Considered to be one of the most important French artists of his generation, Stéphane Calais was nominated for the Prix Ricard in 2007, then for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2008. His pieces are present in several large museum collections, including the Musée National d’Art Moderne, as well as in many private collections. Recently, he has multiplied his projects both in France and abroad, in galleries or for private commissions. For example the monumental mural paintings he was invited to produce in 2012 for the Tour Havas, in Puteaux. Solo shows of his work have been organised in particular at the Zieher Smith & Horton Gallery (New York, 2014, 2009, 2006), the Galerie Aliceday (Bruxelles, 2012, 2008, 2005), the Centre d’art Passerelle (Brest, 2014), the CCC (Tours, 2013), the Espace Claude Berri (Paris, 2009) and Le Crédac (Ivry-sur-Seine, 2008). His work has also been shown in a large number of collective exhibitions, such as “Doré & Friends” at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (2014), “La vie des formes” at Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (2012), “Paris-Delhi-Bombay” at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2011), “In the studio” at the Kunsthalle Athena, Athens (2013), “Le Centre Pompidou au Musée de l’Ermitage” at the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg (2010) or “La Force de l’art” at Le Grand Palais, Paris (2009). A graduate of the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Nîmes, then a resident at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, Paris, he has been teaching since 2009 at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.