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 represented France at the the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) and a reimagined iteration of his pavilion traveled to The Bell, Brown University, Providence, RI and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (2025). He 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).
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in institutions including the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2025); 35th São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); the 12th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK (2023), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (2022-2023); Museum 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, Paris; Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; 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, Ile-de-France, Méca, Pays de la Loire; Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes; KADIST Foundation, Paris; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, among others.
Photo by Pascale Cholette © Magsin CNAC.