Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil

Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (Paris, 1968) is a French contemporary artist working across photography, conceptual art, installation, and performance. Since the mid-1990s, his artistic research has focused on the political construction of images and the systems of representation that shape our understanding of history, war, and power. His work critically engages with collective memory, armed conflict, and the circulation of information within contemporary media. He is particularly known for his cartographies of skies preceding civilian bombings, exploring suspended moments before traumatic historical events and questioning the relationship between visibility and invisibility. In recent years, his practice has evolved toward more metaphorical and perceptual approaches, addressing light, disappearance, temporality, and the viewer’s experience. He is the recipient of the HSBC Prize for Photography (2004), the Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art (2010), and the 1% Art Market Prize (2022), and was artist-in-residence at Villa Medici – the French Academy in Rome. His work has been exhibited at major institutions including Palais de Tokyo, MAC VAL, Fondation Ricard, and the Swiss Institute in New York, and is held in significant public and private collections worldwide.