ULTRA VIOLET

History/Accomplishments

• 1935 - Born Isabelle Collin Dufresne (Later Known as Ultra Violet) in La Tronche, Isere, France.
• 1953 - BA in Art, Le Sacre Coeur, Grenoble, France.
• 1954 - Pupil and studio Assistant of Salvador Dali, Port Lligat, Spain and New York City, USA.
• 1960-6 Associated with many New York School artists e.g. Rauschenberg, Johns, Rosenquist, Chamberlain, Lichtenstein, Segal, Sella, etc., etc., as well as many internationally renowned masters e.g. Marcel Duchamp, Magritte, Chagall, Picasso, Matta, John Graham, Joseph Cornell, etc., etc. Work on several Andy Warhol film-projects, while collaborating with him on the creation of the "Factory," becoming an original "Superstar," cognomen "ULTRA VIOLET."
• 1975 - Embarked on a hermeneutic study of The Book of the Apocalyspe.
• 1980 - Wrote the play "You Are Who You Eat" and the musical comedy "Tabernacle of Clay."
• 1988 - Published her memoirs Famous For Fifteen Minutes, My Years With Andry Warhol (receiving the Frankfurt Library Award, the book is published in 12 languages).
• 1990 - Established a workshop for emerging artists in Nice, France, while creating Ultratique Art Movement, publishing a consequential manifesto that pertains to her art movement.
• 1991 - Begins her "Super Sonic Angels" series of artworks, writing the manuscript: "21st Century Angels."
• 1992 - Explores the ramifications of computer generated (digital) imagery in her art.
• 1993 - Published her 2nd manifesto: "Celebration of Light."
• 1994 - Installation Project: "Nuclear Angels," in the Judean Desert, Israel "for the healing of the nations"
  (Rev. 22-2)
• 1998 - Creation of "Light Pieces" out of prismatic glass, Paris, France.
• 1999 - Creation of the performanceaction: "The Synthesis of Arts," New York City, USA.
• 2000 - Launched her first presence on the internet. Filmed a "Message to Andy Warhol" in her Nice, France, studio.
• 2002 - Launches THE ULTRA VIOLET MULTI-ARTS PROJECT at New Jersey City University, Jersey City, collaborating with Hugo X. Bastidas, Jose Rodeiro, Hugo W. Morales, Adam Russel, Peter Sharkey, Trinity Martinez, Lee Wan Sze and other artists.
• 2003 - Television Special for NH-Japan Broadcasting Corporation filmed at the Andy Warhol Museum and Ultra Violet's NYC studio.

Solo Exhibitions

 

2014

• Dillon Gallery, April 24 - May 24 2014, New York

2013

• Art South Hampton, July 25- 29 2013 at Dillon Gallery
• Gallerie Depardieu, June 30 - August 30, Nice, France
• Basel Switzerland, June 10- 16 2013 at Volta with Dillon Gallery
• Volta Art Fair, Ultra Violet at Dillon Gallery, New York, March 7 – 10, 2013, New York
• ARMORY, Pier 92 , at Michael Schultz, Berlin, March 6-10, 2013 NewYork

2012

• Dillon Gallery at Art Miami, 4 – 9 December, 2012, Miami Basel
• SUPERSTAR ULTRA VIOLET & UR1 LIGHT UP MIAMI SKIES FROM BAYFRONT PARK TO SOUTH BEACH WITH “LaserFusion,” A TRIBUTE TO NOGUCHI’S LIGHT TOWER. UR1 MUsic & Art festival: with Lou Reed and Kanye West. Produced by Kiwi Arts Group, fine art publishing. December 4 – 9, 2012, Miami
• LUMINALE Detroit Light Festival 2012, the first edition biennale of light art and design in Midwest America. 23 September – 23 November, 2012, Detroit
• Bad for You, curated by Beth Rudin Dewoody, at Shizaru Gallery presents an exhibition of contemporary composed of artists based primarily in America, the exhibition seeks to capture the panoramic strand of contemporary art that deals with things that are bad for you. 10 October, 2012, Mayfair, London UK
• Art Live Fair: Performances: "Self Portrait" and "Quantum Clairvoyance", 26 – 29 October, 2012, Miami
• Ultra Violet Studios, Ultra Violet invites visitors to have their Polaroid portraits taken, while looking into works with mirrors reading SELF PORTRAIT, New York, July 26

