Date September 26 – December 20

Art Museum at the University of Toronto - University of Toronto Art Centre

Julien Creuzet at the University of Toronto Art Centre as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2026. Installation view. Documented, left to right: Louange sous ciel noir, méduse n’est plus dans le rhizome des météores, (hallucination, Louvre, pariétal), 2025; Attila cataracte, ta source aux pieds, des pitons verts, finira dans la grande mer, gouffre bleu, nous nous noyâmes, dans les larmes marées, de la lune, Fleur de Balisier, Morne Larcher, 2024; Attila cataracte, ta source aux pieds, des pitons verts, finira dans la grande mer, gouffre bleu, nous nous noyâmes, dans les larmes marées, de la lune, Shékéré, clefs, perles du Ghana, 2024; Attila cataracte, ta source aux pieds, des pitons verts, finira dans la grande mer, gouffre bleu, nous nous noyâmes, dans les larmes marées, de la lune, feuilles de Balisier, rivière de l’Anse Céron, 2024; Analogue, larmes coagulées dans les rigoles, vieux coquillages. (hallucination, 1 place de la Belgique, pariétal), 2025. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.
Julien Creuzet at the University of Toronto Art Centre as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2026. Installation view. Documented, left to right: Louange sous ciel noir, méduse n’est plus dans le rhizome des météores, (hallucination, Louvre, pariétal), 2025; Attila cataracte, ta source aux pieds, des pitons verts, finira dans la grande mer, gouffre bleu, nous nous noyâmes, dans les larmes marées, de la lune, Shékéré, clefs, perles du Ghana, 2024; Attila cataracte, ta source aux pieds, des pitons verts, finira dans la grande mer, gouffre bleu, nous nous noyâmes, dans les larmes marées, de la lune, Fleur de Balisier, Morne Larcher, 2024. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.
Julien Creuzet at the University of Toronto Art Centre as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2026. Installation view. Documented: Attila cataracte, ta source aux pieds, des pitons verts, finira dans la grande mer, gouffre bleu, nous nous noyâmes, dans les larmes marées, de la lune, feuilles de Balisier, rivière de l’Anse Céron, 2024 (foreground); Analogue, larmes coagulées dans les rigoles, vieux coquillages. (hallucination, 1 place de la Belgique, pariétal), 2025 (background). Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-presented with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

Meaningfully influenced by his Martinican intellectual lineage, Julien Creuzet brings ideas of creolization, errantry, and influence to his multimedia practice. Both a poet and visual artist, Julien combines multiple references and archives of information into expansive works, to which he frequently gives lengthy titles that act as short poems themselves. The figure of the Red Devil emerges from Martinican carnival traditions, although it is also referenced in Shrove Tuesday traditions in Haiti, Brazil, and the Gulf of Guinea. The symbolic presence of the Red Devil is a portal that allows for fluid interpretations, not only of this figure but of myriad references to Greek and Roman traditions; these are shifting symbols, encompassed by the Red Devil as a fluid, androgynous, untamed entity.

Co-presented by the Toronto Biennial of Art and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and made possible with the generous support of Mendes Wood DM.

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Bio

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 represented France at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), and a reimagined iteration of his pavilion travelled 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. Courtesy of the artist, DOCUMENT, Mendes Wood DM and Andrew Kreps.

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