François Briand
About
François Briand followed a European Glass Companion training at Cerfav (Vannes-le-châtel) and obtained his DNSEP in Nantes in 2019. He continued his career in exhibition curation within the artistic association Glassbox in Paris (2020-2023) then worked as an artistic teaching assistant (glass option) at HEAR (2022-2024). After 4 years of stepping back from his artistic work, he joined Cerfav with the Designer-Creator training until June 2025. He then actively reconnects with sculpture work, hybridizing bodies and technological tools with a certain magical oneirism.
Group exhibitions •
2026
HUB_Under35, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice Glass Week, Venice
No sex game in my shower, with Adèle Andrée Joseph, Strasbourg
Exhaure: out of service, Mining Museum, Petite-Rosselle, France
Shops!, AAJ duo, LWMA · MJW exhibition, Jewellery Week, Munich
Present, TROPEZ, Sommerbad Humboldthain, Berlin
2025
Clap your hands, Jules Verne Media Centre, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy
GemZ, Kunstfabriek’s gallery, with Zoé Kiner-Wolff, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fire!!!, 22 Galleu, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Eremos, Bastion XIV, Strasbourg, France
Smoking Diaries, Cafe Nick, with Sinh Nguyen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2024
Dserodre, workshop on micro-organisms, Hear, Strasbourg
Le rêve même, Collaboration with Jeanne Susplugas, Centre Pompidou-Metz
2023
France Design Week, glass workshop with secondary school pupils, Rennes
Pleurs sublime, Hear, Strasbourg
2021
Négatifs, performance sculpture, Moulin du Sonan, Saint-Jean-Brévelay
Group exhibition, Mutinerie de bidules, Le 6b, Saint-Denis
2019
Felicità, Palais des Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris
Go west, Beaux-arts de Nantes, curated by Clémence Agnez, Nantes
2018
Soda sans bulles, Galerie Treize, Paris
Liquid sunshine, Galerie de l’esbanm, curated by Ida Soulard, Nantes
Particules, ‘L’atelier’ Art Space, for Le Voyage à Nantes, Nantes
Transfusion, Galerie 48, Rennes, France
Between me and the sun, Hotel Paisano, Marfa, Texas, USA
Dulcinea, Galerie Marchepied, Nantes
2017
Afternoon Nights, Hôtel Pasteur, Rennes
Outdoor area, Maison Bielorusse, Warsaw, Poland
Expectation, Cour carrée, Espace de la Tour à Plomb, Couëron, France
All Tomorrow’s Party, Atelier Felix Thomas, Nantes, France
2016
Satellite, 8th Whitstable Biennale, England
2014
(........), World Peace Centre, Verdun, France
Residencies, workshops and other projects•
2026
- And how about you, Silicium? murmured Corncockle, Winner of the
ArtxScience research programme: Crealab, the OPUS centre, University of Strasbourg
Artist Talk, Festival MJW, Lostweekend meet art, Munich
Research&Creation, Grant awarded by the Grand-Est Region
2025
Exhaure : Hors-service, Residency, Musée des mineurs, Petite-rosselle, France
JeunesESTivant, Grant awarded by the Drac Grand-EST
2024-25
Concepteur-Créateur, Cerfav, Vannes-le-Châtel, France
2023
France Design Week, Round table on materials of the future, Rennes, France
Sublime tears, Workshop ASMR/Glass, Hear, Strasbourg, France
2020-23
Glassbox, Co-curator of the contemporary art space, Paris, France
2021-24
Le 6B, Founding member of the Visual Arts Committee at Le 6B, France
2022-24
Teaching assistant at Hear, Strasbourg, France
2018
Fieldwork Marfa, Residency, Marfa, U.S.A.
Allégresse , Residency, Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
2017
Résidence Area Outside, Residency, Bialowieza and Warsaw,
Polska et Bielorussia
2015
Leonardo Program, Aarhus, Danmark
Path •
2019
Master’s degree in fine art, with honours, Esbanm, Nantes, France
Master’s degree in Civilisation, Culture and Society, with distinction,
University of Nantes, France
2014
European Glassmaker’s companion, Cerfav, Vannes-le-châtel, France
2012
Second-year undergraduate in product design, Brest, France
