He attended the Brassart School in Tours (1972-1973) then studied at the École nationale supérieure d'Arts in Bourges[5] from 1973 to 1978 with Daniel Dezeuze and Jean-Claude Silbermann as teachers.[6][7] Between 1978 and 2002 he lives and works in the United States and returns to settle in France in 2002.[8][9] Since 2002, he lives and works in Candes-Saint-Martin in Touraine.[10][11]
In 2015, he is one of the signatories of the tribune in L'Humanité, "Response of the 1001 artists to Marine Le Pen", during the regional elections.[12][13]
In 1999, Jacques Halbert returns to New York and opens the Magnifik Gallery in Williamsburg (New York) with artists: Olga Adorno, Larry Miller, John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Jean Dupuy, Ben Paterson, Ken Friedmann, Jack Pospisil, Geoff Hendricks, Carolee Schneemann, Joel Hubaut, Ben Vautier, Brendan Klinger, Christian Xatrec, Alison Knowles, Phoebe Legere, Nicola L.[21][22]
In 1976, during the construction of the Centre Georges Pompidou, he creates a Centre Pompidou-Cake, which he cuts and shares, on the forecourt of the museum, with his artist friends and passers-by unofficially invited to this performance.[30] The same year at the invitation of Henri Jobbé-Duval (director of the FIAC), he transforms a scooter into Gallery Cerise, a traveling sculpture with which he rides the aisles of the FIAC in 1976 and 1977. He travels with the streets of Paris and parks in front of the art galleries during vernissages, selling passers-by and art lovers cherry tarts and monochromes covered with painted cherries.[31] Jacques Halbert defines himself this Fluxus and neo-Dadaist and often parodic posture of the figure of the artist as "a manifesto of good taste".[32][33][34][35]
In 2003, back in France, he exhibits at the Creux de l'enfer-Contemporary art center the Wall of laughter that records the laughter of his friends and fellow artists, with whom he worked during his American years.[36][37][38]
Painting
His Paintings are almost exclusively and invariably made by painting one or multiple cherries on a monochrome canvas.[39][40][41][42]
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Damian, Carol (2011). Tour de France/Florida: Contemporary Artist's from France in Florida's Private Collections. The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum, Miami. ISBN978-0-9819337-8-8.
^Dupuy, Jean (1980). Collective consciousness: art performances in the seventies. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications. pp. 92, 181. ISBN9780933826274.
