Born in 1984 in Paris, Antoine Renard lives and works between Paris and Lourdes, France.
A graduate of the DNSEP art program at the Beaux-Arts in Dijon, in 2008, Antoine Renard has won numerous prizes and residencies, notably the Inkubator Innovator fellowship (Germany, 2015); the Goethe Institute Residency Prague (Czech Republic, 2017), the Résidence Cheval Noir (with Komplot), Brussels (Belgium, 2018). In 2019, he was awarded the Occitanie - Medici Prize, and the same year he also received a scholarship for the CNAP's artistic project and a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. What's more, Antoine Renard was the winner of the doctoral program SACRe 2020, from PSL University. His thesis, under the direction of Pascal Rousseau, focalizes on olfaction as an extension of sculpture.
Antoine Renard has already been the subject of several important solo exhibitions, including Psychobotania à la Cité des Sciences à Paris (France, 2022), PHARMAKON, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain, Sète (France, 2021), 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, DIESEL, Liège (Belgium, 2016).
Antoine Renard's works were also included in significant group exhibitions, including Power Flower, Biennale de Nice, Nice (France, 2022), Respirer l'Art, quand l'art contemporain sublime l'univers du parfum, Musée International de Grasse, (France, 2022), Futur, ancien, fugitif. Une scène française, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France, 2019); The Future of Memory, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (Austria, 2015); Saturn Drive, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (Germany, 2015); 58th Salon de Montrouge, Paris (France, 2013).
Antoine Renard is represented by the Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Brussels since 2020.