BIOGRAPHY
Thierry Breton was born in 1965 in Dakar, Senegal, and grew up first in Africa then in Martinique. He went to Paris to study veterinary medicine. It was there in 1985 that he first came in contact with sculpture at the studio of a pupil of Zadkine’s, Noor Zadé Brenner, and he has worked with clay ever since. He showed twice at her studio, in 1985 and 1990.
From then on he devoted all his time to sculpture and showed his work in a series of exhibitions in various Parisian galleries where he continued to exhibit over the years (Peinture-Fraîche Gallery - rue de Bourgogne, Cathay gallery - rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Claudine Legrand Gallery - rue de Seine). He has also shown in Barcelona, Milan and Deauville in Europe , and in Hudson, NY and New York City in the U.S.
Recently he has shown in Montpellier, France at the Alma Gallery, in Gstaad, Switzerland at the Nabokov Gallery, and in Paris at Madame Cariou’s. He showed his “Danaës” paintings in Rouen, Fr in May 2006 and in Vichy, Fr in July of the same year. His most recent series of bronze sculptures “The Spirit of the Letters” was shown in Paris in June 2006.
The first of the paintings from the series “ Seven Wives of Bluebeard” was selected by the Salon International de Montrouge (Paris) in 2006 and the Salon des Jeunes Créateurs in Vichy, Fr.
Thierry Breton also gives art classes.