Born in 1977 in Antananarivo, Madagascar
Lives and works in Paris, Antananarivo and Magnat-l'Étrange
Education
2003
Architecte DESA 2003, École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris, France
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2026
'All my hopes belong to you', Le Transfo, Paris, France
2025
'Tools of Emotions and Desires', Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
'MIRACLE', Almine Rech, New York, NY, US
'Please Sing Me My Song Before You Go', Hakanto Contemporary, Antananarivo, Madagascar
'Songer la vague sur un horizon une promesse', Biennale des Arts et de l'Océan 'La Mer autour de nous', Terrasse des Ponchettes, Nice, France
2024
'The Playground of All Possibilities', Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
'Un été au Havre', curated by Gael Charbau, Le Havre, France
'Things and Something to Remember Before Daylight', Almine Rech, Paris, France
'PROMESSE', Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin
'Measures Lullabies and Whispers', Ifa Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2023
Paris+ Hors Les Murs, Paris, France
'Carte Blanche', Diptyque, Paris, France
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
'My heart belongs to the other', Church Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
'Legends of daylight', Mandarin Oriental Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco
'Les prémices d'une mélancolie infinie', Artro, Kyoto, Japan
'Litanie des Horizons obscurs', Almine Rech, Paris, France
2022
'Noor Festival', Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
'The five continents of all our desires', Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
'Our land just like a dream', MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco
'Random desires for a certain kind of architecture', Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain
'La nouvelle main', Hakanto Contemporary, Antananarivo, Madagascar
'Les prémices d'une mélancolie infinie', Standing Pine Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
'Les rêves et les nuits', Art Absolument, Paris, France
'Josep le monde et moi / Josep el món i jo / Josep the world and I / Josep el mundo y yo', Centre Grau-Garriga d'Art Tèxtil Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
'54 ingredients for the most desirable night', Paris, France
'Les herbes folles du vieux logis', Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
'Au rythme de nos désirs dansons sur la vague du temps', Villers-Cotterêts, France
2021
'Histoire d'un départ', Toulouse-Blagnac Airport x Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
'Eto isika dia manandratra ny nofin'izao tontolo izao', Commune urbaine d'Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
'Ny Fitiavanay / Our Love / Notre Amour', Hakanto Contemporary, Antananarivo, Madagascar
'Zaridaina', Geography of desire, Le Silo, Château-Thierry, France
'Les herbes folles du vieux logis', Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
'Pour ne jamais rencontrer la dernière heure', Maison Maria Casarès, Alloue, France
'Brise du rouge soleil', Towers and ramparts of Aigues-Mortes, Aigues-Mortes, France
'Dancing with the angels', Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain
'Translations of our lost passions and our future desires', Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
'Beyond all you are mine', Hakanto Contemporary, Antananarivo, Madagascar
2020
'Serenade is not dead', Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX, US
'From Home', Sabrina Amrani, online
'Ici nous portons tous les rêves du monde', Hakanto Contemporary, Antananarivo, Madagascar
'This evening the night doesn't want to end', Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
'We were so very much in love', Musée d'Art Roger Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand, France
'The geometry of the angle as point of no return to dress the present', Standing Pine Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
'Sentimental Solitude', Galerie de Multiple, Paris, France
2019
'I Have Forgotten the Night', Madagascar Pavilion, 58th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
'Almost home', Galerie RX, Paris, France
'Tomorrow tomorrow those are flowers. So how about tomorrow?', Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain
'Blue take me to the end of all loves', Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
'Cartography of desires, the space between us', Encounters, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
'Le printemps', Muse, Monaco
2018
'No habíamos terminado de hablar sobre el amor', Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
'Le Pli', Fundação Leal Rios, Lisbon, Portugal
'The geometry of the angle as point of no return to dress the contemporary', Primae Noctis, Lugano, Switzerland
'Iarivo traduit de la nuit', Galerie RX, Paris, France
