Widely recognized throughout the world, Touchon’s work appears in the collections of several major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Tate Modern in London. His works are found in many corporate collections as well, including those of IBM, HBO, American Airlines, American Express, Citibank, Las Vegas’s Bellagio Hotel, Neiman Marcus, Hallmark, and the Sanyo Corporation, to name a few. 

Cecil Touchon has played a major role in the fine arts arena for well over two decades. The highly acclaimed artist has exhibited in galleries and museums in Dallas and Fort Worth, as well as in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Boston, Houston, St. Louis, and Atlanta, among other cities. International exhibitions include venues in Paris; Amsterdam; Berlin; Cuernavaca, Mexico; and Italy, where he participated in the Venice Biennial in 2009 and 2001.  

Touchon is the founder and director of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group. He is also a member of the Massurrealist Society and founder of the La Sociedad Massurrealista de Mexico. He has been featured in dozens of exhibition catalogues, magazine articles, and scholarly publications, the most recent of which will be published in 2010 and is titled Masters: Collage—Major Works by Leading Artists (Lark Books). 

 

A texas native, Cecil Touchon was born in Austin and attended both North Texas State University in Denton and the University of Texas at Alington. 

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ARTIST STATEMENT

 

"The majority of my works that deal with lettering forms originally started out as a Fluxus idea, and that idea was to create compositions out of randomly chopped up lettering and then reconstruct an abstract 'poem' from the parts. I wanted something that frees the words and letters from their practical use as bearers of literary meaning allowing them to function on a purely visual and concrete level." – Cecil Touchon

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Collections

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MOMA – New York, NY MOMA Library Manhattan, New York, NY Emily Harvey Foundation – New York, NY Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - San Paulo, Brazil Mela Foundation, New York, NY Studio One, New York, NY (Yoko Ono) Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Fogg Museum of Art Archive, Cambridge, Mass. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library, Los Angeles, Ca The Getty Research Institute - Los Angeles, Ca Modern Realism, San Francisco, Ca Chicago Art Institute – Chicago, Il. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Il. Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Il. Saint Louis Art Museum, Library, Saint Louis, Mo Iowa State University - Fluxus Collection - Ames, IA ATCA Special Collections, Iowa State University, Iowa City, Iowa Avant Writing Collection - Rare Books & Manuscripts Library - at Ohio State University Ohio State University Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscript Libraries, Columbus, Ohio Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, Fl Ontological Museum, Fluxus Collections, Fort Worth, Texas Longview Museum and Art Center – Longview, Texas Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Mn The Tate Modern – London, UK Tate Britain (Archive), London, UK Museum Fluxus + - Potsdam, Germany Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary TAM Archive, Breda, Netherlands

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Solo Exhibitions

2016
“Before the Beginning” Exhibtion at Nuart Gallery

2015
“Beyond Words” William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas

2013
The Fusion Series, Part 2, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York City, New York
Nuart Gallery - Santa Fe, New Mexico

2012
The Unspoken Remains - Nuart Gallery - Santa Fe, New Mexico (May)
Channeling the West Tony Magar and Cecil Touchon at Laura Rathe Gallery, Houston (February)

2011
Reduced to Silence - Quintenz and Company Fine Arts Aspen, Colordo
Cecil Touchon - New Works and Old Favorites - Emily Amy Gallery – Atlanta, Georgia
Fluxus Language/Taoist Geometry– Cohn Drennan Gallery – Dallas, Texas (two person show)
Typographic Abstractions - K. Imperial Fine Arts - San Francisco, California

2010
The Art of Collage – Nuart Gallery – Santa Fe, New Mexico
The New Beautiful - William Campbell Contemporary Art – Fort Worth, Texas

2009
Collage - Sears Peyton Gallery - New York City, New York
Cecil Touchon at Emily Amy Gallery - Atlanta, Georgia

2008
New Work - Gilman Contemporary - Ketchum, Idaho
"Then and Now" - Longview Museum of Fine Arts - Longview, Texas

2007
New Work - bsgmodern - Atlanta, Georgia
New Work - The New Gallery - Houston, Texas

2006
New Work - The Marshall Gallery - Scottsdale, Arizona
"Visual Poetry" - William Campbell Contemporary Art - Fort Worth, Texas - February, 2006

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Group Exhibitions

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2019

Expo  Chicago, Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Chicago, IL

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2018

LA Art Show, Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2016
Art Show LA – Los Angeles, California with Timothy Yarger Gallery – Beverly Hills, California
Art Palm Beach – Palm Beach, Florida with J F Gallery West Palm Beach, Florida
Art Aspen - Aspen, Colorado with Timothy Yarger Gallery– Beverly Hills, California
The Delta Lounge Gallery at LAX – Los Angeles, California via Timothy Yarger Gallery
Flux and Flow Exhibition at J F Gallery West Palm Beach, Florida
Dada Centennial: Day of the Dead – Group exhibition (participant, curator) International Museum of
Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2015
Cecil Touchon and Paul Rousso: No More Words - Laura Rathe Gallery in Houston, Texas
Art Show LA – Los Angeles, California with Timothy Yarger Gallery – Beverly Hills, California
Art Aspen - Aspen, Colorado with Timothy Yarger Gallery– Beverly Hills, California

2014
Art Palm Beach – Palm Beach, Florida with J F Gallery West Palm Beach, Florida
Fluxbox Exhibition - Curated by Keith A. Buchholz At Joan Flasch Artistbook Library Art Institute of
Chicago, IL
Fluxbox Exhibition - Curated by Keith A. Buchholz At Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
LINES: Tony Magar and Cecil Touchon at Laura Rathe Gallery in Houston, Texas
Silicon Valley Contemporary Art Fair Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Art Market Hamptons Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Art Show LA – Los Angeles, California with Timothy Yarger Gallery – Beverly Hills, California
Art Aspen - Aspen, Colorado with Timothy Yarger Gallery– Beverly Hills, California

2013
“Medley: A Collage Group Show #2″ - The Chicago Urban Art Society (CUAS) Chicago, IL

2012
Collage/ Assemblage Centennial 1912-2012 - The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and
Construction, Pagosa Springs, Colorado (Sept-Nov. 2012)
Strange Glue: Collage at 100- The Thompson Gallery at The Cambridge School of
Weston, Weston, Massachusetts - Sept. 2012
Fluxfest Chicago 2012 (Feb) - Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois

2011
Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976 - 2011 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Sydney, Australia
( international project called The Secret Exchange