Claude QUIESSE was born in 1938 in Caen, Normandy, where he took night courses at the school of Beaux-Arts.
2002	Mérieux Bio Insitute – Marcy l’Etoile, Lyon : casting and set up of 3 bronze horses (3m x 5m), Gallery Arts Multiples – Metz: Paintings on open canvases Gallery Chabannes Vallée – Clermont-Ferrand – Personal Exhibition and publication of a collection of poems by André Solers “The unseen side of the Festival of Music of La Chaise Dieu” illustrated with 35 drawings, charcoal drawings and graffiti, Gallery Art Concept– Granville – Group Exhibition
2001	Istanbul – Turkey – Exhibition of 30 Paintings Gallery of the Ramparts – Le Mans: Drawings Château des Rochettes – Montaigu, Vendée: 60 large format works Gallery ofL’Ami des Lettres – Bordeaux – New Exhibition Gallery Carmen Héritier – Mirmande: T6 personal exhibition Gallery Rollin – Rouen: Drawings Pieter Breughel Gallery – Venio – Hollande: Group Exhibition
2000	Casting of the First Bronze Horse at Bocquel’s workshop Kùnsthandel Pieter Breughel – Amsterdam (Paintings) Gallery Corinne Lemmonier – Le Havre – Group Exhibition (with Dabin and Bonnefoit) Yerville – Guest of Honor
1999	Gallery St. Jean – Chalon-sur-Saône: Paintings and Crumpled Papers Gallery Arts Multiples – Metz (60 works) The Darwin Gallery – Australia: Wash paintings with walnut stain Château de Vixouze – Cantal: Paintings and Sculptures Gallery Minerva – Bayeux – Inauguration with the “Iron Horse”
1998	Espace Bouquières – Toulouse: Wash paintings with walnut stain Gallery of L’Ami des Lettres – Bordeaux (40 paintings) 21st Art Encounters – Château Arnoux – Upper-Provence (Guest of Honor, after Clavé, Coignard, Hasegawa)
1997	Gallery Rollin – Rouen : New Prints, Trace Prints, Graffiti avec SPIRT T4 Abbey of St. Martin of Boscherville (4 painters) Casa Dei of La Chaise Dieu – Auvergne: Frescos on open canvases Gallery Marie-France Riboulet – Bayeux (Group Exhibition)
1996	Salons of the Hotel Amigo “Nemesis” – Brussels (55 works) Gallery of the Ramparts – Le Mans: Paintings with Sculptures SPIRT T4
1995	Gallery Rollin – Rouen: “Sculptures, Jewelry” Casa Dei of La Chaise Dieu – Auvergne: (40 paintings), with sculptures SPIRT T4 Atelier Romain – Caen “Quiesse and SPIRT T4”: scratched paintings and rust sculptures
1994	Gallery of the 20th Century – Granville – Manche: “5 Years of Painting” Gallery Pieter Breughel – Venlo – Hollande: “Monotypes” Gallery Klostermühle – Hude Bremmen – Germany: “Monotypes” First Exhibition at the Château Rougemont, Gallery Patrick Aynaud – Bordeaux Region
1993	Gallery Pieter Breughel – Amsterdam – Venio: Embossed paintings Gallery Metamorphosis – Montargis (35 paintings and drawings) Gallery Alfa – Le Havre Gallery Much – Nantes First Exhibition at the Gallery Chabannes Vallée – Clermont-Ferrand
1991-92	1991-1992 Gallery Corinne Lemonnier – Le Havre: “Characters” Art Expo Tokyo – then Amsterdam Pieter Breughel Kunst Handel Golden Gallery rue de France – Nice (Group Exhibition) Palm Spring USA: Retrospective “Tea Carlan Collection” Salon Europart – Geneva – Switzerland, with SPIRT T4 (Personal Exhibitions) For the Car Ferrys “Normandy” and “Duke of Normandy”: paintings, monotypes, sculptures
1989-90	1989-90 FIAC SAGA Grand Palais – Paris: Engravings with SPIRT T4 First Exhibition at Nicolae Gallery, Columbus, Ohio – USA Art Expo Tokyo – One man show, Exhibition Gallery B, Tissot Gallery Maig Davaud, rue de Seine – Paris: Embossed paintings and Sculptures in shipwreck wood Inauguration Gallery A.J. Buci, rue St. André des Arts – Paris: “Men of the Desert” (30 wash paintings with walnut stain)
