Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Biography
Born in 1975, La Rochelle, FR
Lives and works in Paris, FR
Solo and duo presentations
2025
Je suis une chose publique, Le Consortium, Dijon, FR
quatro gusto uva fragola, Lavinia, Rome, IT
Accidents, Stavanger Seccesion, Stavanger, NO
2024
Paul-Alexandre, Bekim, Sasha, Víctor, Philippe, Louis, Thomas, Pierre y Lili, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, MX
2023
Hello, my name is lili and we are many, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
I want all of the above to be the Sun, MAC Montréal, Montreal, CA
Rome, November 1st and 2nd 1975, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT
2022
I invited men into my hotel room and asked them very personal questions about their lives, Emanuel Layr, Vienna, AT
Rome, November 1st and 2nd, 1975, Clearing, New York, USA
2019
Beyond the Land of Minimal Posessions, Emanuel Layr, Vienna, AT
Oops, I think I may have lost my lighter somewhere on the ground…Could someone please be so kind to come here and help me find it?, Clearing, New York, USA
2018
Oops... I think I may have lost my lighter somewhere on the ground. Could someone please come down here and help me find it?, Kunsthaus Bregenz, AT
Teeth, Gums, Machines, Future, Society, Monash University Gallery of Arts, Melbourne, AU
Beyond the Land of Minimal Possessions, Atelier Hermès, Séoul, KR
My Epidemic (A Body as Public as a Book Can Be), Tokyo, JP
Lady to Fox, Clearing, Brussels, BE
2017
Artpace San Antonio, Texas, USA
Teeth, Gums, Machines, Future, Society, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
My Epidemic (Teaching Bjarne Melgaard’s Class), Emanuel Layr, Rome, IT
Teeth, Gums, Machines, Future, Society, Museion, Bolzano, IT
2016
Dents, Gencives, Machines, Futur, Société, Kamel Mennour, Paris, FR
Dents, Gencives, Machines, Futur, Société, New Settings, Théâtre des Amandiers, Nanterre, FR
Teeth, Gums, Machines, Future, Society, Kunstverein Hamburg, DE
On How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (with Owen Piper), SALTS, Basel, CH
Irreversible Intrusion (with Isaac Julien), K11, Shangai, CN
Safe Space, Emanuel Layr, Vienna, AT
I Sing The Body Electric, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
I Sing The Body Electric, Clearing, New York, USA
2015
My Epidemic (Teaching Bjarne Melgaard’s class), Audain Gallery, Vancouver, CA
My Epidemic (a body as public as a book can be), Clearing, Brussels, BE
2014
Live Through That ?!, Index, Stockholm, SE
Live Through That ?!, New Museum, New York, USA
Vivre avec ça?!, Kamel Mennour, Paris, FR
Live through that ?!, Emmanuel Layr, Vienna, AT
Live Through That ?!, Outpost, Norwich, UK
2013
I am intact and I don’t care, Clearing, New York, USA
I am intact and I don’t care, Haus der 21 Belvedere, Vienna, AT
Enseigner comme des adolescents, Le Consortium, Dijon, FR
2012
Interpretation (performance), Performa / Fondation Calder, New York, USA
Enseigner comme des adolescents, FORDE, Geneva, CH
What a century of hands! - I shall never have my hand..., Karma International, Zurich, CH
Ceci est ma maison / This is my place, Le Magasin, Grenoble, FR
Fours Walls Speaking of Revolt, Media and Beauty (performance), Serpentine Cinema, London, UK
2011
Some Objects Blackened and Body Too, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK
Cleda’s Chairs, Bielefeld Kunstverein, Bielefeld, DE
Fours Walls Speaking of Revolt, Media and Beauty (performance),Tramway Theater, Glasgow, UK
2010
Interpretation, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
Interpretation, 1M3, Lausanne, CH
Structures de Pouvoir, Rituels et Sexualité chez les Sténodactylos Européennes, Kamel Mennour, Paris, FR
Antiteater, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR
2009
En réalité le sphinx est-il une annexe du monument...? (performance), Centre culturel Bellegarde, Toulouse, FR
Power Structures, Rituals & Sexuality of the European Shorthand-Typists, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK
Black Mariah, Centre d’art Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, FR
The Pursuit of Pleasure (with Latifa Echakhch), Barriera Fundazione, Turin, IT
2008
LOVE = U.F.O, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, FRAC, Bordeaux, FR
The Race, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Sicily, IT
2006
The Center & Eyes, Zoo Galerie, Nantes, FR
Glass Onion, Mary Mary offsite project, 130 Bridgegate, Glasgow, UK
