Julien Creuzet

Born in 1986, Julien Creuzet is a French-Caribbean artist who lives and works in Paris. A visual artist and poet, he actively intertwines these two practices via amalgams of sculpture, installation and textual intervention that frequently address his own diasporic experience. Inspired by the poetic and philosophical reflections of Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant on creolization and migration, Creuzet’s work focuses on the troubled intersection of the history of Martinique and the events of European modernity. 

Creuzet has had solo exhibitions at Le Magasin Centre National D’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France (2023), Performa Biennial, New York (2023), LUMA, Zürich, Switzerland (2023), LUMA, Arles, France (2022); the Camden Art Centre, London, UK (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2021); Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2019); CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2019); Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France (2018); and Bétonsalon, Paris, France (2018). In 2024 he will represent France in the 60th Venice Biennale.

He has participated in numerous institutional group exhibitions including the 35th São Paulo Bienal (2023), São Paulo, Brazil; the 12th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK (2023), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (2022-2023);  Musée Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (2022); the National Gallery of Prague, Czech Republic, (2022); Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Middletown, CT (2021); Manifesta 13, Marseille, France (2020); Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France (2020); Kampala Biennale, Kampala, Uganda (2018); and Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (2018).

He is included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Fondation Villa Datris, Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes and Kadist Foundation, among others.

Creuzet is the recipient of the 2022 Etants Donnés Prize, the 2021 BMW Art Journey Award and the 2019 Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze. 

Works

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "Oh Téléphone, Oracle Noir (...)" at Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2023

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "Oh Téléphone, Oracle Noir (...)" at Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2023

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "Oh Téléphone, Oracle Noir (...)" at Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2023

Julien Creuzet
"Algorithm True Blood Moves" at Performa Biennial, New York, 2023

Julien Creuzet
"Algorithm True Blood Moves" at Performa Biennial, New York, 2023

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "ZUMBI ZUMBI" at the 35th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "ZUMBI ZUMBI" at the 35th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Julien Creuzet
Installation view at LUMA Westbau, Zürich, 2023

Julien Creuzet
Installation view at LUMA Westbau, Zürich, 2023

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of the exhibition "The Possessed of Pigalle or the Tragedy of King Christophe" at High Art Paris, 2023⁠

Installation view of "flapping feathers our hands our wings glimmer to dance the orange sky" at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 2022

Installation view of "flapping feathers our hands our wings glimmer to dance the orange sky" at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 2022

Installation view of "Orpheus was musing upon braised words..." at LUMA Arles, 2022

Installation view of "Orpheus was musing upon braised words..." at LUMA Arles, 2022

Installation view of "MOVE: Intimacy as Resistance" at the National Gallery Prague, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, 2022

Installation view of "MOVE: Intimacy as Resistance" at the National Gallery Prague, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, 2022

Installation view of "Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank..." at the Camden Art Centre, 2022

Installation view of "Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank..." at the Camden Art Centre, 2022

Installation view of "Backup, Blackness ou Négritude, bleu, vert, orange, je suis fatigué, A female Negro Slave, with a weight chaine to her Ancle, Blackness ou Négritude..." at the The Centre Pompidou, 2021

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "Backup, Blackness ou Négritude, bleu, vert, orange, je suis fatigué, A female Negro Slave, with a weight chaine to her Ancle, Blackness ou Négritude..." at the The Centre Pompidou, 2021

Installation view of "cloud cloudy glory doodles on the leaves pages, memory slowly the story redness sadness bloody redness on the skin" at DOCUMENT, 2020

Installation view of "Allied Chemical & Dye" at High Art, 2019

Installation view of "Allied Chemical & Dye" at High Art, 2019

Installation view of "dim lights of distant stars LEDs of warning lights indulge, lamp post embers that burn wings, mad sacrifice of the light butterfly, twilight phantom from before the birth of the world (...)

it's the uncanny, I must have been gone too long that place far away, home is in my black-dreams it's the uncanny, strangled words while drowning, I howled alone underwater, my fever (...)” at Palais de Tokyo, 2019

