Artist | Yoann Penard | Resides | France |
Website | yoann-penard.com | Medium | Clay Acrylic resin Metal Bronze |
Print Shop | yoann-penard.com/shop-1 | yoyopenard@hotmail.com | |
Representing Gallery | Naia Museum Rochefort-en Terre, France Le Dernier Rituel Bègles, France Keep Contemporary Gallery Santa Fe, NM, USA La Monstrueuse galerie Nantes, France | Themes | Mythology Spirituality Animism |
Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Press | Yoann-penard.com/news |
About the artist
Born in 1976, Yoann Penard has been sculpting for 22 years, stone at first, but very quickly imposed on him as a revelation modeling and ceramics, metal and bronze.
Since 2000, he is based in France near Bordeaux regularly exhibits in the largest places open to expressionism and French fantastic worlds.
Yoann Penard’s works are permanently on display at the Naïa Museum. He obtained the prize of the May fair and the Coubertin foundation in Paris in 2010 and carried out his first public commission for the city of Libourne in 2021.
In his creative ritual, Yoann uses clay modeling, acrylic resins, metal, bronze.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
On the borders of contemporary sculpture, Yoann Penard sketched a universe of which he seems to know with infinite precision all the cogs. He is passionate about primitive arts Mythology, fantasy, utopias / dystopias / uchronias, these worlds of the imagination have shaped his reading of the tangible, he tries to extract from them a part of our universal collective history.
Press
Yoann Penard’s sculptures have been published in notable magazines and online sources including Catalogue Galerie Kuryos, Catalogue Galerie Duchoze, Catalogue Exposition Ville d’Uzerche, and Miroir de l’art.
Upcoming Exhibitions
When | Exhibition | Gallery |
April 2024 | Group exhibition: “Passage à L’art art fair” | Salon d’art contemporain Cherbourg, France |
May 2024 | Group exhibition: To be announced | La Monstrueuse galerie Nantes, France |
August 2024 | Solo exhibition: To be announced | Keep Contemporary Gallery Santa Fe, NM, USA |
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Yoann Penard / Nihil, Galerie MLS, Bordeaux, France
2022
Théatre Liburnia, Libourne, France
2018
Le Dernier Rituel Tatoo shop, Begles, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
The tour of artists’ studios, Libourne, France
2022
Galerie Couleurs Des Arts, Morlaix, France
2021
Le Dernier Rituel Tatoo shop, Begles, France
2020
Galerie Atelier Noir, France
2019
Festival Court Metrange, Rennes, France
Salon RDV D’ART, Paris, France
Ateliers d’Aquitaine, Guest of honor, Bordeaux, France
BOOM Festival, Portugal, France
2017
Eglise St. Remi, Bordeaux, France