Réau (François)

François Réau is a French artist, born in 1978. He studied art at various schools, first at the Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers, then at the Ecole d'Arts Appliqués in Poitiers, where he graduated in 2001.

He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad (London, Brussels, Turin, Beijing and Melbourne). He was a finalist for the "Talents Contemporains" prize at the François Schneider Foundation in Wattwiller in 2015 and 2016, and his work has been exhibited as part of Lile3000, Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture, at the Guoyi Art Museum in Beijing, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2016, at the Musée de l'Hospice Saint Roch in Issoudun in 2019 and at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen in spring 2020.

He has recently exhibited his work at a number of venues, including the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, the Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud and the Musée Jenisch in Vevey, Switzerland. In recent months, he has been in the news with exhibitions at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec, the Fondation Bullukian in Lyon, the Drawing Lab in Paris, the Tour de la Chaîne in La Rochelle for the Centre des Monuments Nationaux and the Château des Ducs de Bretagne for the Voyage à Nantes.