Adrien Marçais was born in Normandy, France, in 1986. He completed his BFA at L’Ecole Nationale des Arts de Dakar, Senegal, from 2009 to 2011 and his MFA at L’Université Paris-Sorbonne in 2012. He has had solo exhibitions at Sosta Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2014; the Gildo Pastor Center of Monaco in 2009; La Galerie de La Tour in Paris in 2009; and La Galerie de l’Amérique Latine de Monaco in 2008. Marçais participated in group shows at the Bushwick Open Studio in 2016; the New York Residency Studio Program in Brooklyn in 2015; and the National Biennale de Dakar, Senegal, in 2016. In 2015, Marçais was in residence at the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design in NYC, under the mentorship of Jules de Balincourt, as well as at MACAQ in Paris in 2008 and with artist Amahigueré Dolo in Mali, West Africa, in 2014. He participated in the ESKFF residency program in the fall of 2022 and was part of a group show at GR Gallery, followed by MANA Contemporary the following year. Regarding his professional experience, he worked at Perrotin Gallery in NYC from 2017 until 2020 and now works for Alex Katz’s studio.
