Saint Clair Cemin is a sculptor.

He studied at the École Nationale Superiore des Beaux Arts in Paris, France, in 1975, and moved to New York in 1978, to live and work. Saint Clair Cemin currently shows with the Brent Sikkema Gallery in New York City. A book of his writings, Fragments of a Mind: Stories and Comments on Art 1987-2004, was published by Edgewise Press.

Exhibititions

Cemin’s sculptures have been exhibited worldwide in such museums and museum exhibitions as the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston); the Stedelijk Museum

Stedelijk Museum

Founded in 1874, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is a museum for classic modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It has been housed on the Paulus Potterstraat, next to Museum Square Museumplein and to the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum and the Concertgebouw, in Amsterdam Zuid...

 (Amsterdam); the 1989 Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...

 Biennial (New York); Documenta IX (Kassel), 1992; Kunsthalle

Kunsthalle

Kunsthalle is, generally, in German speaking regions a term for a facility mounting temporary art exhibitions. Some are run or supported by a local Kunstverein, an art association of local collectors and artists...

 (Basel); the 22nd São Paulo Bienal, 1994; the Fogg Art Museum

Fogg Art Museum

The Fogg Museum, opened to the public in 1896, is the oldest of Harvard University's art museums. The Fogg joins the Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum as part of the Harvard Art Museums....

 (Cambridge, Mass.); and The Menil Collection, 1999. He has had one-person museum shows at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

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, Washington, D.C.; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; The Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Centro Cultural Light, São Paulo, Brazil; The Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; The Arts Club of Chicago; Lever House, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City.

Collections

His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Rooseum, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, among many others. He has executed many private and public commissions, among them the Reston Town Center, Virginia; Båstads Kommun, Sweden; and Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois. He received the Biennial Award from the Ueno Royal Museum and the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan in 1995.