ABOUT

Iris Arnaud is a Franco-American artist whose work pulses with emotion, movement, and soul. With a background in classical and modern dance, her canvases carry the rhythm of the body — a visual choreography where color, texture, and gesture move as one.

Deeply sensitive and intuitively expressive, Iris channels her inner world into bold, tactile compositions that blur the line between painting and performance. Her practice is as visceral as it is intentional — pouring, pressing, painting with her hands and body — each stroke a direct line from feeling to form.

Fifteen years of psychoanalysis have shaped her artistic lens, allowing her to translate complex emotional landscapes into a language that speaks beyond words. What begins as personal becomes universal: a tension between chaos and clarity, light and shadow, vulnerability and strength.

Influenced by the likes of Zao Wou-Ki, Joan Mitchell, and Yves Klein, Iris fuses technique with instinct, control with surrender. The result? A raw, elegant expression of the human experience — part ritual, part rebellion, all heart.

Her work invites you in, not just to look — but to feel. To pause. To breathe. To connect.

SOLO SHOWS 

2025 - Madlab, Domaine Tarbouriech, Sete, France.
2025 - Anima Nuda, Mairie du 7e arrondissement de Paris, France.
2025 - A Fleur de Peau, Espace Clery, Paris, France.
2024 - Portes Ouvertes, Atelier Rue de Grenelle, Paris 7, France.
2023 - Axis Mundi, Atelier Lardeur, Rue du Cherche Midi, Paris 6, France.
2022 - Synesthesia, Kollectif Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2021 - States Of Mind, Amoroso Gallery, Venice Beach, Los Angeles, USA. 

GROUP SHOWS 

2024 - Visions Exhibition, 60th Venice Biennale of Art, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy.

2024 - Non Daté, Cinéma Gérard Philipe, 22 Rue Louis Lejeune, 59290 Wasquehal.

2024 - Non Daté, Médiathèque de Lille, Lille, avec Mahvash Shafiei, la Maison des Femmes de Lille, la Mairie de Lille.
2024 - Anima Mundi Exhibition, 60th Venice Biennale of Art, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy.
2024 - Symbiose Arborea, Atelier de Guitarre, Rue Dauphine, Paris 6, France.
2024 - Lonely Shades, ArtX Gallery, Fremont, San Francisco, USA.
2012 - Ex Voto, Ô Château - Les Caves du Louvre, Paris 1, France. 
2011 - Cosmos, Claris Garnier Atelier, Paris 4, France.
2011 - Gimmick, Spot Gallery, Paris 7, France.
2010 - Black, Spot Gallery, Paris 7, France. 
2008 - Street, Bowery Gallery, New York, USA.
2007 - Don’t Call It Street Art, Collective Gallery 173-171, New York, USA

EDUCATION 

2004 - Académie Charpentier, Paris 6, France. 
Graduated with full marks and honors from the jury.
2001 - ESAG Penninghen, Paris 7, France.
2000 - Notre Dame de Sion, Baccalauréat ES, option Arts Plastiques, Paris 6, France.

PRESS 

September 2024 - La Voix du Nord, Non Daté, l'Art et la poésie s'unissent pour les droits humains et l'Iran, Interview written by C. TW (CLP).
June 2024 - Its Liquid Group, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Interview written by Luca Curci.
September 2023 - Mens'Up, Paris, article written by Carole Lars Huyvenaar.
October 2022 - BFA, Images Matter, Los Angeles, images from River Callaway. 
December 2007 - The Artistic Life, New York, written by Gretchen Worsley. 
December 2007 - French Morning, New York, written by Marie Camille Descamps.
  • Two women smiling in front of bookshelves; inset of framed artwork display in a newspaper article.

    September 2024

    Lille : avec « Non-daté », quand l’art et la poésie s’unissent pour les droits humains et l’Iran by C. TW.

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  • Logo with red square and text 'ITSLIQUID'

    April 2024

    Luca Curci talks withIris Arnaud during CONSCIOUSNESS, second appointment of ANIMA MUNDI 2024, at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello.

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  • Logo of l'Opinion newspaper

    October 2023

    Axis Mundi ou les questionnements d’une artiste, by Donatienne Partiot

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  • Logo displaying the text 'Men's Up' with a subtitle 'L'Homme au Quotidien' on a dark background.

    October 2023

    Entre ciel et terre. Axis Mundi, une exposition de la peintre franco-américaine Iris Arnaud.

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  • "French Morning New York" logo with red and blue text on a white background.

    December 2007


    Le "luxe suprême" selon Thibault Sandret, by Marie Camille Descamps.

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  • Logo reading 'The Artistic Life' with quote 'Art is the struggle to understand. ~Audrey Foris'

    December 2007

    “ Earlier this week I wrote about Banksy, the graffiti artist from Britain. I had dinner tonight with Iris Arnaud, a French graphic designer…” by Gretchen Worsley.

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Contact us.

studio@irisarnaudarte.com