Overview

French-born artist Julien Creuzet intertwines practices as a visual artist and poet through amalgams of sculpture, film, installation, and textual intervention. Describing Martinique, where the artist spent formative childhood years, as “the heart of my imagination,” Creuzet often addresses diasporic cultural experiences and post-colonial exchanges. Drawing from influences such as the poetic and philosophical reflections of Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant, Creuzet’s intellectual engagement with origins and alterity bridges celebratory, emancipatory, and critical expressions at the intersection of Caribbean history and European modernity. 

 

Julien Creuzet (b. 1986 in Le Blanc-Mesnil, France) lives and works in Montreuil.

Creuzet represented France at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). The artist will unveil an exhibition at Brown University, Providence (2025), which will travel to Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (2025).The artist’s works have been presented at major institutions such as LUMA Westbau, Zurich (2023); LUMA, Arles, France (2022); Camden Art Centre, London (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (2019); Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris (2018); and Bétonsalon, Paris (2018), among others.

Creuzet has participated in numerous prominent group exhibitions, including the 35th Bienal de São Paulo, Salvador (2024) and São Paulo (2023); Performa Biennial, New York (2023); 12th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2023); Musée Tinguely, Basel (2022); National Gallery of Prague (2022); Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Middletown (2021); Museum für Moderne Kunst – MMK, Frankfurt am Main (2020); Manifesta 13, Marseille (2020); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris (2019); Kampala Biennale, Kampala (2018); and Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2018). Creuzet’s works are included in notable collections such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; MMK Museum, Frankfurt; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue; Fondation d’Entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris; Fonds d’art Contemporain, Paris; FRAC Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain, Bourgogne, Champagne-Ardenne; Grand Large, Île-de-France; Méca, Pays de la Loire; Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes; KADIST Foundation, Paris; and CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, among others.

The artist is currently a Chef d’atelier at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Creuzet has received numerous accolades, including the Etants Donnés Prize in 2022, the BMW Art Journey Award in 2021, and the Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze in 2019. In 2021, he was also nominated for the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize.

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Julien Creuzet, “Frank Walter – A Retrospective”, installation view, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and High Art, Paris. (05/2021)