Installation view of "dim lights of distant stars LEDs of warning lights indulge, lamp post embers that burn wings, mad sacrifice of the light butterfly, twilight phantom from before the birth of the world (...)

it's the uncanny, I must have been gone too long that place far away, home is in my black-dreams it's the uncanny, strangled words while drowning, I howled alone underwater, my fever (...)” at Palais de Tokyo, 2019

Installation view of "dim lights of distant stars LEDs of warning lights indulge, lamp post embers that burn wings, mad sacrifice of the light butterfly, twilight phantom from before the birth of the world (...)

it's the uncanny, I must have been gone too long that place far away, home is in my black-dreams it's the uncanny, strangled words while drowning, I howled alone underwater, my fever (...)” at Palais de Tokyo, 2019

Julien Creuzet,
Distant, the oral songs of youth buried..., 2020
metal, plastic, pineapple

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "Oh Téléphone, Oracle Noir (...)" at Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2023

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "Oh Téléphone, Oracle Noir (...)" at Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2023

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "Oh Téléphone, Oracle Noir (...)" at Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, 2023

Julien Creuzet
"Algorithm True Blood Moves" at Performa Biennial, New York, 2023

Julien Creuzet
"Algorithm True Blood Moves" at Performa Biennial, New York, 2023

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "ZUMBI ZUMBI" at the 35th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "ZUMBI ZUMBI" at the 35th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Julien Creuzet
Installation view at LUMA Westbau, Zürich, 2023

Julien Creuzet
Installation view at LUMA Westbau, Zürich, 2023

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of the exhibition "The Possessed of Pigalle or the Tragedy of King Christophe" at High Art Paris, 2023⁠

Installation view of "flapping feathers our hands our wings glimmer to dance the orange sky" at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 2022

Installation view of "flapping feathers our hands our wings glimmer to dance the orange sky" at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 2022

Installation view of "Orpheus was musing upon braised words..." at LUMA Arles, 2022

Installation view of "Orpheus was musing upon braised words..." at LUMA Arles, 2022

Installation view of "MOVE: Intimacy as Resistance" at the National Gallery Prague, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, 2022

Installation view of "MOVE: Intimacy as Resistance" at the National Gallery Prague, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, 2022

Installation view of "Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank..." at the Camden Art Centre, 2022

Installation view of "Too blue, too deep, too dark we sank..." at the Camden Art Centre, 2022

Installation view of "Backup, Blackness ou Négritude, bleu, vert, orange, je suis fatigué, A female Negro Slave, with a weight chaine to her Ancle, Blackness ou Négritude..." at the The Centre Pompidou, 2021

Julien Creuzet
Installation view of "Backup, Blackness ou Négritude, bleu, vert, orange, je suis fatigué, A female Negro Slave, with a weight chaine to her Ancle, Blackness ou Négritude..." at the The Centre Pompidou, 2021

Installation view of "cloud cloudy glory doodles on the leaves pages, memory slowly the story redness sadness bloody redness on the skin" at DOCUMENT, 2020

Installation view of "Allied Chemical & Dye" at High Art, 2019

Installation view of "Allied Chemical & Dye" at High Art, 2019

Installation view of "dim lights of distant stars LEDs of warning lights indulge, lamp post embers that burn wings, mad sacrifice of the light butterfly, twilight phantom from before the birth of the world (...)

it's the uncanny, I must have been gone too long that place far away, home is in my black-dreams it's the uncanny, strangled words while drowning, I howled alone underwater, my fever (...)” at Palais de Tokyo, 2019

Installation view of "dim lights of distant stars LEDs of warning lights indulge, lamp post embers that burn wings, mad sacrifice of the light butterfly, twilight phantom from before the birth of the world (...)

it's the uncanny, I must have been gone too long that place far away, home is in my black-dreams it's the uncanny, strangled words while drowning, I howled alone underwater, my fever (...)” at Palais de Tokyo, 2019

Installation view of "dim lights of distant stars LEDs of warning lights indulge, lamp post embers that burn wings, mad sacrifice of the light butterfly, twilight phantom from before the birth of the world (...)

