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 the Camden Art Centre (2022), Centre Pompidou for the Prix Marcel Duchamp (2021), Document (2020), Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2019), CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel (2019), Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (2018), and Bétonsalon, Paris (2018). He has participated in group exhibitions including the Wesleyan University Museum of Art (2021), Sweet Pass Sculpture Park (2021), and Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris (2020). Creuzet has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Andrew Kreps Gallery and group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
He is included in the collections of the Kadist Art Foundat ion, Centre Pompidou, Fondat ion Villa Datris, Fondat ion d ’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Frac Normandie Rouen, Frac Normandie Caen, Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Frac des Pays de la Loi re, Fra c Î le-de France, Frac Aquitaine, and FRAC.
Recently, Creuzet participated in the Momenta Biennale de L’image (2021), Frestas Triennial Sao Paolo (2021), Manifesta 13 (2020), the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018), the 6th Rennes Biennale (2018), FIAC (2018), the 11th Biennale Africaine de la Photographie (2017), the 14th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art (2017), and the Festival Hors Piste at the Centre Pompidou (2017).
Creuzet is also the recipient of the 2021 BMW Art Journey Award and the 2019 Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze.
Julien Creuzet, Our eyes have seen the underside of the seas,...(Ojo de Horus, naranja), 2022, Plastic, metal, fabric, 72 x 60 x 8 in
Julien Creuzet, Our eyes have seen the underside of the seas,...(Ojo de Horus, verde), 2022, Plastic, metal, fabric, 48 x 36 x 8 in
Julien Creuzet, Our eyes have seen the underside of the seas,...(Ojo de Horus, violeta), 2022, Plastic, metal, fabric, 72 x 60 x 8 in
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
Julien Creuzet, D’emblée, il s’agit d’accepter l’idée que l’opacité puisse constituer un parti-pris..., 2021, Wall paper, drawing, photography, text by Maboula Soumahoro, 78 20/27h x 118 1/9w in
Julien Creuzet, we have done, sap flower fire bushes with distances and telepatie, thank you bleach rain in the dirty earth more disastrous than the disastrous din of the hurricane, 2021, Dye sublimation print on aluminum with hardware and lemons, 40h x 30w x 1d in
Julien Creuzet, we have done, sap flower fire bushes with distances and telepatie, thank you bramble, rancid, for dizziness red line scratch as a rib, 2021, Dye sublimation print on aluminum with hardware and lemons, 40h x 30w x 1d in
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
Julien Creuzet
Subjective heritage, there are unknown parts in us that isolate us a little more every day. We dream about it, so many phantasmagorical, digital illusions, we just have to list our nightmares: Shell - Red-bellied Orthodox Wing from Trinidad and Tobago - Machete - Cocaine - RNA Messenger - Head of a red-bellied ortalid from Trinidad - English Lion - Sugar cane, 2021
Metal, plastic, fabric
Julien Creuzet
Subjective heritage, there are unknown parts in us that isolate us a little more every day. We dream about it, so many phantasmagorical, digital illusions, we just have to list our nightmares: Royal horse of the statue in the Louvre - Sugar cane plant - Head of ibis from Trinidad and Tobago - Bird of paradise feather - English Caravel - Trinidad ibis leg - Pelican head of the West Indian Federation coat of arms (...), 2021
Metal, plastic, fabric
Julien Creuzet
Backup, Blackness ou Négritude, bleu, vert, orange, je suis fatigué, A female Negro Slave, with a weight chaine to her Ancle, Blackness ou Négritude..., 2021
Julien Creuzet
Oswald DE ANDRADE, « Manifesto Antropófago », A utopia antropofágica, São Paulo, Editora Globo, 1990, p. 47-52...Derek WALCOTT, Omeros, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991, 2021
Looped video animation, in collaboration with Estelle Coppolani
Julien Creuzet
it's a sad day
in Morne à l'eau
volcano body volcano
tumor mood
blood pool
fucking sweet half moon
damn black rotten banana, 2021
Laser cut steel
installed at Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 2021
Julien Creuzet
tie nourished life, at the speed of a mystery..., 2020
Archival inkjet print on wallpaper
Julien Creuzet
Herbs, mad or weeds watered by sweat..., 2020
metal, plastic, fabric
Julien Creuzet,
Distant, the oral songs of youth buried..., 2020
metal, plastic, pineapple
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 "cloud cloudy glory doodles on the leaves pages, memory slowly the story redness sadness bloody redness on the skin" at DOCUMENT, 2020
Julien Creuzet
I must go,
Leave everything around,
Out of my skin
I have to leave my eyes
My body barks,
Green steam
Strange scent
Flower yellow, purple
I lost my keys
My head in the puddle
I drank the liquid liquor from the morning dew. I lost my I
Outside of me, of us (...), 2017
Cable and plastic
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
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
Jungle, jungle, big city, Drunkenness, my father’s rum, Drift, atlantic, Here I depress,
I depict (...), 2017
Rubbing on paper
Julien Creuzet
crying like a baby city, plastic idea, 2017
Archival pigment print face mounted to acrylic with custom engraving
Julien Creuzet
gasoline, fires of god wandering, line of Peru, 2017
Archival pigment print face mounted to acrylic with custom engraving
Julien Creuzet
upset, gloomy, wonderful, sunset of moon, 2017
Archival pigment print face mounted to acrylic with custom engraving
Julien Creuzet
Twirl, tongue, whirl, ego, 2018
Engraving on laminated plywood
Julien Creuzet
Fear, in front of the siren, In front of my shadow In his heat Intense, 2019
Engraving and paper on laminated plywood
Julien Creuzet
The rain made it possible, in the wake of the angry Morne, the mountain has been silent. Impacts of war, of missile drops. After all this, perhaps the volcano will protest in turn. - All the sea’s distance (...), 2018
Wood, plastic, paper, hibiscus pigment, clothes
Julien Creuzet
pitching, setback, throwing
we are particles of nothing, heart hollowed out, pitched, the time that life goes on, 2019
metal, plastic, fabric
Julien Creuzet, Our eyes have seen the underside of the seas,...(Ojo de Horus, naranja), 2022, Plastic, metal, fabric, 72 x 60 x 8 in
Julien Creuzet, Our eyes have seen the underside of the seas,...(Ojo de Horus, verde), 2022, Plastic, metal, fabric, 48 x 36 x 8 in
Julien Creuzet, Our eyes have seen the underside of the seas,...(Ojo de Horus, violeta), 2022, Plastic, metal, fabric, 72 x 60 x 8 in
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
Julien Creuzet, D’emblée, il s’agit d’accepter l’idée que l’opacité puisse constituer un parti-pris..., 2021, Wall paper, drawing, photography, text by Maboula Soumahoro, 78 20/27h x 118 1/9w in
Julien Creuzet, we have done, sap flower fire bushes with distances and telepatie, thank you bleach rain in the dirty earth more disastrous than the disastrous din of the hurricane, 2021, Dye sublimation print on aluminum with hardware and lemons, 40h x 30w x 1d in
Julien Creuzet, we have done, sap flower fire bushes with distances and telepatie, thank you bramble, rancid, for dizziness red line scratch as a rib, 2021, Dye sublimation print on aluminum with hardware and lemons, 40h x 30w x 1d in
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
Julien Creuzet
Subjective heritage, there are unknown parts in us that isolate us a little more every day. We dream about it, so many phantasmagorical, digital illusions, we just have to list our nightmares: Shell - Red-bellied Orthodox Wing from Trinidad and Tobago - Machete - Cocaine - RNA Messenger - Head of a red-bellied ortalid from Trinidad - English Lion - Sugar cane, 2021
Metal, plastic, fabric
Julien Creuzet
Subjective heritage, there are unknown parts in us that isolate us a little more every day. We dream about it, so many phantasmagorical, digital illusions, we just have to list our nightmares: Royal horse of the statue in the Louvre - Sugar cane plant - Head of ibis from Trinidad and Tobago - Bird of paradise feather - English Caravel - Trinidad ibis leg - Pelican head of the West Indian Federation coat of arms (...), 2021
Metal, plastic, fabric
Julien Creuzet
Backup, Blackness ou Négritude, bleu, vert, orange, je suis fatigué, A female Negro Slave, with a weight chaine to her Ancle, Blackness ou Négritude..., 2021
