Jérôme Catz

He comes from a background of board sports. He was a professional freeride snowboarder from 1992 to 2003, and he collaborated with the French winter sports brand Rossignol throughout his entire athletic career. The brand backed him in 2003 when he opened his first Spacejunk art center in Grenoble, a place dedicated to exhibiting artists from Board Culture, Lowbrow and Pop Surrealism.

A specialist in these movements, Jérôme Catz opened a second center in 2005 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice - in the Savoie area of France. In 2006 he curated the Art on Foam exhibition, which toured the globe through 2008, inviting twenty-two artists including Dave Kinsey, Lucy McLauchlan, Adam Neate and Andy Howell.

In 2007 a third Spacejunk Art Center was born in Bayonne, and in 2009 another in Lyon. Today Spacejunk exhibits artists from around the world - such as Travis Parr, Will Barras, Jon Fox, Steph COP or Scott Bourne.

Since the beginning of Spacejunk, the art center’s aim is to connect artists and audience, and to make the meeting possible. This aspect of their work has developed even further today with their outreach activities in schools all the way from pre-schools to universities.

In 2011, Jérôme Catz is curating the exhibition Les Enfants Terribles, which brings together twelve of the most important artists in the Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist movements from around the world, featuring Todd Schorr, Robert Williams, Ray Caesar, Jeff Soto, Nicolas Thomas, Caia Koopman, Victor Castillo, Reg Mombassa, Odö, Naoto Hattori, Joe Sorren and Robert Crumb.

• Art on Foam
• Les enfants TERRIBLES

• 2008 - Nicolas Thomas - Spacejunk edition
• 2010 - Spacejunk Year Book - Spacejunk edition

• (French) Artravel - September 2006
• (English) Huck - April 2009
• (French) Surfer's journal - February 2010
• (French) Acteurs de l'économie - June 2010