'Sur un horizon infini se joue le théâtre de nos affections', Fondation Zinsou & Musée Ouidah, Cotonou, Benin
'Le vent souffle sur votre cœur', Château d'Assier, Assier, France
2017
'Sur un horizon infini se joue le théâtre de nos affections', Fondation Zinsou & Musée Ouidah, Cotonou, Benin
'Les saisons de mon cœur', Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain
'Ausência', Uma Lulik, Lisbon, Portugal
'Chanson de ma terre lointaine', Primo Marella, Milan, Italy
'Sentimental Products', Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
'Le Tour du Monde', Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
'Va et vient', Canal du Midi, France
'À l'horizon de mes jours troubles', Galeries Lafayette, Toulouse, France
2016
'Last year in Antananarivo', Tyburn Gallery, London, UK
'The labyrinth of passions', Mykolas Žilinskas Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
'La maison sentimentale', Biennale de Dakar 2016, Dakar, Senegal
'Accrochage', RX, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
2015
'De profundis', Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
'Parlez-moi', Institut Français, Antananarivo, Madagascar
2014
'Carte blanche to Joël Andrianomearisoa x Vendôme Luxury', Le Meurice & Hôtel d'Évreux, Paris, France
'Perfection the grave of our own existence', Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany
2013
'SENTIMENTAL', Maison Revue Noire, Paris, France
2012
'Waiting for the seventh day that will bring us together', Jack Bell Gallery, London, UK
2011
'0621146952', L'Inlassable Galerie, Paris, France
'En l'attente de l'aube qui nous surprendra aux rives du sommeil', Nomad Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
'Le temps d'une rencontre ou pour toujours', Galerie Béatrice Binoche, Saint-Denis, Réunion
'Hôtel des Rêves', Hôtel du Louvre, Antananarivo, Madagascar
2010
'A perfect kind of love', Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Smatesh Remix', Comme Il Faut, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009
'I don't know how to begin, I don't know how it will end', Aksent, Ghent, Belgium
2008
'Une histoire', CCAC, Antananarivo, Madagascar
2017
'Black out', mentalKLINIK project space, Istanbul, Turkey
2004
'Bar', CCAC, Antananarivo, Madagascar
'Bir Gece (One night)', Maçka Gallery / mentalKLINIK, Infist, Istanbul, Turkey
Group Exhibitions
2026
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2026
'Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art', The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, US
'Night of lifetime', Samoca, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
'Blow like a Monsoon', Afro Asian Arts with Great Journey and Exchange, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
'Passer d'un rêve à l'autre / To pass from one dream to another', 18e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
2025
'Looking at Horizons', Almine Rech, Monaco
2024
'Christian Dior, Designer of Dreams', National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
'Cybèle', Domaine ODDO, Vallon des Glauges, Eyguières, France
'Africa Today!', La Ferme d'en Haut, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Collection Zinsou, France
'L'Or de Dior', Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
2023
'Hirafen', Atelier du Centre Technique du Tapis et du Tissage (C3T), Tunis, Tunisia
'Les Fleurs du Mal', Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
'Fêtons le printemps', Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris, France
'NGV Triennial 2023', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
'Africa Supernova. Contemporary African painting collection by Carla and Pieter Schulting', Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
'Sala', Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
2022
'Christian Dior: Designer of dreams', Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
'Labyrinth', Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK
'Kosmogonie', Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Netherlands
'Imagine! FITE x Contextile', Basilique de Notre Dame du Port, Clermont-Ferrand, France
'Peripheral Sun', Vin Vin Gallery, Vienna, Austria
'History in fragments', Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
'Imagine! FITE x Contextile', Palácio Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal
'Miniartextil', Beffroi, Montrouge, France
'Détour: Moleskine x Joël Andrianomearisoa', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2021
'Ubuntu, un rêve lucide', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
'Signs of time', Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
'Christian Dior: Designer of dreams', M7, Doha, Qatar
'The black era', Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
'Long story short', Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
'Voyages immobiles', Diptyque, Poste du Louvre, Paris, France
