Biography

Born in 1978 à Pessac, France. Works and lives in Bordeaux, France
Education

2005-2006 Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 2003 DNSEP Villa Arson, Nice, France 2002 DEA (master) philosophy, Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Solo exhibitions

2021 - IN HAWAII, Les Tanneries, Amilly, France 2020 - Miss Rankin, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris - Benoît Maire par la Villa Noailles, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France 2019 - LAICRITURE, Musée archéologique Henri Prades, Montpellier, France - Châteaux, Château Laborie, Solignac, France 2018 - Thèbes, CAPC, Bordeaux, France - Un cheval, des silex, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris - Thebes, Spike Island, Bristol, UK 2017 Disaster, Croy Nielsen, Vienna Cloud Paintings, Arsenal, New-York
2016 premier cercueil, Palette terre, Paris castled, jose garcia, mx, Merida quelques sphinx, VNH Gallery, Paris Lito S. Freeman, Benoit Maire, Room East, New-York Castling the Queen, Meessen de Clercq, Brussels George Slays the Dragon, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
2015 Nuages et déchets, Galerie Thomas Bernard, Paris Sticker Beings, Kiria Koula, San-Francisco Nuages Indexés, Onestar Press, Paris
2014 Letre, La verrière Hermes, Brussels LETTER, Western Front, Vancouver beings, Hollybush Gardens, London
2013 Spiaggia di menzogne / Lying Beach*, Fondazione Guiliani, Rome Weapon*, David Roberts Art Fondation, London Ohne Warum, Croy Nielsen, Berlin Le fruit est défendu, Cortex Athletico, Paris
2012 du classicisme, with Alex Cecchetti, Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux
2011 Soon the metal between us will turn into gold, Kunsthalle, Mulhouse Château with Cortex Athletico, Art Brussels, Bruxelles History of Geometry*, Halle Für Kunst, Luneburg History of Geometry, Walden Affairs, Den Haag The Object of Criticism*, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
2010 l’espace nu*, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux L’histoire de la géométrie, Rosascape, Paris Le concept de Cordélia, Statement, with Cortex Athletico, Art Basel 41, Basel The Wave, with Falke Pisano, Hollybush Gardens, London
2009 Aesthetics of the Differends, Hollybush Gardens, London The Photograph, Croy Nielsen, Berlin Organon and the Wave, with Falke Pisano, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
2008 1929, galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux la géométrie (toucher Cordélia), module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Desert Solitaire, with Falke Pisano, Hollybush Gardens, London Organon, with Falke Pisano, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
2007 The Repetition, Hollybush Gardens, London Tiresias and the geometry, Art forum art fair with Cortex Athletico, Berlin
2006 Le Présent, with Etienne Chambaud, galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux Twilight of the copyists, Liste – the young art fair, Basel
2004 Flat Screen’s Tragedy (ending), galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux
Group exhibitions

2021 - Le vent se lève , MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France - High Emission Zone, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris - Le Tour du jour en quatre-vingts mondes , CAPC Bordeaux, France 2020 - Collectionner au XXIe siècle, Si une accumulation reflète une vie… - De leur temps (6), Collection Lambert, Avignon, France - Clouds and the cloud, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany - Looking Forward, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris - Tout ce qui brille, réfléchit absorbe, Château Chasse Spleen, Moulis-en-Médoc, France 2019 - STRAUB/HUILLET/CÉZANNE. SEELEN MALT MAN NICHT, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany - Etrange!, Château Chasse-Spleen Centre d’Art, Moulis, France - Exposition estivale, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris - C'est la rentrée!, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris 2018 - Nature Morte ou le préfixe conceptuel de l’art romantique, Centre d'art du domaine de Château Chasse-Spleen, Moulis-en Médoc, France - Give up the Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13 , Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania - Give up the Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13 , Tallinn Art Hall (Kunstihoone), Estonia - Give up the Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13, Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia - KEDEM-KODEM-KADIMA , The Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israël - Archipelago — A Problem (On Exactitude in Science) , Tlön Projects, Toussaintkade 49, The Hague, Netherlands - STRAUB/HUILLET/CÉZANNE. ONE DOESN'T PAINT SOULS , Temporary gallery, Koln, Germany - Glaise rousse , Moly-Sabata, Fondation Albert Gleizes Sablons, France - Big Art , Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 2017 Un coup de dé jamais n’abolira le hasard (cur. Ardi Poels), la Borie, Solignac Homestead, Carl Louie, Ontario Sans Réserves, MacVal, Vitry-sur-Seine On Affection,noguerasblanchard, Barcelona Zodiaco - Galerie Samy Abraham, Paris 2037 (cur. E.Royer & Y.Gourmel), DOC, Paris
2016 Reponse, MACL, Saint-Jérôme, Québec What do you read my lord ? - Words...GDM, Paris The Promise of Total Automation (cur. Anne Faucheret), Kunsthalle Wien, Wien Zodiaco, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels Objects from the Temperate Palm House, Bargain Spot, Edinburgh
2015 A.N.T.R.O.P.O.C.E.N.E, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels L’effet Vertigo (collection), Macval, Vitry l’anatomie de l’automate, la Panacée, centre culture contemporaine, Montpellier Là où commence le jour (cur. Marc Donnadieu & Pauline Creteur), Lille-Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne (LAM), Lille Nel Mezzo del Mezzo (cur. C. Macel, B. Mari and M. Bazzini), Museo Riso, Palermo Les images constellantes (cur. A. Mole & G. Chabert), Villa du Parc, Annemasse The Crack-Up - Room East, New York Infiltrations - Centre d’Art Bastille - CAB, Grenoble Pauline à la plage (cur. C. Moulène & J. Lavrador) Galerie de multiples, Paris Transmissions (cur. Sarina Basta), Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris I want to be. Inside out. MotInternational, Brussels After Dark (cur. X. Franceschi), MAMCO, Geneva L’usage des formes (cur. Gallien Dejean), Palais de Tokyo, Paris Unendliche Bibliothek (cur. Alexandra Blättler), Altefabrik Kunsthalle, Rapperswil
2014 Ernesto (cur E.Royer & Y. Gourmel), CEAAC, Strasbourg Me and You in a Living Room (cur. Marie Canet), SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul Soleil politique The museum between light and shadow (cur. Pierre Bal-Blanc), MUSEION, Bolzano Seymour (cur E. Royer & Y. Gourmel), CEAAC, Strasbourg Le musée d’une nuit (script for leaving traces) (cur. V. Honoré), Fondation Hippocrène, Paris A Thousand Varied Uses (cur. Kevin Gallagher), NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid Zodiaco (cur. Davide Bertocchi), Cardrde, Bologna Les dérivés de la photographie, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux Quelque chose à vous dire, Cortex Athletico, Paris
2013 Oracular / Vernacular, Mamo, Marseille Archeologia, 40 m3, Rennes Les archipels réinventés 2, Ricard Foundation Prize, La Vieille Charité, Marseille L’amour atomique (cur. Ashok Adicéam), Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard The lie and the powerpoint, Shanaynay, Paris Des gestes de la pensée (cur. Guillaume Désanges), La Verrière, Bruxelles Paint it black (cur. Xavier Franceschi), Plateau, Frac-ile-de-France, Paris A house of leaves (cur. Vincent Honoré), David Roberts Art Foundation, London Bow-lal, Juliette Jongma Galerie, Amsterdam Collection Joseph Kouli, Mains d’oeuvres, Saint-Ouen Campagne/Campagnes, Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux
2012 Narrative Arcs (cur. Naomi Evans), Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Hapax Legomena (cur.Elodie Royer et Yoann Gourmel), Mercer Union, Toronto Houses of leaves (cur. Vincent Honoré), David Roberts Art Fondation, London To the Moon via the Beach (cur.Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno,Beatrix Ruf), Maja Hoffmann, LUMA Foundation, Arles Who I am ? What I’m going here ?, Shanaynay, Paris Read, Look !, Emily Harvey Fondation, New-York Le mont Juji n’existe pas (cur. Y. Gourmel, E. Royer), Frac Ile-de-France, Paris Rotary Connection (cur.Loring Randolph), Casey Kaplan gallery, New-York
2011 Collections contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Paris Codex (cur. Pierre Leguillon), live in you head, Geneva Monitor (cur. V. Honoré), Rome Tableaux (cur. Y. Aupetitallot and V. Honoré), Magasin, Grenoble Desert Solitaire (cur. V. Klimasauskas), CAC Vilnius the rehearsal of repetition (cur. Anja Isabel Schneider), Grantpirrie, Sidney Radical Autonomy, Netwerk, Aalst Beyond the Dust – Artists’ Documents Today (cur. Francesca Di Nardo), Fondation Ricard, Paris
2010 Les interlocuteurs (cur. Mathilde Villeneuve), Printemps de septembre, Toulouse Monsieur Miroir (12éme Prix Ricard, cur. Emilie Renard), Fondation Ricard, Paris Beyond the Dust – Artists’ Documents Today (cur. Francesca Di Nardo), De Vleeshal, Middelburg Beyond the Dust (cur. Francesca Di Nardo) La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan Things slowly curve out of sight until they are gone. Afterwards only the curve remains. (Cur. Yoann Gourmel, Elodie Royer), Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart SC13 (cur. Chris Fitzpatrick & Post Brothers), Design Mall, San Francisco Une exposition du sensible (cur. Mathieu Copeland), Synagogue de Delme, Delme Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo, MAM ARC, Paris History of art, the (cur Mihnea Mircan) David Roberts Art fondation, London Blind Mirror, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Napoli Memories of the future (cur. Laurent Grasso), Sean Kelly gallery, New-York il cristallo d’Islanda (cur. Yoann Gourmel, Elodie Royer), Gamec, Bergamo You don’t need eyes to see, galerie Chez Valentin, Paris Arrivals and departures, Mole Vanvitelliana, Anconna The sunday of life (cur. Christian Kobald, Jonas Zakaitis), Coco Kunstverein, Wien ANTIANTIANTI, shapes, contexts & rules » (cur. Nicolas Chardon), LOG Bergamo The Happy Interval (cur. Tulips and roses), Croy Nielsen, Berlin Blood of a Poet, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New-York Dans la forêt, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux Armory show, with Cortex Athletico, New-York
2009 Lisson Presents 6, Lisson Gallery, London For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking For the Black Cat That Isn’t There (cur. Anthony Huberman), ICA, London Radical Autonomy, le grand-café, Saint-Nazaire Un Nouveau Festival, (cur. Bernard Blistène), Centre Pompidou, Paris Labyrint 09 Writings and observations, Botkyrka Konsthall, Tumba, Suède Taj Mahal Travellers, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm La suite (cur. Florence Bonnefous), Air de Paris, Paris Le jardin aux chemins qui bifurquent (cur. Lorenzo Benedetti), Kunsthalle, Mulhouse liquid times (cur. Katja Schroeder), Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster What if this was a piece of art ?, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg La collection du 20éme siècle (cur. G. Longueville, N. Chardon) , La vitrine, Paris Le chant de la carpe, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux 22ème ateliers du Frac des Pays de la Loire, chapitre 2, Parc culturel de Rentilly Nous tournons dans la nuit..., Musée de Rochechouart, Rochechouart Paper exhibition (cur. Raimundas Malasauskas), artistspace, New-York Fugues (cur. Latifa Echakhch), galerie Hussenot, Paris
