Isabelle Le Normand

Isabelle Le Normand
Born	1980
Nationality	French
Occupation	Curator
Organization	Mains d'Oeuvres (2008-2013)

Isabelle Le Normand is a French contemporary art curator based in Los Angeles, California who has curated exhibitions and events internationally.^[1][2] After her double Master's from the Sorbonne in curatorial studies and art history, Le Normand curated for public institutions in Paris: at Mains d'Oeuvres where she was director and curator for six years; Palais de Tokyo;^[3] at Galerie Anne Barrault; La Box in Bourges; in Los Angeles at ForYourArt, Machine Project, and 18th Street Arts Center; at private collector Danny First's house ^[4][5][6] and galleries Anne Barrault in Paris,^[7] FKSE in Budapest. She completed residencies at the Total Museum and Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, the Stroom Foundation in the Netherlands,^[8] Cité des arts in Paris, Komplot in Brussels, and Residency Unlimited in New York.^[9] At Mains d'Oeuvres she built a large audience and distinguished the space in the international arts community through innovative, multidisciplinary programming.

Exhibitions

• Nuit Blanche: Wim Delvoye/ Laurent Grasso, Iesa, 2003^[10]
• Diagonal Argument, cocurated with Florence Ostende, Bétonsalon, 2008^[11][12]
• Better Being a virus than catching a cold, Mains d’Œuvres, 2008^[13]
• 23 minutes and 17 seconds, 2009^[14]
• Operation tonnerre, Mains d’Œuvres, 2009^[15]
• The Farrell Family, cocurated with Florence Ostende, Mains d’Œuvres, Maison Pop, 2010^[16][17][18]
• Who do you admire? Cocurated with Florence Ostende, La Box, Bourges, 2011^[19]
• Without you, nothing will happen, 2011^[20]
• An Auction, 2011^[21]
• Une chaînette relie toutes les pendeloques et forme le corps principal de l’objet,: Jean-Luc Blanc and Michel Blazy, Mains d’Œuvres, 2012^[22]
• Collective Fictions, cocurated with Albertine de Galbert; Jesse McKee; Andrew Berardini; Anca Rujoiu, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013^[23]
• Destiny the B's, Anne Barrault Gallery, Paris, 2013^[24]
• Sex in Museums: Jon Bernad, Swab, Barcelona, 2013^[25]

In Los Angeles

• My next life, ForYourArt, Here is Elsewhere, Danny First's house, 2013^[26][27]
• Confidential, The Impermanent Collection, 2013^[28]
• Argote and Bastard studios, 18th Streets Arts Center, Santa Monica, 2013^[29]
• Museum of Destiny, The Impermanent Collection, Los Angeles, 2013^[30]
• The work of the work, UC Santa Barbara, 2014^[31].

Residencies

• Public School, Brussels, 2010^[32]
• Gwangju Biennale, 2011^[33]
• 18th Streets Arts Center, Santa Monica, 2013^[34]
• Residency Unlimited, New York 2014^[35]
• Roadshow Gyeonju, Total Museum, Seoul, 2014^[36][37]

Events

• Diagonal Argument program, Betonsalon, 2008^[11]
• Talk with Thomas Hirschhorn, Mains d’Œuvres, 2008^[38]
• Concours de rhétorique, Maison Pop, 2010^[39]
• Emily Mast, Mains d’Œuvres, 2012^[40]
• Born to curate: by Pauline Bastard and Ivan Argote, Santa Monica, 2013^[41]
• Paris at your home / Los Angeles at your home, Machine Project and Mains d’Œuvres, 2013^[42]
• Dawn Kasper, Mains d’Œuvres, 2013^[43]
• Megan Daalder, Mains d’Œuvres, 2011^[44]
• Luke Fischbeck, Mains d’Œuvres, 2013^[45]
• Nikki Darling, Kulapat Yantrasast's house^[46]
• Sarah Gail, Rachel Mason and Deenah Vollmer at Maryanne Tagney and David Jones house^[47]

Publications

• Diagonal Argument^[48]
• Who do you admire?^[49]
• Under a Spell: The Witchcraft of Elena Bajo^[50]