Vue d’exposition / Installation view IMAGES, Frac Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, 2023. Photo Clérin-Morin 
Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, élément, 2022, impression offset sur papier et objet trouvé. Vue d’exposition home alonE, Clermont-Ferrand, 2022. Photo : Bruno Silva. 
Vue d’exposition / installation view, YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, High Arts, Paris/FR, 2020 
Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Vue d’exposition / Installation view Photo abstraite, Frac Normandie, Rouen/FR, 2020. Courtesy de l’artiste et Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Marc Domage 
Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Résonance, Frac Normandie, 2018, Rouen/FR 
Installation view Untitled, Strange Days, Frac île de France, 2017. Photo Martin Agryroglio 
sans titre (play still_45), 2016, silkscreen on paper, 176 x 120 cm (69 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.) 
sans titre (play still_17), 2016. Silkscreen on paper, 176 x 120 cm (69 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.) 
installation view ONE MORE TIME, Mamco, Genève, October 28th 2015 – January 29th 2016 
sans titre (play still_14), 2015
silkscreen on paper
69 1/4 x 47 1/4 in each, dimensions variable
sans titre (play still_35), sans titre (play still_32), sans titre (play still_34),
2016, silkscreen on paper, 176 x 120 cm (69 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.)
sans titre (play still_halo VI), 2015, silkscreen on paper, 176 x 120 cm (69 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.) 
sans titre (play still_halo XI), 2015,, silkscreen on paper, 176 x 120 cm (69 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.) 
Sans titre (abstract-marguerite), 2015, print on baryte paper pasted under diasec, polyptych of 7, 56 x 40 cm each, 22 7/8 x 15 3/4 x 0 3/4 in. Installation view The Avery Show, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, September 26th – December 20th 2015 
Sans titre (abstract-marguerite), détail, 2015, print on baryte paper pasted under diasec, polyptych of 7, 56 x 40 cm each, 22 7/8 x 15 3/4 x 0 3/4 in. 
sans titre (abstract – fleur 01), 2014, print on baryte paper, 57,5 x 43 cm (22 5/8 x 16 7/8 in.) 
Sans titre (cheerleader IV), 2014, polaroïd, frame, 33 x 27 cm (13 x 10 5/8 in.) 
Sans Titre (Post 07), 2012, offset print on paper, 26 3/4 x 18 7/8 in. 
Sans titre, (projet : cosmos – fleur 14), 2010, serigraphy on paper, 175 x 119 cm (68 7/8 x 46 7/8 in.) 
L’éclipse, 2008, neons and a found image, framed 
Sans titre, 2004-2005, Diasec black and white photo, 30 x 36,5 cm (11 3/4 x 14 3/8 in.)
Biography
Pierre-Olivier Arnaud was born in 1972. He lives and works in Lyon.
His work is based on the image, that is to say the image as a motif but which tends to disappear. He questions the status that the images he collects can have, a status that is relatively blurry because of the very precariousness of these motifs and their identity. Perhaps this is why the artist does not define himself as a photographer, who takes an image for what it is and gives it to be seen in an immediate and literal way. On the contrary, it is with the invisible, fragile qualities of images, in their non-obviousness and in the representations and interpretations they can give rise to, that Pierre-Olivier Arnaud works with. Moving away from a concrete look at the image, he produces a multitude of often abstract motifs, almost always in black and white, blurring our established vision and “de-sublimating” the visible. The image thus dissolves “at first reducing the motif to bring us, in the next stage, to get closer to it and look at it in detail”*. The artist’s works are a somewhat dark, direct and honest vision of the world: inviting us to look at things differently, going beyond the evidence of glossy aesthetics and penetrating the identity itself of an image.
His work is featured in the following public collections: CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris/FR; Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; MAMCO, Geneva; Fonds Cantonal de Décoration et d’Art Visuel, Geneva; Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Paris; FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-Lès-Rouen.
Recent solo shows: Éléments, home alonE, Clermont-Ferrand (2022), Premiers Matériaux, Galerie Skopia, Geneva (2018); A Long Distance Call, Optica, Montréal/CA (2012); Lumières du jour, MAMCO, Genève/CH (2009); Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble/FR (2005).
*See the exhibition: Biens Communs III, Mamco, Geneva, cycle l’Éternel Détour, 2013
At the gallery
- un autre halo, 2016
- abstract, 2014
- d’ici là, 2011
- Nouveaux Horizons II, 2008