artist/ Crozat

France

Christine Crozat was born in Lyon, France, and holds both French and Swiss nationalities. She studied
studies at the Beaux-Arts de Lyon and, in 1976, helped found the Atelier Alma
a collective workshop for the creation of prints. In 1990, she was awarded a studio at the Cité
internationale des arts and, two years later, was awarded a studio by the city of
of Paris.
A traveler, Christine Crozat is interested in what arises from movement and displacement.
displacement. Her frequent train journeys between the two cities where she lives and works,
are moments of reverie, rest, reflection and creation.
Her interest in human frailty led her to choose, at a very early age, to work in a psychiatric hospital in a variety of settings.
a psychiatric hospital in various departments. Working closely with the nursing staff, she
she takes part in the long process of rebuilding patients’ lives in weekly workshops.
Her artistic research is based on surveys, collections and multiple Photos,
sketches captured in her daily travels in Europe and Japan.
Europe and Japan.
Her daily radio listening, her interest in art history, literature, cinema and contemporary dance
literature, cinema and contemporary dance, has led her to pay numerous tributes
various media: drawings, sculptures, installations and videos produced with Pierre
Thomé.
Christine Crozat is represented by galerie Françoise Besson in Lyon and galerie Éric
Mouchet in Paris.
Website: dda-auvergnerhonealpes.org/christine-crozat