Lili Reynaud-Dewar

Lili Reynaud-Dewar was born in La Rochelle in December 1975. She studied ballet and public law there. She writes, dances, teaches, films, speaks and produces objects, whether monumental, functional or decorative. She works alone or in groups, using autobiographical material or material borrowed from transgressive figures in twentieth-century cultural production, such as Joséphine Baker, Guillaume Dustan, Bjarne Melgaard, Cosey Fanni Tutti…

She is interested in the history of racial and sexual emancipation, the circulation and interpretation of artworks, biographical motifs in cultural production, and the shifting figure of the artist in a globalized world.

Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at Kunsthalle Basel in 2010, Magasin Grenoble in 2012, New Museum New York in 2014, Audain Gallery Vancouver in 2015, Hamburger Kunstverein in 2016, Museion Bolzano in 2017. She has also exhibited at the Generali Foundation in Vienna in 2012, the Centre Pompidou in 2010 and 2013, the Witte de With in Rotterdam in 2011 and 2014, the CAPC in Bordeaux in 2008 and 2013, the Punte Della Dogana in Venice and the Atelier Hermès in Seoul in 2018. She was one of the artists selected for the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, the Lyon Biennale 2013, the 5th Berlin Biennale in 2008. In 2013, she was awarded the Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard. She is co-founder of the feminist magazine Pétunia with Dorothée Dupuis and Valerie Chartrain, and has been teaching at Geneva’s Haute école d’art et de design since 2010.