François Bard is recognized as one of the great French figurative painters working today. He was born in Lille, France in 1959. The artist graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1980. He was selected for a two-year residency at the prestigious Casa de Velázquez, Madrid from 1988 to 1990, and was awarded the Prix Paul Belmondo at Paris’s Salon d’Automne in 1990. Bard taught as a professor at the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1990 to 2000. Francois Bard now lives and works in Provence, in southeastern France.
François Bard’s work is found in private and corporate collections worldwide including the Société Générale, Paris; the Ralph Lauren Corporation; Christian Dior’s Dior Homme 2018 Collection worldwide; and The Firmdale Crosby Street Hotel, New York City, New York. Bard’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Biennale of Issy, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France (2005, 2011, 2017); the Herman Krikhaar Foundation, Salernes, France (2019); among others; and is currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France (2024-25).