2011

• 15 Minutes, Andy Warhol Musuem, Pittsburgh, September 29
• Afterwards and Forward: A Ten-Year 9/11 Reflective Art Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, New Jersey City University, August 29 – September 27
• 15 Minutes, Pollock/Krasner House, New York East Hampton, August 4
• American Friends of Blerancourt, May 15 – 30
• Exhibition w/ Blondeau Pascal, The Invisible Dog Arts Center, Brooklyn, April 21 - 24
• Paris Heart Gallerie, March 5
• Paris Artcurial – Signature ‘Coffret’, March 4
• Paris New York University (Lecture), March 3
• Memorial IX XI: Ultra Violet, Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, CUNY

2010

• Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB)
• Full Circle Before They Were Famous, Young Patrons of the American Friends of the Louvre and Contemporaries of the Miami Art Museum ‘Voyeur’ Movie Premier, Bill Kennedy's photographs of Andy Warhol and Indiana w/ interviews with Ultra Violet, The Kiwi Gallery, Miami

2009

• Andy Warhol Superstar - Superstar of Sabine Wachters Fine Arts - Golvenstraat 1 - 8300 Knocke-Zoute, BE

2008

• Super Novas Warhol Superstars (With Billy Name), Kymara Gallery, Biddeford, Maine.

2007

• Miami Basel at Cinematheque Viewing of THE LAST SUPPER, a film by Ultra Violet, Camera Steina Vasulka in 1972 at the Kitchen, New York. Sponsored by Deborah Colton Gallery. Curated by Liutauras Psibilskis 512 Espanola Way

2006

• European R.M. Rilke Foundation. Prague , Czech Republic
• Ultra Violet, Stephan Stux Gallery, New York
• Apocalyptic Angel Museum Kampa, Praha, Czech Republic
• Installation: Flowers on the Walls, Henry Art Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Washington

2005

• Visions of the Sky, Long Island Museum of Science and Technology, Garden City, New York
• Reminiscences of Dali: A Conversation with Friends of the Artist - Interactive Ultra Violet slides, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

2004

• La Creche de Noel Galerie Ferrero, Nice, France
• Imagine: Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece performed by Ultra Violet, Chelsea Art Museum New York
• Is Christ Politically, Prophetically Correct?, Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, Maryland and Jersey City Visual University Arts Building Gallery

2001

• Halloween at the Factory, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, NY
• Carnival des Anges la galerie Sainte-Reparate, Nice, France
• Elevator Windsor Hotel, Nice, France
• Rainbow Steel Sculpture, 40', Avignon, France
• Mise en Scene, Lilo Marti Gallery, St. Paul de Vence, France

2000

• “Ultra Violet” Vystavna Sien, Bratislava, Slovakia
  

1999

• Let there be light, Monserrat Gallery, New York
• The Light International Art Junction, Nice, France
• The Data-Processing Angels, Centre de la Terre Gallery, Alain Vahg Ramatuelle, France
• Passage of the Year 2000, Gallery Sabine Watchers, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium

1998

• Apocalyptic Angels, galerie du Cirque, organized by Pierre Cardin and Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, France
• Angels Ultra Violet, Gallery Hans Kostenberger, Obdach, Austria

1997

• Recent Works, Gallery Sabine Watchers, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
• Manifesto, Gallery Sabine Watchers, Brussels, Belgium

1996

• Virtual Lights International Center of Advanced Communication, Sophia Antipolis, France
• Super Sonic Angels, Chapelle des Penitents, St. Paul de Vence, France
• Ultra Violet's Boutique, Delaware Art Center, Newark, Delaware
• Dancing Angels Ballet, Roella Hightower, Cannes, France

1995

• Soucoupes Non Violentes Z'Editions, Nice, France
• Apocalyptic Angels, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania
• Rainbow, galerie Bleu de France, Nice, France
• Ultra Violet Light, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida
• Ultra Violet's World, Manatee College, Florida

1994

• Exhibition of Current Works, Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo

1993

• Apocalyptic Angels, Fine Arts Center Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Retrospective Gallery 86, Lodz, Poland. Gallery Artokea and the French Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia

1991

• Ultra Violet Galeria 86, Lodz , Poland

1989

• XIVth International Festival of Poetry, Poluphonics, Spoken Review Poems and Paintings Centre Pompdou, Paris, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2014

