Éric Baudelaire (1973) is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris, France. After training as a political scientist, Baudelaire established himself as a visual artist with a research-based practice incorporating photography, printmaking and video. Since 2010, filmmaking has become central to his work. His feature films A Flower in the Mouth, Un film dramatique, Also Known as Jihadi, Letters to Max, The Ugly one and The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images have circulated widely in film festivals (including Locarno, Toronto, New York, FIDMarseille and Rotterdam). When shown within exhibitions, Baudelaire’s films are part of broad installations that include works on paper, performance, publications and public programs, in projects such as Après at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and The Secession Sessions, which began at Bétonsalon in Paris and traveled to Bergen Kunsthall, the Berkeley Art Museum and Sharjah Biennial 12.
Baudelaire has had monographic exhibitions at the Witte de With [formerly known as], Rotterdam, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, the Fridericianum, Kassel, the Beirut Art Center, Gasworks, London, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and has participated in the 2017 Whitney Biennale, the 2014 Yokohama Triennale, Mediacity Seoul 2014, and the 2012 Taipei Biennial. In 2019 Baudelaire was the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the Prix Marcel Duchamp •
COMPLETE CV ︎︎︎
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
MACBA, Barcelona
MMK, Frankfurt
MUDAM, Luxembourg
MMCA, Seoul
M+, Hong Kong
Centre Pompidou/Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Fond National d’Art Contemporain, France
FRAC Auvergne, France
FRAC Grand Large - Hauts-de-France
FRAC Franche-Comté
Institut d’Art Contemporain (IAC), Lyon
Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris (FMAC)
FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES
Marcel Duchamp Prize 2019
Guggenheim Fellowship 2019
Future of Europe Art Prize 2017
Sharjah Biennial 12 Prize, 2015
SeMA-HANA Mediacity Award 2014
Audi Talent Awards Art Prize 2012
Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2005
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 2002
RESIDENCIES
Villa Medicis, Académie de France à Rome, 2017
IASPIS, Stockholm, 2013
Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, 2008
TEACHINGGuest professor, Städelschule, Frankfurt 2023
Guest professor, Kyoto University for the Arts, Global Seminar 2022
Director, RAW Academy Session 7, Dakar, Senegal 2019
Professor, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Lyon, 2011-2013
