b. 1970
Louise Bonnet was born in Geneva, where she attended the Haute école d’art et de design. She has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1994. Bonnet is known for painting figures inhabiting eerie landscapes with exaggerated and bloated proportions and grotesque, distorted features. Drawing inspiration from Old Master paintings, Surrealism and underground comix, Bonnet explores themes of melancholy, loneliness, nostalgia and grief in her work.
Her works are housed in public collections at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Fondazione Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Long Museum, Shanghai; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; MAMCO Genève, Geneva; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and Yuz Foundation, Shanghai.
Image: Louise Bonnet photographed in her studio by Jeff McLane
