Alexandre Lenoir: Artist Overview

Alexandre Lenoir is a French painter born in 1992. Lenoir's work explores the versatility of the painted image from reworked personal photographs. The landscapes or characters gradually become emblematic shapes, a poetic elsewhere as familiar as a dream, a myth, or a memory, where abstraction meets reality. Its variations on evocative forms reveal themselves without allowing us to fully anticipate the final image.

The image appears slowly with protocols of mechanical gestures imagined by Alexandre and realized over weeks or even months: tape masking, multiple layers of washes, until the paint impregnates the surface according to the "accidents" the painter deliberately engineers. Through a uniquely performative and intuitive gesture, the aquatic, mineral and vegetative elements of Lenoir’s paintings take on a spiritual dimension. His will coupled with chance allows the painting to become itself a creative entity.

Alexandre Lenoir was awarded the Fondation Jean-François Prat et Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre in 2016 and Pierre Cardin de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris prizes in 2020.

Biography
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Alexandre Lenoir - Biography

Born 1992, French-Caribbean
Lives and works in Paris

Solo Exhibitions

2024
'Between dogs and wolves', Almine Rech, New York, United States

2022
'Visages Paysages', Almine Rech, Shanghai, China

2021
'Trois Rivières’, Almine Rech, New York, United States
‘La Source’, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
‘sous le niveau de la mer’, Almine Rech Matignon, Paris, France

2020
‘Sur le Fil/ On the Edge’, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
‘Alexandre Lenoir’, Almine Rech, Paris, France
‘La vie qu’on mène’, Fondation Sisley, Paris, France

Group Exhibitions

2022
'Figuration en France', Musée d’art moderne et contemporain des Sables-d’Olonne, Musée Estrine de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Musée des beaux-arts de Dole, France
'We Paint', Beaux Arts de Paris, France

2021
Shanghai's Consulate
'Un Gout de vacances', CAC Meymac, France
Almine Rech, Aspen, United States
Bredin Prat Foundation
'Salon de Peinture', Almine Rech, New York, USA
‘Spring’, Fondation Thalie, Ixelles, Belgique
‘Un Hiver à Gstaad’, Almine Rech, Paris
'Artistes à la Une Togeth'Her', Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France

2020
‘Summer’, Almine Rech, Paris, France

2017
‘Rêvez! #2 : Exposition pour la jeune création’, Collection Lambert, Avignon
‘Felicità 17’, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris

2014
‘Carte Blanche à Hector Obalk’, galerie Farideh Cado

Funds Collections

Fonds de dotation Bredin Prat pour l’art contemporain
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
Thalie Foundation
Longlati Collection

Residencies

2018
Residency in Casablanca, Morocco

2017
Residency at Le Lavoir, Ivry-sur-Seine, France

Awards

2021
Award of the Prix Jean François Prat 2021 (10 years)

2016
Award of the Prix Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Award of the Prix Thaddaeus Ropac

Artist Lectures
2017
‘La photographie par peinture / la peinture à la lumière’, invited by Mouna Mekouar during Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris

Public Collections
Blenheim Art Foundation, Woodstock, United Kingdom
MAMVP (Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), France
Thalie Foundation, Ixelles, Belgium
HE Art Museum (HEM), Guangdong, China
Pearl Collection, Paris, France
Sisley Foundation, Paris, France
Longlati Collection, Shanghai, China
Fonds de dotation Bredin Prat pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris, France
Bibliography
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Alexandre Lenoir - Bibliography

Selected Press

2021

'PAINTER ALEXANDRE LENOIR’S “TROIS RIVIÈRES” SOLO EXHIBITION AT ALMINE RECH', David Graver, Cool Hunting, September 29, 2021

2020
Clara Journo, ‘ “La vie qu’on mène - L’exposition d’Alexandre Lenoir” ‘, Artistik Rezo

Anne-Cécile Sanchez, ‘Comment les galeries relancent le jeu’, Le Journal Des Arts

Marie Maertens, ‘Alexandre Lenoir’, Actuart

Anaël Pigeat, ‘Alexandre Lenoir, des peintures indirectes’, The Art Newspaper

Virginie Bertrand, ‘Plus vrai que Nature’, Vivre Côté Paris

‘IN PICTURES Notre séléction parmi les expositions dans les galeries parisiennes’, Art Newspaper

Matthieu Jacquet ‘Plongez dans les paysages liquides d’Alexandre Lenoir à la galerie Almine Rech’, Numéro Art

2019
Yegan Mazandarani, ‘Alexandre Lenoir’, yeganmazandarani.com

2017
Mouna Mekouar, ‘La photographie triomphe et montre qu’elle trompe’, Artpress

2016
Apolline Limosino, ‘Alexandre Lenoir, peintre de l’absolu.’, Beware!

Selected artworks

Alexandre Lenoir Rivière, 2021

Acrylic and oil on canvas
164 x 246 cm
64 5/8 x 96 7/8 in
Alexandre Lenoir Trois Rivières, 2021

Acrylic and oil on canvas
261.9 x 128 x 3.5 cm (each)
103 1/8 x 50 3/8 x 1 3/8 in (each)
Alexandre Lenoir Baigneuse, 2021

Acrylic on canvas
148 x 169 cm
58 1/4 x 66 1/2 in
Alexandre Lenoir Deshaies, 2022

Acrylic and oil on canvas
210 x 316.5 cm
82 1/2 x 124 1/2 in
Alexandre Lenoir L' appel, 2021

Acrylic and oil on canvas
206.1 x 308.9 x 3.5 cm
81 1/8 x 121 5/8 x 1 3/8 in
Alexandre Lenoir Trois enfants, 2021

Acrylic and oil on canvas
227 x 303 cm
89 1/2 x 119 1/2 in
Alexandre Lenoir Autel, 2020

Acrylic and oil on canvas
191 x 301 cm
75 1/4 x 118 1/2 in
Alexandre Lenoir Manman'dlo, 2022

Acrylic and oil on canvas
281 x 206 cm
110 1/2 x 81 1/2 in