2008 Blank Complexity (cur. Karma International), Parisa Kind gallery, Franckfurt For the First and the Second Time (cur. V. Januskeviciute, V. Klimasauskas, CAC, Vilnius Les feuilles (cur. E. Royer & Y. Gourmel) Super and module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Trahison (collection), CapcMusée, Bordeaux nonknowledge (cur. Tessa Giblin), projects arts centre, Dublin Reversibility (cur. Pierre Bal-Blanc), The fair Gallery at Frieze art fair, Londres all the best, Gallery one one one, Londres XXII éme ateliers internationaux du Frac des Pays de la Loire, chapitre 1, Carquefou toute la collection du Frac Ile-de-France (ou presque), Mac/Val, Ivry-sur-Seine l’anomalie d’Ararat (cur. E. Royer and Y. Gourmel), Irmaveplab, Chatillon-sur-Marne exercises in seing (cur. Valentinas Klimasauskas), tulips and roses gallery, Vilnius one of these things is not like the others things (cur. R. Malasauskas), 1/9, Rome The artist is a mysterious entertainer (cur. Vanessa Desclaux), De Appel, Amsterdam Weisses Lächeln, Croy Nielsen, Berlin object, the undeniable success of operations (cur K. Kruitsjen, F. Pisano), Stedelijk museum bureau, Amsterdam We would like to thanks the curators who wish to remain anonymous, seventeen gallery, London Sans Titre (15 jours), Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux The unfair fair (cur. Vincent Honoré), Rome excepté peut être une constellation, 220 jours / gb agency, Paris Katamari, 220 jours / gb agency, Paris
2007 from a distance, Wallspace gallery (cur. Vincent Honoré), New York Biennale de Lyon (cur Pierre Joseph), Lyon Le jardin de Cyrus, galerie Edouard Manet (cur. Yoan Gourmel), Gennevilliers Rooms, Conversations, Frac Ile-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris Prologue, 220 jours / gb agency, Paris All we ever see of stars are their olds photographs, 220 jours, Paris Rien n’aura eu lieu que le lieu, 220 jours / gb agency, Paris Twice Told Tales (cur. Isabelle Alfonsi), galerie Michel Rein, Paris On fait le mur (...), Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux Re-trait (cur. claire Staebler), fondation Ricard, Paris Proposition de Colloque, Fondation Kadist, Paris The moment You Realise You Are Lost (cur. A. Carr), J. Koenig gallery, Berlin The as yet Issue (video screening), De Appel, Amsterdam there have to be many ...(cur. Achim Lengerer), Kunstverein Braunschweig
2006 Meeting S.P., Ellen de Bruijne Projects (FalkeandCharlotte), Amsterdam Fiction (cur. E. Nabeyrat et F. Maufras), la Box, Bourges The Library (cur Elodie Royer and Yoan Gourmel), Villa Warsaw, Varsovie Ausserordentliche Zustände (cur. Reto Pulfer), Berlin AWOL (cur. Simona Nastac), Biennial of the young artists, Bucharest Two scenes in three acts (video screening), Stockholm Notre Histoire, La Cabane (cur ; Pascal Beausse), Palais de Tokyo, Paris Radio Kills the video stars, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims Terra Incognita (video screening), Malba, Buenos Aires Waking-up, Cortex Athletico gallery, Bordeaux
2005 Rendez-vous, Blue space gallery, Hô Chi Minh idealondon, ICA, London Les apparences sont souvent trompeuses, CapcMusée, Bordeaux
2004 Aujourd’hui c’est ravioli, galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux Peau d’âne 4, galerie Soardi, Nice.
Collections

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada David Roberts art Foundation, London, United Kingdom MAC / VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy FRAC Franche-Comté, France CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France FNAC Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France Artothèque de Pessac, France Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France Nomas Foundation, Roma, Italy Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
Awards/Fellowships

Solo Prize Winner, Art Brussels, 2017 Lauréat du prix de la Fondation Ricard, 2010 CNAP, Image/Mouvement, 2010 Cité Internationale des Arts, 2009 Drac Aquitaine, 2005 |