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VALENTIN RANGER  
Artist – Lives and works in Paris - valentin.ranger@hotmail.fr  
+33 6 87 21 27 64

EDUCATION : 
-ENSBA, Paris (2018–2023) – Graduated with honours (Félicitations du Jury), Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts (Agnès B, 2021)
 -Royal College of Art, London (2023) – Double Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Practice (Social and Political Practices of Art)
- Training in Theatre and Fashion Design (2011–2022) – Theatre history, writing, stage direction, sewing at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture (IFM)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS : 
Hearts’ Choir | Public Service Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (Nov. 2024)
Infected/Disfigured | Galerie Spiaggia Libera, Paris (Jan. 2024)
Degree Show | Beaux-Arts de Paris (2023)
Autophagia | ENSBA, Paris (2021)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
-En plein cœur | Maison Guerlain / LVMH (Oct. 2025) – Art Basel Program, Cur. Benoît Paume, Hervé Mickaelov & Élise Roche
- La sculpture dans tous ses états | Gaya Scienza, Centre d’Art Nice – Cur. Alain Berland
- Prix Utopie | Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (Sep. 2025) – Cur. Myriama Idir & Agathe Pinet
- CHART Art Fair, Copenhagen with Public Service Gallery (Aug. 2025) – CHART Cinema & Talk with TF Chan
- Millénaire de Caen | FRAC Normandie, Artothèque de Caen, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Normandie
-100% La Villette | La Villette, Paris (Apr. 2025) – Cur. Inès Geoffroy
-A Surrealist Library | Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025) – Cur. Emmanuel Tibloux
- Portraits of Recovery | Manchester Art Gallery (Nov. 2024) – Cur. Harold Offeh & Dominic Pillai
- Des lignes de désir | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Feb. 2024) – Cur. Émilie Villez
- Loop Barcelona | Spiaggia Libera Gallery, Paris (Nov. 2023)
-The Body’s Language | La Fab., Paris (Oct. 2023 – Jul. 2024) – Cur. Agnès B
- Another Land | Pillar, Brussels (Oct.–Dec. 2023) – Cur. Carlotta Torre & Paola Siri Renard
- Sample, Bagnolet (Sep. 2023) – Cur. Jeanne Turpault
- Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts | ENSBA, Paris (Jun. 2023)
- Cicatrices | Galerie Mor Charpentier, Paris (May 2023)
- Tendresse | Galerie Sultana, Arles (Apr. 2023)
- Tate Cap | Tate Modern, London (Apr. 2023)
- Premiers Vertiges | Galerie Ketabi Bourdet, Paris (Mar. 2023) – Cur. Élise Delroche
- Rituals | Centre Pompidou, Paris (Jan. 2023)
- Cosmogonias | Centre d’Art de Vitry-sur-Seine (Jun. 2022) – Cur. Mathilda Portoghese
- Duo Show with Claire Nicolet | La Fab., Paris (Jun. 2022)
- Art Basel Miami | SuperZoom Gallery, Paris (Feb. 2022)
- Fantasmagorie | SuperZoom Gallery, Paris (Jun. 2021) – Cur. Joséphine Dupuy-Chavanat
- CRUSH | Beaux-Arts de Paris – Cur. Céline Poulin & Jean de Loisy
- Love My Way | Villa Noailles, Toulon (Apr.–Oct. 2020)
- Cabaret du Néant | FRAC Île-de-France, Château de Rentilly (Feb. 2020) – Cur. Céline Poulin & Jean de Loisy
- In Beirut | La Maréchalerie, Versailles (Jul. 2019) – Cur. Emmanuel Saulnier

RESIDENCIES:  
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea (2025–2026)
Therapia Art Residency, Greece (2025)
Millennial Academy, Caen (2024–2025)
Villa Noailles, Toulon (2020)

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS : 
Utopie Prize (2025) 
Agnès B Prize (2021) 
Emerige Special Jury Prize (2022) 
selected to Reiffer Art Initiative Prize ( 2022) 
selected to Prix Dauphine (2022) 
Amis des Beaux-Arts Grant (2023) 
Collectif Rond-Point Théâtre Prize (2017)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS : 
2025: CPrint “10 Best Shows of the Year 2024”; Cover, Elephant Magazine (2025)  
2024: Fish Eye Magazine (France), The Collector (Italy), Libération, The Art Newspaper, Les Inrockuptibles, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Le Quotidien de l’Art  
2022: Numéro Art (“Young French Scene”)
Online press: Fish Eye Immersive, The Art Newspaper, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Numéro Art, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Art Press, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Challenges, Vogue France, W Magazine

CONFERENCES / TALKS / WORKSHOP : 
“Le Surréalisme aujourd’hui” – with Emmanuelle Tibloux, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (2025)
 “Intimacy, Queer Spaces” – Manchester Art Gallery, Portraits of Recovery (2025)
 “Intimité, Sexualité et Politique” – La Fab., Agnès B / Act Up (2022)
“Du Dessin à l’IA” – Palais de Tokyo (2025)
 “Ex Votos” – Centre Pompidou (2023)