Jean-Marie Appriou (born in Brest, France, in 1986) lives and works in Brittany. He graduated from the École régionale des beaux-arts de Rennes in 2010.


Working primarily with aluminium, bronze and glass, Appriou creates sculptures in which human, animal and plant forms meet and transform. Drawing on ancient Egyptian and Greek mythology, literature and science fiction, his work explores metamorphosis and the origins and possible futures of life. Through modelling, casting and experimentation, he preserves the traces of the hand in works ranging from intimate objects to monumental installations. His sculptures inhabit gardens and public spaces, while his functional works extend this imagery into everyday use.

His selected solo exhibitions include CANTO INFINITO, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2026); Cosmic Clock, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai (2025–2026); La cinquième essence, MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier (2025); Exonaut Horizon, Perrotin, Paris (2024); Magnetic, MASSIMODECARLO, Hong Kong (2023–2024); Ophelia, MASSIMODECARLO, London (2022); Art Club #35, Villa Medici, Rome (2022); Seabed, Le Consortium, Dijon (2019–2020); November, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (2018); and Open Space #1, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018). In 2021, he presented Surface Horizon with Marguerite Humeau at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.


His public projects include Whale Song, Now + There, Central Wharf Park, Boston (2024–2025); The Traveler, Neviglie, Piedmont (2023); and The Horses, organized by Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York (2019–2020). In 2023, he created Constellation du Louvre for the museum’s Chalcographie, accompanied by a presentation at the Centre Dominique-Vivant Denon, and exhibited the monumental sculpture Horizons at Art Basel Unlimited. He participated in the 15th Lyon Biennale, Là où les eaux se mêlent (2019), with the installation Roncier.


His selected group exhibitions include ARTZUID, Amsterdam Sculpture Biennale, Amsterdam (2025); Eccentric. The Aesthetics of Freedom, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2024–2025); Van Gogh and the Stars, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Arles (2024); White Sea Olive Groves, Malta Biennial, Malta (2024); CAB 5, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago (2023–2024); Les Portes du possible. Art & science-fiction, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (2022–2023); Childhood: Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Voyage d’hiver, Château de Versailles, Versailles (2017–2018); Artificial Tears. Singularity & Humanness – a Speculation, Vienna Biennale, MAK, Vienna (2017); and MEDUSA: Bijoux et tabous, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2017).