• The Invitational Exhibition Of Visual Arts of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, March 6 – April 12
• VOLTA NY art fair, New York, March 6 – 9
• Art 14 London art fair, London, February 28 – March 2
• Art Wynwood 2014 art fair, Miami, February 13 - 17
• Zona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, February 5 – 9

2013

• Art|Basel, Miami Beach, Dillon Gallery, December 4 – 7
• "(con)TEXT," Sharon Arts Center, September 6 – October 25

2012

• “Fifteen Minutes: Homage To Andy Warhol,” June Kelly Gallery, September 6
• Wassaic Project Summer Festival, “Clean Up,” group show at New Hotel, curated by Anne Huntington, August 3
• Art South Hampton, Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery, July 26
• Art Market Bridgehampton, with (Art) AMALGAMATED Gallery, July 19
• Art Hamptons 2012, 6ft spherical design of the roman numerals IXXI, KIWI Arts Group, July 19
• Art Hamptons, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, July 12
• "Screw You," Susan Inglett Gallery, May 31 to mid-July
• Galerie Ferrero, Nice, France, May 3 – 31

2011

• Houston Art Fair, Deborah Colton Gallery, September 15 – 18
• Tribute to 9/11, Loft in the Red Zone, September 10 - 30
• Dallas Art Fair, Deborah Colton Gallery, April 8 – 10
• Monaco Art, Mironova Gallery, March 31 – April 3
• Art Palm Beach, Galustyan Gallery, January 21 – 24
• NADA Art Fair, The Hole Gallery
• NADA Art Fair, Justin Luke Gallery

2010

• Art Basel 2010 represented by Paris Galerie Heart - Basel, Switzerland. June 15th-20
• Factory, Who? Flux Factory performance, New York City September
• Art Festival St. Remy de Provence, France July 8th - 12th
• Art Chicago,  The International Fair of Contemporary Art April 30th-May 3rd
• Mythopoetic Paintings CRAZY HORSE New York City May

2009

• Home Sweet Home Religare Arts, I Gallery New Delhi
• Elle Le Monde Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Home Sweet Home, The Dorsky Gallery, February - April

2008

• Screening of Factory People The Core Club 66 E 55th Street, New York City
• Digital Stone/e-form at China will open at Beijing Today Art Museum during October 2008, at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art during November 2008, and Jinse Gallery at Chongqing during mid-December 2008 through January 2009. (Dual Electric Chair)
• Warhol Live Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, September 25, 2008 - January 18, 2009

2007

• Bridge Art Fair, Kasia Kay Art Projects, The Catalina Hotel, Miami
• Abu Dhabi/Art Paris, November 26
• Warhol Superstars Paris, L’Univerre Gallery, Paris, France
• Andy Warhol’s Factory People, a film by Emmy award winner and Oscar-nominated Catherine O’Sullivan Shorr, Grand Rex Cinema: #5
• The New Yorker Passport to the Arts benefit for Friends of the High Line, Stux Gallery and Xchange, New York
• Warhol: Factory Now, Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery, Chicago 

2006

• Mickey Dans Tous Ses Etats Artcurial, Paris, France
• Word, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas 

2005

• New Cartoon, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas

2004

• Ex-Photos Hommage au World Center, Galerie Ferrero, Nice, France

2003

• 1968: You Say You Want A Revolution, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
• Fluxus Gallery Soardi, Nice, France
• From a Woman's Perspective, Gallery 911, Philadelphia, PA

2002

• Out of the Shadow Artist of the Warhol Circle Then and Now, University Gallery, University of Delaware
• L’Art Et L’Euro Espace Ecureuil Liberte, Toulon, France

2001

• La Bastille Du Roy Antibes, France
• Artists of the Warhol Circle, Gallery 911, Philadelphia, PA
• Paper Invitational IV, Woodward Gallery, New York City
• Artists of the Warhol Circle, Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland

2000

• Self-Portrait Musee de prehistore regionale, Menton, France

1999

• Mail-Art Aix en Provence, France
• Masters of the Contemporary Portrait, Palais Carnoles, Menton, France
• L'atelier d'Amand Modern Art Couture, Monte Carlo, Monaco
• International Women Artists Exhibition 1999: Her Presence in Colours IV, Chumbot, Pantip Foundations, Suan Pakkad Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
• Let There Be Light, Gallery Monteserat, New York City