it's the uncanny, I must have been gone too long that place far away, home is in my black-dreams it's the uncanny, strangled words while drowning, I howled alone underwater, my fever (...)” at Palais de Tokyo, 2019

Julien Creuzet,
Distant, the oral songs of youth buried..., 2020
metal, plastic, pineapple

Press

2024 2.17

Press: Le Monde

Julien Creuzet

2024 2.7

Press: Le Point

Julien Creuzet

2024 1.30

Group Exhibition at Wesleyan University Center for the Arts

Julien Creuzet

2024 1.21

Press: Le Nouvel Observateur

Julien Creuzet

2023 11.17

Oh Téléphone, oracle noir [...] at Le Magasin, Grenoble

Julien Creuzet

2023 11.13

Institut Français: New work from the artist Julien Creuzet six months before the Biennale di Venezia 2024

Julien Creuzet

2023 10.1

Performa Biennial, New York City

Julien Creuzet

2023 9.14

Group Exhibition at Julia Stoschek Foundation.

Julien Creuzet

2023 6.10

Featured artist at the Liverpool Biennial

Julien Creuzet

2023 5.6

Solo Exhibition at High Art

Julien Creuzet

2023 4.14

Whitewall Art

Julien Creuzet

2023 3.22

Liverpool Biennial

Julien Creuzet

2023 3.8

ArtNet-How French-Caribbean Artist Julien Creuzet Uses Creole Hymns and Digital Avatars to Retrace African Ancestry

Julien Creuzet

2023 3.1

Art Forum- Forcast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora: 1990s-Today

Julien Creuzet

2023 2.10

Solo Museum Exhibition at Luma Westbau Zurich

Julien Creuzet

2023 2.1

Wallpaper - Venice Biennale 2024: a guide to the artists announced so far

Julien Creuzet

2022 12.9

l'hebdo du quotidien de l'art

Julien Creuzet

2022 12.8

ARTnews

Julien Creuzet

2022 12.1

Press: The Art Newspaper

Julien Cruezet

2022 9.29

Press: Texte zur Kunst

Julien Creuzet

2022 9.14

Group Exhibition at Musée Tinguely

Julien Creuzet

2022 9.9

Solo Exhibition at Andrew Kreps

Julien Creuzet

2022 7.2

Solo Exhibition at LUMA Arles

Julien Creuzet

2022 6.9

MOVE Festival at National Gallery Prague

Julien Creuzet

2022 5.25

Press: Flash Art

Julien Creuzet

2022 4.24

Group Exhibition at MCA Chicago

Julien Creuzet

2022 1.23

The Guardian

Julien Creuzet

2022 1.14

Solo exhibition at Camden Art Centre

Julien Creuzet

2021 12.15

Frieze

Julien Creuzet

2021 12.12

Art Basel

Julien Creuzet

2021 12.6

Bloomberg News

Julien Creuzet

2021 9.9

Solo exhibition at Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021

Julien Creuzet

2021 9.1

Platform by David Zwirner Gallery

Julien Creuzet

2021 9.1

Group exhibition at Wesleyan University Art Gallery

Julien Creuzet

2021 9.1

Group exhibition at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park

Julien Creuzet

2021 7.17

MOMENTA Biennale de l'image

Julien Creuzet

2021 3.2

FIAC OVR highlight by X Zhu-Nowell, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim

Julien Creuzet

2021 1.7

Nomination to the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021

Julien Creuzet

2020 12.23

New City Art

Julien Creuzet

2019 10.2

Frieze

The Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze 2019

2019 9.30

ARTnews

Julien Creuzet wins the Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze 2019

2019 9.14

Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel

Julien Creuzet at CAN – Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel

2019 8.19

Libération

Julien Creuzet at Arena d’Arles gallery

2019 5.2

NADA

Julien Creuzet at NADA House Governors​ Island

2018 3.1

Frieze

Julien Creuzet: After the Storm

2017 11.23

SKETCH

Julien Creuzet Solo Exhibition at SKETCH Gallery, Bogota

2017 9.20

Biennale de Lyon

Julien Creuzet at 14th Biennale de Lyon

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