'Socle du monde biennale', Heart - Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
'Cosmogonies: Zinsou collection', MO.CO, Montpellier, France
'Loewe Craft Prize', Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
'Ce qui reste et ce qui s'oublie', Palais de la Porte Dorée, Museum of Immigration, Paris, France
'Revue Noire', Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2020
'Biennale Sydney 2020', Sydney, Australia
'A beast a God a Line', MAIIAM, Chiang Mai, Thailand
'Ici nous portons tous les rêves du monde', Hakanto Contemporary, Antananarivo, Madagascar
'Ndao Hanavao', IFM, Antananarivo, Madagascar
'Love etc', Festival International du Textile Extraordinaire, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2019
'Two together', Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
'Racing the galaxy', Astana, Kazakhstan
'A beast a God a Line', Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway
'Incarnations', Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
'Kubatana', Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway
'Africa!', Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
'Focus', Galerie RX, Paris, France
'Texture', Manifesta, Lyon, France
2018
'African Metropolis: An imaginary city', MAXXI, Rome, Italy
'Ravelled threads', Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Hello World', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
'Ici la limite du royaume est la mer', IFM, Antananarivo, Madagascar
'DIY', Contempo, Paris, France
'Dhaka Art Summit', Dhaka, Bangladesh
'A Beast, A God, A Line', Para Site, Hong Kong
'The black sphinx II', Primo Marella, Milan, Italy
'A Beast, A God, A Line', TS1, Yangon, Myanmar
'Tissage tressage quand la sculpture défile', Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
'A Beast, A God, A Line', Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
'La Sfinge Nera II', Primae Noctis, Lugano, Switzerland
'Joël Andrianomearisoa & Abdoulaye Konaté', Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
'All things been equal', inaugural show, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
'Le commerce de la parole', L'Atelier Blanc & Le Moulin des Arts, Villefranche-de-Rouergue & Saint-Rémy, France
2017
'All things been equal', inaugural show, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
'BienalSur', Muntref, Avenida del Libertador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
'Quart d'heure américain', Mains d'œuvres, Saint-Ouen, France
'BienalSur', UFRGS Centro & Campus Vale, Porto Alegre, Brazil
'The black sphinx', Primo Marella, Milan, Italy
'NB', Galerie RX, Paris, France
'Autour du nouveau réalisme', Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
'The white hunter', Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milan, Italy
'Afriques Capitales', La Villette, Paris, France
'Vers le Cap de Bonne Espérance', Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
'Untitled', Tyburn Gallery, London, UK
'Dalonaz II', Royal, Brussels, Belgium
2016
'Winter', Galerie RX, Paris, France
'Essentiel paysage', MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco
'White surfaces', Primae Noctis Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
'Between structure and matter other minimal futures', Aicon Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Comme sur du papier', FRAC Réunion, Réunion
'Virage', Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
'Tropicalia', L'Inlassable Galerie, Paris, France
2015
'Rencontres photographiques', Bamako, Mali
'Broken english', Tyburn Gallery, London, UK
'Africa Africans', Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
'Divine Comedy', Smithsonian, Washington, DC, US
'You Love Me, You Love Me Not', Municipal Gallery Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal
'A to Z', White Project, Paris, France
'Lugano mostra bandiera', Lugano, Switzerland
'Something else', Off Biennale Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
2014
'Political Patterns', Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
'Divine Comedy', SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, US
'Textile languages', Thalie Art Project, Brussels, Belgium
'Divine Comedy', MMK, Frankfurt, Germany
'Biennale de Dakar 2014', Dakar, Senegal
'Warm heart of Africa', Primae Noctis Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
2013
'Périphériques', Jacmel, Haiti
'Épures', 7.5 Club, Paris, France
'Nouvelles vagues', SLMP, Palais de Tokyo, Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France
'L'échappée belle', Grand Palais, Paris, France
2012
'The progress of love', The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, US
'Sericum Graphein', curated by Kaiserin, Glassbox Gallery, Paris, France
'21x29,7', Galerie de Roussan, Biennale de Belleville, Paris, France
'MiniArtextil', Montrouge, France
2011
'MiniArtextil 2011', Milan & Como, Italy
