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Romain Slocombe CV
| 1953 | Born in Paris, son of an architect and of an abstract painter. |
| 1967 | Influence from Photographs of the war in Vietnam. |
| 1968 | Anonymous participant in the May revolution in Paris. |
| 1969 | Discovery of Japanese New Wave cinema during the Avignon festival. |
| 1970 | As student at the Paris Censier University, joins pro-Chinese group "La gauche proletarienne". |
| 1972 | Studies political poster and comic art at Vincennes University (teacher: Moebius). |
| 1974 | Enters drawing class at the Paris National School of Fine Arts, meets future members of Punk graphic group Bazooka. First illustrations published in science-fiction magazines. |
| 1976 | Frequent stays in England, living in a London squat and later in Bristol. First commissions for book covers from publisher Gallimard. |
| 1977 | First of many trips to Japan. |
| 1978 | Publication of first comic Prisonniere de l'armee rouge!, forbidden by French censorship. |
| 1980 | Second trip to Tokyo. Meets illustrator/painter Tadanori Yoko and other Japanese artists. |
| 1982 | First one-person exhibitions: at the Totem Gallery, Brussels, and L'art medical at the Elisabeth de Senneville Gallery, Paris. |
| 1983 | Publication of first novel Phuong-Dinh Express and collective book L'art medical. |
| 1985 | Exhibition of artwork for Tokyo girl at La Hune in Paris. |
| 1986 | Publication of Tristes Vacances. |
| 1990 | Meets Toshio Saeki in Tokyo and supervises edition of his Japon intime, published by Albin Michel in Paris. |
| 1991 | First one-person exhibition in Tokyo at The Deep Gallery, Nogizaka. |
| 1992 | Begins series of medical art photographs with Asian models. |
| 1993 | One-person exhibitions at The Deep in Tokyo (Les femmes bandees) and Au paradoze perdu Gallery in Geneva. Publication of essay L'empire erotique. Medical performance and slide show at the Maniac Love nightclub in Tokyo. |
| 1994 | Publication of first photography book Broken Dolls, with a one-person exhibition at Un regard moderne, Paris. Artwork and design for CD Extreme Music from Japan (Susan Lawly, Edinburgh). Five weeks stay in Toky o during summer, and performance at the Rontgen Art Space, Kawasaki. Bandage, up yous!: one-person exhibition at the Endart Gallery, Berlin. Collaboration on French TV documentaries in Tokyo and Kyushu. |
| 1995 | La beaute pansee: one-person exhibition at the Ichinenkan Gallery, Sendai (Northern Japan). Filming of Un monde flottant, documentary featuring photographer Araki. Exhibition of photgraphs at the Arles International Encounters, and curator for the Japanese exhibition Magnifique, la luxure with art critic Michel Nuridsany. Major scandal caused by the screening of the documentary on Araki. Limited edition of 90 signed and numbered videos of Un monde flottant with copy-art covers. |
| 1996 | Retrospective exhibition at the Graphes Gallery, Paris (paintings and drawings). In New York films a documentary on Richard Kern. Exhibition of photographs at the Feature Gallery in Soho. |
| 1997 | Publication of City of the Broken Dolls in London. Night of the Broken Dolls event at the Torture Garden Club. One-person exhibitons at the Shukan Art Gallery, Sendai (Beauties in Bandage), the Fruchtig Gallery in Frankfurt, and the Michel Vidal Gallery in Paris.Group exhibition The Bite Generation in Nantes, and curator for the Japanese section. Retrospective of drawings and posters at The Ground, Hanae Mori International, Tokyo. Collaboration on Claude Wampler's performance Blanket, the Surface of Her at the P.S. 122, New York. |
(source: Japan in Bandage)
