Exhibitions

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Personal exhibitions

Any gallery show means going out on a limb, sometimes with confidence, sometimes with trepidation.
For an illustrator, it is a way of bypassing the otherwise mandatory transition through publishing, restoring a geographical sense to the work, adding motivation. (Which means basically, that you have to get out of the house and go see it…) All in all, it puts people back in the picture, and no longer the largely abstract public that one devines behind sales figures and royalty statements.
It’s the pleasure of chance encounters, the satisfaction of actually seeing one’s own work in a frame on a wall. It’s a privileged moment.

• Galerie Librairie La Marge, Lausanne, (Switzerland) December 1983
• The Pendragon Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland, August 1991
• Festival de la Bande Dessinée de Sierre, Sierre (Switzerland) June 1995
• La Bibliothèque des Jeunes, Le Locle (Switzerland) Oct/Nov 1995
• Librairie-Galerie Repères et Merveilles, Bienne (Switzerland) 1995
• Festival du Livre de la Jeunesse, Troyes, (France) September 1996
• Galerie Ziggourat, Brussels, 1997
• Musee des Beaux-Arts du Locle, Le Locle (Switzerland) May 3 to June 22, 1997
• John Howe/Images de Tolkien:
1. November 7 to December 30, 1995 – Médiathèque de Saint-Herblain (Nantes)
2. January 17 to March 9, 1996 – Les Silos, Chaumont
3. March 22 to April 21, 1996 – Maison du Boulanger, Troyes
4. September 19 to October 26, 1996 – Médiathèque d’Epernay
5. January 9 to February 7, 1997 – École des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg
6. February 25 to March 22, 1997 – Médiathèque de Sedan
7. April 1 to 13,1997 – Revin (Association Lire Malgré Tout)
8. April 30 to May 4, 1997 – Salon International du Livre et de la Presse, Geneva
9. September 20 to October 19 and November 19 to December 28, 1997 – La Maison d’Ailleurs, Yverdon-les- Bains (Switzerland)
10. October 24 to November 16 1997- L’Epée d’Eowyn/Rencontres Tolkien, Sierrre (Switzerland)
• Ecailles, Ailes, Griffes et Feu/Illustrations for A Diversity of Dragons – La Maison d’Ailleurs, Yverdon-les- Bains (Switzerland) October 21 to November 16, 1997
• Librarie La Bulle – Fribourg (Switzerland) November 24 to December 15, 2000
• Les Etonnants Voyageurs – Saint-Malo (France) May 2001
• Lucca Comics and Games – Lucca (Italy) 2001
• John HOWE/ Sur les Terres de Tolkien
1. September 27 to October 2002 – Médiathèque le l’Agglomeration Troyenne, Troyes
2. October 30 to November 3, 2002 – Utopiales (Festival International de Sciènce-Fiction de Nantes), Nantes
3. November 29 to December 1, 2002 – Festival Rifl Act Fiction, Lyon
4. December 10, 2002 to January 11, 2003 – Canadian Cultural Center, Paris
5. March 29 to April 5, 2003 – Rencontres Tolkien, Bibliothèque de l’Université Rennes 2, Campus Villejean, Rennes, France
6. May 6 to 31, 2003 – Bibliothèque Municipale, Charleville-Mézières, France
7. July 1 to 7, 2003 – Neuchâtel International Fantasy Film Festival, (Theatre du Passage), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
8. September 29 to November 9, 2003 – Gruyères, (Gruyères Castle), Switzerland
9. January 3 to 25, 2004 – Médiatheque, Annecy, France
10. February 7 to 28, 2004 – Médiatheque, Châlons-en-Champagne, France
11. March 9 to 27, 2004 – Médiatheque, Saint-Nazaire, France
• John Howe: Lord of the Brush / Le Seigneur des Pinceaux
• Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery, Tokyo – February 27 to March 31, 2006
• John Howe: Périples en Terre du Milieu, Médiathèque de Bourgoin-Jallieu, Bourgoin-Jallieu, France – April 17 to May 12, 2007
• John Howe 2007: Saint-Ursanne La Fantastique, Saint-Ursanne, Switzerland – June 23 to September 2, 2007 (Exhibitions, concerts, conferences, installations, etc.)