Born in 1980 in Paris, lives and works in Berlin.

A graduate of the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, Cyprien Gaillard is the recipient of numerous awards including the Arken Art Prize and the Award for Best Experimental Short Film, Melbourne International Film Festival (2016), Preis der Nationalgalerie (2011), the Prix Marcel Duchamp (2010) and the Audi talents Awards (2007).

Selected solo exhibitions include: LUMA Foundation, Arles (2022), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2021), TANK Shanghai (2019), Accelerator Konsthall, Stockholm (2019), Museum Tinguely, Basel (2019), K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2016), Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2015), MoMA PS1, New York (2013), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2013), Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2012), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2012), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2011), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2011) and Kunsthalle Basel (2010).

Selected group exhibitions include: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2022), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021), Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2021), GAMeC, Bergamo (2021), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2020), 58^th Venice Biennale (2019), Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Arles (2019), Cleveland Triennial (2018), Gropius Bau, Berlin (2018), Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018), ARoS Triennial, Aarhus (2017), The Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2017), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C. (2017), Hayward Gallery, London (2016), 13^th Lyon Biennale (2015), 54^th Venice Biennale (2011), Gwangju Biennale (2010) and 5^th Berlin Biennale (2008).