Antoine Renard
Born in Paris in 1984, lives and works between Paris and Lourdes, France.
Graduating with a DNSEP art from the Dijon Fine Arts School in 2008, Antoine Renard is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including Inkubator Innovator fellowship (Germany 2015), Goethe Institut Residency Prague (Czech Republic, 2017), Résidence Cheval Noir (with Komplot), Brussels (Belgium, 2018). In 2019, he won the Occitanie prize from the Villa Médicis, and in the same year was awarded the CNAP artistic project grant, as well as a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Antoine Renard is also the winner of the SACRe 2020 doctoral program at PSL University. His thesis, under the supervision of Pascal Rousseau, focuses on olfaction as an extended field of sculpture.
Antoine Renard has already enjoyed major solo exhibitions, including Veins at Ateliers Vortex, Dijon (France, 2023), Psychobotania at Cité des Sciences, 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 at DIESEL, Liège (Belgium, 2016), Peripheral Healing, Komplot, Brussels (Belgium, 2016).
Antoine Renard’s work has also been included in major exhibitions such as Toucher Terre, l’Art de la sculpture céramique at Fondation Villa Datris in L’isle sur la Sorgue and Paris (France 2023), 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), Future, ancient, fugitive. A French scene Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France, 2019), The Future of Memory, Kunsthalle Wien (Austria, 2015), Saturn Drive, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (Germany, 2015), 58e Salon de Montrouge, Paris (France, 2013).