Didier Bay

Born in 1944 in Beauchamp.

Studies of Arts Deco in Paris, diploma in 1969. First works in 1969; first exhibition in 1973 in Liège (»Yellow now«), then in New York and Paris; numerous works, among others about story art, New Media, art in a social context and photo art.

Grants: 1979/82 Daad-Stipendium, Künstlerhaus Bethanien; 1985 Stipendium Villa Medici, 1992/93 Akademie Schloss Solitude

Publications: »Fenêtres« (1974), »Mon quartier« (1977), »Un si beau jour« (1979), »C’est l’amour« (1981), »Le paysage« (1985), »Muses« (1990), »Muses et Musees« (1993), »Sédiments« (1997).

Group exhibitions (selection): »Confidences – Parce Que C’etait Lui, Parce Que C’etait Moi,« Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxemburg (2001); »Critique et utopie – les livres d’artistes,« La Crieé – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes; »What about Hegel (and you)?,« Brigitte March Stuttgart (2002).

Bay lives and works in Touraine (France), where he is renovating a hamlet.