Morgan Courtois

Morgan Courtois’s practice primarily encompasses sculpture, while certain lines of research lead him toward image-making. Working with plaster, clay, ceramic, and resin, he explores the unstable potential of materials, subjecting them to disruptions that alter their physical stability and blur the boundary between the inert and the living. Drawing on the rhythms and functional properties of plants, Courtois also creates perfumes that establish poetic connections between materials, incidents, and sensations. Often describing his practice as naturalist, he explores how forms and representations carry both emotional associations and social and artistic histories.

Morgan Courtois (b. 1988, Abbeville, France) lives and works in Paris. Recent solo exhibitions include presentations at Balice Hertling, Paris (2026, 2016), Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2022), Centre d’art contemporain Les Capucins, Embrun (2019), and Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest (2018). His work has also been included in exhibitions at Collection Lambert, Avignon (2024), Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2021), Lustwarande, Tilburg (2019), and Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018), among others. He participated in the Lyon Biennial in 2022 and the Geneva Biennial of Sculpture in 2020.

Courtois graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 2012. He was awarded the Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art in 2017 and completed a residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2018.