The (; ) is a French learned society based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the . As of 2025, the president of the academy is Coline Serreau, a French actress and film director.
Background The academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a merger of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648), the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671).
Awards Currently, the provides several awards including five dedicated prizes:. . Prix et Concours. Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Prize for Music Pierre Cardin Prize for Design François-Victor Noury Prize Fondation Pierre Gianadda Prize
Previously the Académie granted the Prix Rossini for excellence in libretto or music composition.
Presidents
1995: Serge Nigg 1996: 1997: Jean Cardot 1998: Christian Langlois 1999: 2000: Marius Constant 2001: Pierre Schoendoerffer 2002: Pierre Carron 2003: 2004: Roger Taillibert 2005: Jean Prodromidès 2006: 2007: Pierre Schoendoerffer (2nd term) 2008: 2009: 2010: Roger Taillibert (2nd term) 2011: Laurent Petitgirard 2012: François-Bernard Michel (2nd term) 2013: Lucien Clergue 2014: 2015: 2016: Érik Desmazières 2017: Édith Canat de Chizy 2018: Patrick de Carolis 2019: Pierre Carron (2nd term) 2020: 2021: Alain-Charles Perrot 2022: Astrid de La Forest 2023: Michaël Levinas 2024: Adrien Goetz 2025: Coline Serreau
Members Constituted around the notion of multidisciplinarity, the brings together sixty-three members within nine artistic sections, sixteen foreign associate members and sixty-three corresponding members.
The members are grouped into nine sections: Section I: Painting Section II: Sculpture Section III: Architecture Section IV: Engraving Section V: Musical composition Section VI: Unattached (Free) members Section VII: Artistic creation in the cinema and audio-visual fields (since 1985) Section VIII: Photography (since 2005) Section IX: Choreography (since 2018)
Current members:
Section Seat Member Date I : Painting The number of seats in this section was reduced from 14 to 12 on 23 August 1967. As a consequence, the #3 and #14 seats were eliminated. Their number was further decreased from 12 to 11 on 16 June 1987. The #12 seat was transferred to section VII. The #1 seat was transferred to section VII in 1998, and their number was decreased from 11 to 10. As of 2026 there are nine members.
For a list of previous members, see: "List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Painting". 2 vacant 4 Hervé Di Rosa 2022 5 2015 6 Gérard Garouste 2017 7 Ernest Pignon-Ernest 2021 8 Tania Mouraud 2024 9 Fabrice Hyber 2018 10 Jean-Marc Bustamante 2016 11 Nina Childress 2025 13 2001 II : Sculpture Seat #4 was transferred to section VII in 1988. For a list of previous members, see:"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Sculpture" 1 Vacant 2020 2 Claude Abeille 1992 3 Jean Anguera 2013 5 Jean-Michel Othoniel 2018 6 Anne Poirier 2021 7 Pierre-Édouard 2008 8 Antoine Poncet 1993 9 Brigitte Terziev 2007 III : Architecture Seat #8 was transferred to section VII in 1985.
For a list of previous members, see:"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Architecture" 1 Jacques Rougerie 2008 2 Jean-Michel Wilmotte 2015 3 Aymeric Zublena 2008 4 Anne Démians 2021 5 Marc Barani 2018 6 Dominique Perrault 2015 7 Alain Charles Perrot 2013 9 Pierre-Antoine Gatier 2019 10 Bernard Desmoulin 2018 IV : Engraving For a list of previous members, see: "List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Engraving" 1 Érik Desmazières 2008 2 Emmanuel Guibert 2023 3 2016 4 2018 5 Catherine Meurisse 2020 6 Françoise Pétrovitch 2025 V : Musical composition For a list of previous members, see: "List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Music" 1 Laurent Petitgirard 2000 2 Bruno Mantovani 2017 3 Michaël Levinas 2009 4 Gilbert Amy 2013 5 François-Bernard Mâche 2002 6 Édith Canat de Chizy 2005 7 Régis Campo 2017 8 Thierry Escaich 2013 VI : Unattached members Seat #9 was transferred to section VII in 1985. Seats #2 and #12 were eliminated.
For a list of previous members, see: "List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Unattached" 1 William Christie 2008 3 Vacant 2024 4 Muriel Mayette-Holtz 2017 5 Guy Savoy 2026 6 Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière 2005 7 Adrien Goetz 2017 8 Vacant 2021 10 Henri Loyrette 1997 11 Patrick de Carolis 2010 13 François-Bernard Michel 2000 VII : Artistic creation in the cinema and audio-visual fields Seat #1 was transferred to section V in 1998.
For a list of previous members, see: "List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Cinema" 2 Roman Polanski 1998 3 Jean-Jacques Annaud 2007 4 Coline Serreau 2018 5 Vacant 2022 6 Régis Wargnier 2007 7 Vacant 2024 VIII : Photography Seat #1 was previously occupied by Lucien Clergue (1934-2014) Seats #3 and #4 were established in 2016 1 Vacant 2025 2 Yann Arthus-Bertrand 2006 3 Dominique Issermann 2021 4 Jean Gaumy 2016 IX : Choreography 1 Thierry Malandain 2019 2 Blanca Li 2019 3 Angelin Preljocaj 2019 4 Carolyn Carlson 2020 Foreign associate members 1 Antonio López García 2012 2 Vacant 2016 3 Moza bint Nasser 2007 4 Vacant 2025 5 Annie Leibovitz 2022 6 Giuseppe Penone 2022 7 Vacant 2023 8 Vacant 2025 9 Vacant 2019 10 Woody Allen 2004 11 Norman Foster 2007 12 Jiří Kylián 2018 13 William Kentridge 2021 14 Vacant 2024 15 Farah Pahlavi 1974 16 Philippe de Montebello 2012
See also
References
External links
Institut de France website