RENAUD AUGUSTE-DORMEUIL France, b. 1968

Renaud Auguste‑Dormeuil is a visual artist whose practice, since the mid‑1990s, probes how images are produced, circulated, and instrumentalised in public and political arenas—mapping the skies before bombings, charting the mechanisms of surveillance, and lately adopting more metaphorical, speculative forms. 

The artist recently unveiled I Will Keep A Light Burning, an original commission at AlUla Contemporary Art Museum, Saudi Arabia, in the exhibition Arduna, realized at the invitation of the Centre Pompidou. In the installation, candles are placed on the ground to replicate a map of the stars at the exact spot one hundred years in the future. The brief flames burn out a century before the sky mirrors them, living on only in photographs. This work will be exhibited in the rotunda at Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection in Paris on May 23, 2026 during La Nuit Européenne de Musées. 

Among numerous honours, he received the Prix HSBC pour la photographie (2004), Prix Meurice pour l’art contemporain (2010), and Prix 1 % Marché de l’Art (2022), and he was a resident at the Villa Médicis, Rome (2009–10). He lives and works in Paris.

Selected solo exhibitions: Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire (2024); Villa Medici, Rome (2023); Musée des Moulages, Paris (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Nice (2018); Espace de l’Art Concret (2018); MACRO Testaccio, Rome (2017); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); MAC VAL (2014); Fundació Caixa, Barcelona (2005); Swiss Institute, New York (2004).

Selected group exhibitions: MO.CO (2024); Hangar Y (2023); Nuit Blanche, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris (2022); Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (2022); Lyon Biennale (2017); Helsinki Photography Festival (2009); Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2008); Bildmuseet, Umeå (2009); Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (2009); MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (2007); Swiss Cultural Centre, Paris (2007).

Selected institutional collections: Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fonds national d’art contemporain (FNAC/CNAP), Paris; MAC/VAL – Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine; FMAC – Fonds municipal d’art contemporain, Paris; FRAC Pays de la Loire; FRAC Bourgogne; FRAC Basse-Normandie; FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon.