The S Files: Twenty-seven Emerging New York Artists, El Museo del Barrio’s Courtyard Entrance, New York City, New York.Publication and Reviews:
- Cow Parade New York. New York City, New York: Workman Publishing Co., 2000, p.53.
- Angelie, John. “The S/Selected Files,” ArtNexus, #38, New York City, New York, Nov 1, 2000, p. 40.- Centro: Journal for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies, New York City, New York, Spring 2000, (Cover Illustration).
(35 years old)
Travels to Kansas City, Missouri, Houston, Texas, and Miami, Florida
Travels throughout Hungary (Budapest, Tihany, Siofok, Veszprem), Austria (Vienna), Czech Republic (Prague), and Poland (Krakow, Auschwitz)
Le Chevallier works in the promotional campaign for the public art project Raleigh Red Wolf Ramble by giving artist’s workshops, attending press conferences and doing a television taping.
Group Exhibitions:
- Postcards from the Edge, the Sara Meltzer Gallery in New York City.
- Map to my House, The Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Chico.
- Hungarian Multicultural Center Exhibition, Art East Gallery, Balatonfured, Hungary.
Public Art Installation:
- El Lobo Latino and Abstractus Canis Rufus, Raleigh Red Wolf Ramble, Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Kerdojel, Varoshaza Plaza, Balatonfured, Hungary.
- Tattooed Bovine Houston Project and Livin’ la Vaca Loca, Cow Parade Houston, Houston, Texas.
- Tattooed Bovine Kansas City Project, Cow Parade Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri.
Artist Residency:
- Hungarian Multicultural Center, Balatonfured, Hungary.
Publication and Reviews:
- Brown, Susan. “Wednesday’s Wolf: Georges Le Chevallier’s El Lobo Latino,” The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, November 28, 2001, p. E-1.- Cow Parade Houston. New York City, New York: Workman Publishing Co. 2001, Pp. 72, 76, 166.
- H.SZ.A. “Kerdojel: Amerikai Kortars Muveszet,” Balatonfured Naplo, Balatonfured, Hungary, 2001 Augusztus 30 (August 30) 2001, p.5
- Viera, Williams. “Le Chevallier, de Pintor a Granjero,” Semana News, Houston, Texas, August 10-16, 2001, p.45.
- Juhasz, A. “Amerkabol jottek a muveszeck,” NAPLO, Veszprem, Hungary, 2001, Julius 25 (July 25) p.7.- Cow Parade Kansas City. New York City, New York: Workman Publishing Co., 2001, p.135.
- Duenas, Manuel. “Cow Parade Viene a Houston,” El Dia, Houston, Texas, June 9, 2001, p.1B.
- Bible, Mark, “Gallery: Paintings and Multimedia Prints by Georges Le Chevallier,” The Spectator, Raleigh, North Carolina, April 5 –11, 2001, p.21.
- Kakissis, Joanna. “In Raleigh, It’s The Year of Red Wolf,” The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 20, 2001, p B-1.
(36 years old)
Awards:
- Millersville University Cultural Events Grants, Millersville, Pennsylvania.
- Regional Artist Project Grant, United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, and North Carolina Arts Council, Raleigh, North Carolina.
One Person Exhibition
- Paintings 1998-2002. Sykes Gallery, Millersville University, Pennsylvania.
- Semi-Autobiographical Psychological Landscapes. ArtSpace Gallery 2, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Group Exhibitions:
- Witness and Response: September 11th, The Library of Congress in Washington DC.
- Life in the City Photography Exhibition, the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
- Reactions, (Traveling Exhibition), Exit Art, New York City and The Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.Public Art Installation:
- Tattooed Bovine, Cow Parade Las Vegas, Nevada.
Publication and Reviews:
-Di Fonzo, Carla. “Who’s Your Dada?” Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, November 22, 2002, p. TAB 8.
- Marquiss, Megan. “Le Chevallier’s Exotic Show,”The Snapper, Millersville, Pennsylvania, November 21, 2002, p.10.
- Mitchel, Laurie. Raleigh Red Wolf Ramble. Raleigh, North Carolina: City of Raleigh Arts Comission, 2002, Pp. 77, 89, 112.