1987-88	1987-88 First Exhibition at the Gallery Maig Davaud – rue de Seine – Paris New York Art Expo – then the Long Island Gallery
1985-86	1985-86 First Exhibition at the Gallery L’Ami des Lettres – Bordeaux Philips Galleries Houston – USA (with Dabin) Windmill of Vauboyen, at Pierre de Tartas’: “The Hunt” (Group Exhibition) Inaugural Exhibition of the Hotel Mercure – Caen Gallery Tuffier – Les Andelys, Seine-Maritime (Group Exhibition) First Exhibition at the Gallery Klostermühle – Hude Bremen, Germany
1983-84	1983-84 “Children of the World” – Group Exhibition – Switzerland Gallery Colette Dubois, rue St. Honoré – Paris: “The Horse” Gallery Alfa Corinne Lemonnier – Le Havre (50 works) First Exhibition at the Gallery of the Ramparts Josiane Couasnon – Le Mans Granville – Manche: “The Ocean”, with Marin Marie Philips Galleries Palm Beach – USA (with Dabin) Workshop of Roman Art – Caen: First Sculptures Orangerie of the Château of Versailles, Salon Gallery Giselle Delacour, rue du Bac – Paris (Group Exhibition)
1981-82	1981-82 Prize A. Decamps – Salon of French Artists, Grand Palace – Paris Grenier à Sel – Honfleur Bacqueville – Seine-Maritime Gallery Colette Dubois, rue St. Honoré – Paris (Group Exhibition) Gallery La chèvre d’Or – Saint Paul de Vence Gallery Rollin – Rouen – Barbizon La Closerie – Châteauneuf-du-Pape
1979-80	1979-80 Gallery Marie-Jeanne Garoche, rue de Seine – Paris Gallery Antinéa, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt – Paris Gallery “Le Nouveau Monde de la Couleur”– Nancy Salon of the Seascape – Museum of the Marine – Paris Museum of Bayeux: “Today’s Values, Tomorrow’s Heritage” (5 painters)
1977-78	1977-78 First Exhibition at the Atelier d’Art Romain (Workshop of Roman Art) – Caen “From Venice to Amsterdam” Château de Fontaine-Henry – Calvados (50 works) First Exhibition at the Gallery Much – Nantes Grand Prize of the Salon of Doyenné of St. Emilion – Bordeaux Workshop of Jef Friboulet – Fécamp: “Homage to Armand Lanoux” First Expostion at the Gallery Alfa – Le Havre “Return to Tahiti” Grand Palais – Paris – Salon of Comparisons of Drawings and Water Paintings
1975-76	1975-76 Gallery of the Sacre – Rouen Salon Comparaisons – Grand Palais, Paris – Vevey, Switzerland Grand Prize of the Salon of Rouen Gallery Marie-Jeanne Garoche, Faubourg St. Honoré – Paris City Hall of Port en Bessin – Normandy Grand Prize of the Fiftieth Anniversary Salon of Lower Normany – Caen
1973-74	1973-74 Guest of Honor, Tour St. Aubain – Angers Château de Bauge: City Grand Prize Gallery Alpha – Vevey, Switzerland (40 works)
1971-72	1971-72 Würzburg, Germany “Die Haus zum Falken” (50 works) Gallery Alban Durvil – Barbizon Gallery Daumesnil – Paris Museum of Bayeux, Robert Hamon, Curator – 60 works Museum of Saint Denis La Réunion (40 watercolors) Abbey of Bernay “Normandy and its Painters” Gallery Blondel, rue Froide – Caen
1969-70	1969-70 Gallery Chantilly – Caen Gallery Jobbé Duval – Rennes Gallery St. Honoré – Paris (selected for the Emile Bernard Prize) Gallery Bourlaôuen – Nantes Gallery Gautier – Granville
1966-68	1966-68 Traveled around the world by sailboat with his brother and a friend Exhibitions in Nouméa, La Réunion, Ile Island, Le Cap, Saint Hélène
1964-65	1964-65 Critic’s Prize Salon of Lower Normandy Independent Painters Group Exhibition in Manheim – Germany Deauville Biennial – Riva Bella