Thierry Fournier is a French visual artist living and working in Paris. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon, he is also an independent curator, editor, and teacher.
Through installations, objects, online works, videos, prints, and performances, his work addresses questions of otherness both in an anthropological and societal sense. His recent solo and group shows include exhibitions as the University of Montpellier III in 2020 and 2019, Aperto Montpellier 2020, Villa Henry Nice 2018, Lux Scène nationale de Valence 2015, Cermodern Gallery, Ankara 2021, Depo Gallery Istanbul 2019, Variation Art Fair Paris 2017, 2018, Thessaloniki Biennale 2017, and ZKM Karlsruhe, 2013 and 2017 to 2019.
Thierry Fournier has also developed a professional trajectory as a curator of contemporary art exhibitions, with recent curatorial projects at Mécènes du sud Montpellier 2020 (with Pau Waelder), Mori Tower and Tokyo French Institute 2019, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris 2018, and Centre Pompidou 2011.
Fournier is head of The Exercise of the Gaze, the contemporary art workshop at Sciences Po Paris. Until recently, he was co-head of two curating research studios at EnsadLab Paris and Ensad Nancy, and a guest artist-professor at Le Fresnoy. He is also co-head and artistic director of antiAtlas Journal, a free online art-science journal.
