Antoine Wagner

Antoine Wagner is a French-American contemporary artist and film director who works in the realm of sculpture, paintings, drawings, film, performance, photography, sound and installation. His work explores the connectivity between nature, geography, mythology and the sublime as well as themes of resurrection and identity.

Wagner studied Theater and Political Science at Northwestern University and Sciences Po Paris, later continuing his studies at NYU Tisch and assisting Palme d’Or–winner Michael Haneke.

Wagner's works have been presented in The Tiroler Festispiele Erl, Austria, Les Archives Nationales, Paris, France, The National Gallery of Armenia, The New World Center Miami, Florida, The Goethe Institute Tokyo, Japan, The Deck Museum, Singapore,The Voelkerkunde Museum Hamburg, Germany, the Collection Lambert en Avignon, France, The Theater of St Gallen Switzerland, and The Palazzo Vendramin Venice, Italy. 

The artist has completed residencies at the Watermill Center in New York at Villa Medici in Rome, Italy. Wagner won the prize of the Prix Lyrique Pierre Berge in 2013 for his publication with the Verlag for Moderne Kunst Wagner in der Schweiz.