Colette Justine, better known as Colette Lumiere, is a multimedia artist born in Tunisia-and later naturalized American.
21 Facts About Colette Justine
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Colette Justine is well known since the seventies for her pioneering work in performance art, street art, and photographic tableau vivant.
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Colette Justine is known for her work exploring male and female gender roles, use of guises and personas, and for soft fabric environments, where she often appears as the central element.
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Colette Justine presented this work to the public in 1972.
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In 1974, Colette Justine posed as Persephone in Persephone's Bedroom in a billowing parachute dress for the Norton Museum, in Miami, Florida.
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In 1977, Colette Justine represented the US in the Paris Biennale, with Let Them Eat Cake.
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Colette Justine constructed Clearance Sale in the bedroom of Nancy Gillesby Delaage Gallery in Paris.
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Colette Justine performed her resurrection at PS1 now part of MOMA a few days later as "Justine and the Victorian Punks".
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Colette Justine posed as "the Pieta" in it for its opening.
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Colette Justine appeared in the day and the Night life in her "beautiful dreamer" uniforms inspired by the walls of her legendary environment as a living sculpture: an experiment in walking architecture.
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Colette Justine exhibited her new works and paintings at the Silvia Menzel gallery and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and the Danny Keller gallery in Munich.
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In 1990 in an exhibition in Munich at Carol Johns sen Gallery "Visits to the Normal World" Colette Justine began to use the name Olympia.
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In 1993, an exhibition at LOK gallery in the Meatpacking District titled "The Ruins and Rise of the House of Olympia" Colette Justine presented her new works.
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Inside the Mexican Consulate gallery space, Colette Justine reinstalled her downtown atelier now called "Maison Lumiere".
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The Mannequin replacing Colette Justine, was attached to a long table with a train containing at its end a large pile of record albums size artworks from "The Story of my life" series.
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Colette Justine transformed her new atelier into a living space and there was able to begin a new body of works.
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Colette Justine travelled to Berlin, to participate "React Feminism" held at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin.
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In 2011, art critic Alan Jones curated a solo show of her works at the Paolo Barozzi Gallery in Venice during the Biennale; and the following year, the film "A Pirate in Venice" a documentary on Colette Justine shot in Venice by Friedericke Taylor, was presented for the first time in NY at the Gershwirn Hotel May 2012.
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Colette Justine participated on the panel at the Brooklyn Museum, oct.
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Colette Justine has Been involved in An going collaborative Project Investigating a found cassette of herself being interviewed by Warhol in 1975.
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In 2020 Colette Justine returned to NYC as her primary home.