Born in 1984 in Paris, lives and works between Paris and Lourdes, France.
Graduated from a DNSEP art school in Dijon in 2008, Antoine Renard is the winner of numerous awards and residencies including Inkubator Innovator fellowship (Germany 2015), Goethe Institut Residency Prague (Czech Republic, 2017), Residence Cheval Noir (with Komplot), Brussels (Belgium, 2018). In 2019, he was awarded the Occitanie de la villa Médicis prize and the same year received a grant to support the artistic project of the CNAP, as well as a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris. In addition, Antoine Renard is the winner of the SACRe 2020 doctoral program at PSL University. His thesis, under the supervision of Pascal Rousseau, will focus on olfaction as an extended field of sculpture.
Antoine Renard has already benefited from major solo exhibitions including Geometries of -l-o-v-e, Very, Berlin (Germany, 2019), Cats in the city, Komplot, Brussels (Belgium, 2018) 1999, Marsèlleria, Milan (Italy, 2017), Resource Operation (Part II), In-Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand (France, 2017), Resource Operation (Part I) "The monk's corridor", Tlön, Nevers (France, 2017), I spell it Nature at DIESEL, Liège (Belgium, 2016), Peripheral Healing, Komplot, Brussels (Belgium, 2016). In 2021, a personal exhibition at the CRAC of Sète was devoted to his research focusing on the ritualized practices of perfume conducted in Italy and Peru.
Antoine Renard's works have also been part of significant exhibitions including Future, Ancient, Fugitive. Une scène française, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France, 2019), The Future of Memory, Kunsthalle Wien (Austria, 2015), Saturn Drive, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (Germany, 2015), 58th Salon de Montrouge, Paris (France, 2013).