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Catherine Grenier (born in 1960 in Lyon, France) is the Director of the Giacometti Foundation. She took that position in February 2014 following her tenure at the Centre Pompidou.
Grenier is credited with helping bridge the divide in Giacometti's legacy that formed following the death of his widow in 1993.

A graduate of the École du Louvre , she graduated with a DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies) in art history (Paris IV University).

Over the last two decades, Catherine Grenier orchestrated and curated some forty important exhibitions like "The Pop Years" (2001), " Los Angeles 1955-1985" (2006), "Abracadabra" (with Catherine Kinley), essay on the fantasy of the art in 1999, at the Tate Modern (London), the first thematic exhibition at the MNAM - Center Pompidou, "Big Bang" creation and destruction in art 4, "Modernities Plural 5".

In 2009 she was appointed Deputy Director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne in charge of Research and Globalization Project at the Center Pompidou.

As director of the Giacometti Foundation she has been curator of several major unpublished retrospectives dedicated to Alberto Giacometti.

She has written numerous works dedicated to contemporary artists and several essays offering a reflection on modern art.

She has also published a book on Salvador Dalí which shows its news for famous contemporary artists like Jeff Koons , Murakami and Urs Fisher (2012).

In 2018 she co-curated the exposition "Giacometti" with Megan Fontanella in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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