Power, Corruption & Lies, Galerie RLBQ, Marseille, FR
2005
Eggnogs & Flips (collaborative project with Fiona Jardine), Public, Paris, FR
2002
Jet-Trash (collaborative project with Owen Piper), Where The Monkey Sleeps, Glasgow, UK
Group exhibitions
2026
New Humans: Memories of the Future, New York, USA (Upcoming)
2025
Ass to Ass, Good or Trash, Paris, FR
2024
Supernova, Fondazione Zimei, Pescare, IT
2023
Défricheuses: Féminismes, caméra au poing, archive en bandoulière, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
Maiden Voyage, Clearing, New York, USA
Exposé·es, curated by François Piron after Elisabeth Lebovici’s “Ce que le sida m’a fait”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2022
L’Origine del Mondo, Fondazione per l’Arte & Banca Profilo, Rome, IT
Trans(m)issions, La Panacée MoCo, Montpellier, FR
The Seven Faces of the Heptadron, curated by Yasmine d’O, Saâdane Afif as convener of Bergen Assembly, NO
OPEN, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna, AT
2021
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2021, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Oeuvres in situ, Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, Paris, FR
Wild Frictions: The Politics and Poetics of Interruption, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Berlin, DE
OFTEN VARY NEVER CHANGE, Clearing, New York, USA
Grand Ménage, Clearing, Paris, FR
Superamas, Clearing, Brussels, BE
2020
Cybernetics of the Poor, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
Cybernetics of the Poor, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, ES
2019
Who Cares, New Galerie, Paris, FR
Love and Ethnologie, the Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Futur Ancien Fugitif, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
You, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR
If the Snake, curated by Pierre Huyghes, Okayama Art Summit, JP
Stranger Approaching, Bridget Donahue, New York, USA
LETZTE LOCKERUNG, Kunsthalle Bern, CH
100 artists in the city – ZAT 2019, MoCo, Montpellier, FR
DOG DAYS, Clearing, New York, USA
L’âge de raison, Clearing, Brussels, BE
Body in Pieces, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, DE
2018
Strange Days, Memories of the Future, New Museum, The Store X, London, UK
A Letter in Scarlett, Le Plateau, Paris, FR
Cruising Pavillion, 16th Biennial of Architecture, Venice, IT
Dancing with Myself, Punte Della Dogana, Venice, IT
Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
2017
Performance Les 40 ans du Centre Pompidou, Ancien Tri Postal de Lille, FR
Lofoten International Art Festival, NO
Hard to Picture: A Tribute to Ad Reinhardt, Mudam, LU
Can’t and Won’t, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
Small Tragic Opera of Images and Bodies in the Museum, Kunstenfestival des Arts, Brussels, BE
Le Musée Absent, WIELS, Brussels, BE
Vertical Gardens, Antenna Space, Shangai, CN
Sinister Feminism, curated by Piper Marshall and Lola Kramer, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, USA
Ministry of Internal Affairs. Intimacy as Text, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
2016
Dancing with Myself, Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE
Pure Fiction, Marian Goodman, Paris, FR
Frederich Kiesler, Life Visions, MAK Vienna, AT
It Can Howl, Atlanta Contemporary, USA
Fireflies in the Night, Narchios Fondation, Athens, GR
Obsession Dada, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH
2015
All the World’s Futures, the 56th Venice Biennial, IT
24 / 7 The Human Condition, Vienna Biennale 2015, Ideas For Change, MAK, AT
The Freedom Principle, MCA Chicago, USA
Beauty Codes, Order / Disorder / Chaos, ACT 2, Kunsthalle Lisboa, PT
Beauty Codes, Order / Disorder / Chaos, ACT 1, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, IT
2014
Soleil Politique (curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc), Museion, Bolzano, IT
Une Histoire, Nouvel accrochage, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
All that falls (curated by Marie de Brugerolles), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
The Issues of Our Time, Issue 3 (More Issues, Less Time), Castillo Coralles at Artist Book Space, New York, USA
Interprètes, Plateau, Paris, FR
Me and You in a Living Room, Fondation Ricard at SongEun Art Space, Seoul, KR
Procession, CAPC, Bordeaux, FR
On Ambiguity and Other Forms To Play With, 2nd Cafam Biennial, Beijing, CN
