Adele Renault is a visual artist and muralist, known for her hyper- and photo-realistic paintings from smaller works on canvas and large-scale public pieces. She was born in Liège, Belgium. Renault's work is a combination of traditional and contemporary techniques.https://vroomandvarossieau.com/blogs/interviews/adele-renault-interview-1
Career Renault was born in 1988, and raised in the Belgian Ardennes. Her father is Jean-Christophe Renault, a composer and pianist, and her mother is Véronique Gillet, a composer and guitarist. Her sister is the singer and pianist Mathilde Renault.
Renault has lived and studied in different countries. She studied visual arts from classical oil painting to modern spray can graffiti, while experimenting with new media and graphic design. Renault graduated in 2010 from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Many of her paintings have plant and animal imagery. When speaking on her Plantasia series, she emphasised her connection to plants, and how her mum taught her how to grow her own food. When painting murals of birds and bird feathers in her series Gutter Paradise, she stated that the feathers had "become [her] own language".
Retrospective Exhibitions
2022 - Bananas solo show at Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA, USA 2022 - Santa Fe solo show, Artist residency at Fundación Yguales, Santa Fe, NM, USA 2021 - Plantasia - Birds of Paradise solo show at Galerie Quai 4, Liege, Belgium 2021 - Figure and Form at Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA, USA 2020 - Sway group show at Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA, USA. 2020 - Un détail devenu sujet solo show with PDP Gallery/Urban Art Fair, Paris, France. 2019 - Crossing Lines group show at PDP Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2019 - In Bloom group show at Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA, USA 2019 - Where art you? group show at PDP Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2019 - 25: In Black & White group show curated by Juxtapoz, Miami, FL, USA 2018 - Tyson's Corner solo show at Ring Side Lounge, Jersey City, NJ, United States. 2018 - Urban Legends group show at Antler Gallery, Portland, OR, USA 2017 - ONSET group show at First Amendment Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2017 - Unruly Suspects at Unruly Gallery, Amsterdam 2016 - Les Hommes Intègres solo show at Galerie Droste, Germany 2016 - Group show at Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, USA 2016 - D'après Nature Group show at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Verviers, Belgium 2016 - Group show at Newcastle Cathedral, Newcastle, UK. Curated by Unit 44. 2016 - Group show at Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2015 - 3D trio show at Yoko Uhoda Gallery, Liege, Belgium 2015 - November/December, Campthepigeon solo show at Havas, Chicago, USA. 2014 - Adele Renault: Pigeon Voyageur solo show at Galerie Droste, Germany. 2014 - Les Clochards Célestes solo show at White Walls, San Francisco.
Public art 2022 - Mural commissioned by the Stavelot Cultural Center, Belgium 2022 - Mural commissioned by the City of Gent, Belgium 2022 - Indoor installation of 9 panels commissioned by CHU Hospital, Liege, Belgium 2021 - Parlement Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 2021 - Mural commissioned by Torhout Cultural Center, Torhout, Belgium 2021 - Mural commissioned by Vectura, Beauchamp, France 2021 - Mural for New Brighton, Liverpool, UK 2020 - Mural for Maryland council, London, UK 2020 - Mural for Artscape festival, Linkoping, Sweden 2020 - Mural for Art Public, commissioned by Wallonia region, Liege, Belgique 2019 - Murals on deck 16 and 17 of first Virgin Voyage cruiseship, Genoa, Italie 2019 - Mural for Own Media, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2019 - Mural in Lodi Art District, New Delhi, India 2018 - Indoor mural commissioned by Facebook, Northridge, CA, USA 2018 - Mural for Sir Hotels, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2018 - Indoor mural for BNP Paribas real estate headquarters, Paris, France 2018 - Rock Werchter festival, Curated by Arne Quinze, Werchter, Belgium 2017 - Various murals for CIM Group, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2017 - Temporary mural for Lollapalooza Festival, Berlin, Germany 2016 - STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2016 - Urban Nation Museum, Berlin, Germany 2016 - Mural commissioned by Area environment, Miami design district, Miami, FL, USA
Printed publications 2022 - Plantasia Series, Artist; Adele Renault, Introduction: Alexandre Latscha, Publisher: Moberg Gallery, Distributor: SCB Distributors, 2020 - Gutter Paradise by Adele Renault, Introduction: Alexandre Latscha, Publisher: PDP gallery, Distributor: SCB Distributors, 2018 - Feathers and Faces by Adele Renault, Introduction: Carlo McCormick, Publisher: Adele Renault, Distributor: SCB Distributors,
Articles & interviews 2023 - Interception Urban Art, interview online ‘Known from London to L.A. we met de great Adele Renault in Brussels’ 2022 - Vroom and Varossieau, interview ‘Adele Renault interview' 2022 - This is Colossal, article by Grace Ebert ‘Massive Leafy Murals by Adele Renault’ 2022 - The Chrystel Ship, article ‘Adele Renault’ 2022 - Galaxy of Art, article and interview video ‘Artist of the moment… Adele Renault' 2022 - Le Vif, interview (in French) ‘Portrait Adele Renault sa plus grosse claque son plus gros risque son mantra' 2021 - My Modern Met, article by Margherita Cole ‘Giant rainbow Murals inspired by the secret colors of pigeon feathers’ 2021 - As Adverture, article (in Dutch) ‘De graffitiartieste die schoonheid vindt waar een ander vergeet te kijken’ 2021 - Street Art News, article ‘Plantasia’ 2021 - New Bright on Streetart, article and interview video ‘Adele Renault’ 2021 - Brooklyn Street Art, interview ‘Adele Renault grows a new garden: “Call it Plantasia”’ 2021 - Lumières de la Ville, article (in French) Street artiste Adele Renault pigeons ville’ 2021 - Monochronicle, article ‘’Adele Renault’https://monochronicle.com/artist/adele-renault/ 2021 - Stadt Gent, article (in Dutch) 'Adele Renault’ 2020 - London Mural Festival, article ‘Adele Renault' 2020 - Mu in the City, article (in French) ‘Adele Renault debate sa fresque dans le cadre d’art public Liege’ 2019 - The American Pigeon Museum, article ‘Adele Renault’ 2019 - Collater, article ‘Adele Renault, hyper-realistic street art in Delhi’ 2018 - Mixed Grill, article (in Dutch) ‘Reusachtige duiven van Adele Renault’ 2018 - Brooklyn Street Art, article ‘Martha Cooper and Adele Renault: Pigeon fancier in Moscow’ 2017 - Sircle Collection, article by Claudia Fuggetti ‘Sir Albert's New Mural by Adele Renault’ 2017 - Urban Nation, article ‘Adele’ 2016 - Hotbook, article (in Spanish) ‘Adele Renault’ 2016 - Art is just a Four Letter Word - Gallery, article (in German) ‘Adele Renault - Les Hommes Integres’ 2016 - Straatmuseum, article (in Dutch) ‘Gutter Paradise’ 2015 - Widewalls, article by Miljard Ficpatrik: ‘Adele Renault on Her Artistic Journey and Passion for Pigeons’ 2015 - This is Colossal, article by Christopher Jobson ‘Hatched from a Discarded Egg on a Chicago Windowsill, ‘Camp’ the Pigeon Becomes a Muse for Adele Renault’s Giant Oil Paintings’ 2014 - Dutch Culture USA, 'Adele Renault’s solo at White Walls in SF'
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