Agathe Bouton

Agathe Bouton is a French artist living and working in the Philadelphia area whose boundary-pushing printmaking and paper works exhibit the influence of living and working in international cities across the globe. Bouton earned her BFA in painting and printmaking and her MFA in arts and textile design from Duperré School of Applied Arts, Paris, France.  

Bouton has lived and exhibited her work in Paris; London; Philadelphia; Rangoon, Myanmar; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Dakar, Senegal; and Istanbul, Turkey. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal; Rathaus House, Waldbrol, Germany; Centre d’Arts Plastiques Albert Chanot, Clamart, France; Bundaberg Art Centre, Bundaberg, Australia; Galerie Od’A, Istanbul, Turkey; River Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar; and the Bettie Morton Gallery, London, UK.  

Bouton has received numerous awards in France and the United States for her printmaking including the Pierre Laurent First Prize in 2007 in Albi, France; being named a finalist in the Prix GRAV’X in 1999, 2003, 2004, and 2005 in Paris; and being selected as a semifinalist in the 91st and 92nd Annual International Competitions of The Print Center, Philadelphia.  

Since moving to the U.S., Bouton has exhibited extensively in Philadelphia at Inliquid, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Main Line Art Center, NoBa Art Space, and the Brandywine Workshop and Archives. 

Bouton's work is in the collections of French institutions including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Paris; L’Inventaire, Artothèque du Nord Pas de Calais; and the Musée Français de la carte à jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux; and American public collections including the Print and Pictures Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia and Swarthmore College Libraries.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

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Born

1969

Paris, France

Gender

Female

Nationality

French

Heritage

Western European

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