François Maurin

François Maurin’s wall sculptures, carved from wood and sealed with resin, rise as vertical presences sustained by a subtle tension between structure and organic growth. Rooted in drawing, their underlying lines articulate hollowed, stretched, and at times segmented forms that suggest both bodily fragments and figures still in the making. The wood shaped through its weight, density, and grain retains a palpable vitality, while the resin arrests the surface in a suspended state, poised between emergence and permanence.
Belonging to a generation of artists for whom the vegetal realm serves less as a motif than as a sensorial horizon, Maurin advances a sculptural language attuned to processes of growth, tension, and metamorphosis. In his work, drawing acts as an underlying framework an invisible armature that calibrates the balance of materials and orchestrates the work’s embodied presence in space.

Born in 1989 in France ; lives and works in Paris, France.

EDUCATION

2008-2013
- DNSAP - ENSBA, Paris, France. 
2012
- Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2026
-  Corps latents, Curated by Henri van Melle, RX&SLAG Gallery, Paris, France.
- L’Art Dans Les Chapelles , Curated by Éric Suchère, Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Moustoir, Malguénac, France.  
2023
- Semblables, La Chapelle Saint-Jacques, Vendôme, France. 
2022
- Possible(s), La Grange, With the support of the Centre-Val de Loire Region, the DRAC Centre-Val de Loire, and L’Echalier, Atelier de Fabrique Artistique, Saint Agil, France.
2020
- Par-delà, Vitrine 65, Paris, France. 
2016
- ÔrvoirlémO, Marine Veilleux Gallery, Paris, France . 
2014
- Singuliers, Espace Cuba Libre, Saint Étienne, France. 


GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2024
- My soul in Exile, Curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia. 
2023-2024
- Vaciller, Curated by Lucie Lanzini and Pierre Daniel, Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. 
2023
- La Note Inconnue, Curated by Charles Hascoët, Danysz Gallery, Paris, France. 
- There is no lonesome wave, Curated by Claire Luna, POUSH, Aubervilliers, France. 
2022
- Living Room, Gallifet, Curated by Géraldine Bareille, Centre d’art d'Aix-en-Provence, France. 
- Border Line, Curated by Yvannoé Kruger, Pavillion Vendôme, Clichy, France. 
2021
- Pollyanna, Curated by Elora Weill-Engerer, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France. 
2020
- Quelques choses, quelque part, Vitrine 65, Paris France. 
2019
- Vacuité, Vitrine 65, Paris, France. 
2018
- Weniger ist mehr – less is more, Curated by Maya Sachweh, du Crous Gallery, Paris, France. 
- Affinité(s), Jousse Entreprise Gallery, Paris, France. 
2018
- Stanbuy - Sunset, Curated by After Affect, Bordeaux, France. 
2017
- Adult World, Curated by Exo Exo, With the support of Fluxus Art Projects and Clearview Ltd, London, England.
- Freak Park, Curated by Theo Mario Coppola, Villa Belleville, Paris, France. 
2016
- Sessions, Galerie Backslash, Paris, France.
- Nuit Européeenne de Musées, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France. 
2015
- Empan, Marine Veilleux Gallery, Paris, France. 
- Poros, Marine Veilleux Gallery, Paris, France. 
2014
- Confort Moderne, Espace Clovis XV, Brussels, Belgium. 
- Jeune Création, Le 104, Paris, France. 
2013
- Je est un autre, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France. 


AWARDS / GRANTS 

2024
- Dotation de Recherche - ADAGP. 
2021-2022
- Production support - Région Centre Val de Loire. 
- Individual Creative Grant, DRAC Centre Val de Loire. 
2017
-Pulsar Prize, short-listed. 
2013
- Novembre à Vitry Prize, short-listed. 


COLLECTIONS

- Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Erevan, Armenia. 

RESIDENCIES

2021
- La Maison Botanique, Centre Européen des Trognes, Boursay, France. 
2020 - 2021
- L’Echalier, Atelier de Fabrique Artistique, Couëtron-au-Perche, France. 
2016 - 2017
- Villa Belleville, Paris, France. 
2014
- Résidence COOP, La Communale, Bidart, France. 


PRESS / PUBLICATIONS

- 2020 ITW - Asian Curator - asiancurator.com
- 2020 Par-delà - pointcontemporain.com
- 2019 Les Passagers - Revue Artaïs n°23
- 2017 Moquette et Papier Peint - lechassis.fr
- 2017 Adult World at Cleariew - ArtViewer.org
- 2017 Adult World - ofluxo.net
- 2016 ÔrvoirlémO - pointcontemporain.com
- 2014 Catalogue Jeune Création - 65ème édition
- 2013 Catalogue des diplômés - ENSBA Paris