Where are we now ?, Marrakech Biennial, MA
The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
Momentum? Maybe the time has come to live our corporality rather than speak our sexuality, PSM Berlin, DE
Trocadero, Nesrin Esirtgen Collection Art Space, Istanbul, TR
2013
The Fifth Dimension, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, USA
The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum, Harlem, USA
Une Odyssée, 30 ans du FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Pommery, Reims, FR
Frieze Projects 2013, London, UK
Meanwhile, Suddenly and Then, Lyon Biennial, FR
Stand In (Or A Glass of Milk), Public Fiction, Los Angeles, USA
La vie matérielle, Prix Ricard, Fondation Ricard, Paris, FR
‘Pro-choice’ (curatorial project by Petunia), Kunsthalle Fribourg, CH
Otherwise Unexplained Fires, Malmo Konsthall, SE
The Angel of History, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR
Whileaway, Konsthall Oslo, NO
An Anatomical Chart of Love Pains, The Model, Sligo, IE
The Magic of the State, Beirut, Cairo, EG
The Magic of the State, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2012
Counter-production, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
Timewave Zero, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Krichtal, DE
In fifteen minutes every one will be in the future, an Opera, Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, BG
From the Beach to the Moon, Luma Foundation, Arles, FR
Intense Proximité (curated by Okwui Enwezor), La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2011
Jean Genet, Act 2, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Sculpture is three dimensional work..., Johan Koenig, Berlin, DE
Tableaux Contemporains, Le Magasin, Grenoble, FR
The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
Fruits, Flowers and Clouds, MAK, Vienne, AT
Le Château, nouvel accrochage de la collection, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, FR
Living Room Exotica, Kunsthaus Glarus, CH
2010
Scene Shifts, Bonniers Konsthall / The Royal Dramatic Theater, Stockholm, SE
The Discrete Charme of the Blind Spot, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster DE
The Morality Series – Of Facts and Fables, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
The Morality Series - Let Us Compare Mythologies, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
2009
Elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Je n’étais pas qu’une simple chimère, SBC Gallery, Montréal, CA
La Suite, Air de Paris, Paris, FR
Kerhaus-Abschied von Stabilen Wanden, Westfalische Kunstverein, Munster, DE
Les Formes Féminines, Triangle, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR
REVOLVER, Coco Kunstverein, Vienna, AT
Latifa Echakhch / Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Karma International at James Fuentes, New York, USA
Fugues (curated by Latifa Echakhch), Galerie Hussenot, Paris, FR
2008
Printemps de Septembre (performance), Toulouse, FR
La Consistance du Visible, Prix Ricard, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR
When Things Cast No Shadow, 5th Berlin Biennale, DE
Explorations in French Psychedelia, CAPC, Bordeaux, FR
2007
‘00s, the story of a decade that has not yet been named’, 9th Lyon Biennial, FR
Sweet & Extradry, Circuit, Lausanne, CH
Ultramoderne, Hall Paul Wurth, Luxembourg, LU
Freak Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, FR
Le Syndrome de Broadway, Centre d’art Parc Saint Léger, FR
White Sabbath - Lili Reynaud-Dewar / Michelle Naismith, Galerie LH, Paris, FR
Lili Reynaud-Dewar / Frank Eon, Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux, FR
2006
Berlin-Paris: Affinites..., Jousse Entreprise, Paris, FR
La Fabrique, Galerie AK28, Stockholm, SE
Parcours Contemporain, Hradacany, La Générale, Paris, FR
Rachel Tiplady, Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, FR
Madame la baronne etait plutot maniérée..., Maison Populaire de Montreuil, Centre d’art Mira Phalaina, Paris, FR
2005
Acid Rain, Glassbox & Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, FR
2004
Glassbox & Friends, Glassbox, Paris, FR
It’s Hip to be Square, Zoogalerie, Nantes, FR
Hyperstyle, Loop, Berlin, DE
Oasis, Glassbox, Paris, FR
Busco Similar, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2002
You Never Know, Project Rooms, Glasgow, UK
Performances and screenings
2024
Petrolio, Stavanger Secession, Oil Museum in Stavanger
2023
Blue hours. Three nights on fluidity, Screening, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, HU