- Lupo, Nathan. “Information Overload,” Independent Weekly, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 6- 12, 2002, p.35.
- Viera, Williams. “Se Acuerda de Nosotros,” Semana News, Houston, Texas, December 28, 2001- January 3, 2002, p.46
(37 years old)
Teaches “Art Appreciation” at the Federal Prison in Butner, NC.
Travels throughout Chile (Putaendo, San Felipe, Los Andes, Concon, Vina del Mar, Valparaiso, Arica, Puerto Varas, Puerto Montt, Frutillar, Ancud in Isla Chiloe), Argentina (Mendoza), Bolivia (La Paz, Copacabana), Peru (Puno, Arequipa, Tacna) and Lake Titicaca (Islas Uros, Isla del Sol).
One Person Exhibition:
- Paintings for Shopping and F***ing, Raleigh Contemporary Art Museum’s Satellite Gallery at Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, North Carolina.
Group Exhibitions:
- Postcards from the Edge, Galerie Lelong, New York City, New York.
- Group Exhibition, April and George Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Artist’s Hanging, The Contemporary Art Museum Temporary Building, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Public Art Installation:
- Four Questions, The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia.
- Carretas, The Cart Cemetery Sculpture Park, Putaendo, Chile.
Artist Residency:- III International Sculpture Symposium, Sponsored by the Chilean National Arts Endowment, Putaendo, Chile.
- The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia.
(38 years old)
Le Chevallier travels to Saint-Flour, France.
Group Exhibitions:
- What is Sex?, Bickett Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Hungarian Multicultural Center Exhibition, Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
Artist Residency:
- Chemin D’Art 2004, Saint-Flour, France
Public Art Installation:- Points d’ Interrogation, Saint-Flour, France.
Publication and Reviews:- C.F., “Sept Artistes Pour La Dixieme,” La Depeche D’Auvergne, Saint-Flour, France, Vendredi (Friday) 25 juin (June 25) 2004, p12.
(39 years old)
Le Chevallier travels to Quebec, Canada.
Le Chevallier is hired as a faculty member at The School of Communication Arts in Raleigh. He teaches Visual Construction (design and drawing), Color Construction (color theory using Adobe Photoshop), Digital Photography, Conceptual Design (using Adobe Illustrator), History of Western Art, and becomes the School’s Gallery Coordinator.
Group Exhibitions:
- Despots in Technicolor (Room Installation), Manif D’Art 3: The Quebec Biennial, Sponsored by Manifestation Internationale D’Art De Quebec, Canada.
- Group Exhibition, Glance Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Public Art Installation:- Artsplosure Car, Artsplosure Festival (Featured Artist), Raleigh, North Carolina
(40 years old)
Teaches Art Appreciation and Elements of Design at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
One Person Exhibitions:
- Recent Paintings, Glance Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Group Exhibitions:
- From/About: Works from the Balantonfured /Csopak International Artists Residencies 1996-2006, Central EU Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
- Summer Group Exhibition, Glance Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Le Chevallier is hospitalized and is disabled for almost two months because of two abscesses found on his liver.
Travels throughout Guatemala: Guatemala City, Antigua, Panajachel, Santiago Atitlan, San Pedro de la Laguna, Chichicastenango, and Ximche.
Adopts his son, Diego Zinedine, and his daughter, Lola Nadine, in Guatemala City.
Awards:
- Outstanding Faculty Award for the Winter Quarter, The School of Communication Arts, Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Visual Arts Judge, Artsplosure Summer Art Festival, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Group Exhibitions:
- Southeastern Photography Triennial , Gregg Museum of Art and Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Group Exhibition, Glance Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Public Art Installation:
- Countdown to First Night Banner, Alexander Square Deck, Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, North Carolina
- La Pregunta, Palacio del Gobierno, Antigua, and Reserva Natural Atitlan, Panajachel, Guatemala.
- True Love, Fayetteville Street Art Banners, Downtown Raleigh Alliance, North Carolina.
Publication and Reviews:
- Ehlers, Matt, “Stars Come Out,” The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 22, 2007, p. E-1.
