Patrick Tresset
Patrick Tresset is a contemporary French artist based in Brussels. He is best known for his performative installations, in which he explores the representation of human presence and experience using computer systems, AI, robotics and traditional media.
Tresset studied at Goldsmiths College in London from 2004, where he obtained a master's degree and an MPhil in art and technology. He then worked as a senior researcher at the University of Konstanz and later as a visiting lecturer at the University of Canberra. Although he has focused exclusively on his artistic practice for the past decade, his research into computational creativity and graphic design is cited in more than 300 scientific publications, including in the fields of drawing, psychology, AI, robotics and computational graphic design.
Since 2011, he has had sixteen solo exhibitions and his work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in major museums around the world, such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Prada Foundation in Milan, the V&A in London, the MMCA in Seoul, the Grand Palais in Paris, BOZAR in Brussels, TAM in Beijing, Mcam in Shanghai and the Mori Museum in Tokyo.
His installations, paintings, drawings and digital works are included in public and private collections and have received awards and honours from Lumen, Ars Electronica, NTAA-Liedst Foundation and the Japan Media Festival, among others. He was also nominated as a cultural leader at the WEF 2017.
2024 Animal Studies, Donumenta, Regensburg, Duitsland
2024 Le Temps de Lire, Galerie Rue Antoine, Parijs, Frankrijk
2023 Human Studies, Ara Art Center, Seoel, Zuid-Korea
2023 We Are Here and Now, Pulpo Gallery, Murnau, Duitsland
2022 Human Study I & II, Burg Ranfels, Ranfels, Duitsland
2020 Human Study #1, Art Unchained, Artistree, Hongkong, China
2019 La petite Vanité au Robot et à la Souris, Galerie Rue Antoine, Parijs, Frankrijk
2019 Umeni Robota, Galerie T-REA, Bergen, België
2018 Etude Humaine #1, Galerie Rue Antoine, Parijs, Frankrijk
2017 Whilst We Were Here …, Watermans Art Center, Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk
2017 Machine Studies, Merge, Algarve House, Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk
2016 Human Traits #2, Dixit Algorizmi Gallery, Berlijn, Duitsland
2015 Human Traits, Laznia Art Center, Gdansk, Polen
2013 Human Studies, Bildungsturm, Konstanz, Duitsland
2012 6 RNP, Merge, ondersteund door Tate Modern, Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk
2011 New Works, Tenderpixel Gallery, Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Werken in collecties
Centre Pompidou (Parijs), Prada Foundation (Milaan), Victoria & Albert Museum (Londen), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), Grand Palais (Parijs), BOZAR (Brussel), TAM (Peking), Mcam (Shanghai), Mori Museum (Tokio) Pulpo Gallery.
Onderscheidingen en publicaties
Genoemd als culturele leider door het World Economic Forum (2017), onderscheiden door Lumen, Ars Electronica, NTAA-Liedst Foundation en het Japan Media Festival. Zijn werk is verschenen in onder andere Art Press, Art Review, Beaux Arts, Frieze, Wired, Le Monde, The New York Times en Neural. Een monografie, Human Traits and the Art of Creative Machines, werd gepubliceerd in 2016 Pulpo Gallery.