1998

• Degenerated Art Vasarely Foundation, Aix-en-Provence, France

1997

• Who, But an Angel Can Stop a Missle? The Warhol Factory, Ten Years After Computer Generated Images, Audart and Audcom Gallery, New York City
• Warhol Factory, David Leonardo Gallery, Chicago
• The Fair of Art with Ben The Station, Nice, France
• Self-portrait, Exit Art Gallery, New York City
• Some Sculptures, Gallery Marion Meyer (With Duchamp, Giacometti, Man Ray, Picasso), Paris, France
• Commermorative Exhibition Max's Kansas City Gallery (with Lou Reed, Carl Andre, Mark Di Suvero, Joseph Kosuth, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, John Chamberlain, Larry Poons, Roy Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers.
• Out of the Shadow. Artists of the Warhol Circle Then and Now, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
• Bid for Life, Franklin Institute Art Auction, Philadelphia, PA

1995

• Chocolate, The Swiss Institute, New York City
• Interactive Slides Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
• The Art of the Forgery Byblos, St. Tropez, France and Headbones Gallery, Vermon, Canada
• Une ferme, un Chateau, des Artistes Chateau Malijay, Jonquieres, France

1994

• Point of View and Images of the Wolrd Gallery Pierre Nouvion, Monaco
• Girls instead of Beuys Olaf Clasen Gallery, Cologne, Germany

1993

• Les Anges Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France

1992

• Xenophobia Gallery Christine Chanjour, Nice, France
• Science Inspires the Artist Gallery of the Foundation, Sophia Antipolos, France

1991

• The Third Dimension Suzan Cooper Gallery , Woodstock , NY

1990

• Plastic Work Barcelona International Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
• The Third Dimension Susan Cooper Gallery, Woodstock, New York City
• Currents In Contemporary Art New England Museum for Contemporary Art Brooklyn, Connecticut
• FIAC Leblanc Gallery, Paris, France

Selected Collections

• IX XI sculpture as been purchased by the Kucich family of Manhasset, New York and will be on loan to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
• Enrico Navarra Private collection, 1999
• Este Ceramiche e Porcellane - Este-Padova, Italy 1992
• Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art (MoCCA) - New York City, NY 2005
• Pierre Cardin, 1998
• Whitney Museum of American Art / Beth Rudin DeWoody 2009
• Knocke Museum - Belgium 2009
• Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris 2009
• Marlborough Galerie - Monaco 2010

BOOK

• Famous For 15 Minutes

• Publisher: Harcourt; 1st edition (October 1988)
• “Life at the original factory—from 1963 to 1967—as frenzied, grubby, druggy, Byzantine—and absolutely riveting.”
  
  

  —Grace Glueck, The New York Times Book Review
  
  

  Set in the dervish years of the Sixties and Seventies, Famous For 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol is a confession memoir of Ultra Violet. The story recounts of Warhol, a shy, bald, myopic, gay albino from an ethnic Pittsburgh suburb and the "Girl in Andy's Soup," Isabelle Collin Dufresne, a.k.a. Ultra Violet, a convent educated heiress from France. Salvador Dali, her companion for five years, introduced her to Andy in 1963. The book won the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt Award, and has been published in 14 languages. 

  
  

Films (IMDB)

• Blackout (1994) .... Arlette
• An Unmarried Woman (1978) directed by Paul Mazursky.... Lady MacBeth
• Curse of the Headless Horseman (1974) .... Contessa Isabel du Fren
• Bad Charleston Charlie (1973)
• The Last Supper (1972) .... Writer/Director (statement)
• Savages (1972) directed by James Ivory.... Iliona, a Decadent
• Believe in Me (1971) .... Patient
• The Telephone Book (1971) .... Whip Woman
• Simon, King of the Witches (1971) .... Sarah
• Taking Off (1971) directed by Milos Forman .... SPFC Member
• Maid Stone (1970) directed by Norman Mailer .... herself
• Dinah East (1970) directed by Gene Nash.... Daniela
• Brand X (1970) directed by Why Chamberlain .... Singer
• The Phynx (1970) .... Felice
• Cleopatra (1970) directed by Michel Auder
• Midnight Cowboy (1969) directed by John Schlesinger.... The Party
• The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez (1969) directed by John Chamberlain.... Daughter of Montezuma
• **** (1967)
• I, a Man (1967) directed by Andy Warhol
• The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) directed by Andy Warhol