Maxime Verdier
Presentation
Born in Dieppe in 1991, Maxime Verdier lives and works in Paris. After graduating from the École Supérieure d'Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen, he went on to study at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, graduating in 2017 with honours. After making a name for himself at the 64th Salon de Montrouge, Maxime Verdier has taken part in numerous group and solo exhibitions in France. In 2023, he was the winning designer of the official poster for the French Open at Roland-Garros, entitled Terre d'étoiles, and in 2026, he was nominated a finalist for the 15th Drawing Now Prize.
His work is the embodiment in sculptures and drawings of a range of memories, emotions and events that are as striking as they are anecdotal. These combinations of references and meanings give rise to chimeras, both fairytale-like and disquieting, exhuming intimate narratives by making the invisible visible. Through the juxtaposition and confrontation of the real and the dreamlike, the lived and the phantasmagorical, or the dream and the nightmare, his work conjures up multiple universes and is therefore accompanied by a certain strangeness.
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Education
2017
Graduated with the DNSAP with Jury Honours from the Beaux-Arts de Paris
2015
Graduated with the DNSEP with Jury Honours from the ESADHAR in Rouen
2013
Graduated with the DNAP from the ESADHAR in Rouen
Solo shows
2025
Feux Follets, Le Kiosque, La Chapelle des Calvairiennes, Mayenne, France
Le monde dans un grain de sable, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
L'orée des rêves, Frac Picardie, Amiens, France
2024
Soleil noir, Frac Normandie, Caen, France
2023
Doppelgänger, Le Point Commun, Annecy, France
2021
La lueur de l'air, Anne-Sarah Bénichou gallery, Paris, France
2018
SpottiOttieDopalicious, Médium Argent, Rouen, France
Group shows (selection)
2026
Drawing Now, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
2025
Facéties, Les Jardiniers, Montrouge, France
2024
La rose bleue, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
Hasards exquis, une exposition pissenlit, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
Enter the zone, Galerie Double V, Marseille, France
Drawing Now, Galerie Anne- Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
Le ciel est joli comme un ange, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
2023
Sonnez-Trompette ! Frac Normandie, Centre culturel Les Fosses d'Enfer, Saint-Rémy-sur-Orne, France
2022
Family and friends 2/ Ten years after, Galerie Backslash, Paris, France
L'amie.e modèle, curated by Mathieu Mercier, MUCEM, Marseille, France
Pleins Feux, commissariat Léa Hodencq, La Chapelle - Centre d'art contemporain, Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, France
Se laisser prendre au jeu, Le Radar espace d'art actuel, Bayeux, France
J'ai l'impression que nous ne sommes plus au Kansas, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot, France
2021
Le jour n'est pas si loin, Manifesta, Lyon, France
2021 = 5, exhibition celebrating the 5th birthday of the gallery, Anne-Sarah Bénichou gallery, Paris, France
2020
French Cliché, l'Appartement, Joyce Gallery, Paris, France
2019
Bézoard, duo show with Damien Levy, Perpitch & Bringand gallery, Paris, France
64th edition of the Salon de Montrouge, Beffroi de Montrouge, Montrouge, France
100% l'Expo, Grandes Halles de la Villette, Paris, France
2018
Félicità 2018 – Graduate exhibition, Beaux-Arts of Paris, Paris, France
2017
Exhibition Paris/Glasgow, Campus in the Highlands and Islands, Forres, Scotland
2016
Atelier Rochette Open Doors, curated by Mathieu Mercier, Beaux-Arts of Paris, France
2015
R.A.S – Graduate exhibition of the Beaux-Arts, Grandes Galeries, Rouen, France
2014
Bibliologie, curated by Jérôme Dupeyrat, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
CATHEDRALES, 1914-2014, ESADHAR of Rouen, Rouen, France
CATHÉDRALES, 1789-1914, un mythe moderne, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
La Linerie, La Linerie, Crosville sur Scie, France
Autour du poteau, Störk gallery, Rouen, France
Ma Maison, MAM gallery, Rouen, France
Residences
2022
Iconoclasse, Yvetot, France
2021
Drawing Factory, Paris, France
Fellowships and awards
2026
Nominated for the 15th Drawing Now Prize, March 2026
2023
Official poster for the 2023 edition of the French Open at Roland-Garros: Terre d'étoiles
2020
Project in support of creation « Après », TRAM Réseau art contemporain Paris/Île-de-France - selected by the Beaux-Arts de Paris, July 2020
2019
Prize of the Friends of the Palais de Tokyo - shortlisted, October 2019
Teaching
2025-2026
Professor at the Atelier des petites écuries
2021-2025
Professor at the Nouvelle Académie des pratiques amateurs des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Press and Interviews
Point contemporain, Maxime Verdier, June 2023
Beaux-Arts Magazine, Qui est Maxime Verdier, l'artiste qui signe la nouvelle affiche de Roland-Garros ?, by Maïlys Celeux-Lanval, February 2023
Beaux-Arts Magazine, Dessiner des mondes nouveaux, about the new trends of contemporary drawing, by Judicaël Lavrador. Magazine cover, May 2022
Beaux-Arts Magazine, Maxime Verdier : monstres et mignonnerie, by Maïlys Celeux-Lanval, April 2022
Réseau TRAM and Art NewsPaper Daily, July 2020
Text by Anne-Sarah Bénichou for the 64th Salon de Montrouge, April 2019
Interview by Léo Panico-Djoued, Portrait d'Artiste, for the 64th Salon de Montrouge, April 2019
Maxime Verdier by David Oggioni, Artaïs, January 2019
Felicità 2018 – Texte by Anne-Lou Vicente, June 2018