Guillaume Bottazzi

Guillaume Bottazzi (born in 1971), French artist.

He started his professional artist career in 1990 in Italy. In 1994, he received a government grant from direction regionale des Affaires culturelles (DRAC, Regional Government) with the attribution of a government art studio. He has lived and exhibited in New York a few years in early 2000s, his work was exhibited for example in the Goldstrom Gallery and the Annex Gallery. In the United States, his work is to be found in the William Whipple Collection of Southwest State and in the Queen Shorough Collection. In 2004 he obtained an artist residency by the ART foundation in Tokyo.

His paintings are exhibited since 2006 at the Gallery Itsutsuji in Tokyo (cf. list of most notable galleries, Art museum entry). This gallery has been introducing many contemporary and modern artists in Japan, it even introduced movements. Supports-surfaces for example Claude Viallat, Louis Cane, Daniel Dezeuze, Jean Pierre Pincemin and many other artists like Pierre Buraglio, Pierre Soulages, Gérard Titus-Carmel and Jean-Michel Meurice) was chiefly introduced to Japan by this gallery. The gallery is also a promoter of Japanese contemporary art (e.g. it represents Ay-O), playing a key role for quite a few leading Japanese contemporary artists. In 2011 he made a solo show at the Miyanomori Art Museum, in Japan. Guillaume Bottazzi has realized around 30 site-specifics art works.