Biography

Adele Mosonyi was born in Great Yarmouth in 1955. Daughter of musicians, she grew up in New York where she studied painting with Jean Liberté from the age of 9. She has been living in the Paris area since 1973 and her main studio is by the Flea Market in Saint Ouen. 

She studied drawing and painting at the Beaux Arts Academy in Paris after majoring in Philosophy and History of Art. She has exhibited in various international group shows and local art festivals. Associate member of the Taylor Foundation. Board of directors and Associate member of the Salon d’automne.

She has collaborated with both French and English-language poets. Her recent work has mainly focused on powerful female figures borrowed from mythology :  Medea, Medusa, Gorgons, Demeter, Persephone, Leda, Circe, Sirens ...  , hybrid characters such as Caliban borrowed from The Tempest in a long series ‘Caliban’s World’ (2018-2021). Her latest work is inspired by the representation of women in Prehistoric times namely Idols, Dancers and Venus 

Instagram       @adelemosonyi

Artmajeur       @adele-mosonyi

SOLO SHOWS:
2025          Chez Arnaud Réfrégiés,Masseur-kinésithérapeute, 22bis Cité Falaise, 18ème
2024          Paintings & Collages from the Jin collection, Divineasel Galerie, Beijing, China
2024          'Rendez-vous avec Medusa', Art Café, Dieppe
2023          'Nights & Days', Paris Anim' Annie Fratellini, 12ème
201           'Mothers', Brassens Camus Lormont, Bordeaux (Gironde)
2019          'Caliban's World', Art Café, Dieppe
2018          'Récits', Musée du Bois, Revel (Occitanie)
2018          'The Gorgons', Paris Anim' Solidarité, 19ème
2017-2018     Collages, RAMO, Beijing, China 
2017          Recent Paintings, Paris Anim' La Chapelle, 18ème
2014-2018     Graphic Work at Meteopole, Hyderabad, India
2009          Festival au Féminin, Mothers, Le Petit Ney
2009          Paris 18ème, la Cartoucherie/l’Epée de Bois: Mothers  
2008          Festival au Féminin, Whores, le petit Ney, Paris 18ème
2005          Librairie Folies d’encre, Saint Ouen
2004          Collectif des Diables Bleus, Nice : Whores 
2003          Le Petit Ney, Paris 18ème : Collèmes (collages/poèmes by Sylvie Chastain)
1997          Cour Saint Pierre, Paris 17ème
1995          Centre Jean Hardouin, Montgeron: Demolition Sites, Walls, Bookscapes 
1994          Galerie l’Ancien et le Nouveau, Paris 18ème
1994          Cour Saint Pierre, Paris 17ème
1992          Cour Saint Pierre, Paris 17ème (février et juin)
1991          Société Générale, Neuilly sur Seine
1990          Cour Saint Pierre, Paris 17ème
1989          Société Générale, Agence Centrale, Paris 9ème

GROUP SHOWS:
2025           49 Visions of Her, Xianjia Art Gallery, Nanjing, China
2025           Automne en été, Usine de Zabu, St Georges des Angles, Normandy
2025           Future Arts Festival, Beijing University of Technology, China
Since 2018     Salon d'Automne (Mythes & Singularité)
2017-2023      Art Capital: Salon Comparaisons (Hors les normes)
2023           Salon des Arts de Taverny, Paris Region
2021-2025      Galerie Etienne de Causans, 25 rue de Seine, Paris 6ème  
2020/24        Art Actuel France-Japon, National Art Center, Tokyo
2020           'Femme Plurielle', La Sévrienne des Arts, Galerie Loubat, Sèvres
2019           Artcité 2019 : Influences, Fontenay-sous-bois
2019           Salon d'Automne China, International Art Center, Xi'an
2018           BDMC ASIA TOUR (Tokyo - Seoul - Beijing)
2015/17/19     Salon des Artistes & Sculpteurs Dieppois, Normandy
2006           Artistes pour la paix au Liban, Galerie l’Art & la Paix, Saint Ouen
2004           Exposition inaugurale de la Galerie Art & Paix, Saint Ouen
2002/03/04     Salon de Saint Ouen
2001           Exposition ‘Collages’ du Printemps de la SAPE, Montgeron
1995           Entre Terre et Ciel, Maison du Canada, Cité Universitaire, Paris
1994           Carré d’Art de la Goutte d’Or, Crèche de la Chapelle, Paris 
1993           Salon de Rencontres Artistiques et Ecrivains, Mantes la Jolie
1992           Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l’eau, Grand Palais
1991           Maison Française, Washington DC, USA
1991           Salon de l’ACAM, Château du Logis de Brécey
1991           Hôtel de Bailli de Suffren, Paris
1988           XXIVème Grand Prix International de Cannes (Finalist)
1987           Salon de la SAPE, Montgeron
1987/88/89/91  Salon d'automne (Abstraction) 

ILLUSTRATIONS:
2020          My Dead by Matthew Barton, Raceme Poetry Review n°9, Bristol 
2019          Twenty-Two Poems by David Galler, 22 drawings in chinese ink & watercolour (2019) 
2004          The Prisoner Poet, diptych after a short story by David Galler (2002)
2003          Et la voilà … , collage of a narrative poem by Sylvie Chastain
2001          Faux mouvement, 14 collages after a poem by Sylvie Chastain
1995          La confidence antérieure, 3 collages after a poem by Sylvie Chastain
1995          Collected Poems by David Galler, Black and Blue Wall (1994) on cover page
1992          Rendez-vous, 13 collages after a poem by Sylvie Chastain
1991          Cover design for Pebbles and Seagulls, Myriam Mason, Calumet, London
1989          Illustrations for Pebbles and Seagulls, Myriam Mason, Calumet, London

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
Musée du Bois, Revel (Occitanie)
Art Café, Dieppe (Normandy)
Le Petit Ney, Paris 18ème