Jerome Lagarrigue is an award-winning French painter and illustrator. His illustrating and painting work ranges from boxing scenes to children's books.

Biography

Lagarrigue was born in Paris, France to a father who was an illustrator and painter, and a mother who was a journalist and writer. As a child, he was schooled in France, but spent summers in New York, where he now lives. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, with a major in illustration, in 1996. Two years later, Parsons School of Design made him professor of drawing and painting.

Solo exhibitions

• 2006 - "Paesaggio Del viso", Villa Medicis, Rome, Italy and Oliver Waltman Gallery, Paris, France.
• 2005 - "Synchresis", TheXpo Gallery, 63 Pearl St, Brooklyn, USA.
• 2003 - "Paintings”, UFA Gallery,"526 W 26th St, New York, USA.
• 2002 - "Recent works", Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, USA.
• 2001 - "Boxers", The Cutting Room Gallery, 19 W 24th St, New York, USA.

Publications

• 2007 - "Plein Face", text by Sylvain Coher, publisher: Eponyme.
• 2007 - "Poetry for young people", poems by Maya Angelou. ISBN 9781402720239
• 2004 - "Freedom on the Menu", text by Carole Weatherford. ISBN 9780803728608
• 2004 - "Going North", text by Janice N. Harrington. ISBN 9780374326814
• 2003 - "Me and Uncle Romie", text by Claire Hartfield. ISBN 9780803725201
• 2002 - "Freedom Summe
  Freedom Summer (book)
  Freedom Summer is a children's book written by Deborah Wiles and illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue. Originally published as a hardcover edition in 2002, the book is now available as a paperback from Simon & Schuster...
  
  r", text by Deborah Wiles. ISBN 9780689878299
• 1999 - "My Man Blue", text by Nikki Grimes. ISBN 9780142301975

External links

• Official site