François Briand

GROUP EXHIBITIONS•

- 2026 Silence des tropiques, Greenhouses of the botanical gardens, Nancy, (FR)

- Exhaure : hors-service, Museum of the mine, Petite-rosselle, (FR)

- No sex game in my shower, Bastion XIV, Strasbourg, (FR)

- 2025 Résonance 2025, Strasbourg (FR)

- Frappez des mains, Jules Verne Media library, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (FR)

- GemZ, Body Sculptures in collaboration with Zoé Kiner-Wolff, Kunstfabriek’s gallery, Rotterdam (NL)

- Fire !!!, 22 Galleu, Ivry-sur-seine (FR)

- Eremos, Bastion XIV, Strasbourg (FR)

- Smoking Diaries, Cafe Nick, Copenhagen (DNK)

- 2024 Dserodre, presentation of a workshop on lamps and microorganisms, Hear, Strasbourg (FR)

- Le rêve même, Collaboration with Jeanne Susplugas, Centre Pompidou-Metz (FR)

- 2023 France Design Week, glass workshop with high school students, Rennes (FR)

- Sublime tears, Hear, Strasbourg (FR)

- 2021 Négatives, Performance sculpture, Moulin du Sonan, Saint-Jean-Brévelay (FR)

- Collective exhibition, Le 6b, Saint-Denis (FR)

- 2019 Felicità, Palais des Beaux-arts de Paris (FR)

- Go west, Beaux-arts de Nantes, Curated by Clémence Agnez, Nantes (FR)

- 2018 Soda sans bulles, Galerie Treize, Paris (FR)

- Liquid sunshine, Galerie de l’esbanm, curated by Ida Soulard, Nantes (FR)

- Particules, Espace d’art « L’atelier », for Le Voyage à Nantes, Nantes (FR)

- Transfusion, Galerie 48, Rennes (FR)

- Between me and the sun, Hotel Paisano, Curated by Ida Soulard, Marfa (USA)

- Dulcinea, Galerie Marchepied, Nantes (FR)

- 2017 Nuits d’après-midi, Hôtel Pasteur, Rennes (FR)

- Area outside, Maison Bielorusse, Warsaw (POL)

- Expectation, Cour carrée, espace de la tour à plomb, Couëron (FR)

- All tomorow’s party, Atelier Felix Thomas, Nantes (FR)

- 2016 Satellite, 8th Biennale of Whitstable (EN)

- 2014 (........), World Peace Centre, Verdun (FR)

Publications•

- 2025 GEMZ: WET, Current Obsession magazin, art director : Min Dai

- 2022 Manual for a futur desert, by Ida Soulard, Abinadi Mezza, Bassam ElBaroni, published by Mousse Magazine and Ensbanm

- 2021 Fieldwork Marfa Texas U.S.A., Head, Ensbanm

- 2019 Felicità, Beaux-arts de Paris

- Résidences, workshops et autres•

- 2025 Exhaure : Hors-service, Residency, Museum of the mine, Petite-rosselle, (FR)

- 2023 France Design Week, Discussion on « The futur matter », Rennes, (FR)

- Pleurs sublimes, workshop ASMR/glass, Hear, Strasbourg, (FR)

- 2018 Fieldwork Marfa, Marfa, Texas, (U.S.A.)

- Residency« Allégresse », Lieu Unique, Nantes, (FR)

- 2017 Résidence Area Outside, Bialowieza et Warsaw, (POL & BLR)

PATH •

- 2024-25 Concepteur-Créateur, Cerfav, Vannes-le-Châtel (FR)

- 2022-24 Teaching assistant at Hear, Strasbourg (FR)

- 2021-24 Le 6B, Founding member of the Visual Arts Committee at Le 6B (FR)

- 2020-23 Glassbox, Co-curator of the contemporary art space, Paris (FR)

- 2019 Dnsep, with honours, Esbanm, Nantes (FR)

- Master’s degree in Civilisation, Culture and Society, with distinction, University of Nantes (FR)

- 2015 Programme Léonardo, Ned Cantrell&Karen Nyholm Studio, Aarhus (DNK)

- 2014 Compagnon Verrier Européen, Cerfav, Vannes-le-châtel (FR)

- 2012 BTS in product design, Brest (FR)

OTHERS •

- 2026 GAS member (Glass Art Society) (U.S.A.)

- CGS member (Contemporary Glass Society) (UK)