Julien Creuzet
Oswald DE ANDRADE, « Manifesto Antropófago », A utopia antropofágica, São Paulo, Editora Globo, 1990, p. 47-52...Derek WALCOTT, Omeros, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991, 2021
Looped video animation, in collaboration with Estelle Coppolani
Julien Creuzet
it's a sad day
in Morne à l'eau
volcano body volcano
tumor mood
blood pool
fucking sweet half moon
damn black rotten banana, 2021
Laser cut steel
installed at Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 2021
Julien Creuzet
tie nourished life, at the speed of a mystery..., 2020
Archival inkjet print on wallpaper
Julien Creuzet
Herbs, mad or weeds watered by sweat..., 2020
metal, plastic, fabric
Julien Creuzet,
Distant, the oral songs of youth buried..., 2020
metal, plastic, pineapple
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 "cloud cloudy glory doodles on the leaves pages, memory slowly the story redness sadness bloody redness on the skin" at DOCUMENT, 2020
Julien Creuzet
I must go,
Leave everything around,
Out of my skin
I have to leave my eyes
My body barks,
Green steam
Strange scent
Flower yellow, purple
I lost my keys
My head in the puddle
I drank the liquid liquor from the morning dew. I lost my I
Outside of me, of us (...), 2017
Cable and plastic
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
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
Jungle, jungle, big city, Drunkenness, my father’s rum, Drift, atlantic, Here I depress,
I depict (...), 2017
Rubbing on paper
Julien Creuzet
crying like a baby city, plastic idea, 2017
Archival pigment print face mounted to acrylic with custom engraving
Julien Creuzet
gasoline, fires of god wandering, line of Peru, 2017
Archival pigment print face mounted to acrylic with custom engraving
Julien Creuzet
upset, gloomy, wonderful, sunset of moon, 2017
Archival pigment print face mounted to acrylic with custom engraving
Julien Creuzet
Twirl, tongue, whirl, ego, 2018
Engraving on laminated plywood
Julien Creuzet
Fear, in front of the siren, In front of my shadow In his heat Intense, 2019
Engraving and paper on laminated plywood
Julien Creuzet
The rain made it possible, in the wake of the angry Morne, the mountain has been silent. Impacts of war, of missile drops. After all this, perhaps the volcano will protest in turn. - All the sea’s distance (...), 2018
Wood, plastic, paper, hibiscus pigment, clothes
Julien Creuzet
pitching, setback, throwing
we are particles of nothing, heart hollowed out, pitched, the time that life goes on, 2019
metal, plastic, fabric
2022 11.19
Group Exhibition at MCA Chicago
Julien Creuzet
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 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
2020 11.19–12.30
Julien Creuzet
cloud cloudy glory doodles on the leaves pages, memory slowly the story redness sadness bloody redness on the skin
2020 7.10–8.29
Elizabeth Atterbury, Geraldo de Barros, Jessica Campbell, Mary Helena Clark, Julien Creuzet, Victoria Fu, Aron Gent, Gordon Hall, Jennefer Hoffman, Norman Kelley, Sterling Lawrence, Laura Letinsky, Christy Matson, Christopher Meerdo, Jonathan Muecke, Erin Jane Nelson, Gordon Parks, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, RO/LU, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Greg Stimac, Andrew Norman Wilson
Interiors
2017 9.9–10.20
Julien Creuzet
Hiding behind the foliage. Search for Mygalia
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Julien Creuzet |
cloud cloudy glory doodles on the leaves pages, memory slowly the story redness sadness bloody redness on the skin |
2020 11.19–12.30 |
Past |
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Elizabeth Atterbury, Geraldo de Barros, Jessica Campbell, Mary Helena Clark, Julien Creuzet, Victoria Fu, Aron Gent, Gordon Hall, Jennefer Hoffman, Norman Kelley, Sterling Lawrence, Laura Letinsky, Christy Matson, Christopher Meerdo, Jonathan Muecke, Erin Jane Nelson, Gordon Parks, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, RO/LU, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Greg Stimac, Andrew Norman Wilson |
Interiors |
2020 7.10–8.29 |
Past |
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Julien Creuzet |
Hiding behind the foliage. Search for Mygalia |
2017 9.9–10.20 |
Past |
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