Never alone, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT
Jamais seule, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Planetarium, with Maggie Nelson, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Never alone, organized by MAC Montreal, Contemporary Center for Architecture, CA
2022
Gruppo Petrolio, one night long screening of episodes 1-9, organized by Forde, Le Spoutnik, Genève, CH
Gruppo Petrolio, one night long screening of episodes 1-9, organized by Achtung ! le 102, Grenoble, CH
2019
Money and Emancipation, Money and Equity, Money and Freedom, Money and Sex, Money and Feminism with Ramaya
Tegegne and Maïa Izzo Foulquier, Villa Medici, Rome, IT
2018
Lecture on Mike Kelley’s legacy, with Anne Pontégnie and Mathieu Malouf, Hauser und Wirth, Zurich, CH
Lecture, Conflictual dance, Malmo Art Academy, SE
Teeth Gums Machines Future Society, performance, Monash University Gallery of Arts, Melbourne, AU
Lecture, Conflictual dance, organized by Piper Wallis, The Boiler Room, Melbourne, AU
Teeth Gums Machines Future Society, performance, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
Teeth Gums Machines Future Society (screening), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE
Lecture, Seminar Bleeding the Edges curated by Ida Soulard, Ecole des beaux-Arts de Nantes, FR
2017
Lecture, Austin School of Art (Mike Smith’s class), Texas, USA
Lecture, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Lecture with Heyd Fontenot and Martha Wilson, Texas State University, USA
Small Tragic Opera of Images and Bodies in the Museum, performance, Kunstenfestival des Arts, Brussels, BE.
Teeth Gums Machines Future Society (screening), Artist’s Cinema, Tate Modern, London, UK
2016
Lecture, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Annecy FR
Dents, Gencives, Machines, Futur, Société, New Settings, Théâtre des Amandiers, Nanterre, FR
On How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (with Owen Piper), SALTS, Basel, CH
Enseigner comme des adolescents (Tim and Pete), Obsessions Dada, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH
2015
My Epidemic, All the World’s Futures, 56th Bienale di Venezia, Biblioteca dei Giardinis, Venice, IT
Lecture, My Epidemic, Forde, Geneva, CH
2014
My Epidemic, lecture, Wiels, Brussels, BE
Conférence, Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Enseigner comme des adolescents, Where are we now?, Marrakech Biennial, MA
2013
Three videos of performance, Ursula Blickle Kino 21er Haus Belvedere, Vienna, AT
Live Through That ?!, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, USA
2012
Four Walls Speaking of Revolt, Media and Beauty, Serpentine Cinema, London, UK
Enseigner comme des adolescents, Forde, Geneva, CH
‘Pro-choice’ (curatorial project by Petunia), Kunsthalle Fribourg, CH
2011
Four Walls Speaking of Revolt, Media and Beauty, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Interpretation, Fondation Calder / Biennale Performa, New York, USA
Four Walls Speaking of Revolt, Media and Beauty, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2010
Interpretation, 1M3, Lausanne, CH
Interpretation, Let Us Compare Mythologies, The Morality Series, performance programme, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
2009
Antiteater, Théâtre de la Comédie de Reims, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR
Lecture, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, FR
Lecture, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bourges, FR
2008
En Réalité, le Sphinx est-il une annexe du Monument...?, Centre culturel Bellegarde,Toulouse, FR
In Every Room There is the Ghost of Sex, Schinkel Pavilion, 5th Berlin Biennale, DE
The Race, La Razza, La Corsa, Galleria Civica d’arte contempoanea di Siracusa, Montevergini, Sicily, IT
Love = U.F.O., FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, FR
2007
The Face of the Four, Circuit, Lausanne, CH
2006
The Center & the Eyes, Zoo Galerie, Nantes, FR
Queen Mother Nanny of the Mountains, Maison Populaire de Montreuil, Paris, FR
Awards
2021 Prix Marcel Duchamp, FR
Collections
MoMA, New York, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Pinault Collection, Paris, FR
Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, MC
Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
Museion Collection, Bolzano, IT
K11, Hong Kong/Shanghai/Beijing, CN
Fonds de donation Famille Moulin, Paris, FR