French artist, born in 1970 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, currently lives between Paris and Arles. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure de la Photographie in Arles in 1997. For more than twenty years, Vincent Fournier has developed an extensive body of work centered on photography. His work explores the imaginaries of the future – both past visions and those we project for tomorrow – through various series: space exploration with Space Project (2007–21), humanoid robots in The Man Machine (2009–10), utopian architecture in Brasilia (2012–19) and Kosmic Memories (2021–22), the reinvention of the living in Post Natural History (2013–22) and Auctus Animalis (2022), and most recently the flora of exoplanets with Flora Incognita (2024–26). His museum and gallery solo exhibitions include: Flora Incognita, Spazio Nobile, Brussels, 2025 – Space Utopia, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, 2024 – Uchronie, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, 2023 – Auctus Animalis, Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains, France, 2023 – Super Specimens, Sensations of the Extraordinary, Spazio Nobile, Brussels, 2022 – Post Natural History, Hangar Art Center, Brussels, 2019 – Brasilia, The Modernist Utopias, Spazio Nobile, Atelier Jespers, 2019 – Man Machine, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna – MAMbo, 2017 – Post Natural History, Spazio Nobile, Brussels, 2016 – Past Forward, Rencontres d’Arles, 2013. Vincent Fournier participated in museum & institutional group exhibitions such as Past Forward, International Art Festival BIWAKO Biennale, Japan, 2025 – Post Natural History, KG+ Kyotographie, Kyoto, Japan – Space, A Visual Journey, Fotografiska Museum Stockholm, 2024 – Civilization, Jut Art Museum, Taiwan, 2024 – Science–Fiction, Centre Pompidou Metz, France, 2023 – Civilization, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK – Unknown Unknowns, Triennale de Milan, Italy, 2022 – Civilization, MUCEM Marseille, France, 2020 – Hello Robots, MMCA, Seoul, Korea – UCCA, Beijing – V&A Museum Dundee, 2019 – La Fabrique du Vivant, Centre Pompidou Paris, France, 2018 – Design et Merveilleux, MAMC, Saint–Etienne, France, 2018 – The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museums Tokyo, Japan and ArtScience Museum Singapore, 2017. His work has been acquired by museums and institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, LVMH, JP Morgan New York, Société Générale Paris, MAST Foundation Bologna, Domaine des Étangs Massignac, Vontobel Zurich, Swiss Life, Black Gold Museum, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature Paris, Musée des Beaux–Arts de Mâcon, Fondation Bullukian Lyon, Institut français du Cambodge, Phnom Penh. The Brasilia series is currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum New York (The MET), Fifth Avenue, Gallery 916. He has collaborated with NASA on the Space Utopia project, working with all major American space centers, participated in panel discussions at the Centre Pompidou as part of the exhibition La Fabrique du Vivant, and held conferences and roundtables at The MET for the conference In Our Time and with authors like Enki Bilal, Alain Damasio, Vinciane Despret, Christophe Galfard, Patrick Gyger, and Ariel Kyrou at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France. He has done projects with Louis Vuitton, TLmag & Spazio Nobile at Musée Guimet, Le Bon Marché Paris, Baccarat, Isetan Tokyo, XPeng China, Columbia Pictures for the film The Amazing Spiderman II. Among his books: Flora Incognita, Spazio Nobile Editions, 2025 – Uchronie, Filigranes, 2023 – Auctus Animalis, Filigranes, 2022 – Kosmic Memories, Noeve, 2021 – Brasilia, Noeve, 2020 – Post Natural History, Noeve, 2019 – Space Utopia, Noeve & Rizzoli, 2018.
Vincent Fournier has been represented by Spazio Nobile since 2016.
Vincent Fournier: Brasília, Modernist Utopias
Post Natural History by Vincent Fournier
Super Specimens: Sensations of the Extraordinary
The New York Times : It’s Springtime on Polaris-9b, and the Exoflowers Are Blooming