'VideoBuro #4', curated by Julie Crenn, Paris, France
'Eat Me', Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'Africa!', Galerie Husseno, Paris, France
2010
'In Context', South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
'The Global Africa Project', Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, US
'Africa assume Art Position!', Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
'12th Cairo Biennale', Cairo, Egypt
'Docks en ciel', Fashion & Design Museum, Paris, France
'3rd Sinopale Biennial', Sinop, Turkey
'In Context', Goodman Gallery – Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Off the wall', Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Gustavsberg, Sweden
'A Collective Diary', Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
2009
'Sphères 2009', Galleria Continua, Goodman Gallery, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
'Regard spécial sur la Turquie', École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris, France
'Panaf: Relectures', Algiers, Algeria
'20 ans et encore à la mode', Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Cholet, France
2008
'Revue Noire Collection', NAAC Atelier, Nantes, France
'Africa now!', World Bank, Washington, DC, US
'Flow', Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY, US
'Black Paris – Black Brussels', Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
2007
'L'invention de la mémoire', Saint-Denis, Réunion
'Africa Remix', Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
'Gooood Food bis', Maison Descartes, Amsterdam, Netherlands
'Bidibidibidiboo', École des Beaux-Arts, Le Port, Réunion
'Paris Black', Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, Germany
'Propos libres', La Passerelle, Saint-Brieuc, France
2006
'Biennale du design', Saint-Étienne, France
'Dressing the contemporary', PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
'Africa Remix', Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
'Africa Remix', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
'Paris Black', Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth, Germany
'9 Bienal de la Habana', Havana, Cuba
2005
'Africa Remix', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
'Africa Remix', Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2004
'Africa Remix', Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
'Du Bosphore à la Moine', Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Cholet, France
'Lille 2004: Roubaix phare textile', Musée d'Art et d'Industrie La Piscine, Roubaix, France
2001
'Archicouture', Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
'Sand und Seide', Ifa, Stuttgart, Germany
2000
'Paris pour escale', ARC – Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
'Fun five fun story', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Awards
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Madagascar
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France
2026
Prix Marcel Duchamp
2020
Finalist, Loewe Craft Prize 2020
2016
IV Audemars Piguet ARCOmadrid 2016 Prize, Madrid, Spain
Fairs
Arco Madrid, Spain
Artissima Torino, Italy
Fiac Paris, France
Fiac Officielle Paris, France
Art Basel, Switzerland
Armory Show New York, NY, US
1:54 London, UK
Miart Milan, Italy
Art Brussels, Belgium
Independent Brussels, Belgium
Art Paris Art Fair, France
Artbo Bogotá, Colombia
India Art Fair New Delhi, India
Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Art International Istanbul, Turkey
Art15 London, UK
Scope Basel, Switzerland
Scope Miami Beach, FL, US
Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa
Galeristes Paris, France
Untitled Miami Beach, FL, US
Yia Art Fair Brussels, Belgium
Art Genève, Switzerland
Slick Art Fair Paris, France
Joburg Art Fair Johannesburg, South Africa
Wopart Lugano, Switzerland
Bologna Artefiera, Italy
Kiaf Seoul, South Korea
Art Basel Hong Kong
Frieze London, UK
Beirut Art Fair, Lebanon
Vienna Contemporary, Austria
Expo Chicago, IL, US
Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa
Selected Collection
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), New York, NY, US
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, US
Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco
Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY, US
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, FRAC La Réunion, France
Médiathèque du Tampon, Réunion, France
Art in Embassies, Madagascar & US
Koç Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Luanda, Angola
Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna, Italy
Collection Revue Noire, Paris, France
Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin
Fondation H, Paris, France and Antananarivo, Madagascar
Christian Dior Haute Couture
Collection Yavarhoussen, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France
Collection Thibault Poutrel
Fonds d'Art Contemporain, Paris Collections
