Loris Gréaud

Loris Gréaud (born February 7, 1979 in Eaubonne, France) is a conceptual installation artist, as well as a filmmaker and architect. He is seen in the media and recognized by international critics as one of the most important and influential artists of his generation. However, since the beginning of his career, the artist has refused to allow his biography to be published. Most of the biographies available are therefore knowingly incorrect or incomplete.His work is organized into projects rather than exhibitions.His first, Silence goes more quickly when played backwards, took place in 2005 at the Plateau/Frac île-de-France (Paris). This was the project that rocketed him onto the international art scene.In 2008, he became the first artist to be granted full use of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris for his project Cellar Door. He developed and continued this project at the ICA in London, the Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen (Switzerland), the museum La Conservera de Murcia (Spain) and finally at the Vienna Kunsthalle (Austria), ending at Art Basel alongside the publication of a catalogue by JRP Ringier that charted the entire project.

Although international collectors and museums have made some important acquisitions of his work, Greaud chooses to appear only occasionally in galleries and markets. He has had only one double exhibition in the galleries that represent him. The Unplayed Notes was presented at the Pace Gallery in New York City and then at the Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris in 2012.

In 2013, he was the first artist to be invited to exhibit jointly by the Louvre and the Pompidou Center in Paris. The double exhibition, Loris Gréaud [I] was free to the public and took place in the museums’ courtyards, purposefully avoiding the usual exhibition spaces of the two institutions.

In 2014, he was appointed as a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres).In 2015, for his project The Unplayed Notes Museum, he became the first artist to take over the entire space of the Dallas Contemporary (USA).In 2016, he produces the Sculpt project specifically for the LACMA in Los Angeles, his first exhibition on the West Coast of the United States.In 2017, he attracted the attention of the 57th Venice Biennale with his project The Unplayed Notes Factory in Murano (Italy) In 2019, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art hosts the monographic project: Sculpt: Grumpy Bear, the Great Spinoff, as a continuation of its first exhibition at LACMA in 2016.Recently, the exhibition The Original, The Translation shed light on the artist's entire publishing activity at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky I Centre Georges Pompidou after all the works produced by the artist were added to its holdings and documentary collections.After acquiring the work MACHINE in 2018, the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris invited Gréaud to design a specific exhibition, as part of the permanent collections, entitled Glorius Read.In 2020, after several years of development with the Casa Wabi Foundation, Gréaud will inaugurate a perennial project entitled The Underground Sculpture Park. The artist has chosen some twenty works emblematic of his production, which will be buried for eternity in the gardens of Alberto Kalach, which are an extension of the architecture designed by Tadao Ando.Since 2010, the artist has rarely participated in group shows, preferring to concentrate his resources on developing personal projects. The artist sees "the trajectory of the work through time as a sculpture in its own right."