Loup Sarion, French/American, born 1987, lives and works in New York City, Brooklyn, USA. Studied at école nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, 2010 – 2015, Paris and Cooper Union School of Art, Brooklyn, USA, 2013.
His sculptures blur the line between the body and object, intimacy and abstraction. His creative process often begins with clumsy sketches, which are then enlarged and transformed into sculptural forms—whether noses, hats, or luminous sculptures reminiscent of bones. Through his works, Sarion delves into intimate narratives and androgyny, playing with the interplay of concave and convex shapes.
His materials, often imbued with history, reflect his obsession with past lives: worn belts transformed into sinuous bas-reliefs, or noses sculpted from beeswax or polished aluminum, embodying portraits of strangers, lovers and anonymous figures encountered in the city or on the subway. He has always believed that a single facial feature is enough to tell an entire story.
Neither masculine nor feminine, the nose holds a unique place at the center of the face, charged with eroticism, grace, and awkwardness. It presents a world of projection—every bump, pore, and curve revealing something about its owner.
Sarion captures intimacy and imperfections through tactile forms that engage with the body, architecture, and layers of human history, creating „mille-feuilles“ where geological processes and human traces intertwine.
EXHIBITIONS:
Selected exhibitions 2024: Museum MAC VAL, Paris, France, group / solo presentation Material Art Fair, Mexico City / presentation Felix Art Fair, LA, USA / Swivel Gallery, New York, Brooklyn, USA (group exhibition, May/June)
Selected exhibitions 2023: Helena Anrattre, NY, USA (Jan/Feb 2023, group), Berthold Pott, Cologne, GER (Jan-April 2023), M+B Los Angeles, USA (Jan/Feb 2023, group), International Object, New York, USA (group, March 2023) / Windows, Brussels, Belgium (solo) / Rubens Castle, Zemst, Belgium (group)
Past exhibitions: AD New York, USA (duo) / Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany (solo) / C L E A R I N G New York, USA (duo together with Harold Ankarrt) / Jeanroch Dard, Brussels, Belgium (solo) / Formatocomodo, Madrid, Spain (solo) / Kunstverein Heppenheim, Germany (solo) / M+B Los Angeles, USA (duo) / Sorry We Are Closed, Brussels, Belgium (duo) / Spazio A, Pistoia, Italy (solo) Selected group exhibitions: Carl Kostyal, Sweden, MacVal Museum, France / Socrates sculpture park, New York, USA / International Objects, New York, USA, Power Flower Biennale de Nice, museums of the City of Nice, France
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(unique piece +1 AP), side view
(unique piece +1 AP), front view
Loup Sarion at NADA MIAMI, Dec 2018
Loup Sarion chapo duo exhibition at C L E A R I N G, New York, 2018 (with Harold Ancart)
Loup Sarion chapo duo exhibition at C L E A R I N G, New York, 2018 (with Harold Ancart)
Loup Sarion chapo duo exhibition at C L E A R I N G, New York, 2018 (with Harold Ancart)
Loup Sarion everybody is somebodys secret solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 2018
Loup Sarion everybody is somebodys secret solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 2018
Loup Sarion everybody is somebodys secret solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 2018
Loup Sarion everybody is somebodys secret solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 2018
Loup Sarion everybody is somebodys secret solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 2018
Loup Sarion everybody is somebodys secret solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 2018
Loup Sarion everybody is somebodys secret solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 2018
Loup Sarion everybody is somebodys secret solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 2018
Loup Sarion Smooth like an alibi solo exhibition at FORMATOCOMODO, Madrid, Spain, 2018
Loup Sarion Smooth like an alibi solo exhibition at FORMATOCOMODO, Madrid, Spain, 2018
Loup Sarion Smooth like an alibi solo exhibition at FORMATOCOMODO, Madrid, Spain, 2018
Loup Sarion Langue Pendue solo exhibition at SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy, 2017
Loup Sarion Langue Pendue solo exhibition at SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy, 2017
Loup Sarion Belgian Nose, wax, charcoal, polyurethane resin, 29 x 17 x 15 cm
Loup Sarion Humidity solo exhibition at JEANROCHDARD, Brussels, Belgium, 2016
Loup Sarion Humidity solo exhibition at JEANROCHDARD, Brussels, Belgium, 2016
Loup Sarion Not really really group exhibition at Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium, 2016
Loup Sarion Le Nouveau Monde Industriel group exhibition at Galeria CONTINUA, Les Moulins, France, 2016
Loup Sarion Le Nouveau Monde Industriel group exhibition at Galeria CONTINUA, Les Moulins, France, 2016
Loup Sarion Vein Section group exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany, 2017
Loup Sarion Vein Section group exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany, 2017
Link to his solo exhibiton „everybody is somebody´s secret“, Berthold Pott, Cologne, April/May 2018
LOUP SARION: Born 1987 in Toulouse (France), lives and works in New York, USA.
Education
école nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris (2010-2015)
Cooper Union School of art, New York (2013)
Selected exhibition
2023
Loup Sarion Drawings by Sculptors, group exhibition at Helena Anrattre, New York, USA (Jan/Feb 2023)
Loup Sarion Love and Human Remains, group exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, GER (Jan-April 2023)
Loup Sarion at M+B, Los Angeles, USA (Jan-March 2023)
Loup Sarion at International Object, New York, USA (March 2023)
2022
Saliva solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany
FlowerPower Biennale des Arts de Nice, France, curated by Marie Maertens and Cedric Teisseire, June-Sept 2022
Marks of Absence at French Institut Munich, GER
2021
Shining Flesh duo exhibition together with Charlotte van der Borght, at AD, New York, USA
group exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne
2020
group exhibition Museum Mac Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
2019
duo exhibition „tuff titties“ Loup Sarion/Al Freeman at Sorry We Are Closed, Brussel, Belgium
group exhibition „Malmö Session“ at Carl Kostyal, Malmö, Sweden
duo exhibition „Cannibal valley“ Daniel Boccato / Loup Sarion at M+B, Los Angeles, USA
solo exhibition at Great Jones, New York
group exhibition at Socrates Park, Brooklyn, USA (from Oct 2019)
solo exhibition „Milk in my eyes“ at Kunstverein Heppenheim, Germany
2018
duo exhibition „Chapo“ Harold Ancart / Loup Sarion, at C-L-E-A-R-I-N-G, New York
solo exhibition smooth like an alibi at Galería FormatoComodo, Madrid, Spain
solo exhibition everybody is somebody´s secret at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany
2017
solo exhibition Langue Pendue, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
2016
solo exhibition humidity, JeanRochDard gallery, Brussels, Belgium
group exhibition Not really really, Collection Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Brussels
group exhibition Le nouveau monde industriel, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, FR (cur. Nicolas Bourriaud)
group exhibition Le nouveau monde industriel, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, FR (cur. Nicolas Bourriaud)
duo exhibition I cut out the mug and went to the bottle, EXOEXO, Paris, FR (duo with Strauss Bourque Lafrance)
