Vincent Leroy is a parisian based French artist.
Born and brought up in rural Normandy, at an early age he developed a taste for experimention using the odds and sods of everyday life as his building material. After a technical training, he moved to Paris where he studied industrial design at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle. During his studies he produced his first kinetic works. These were immediately spotted and exhibited in various Parisian galleries & museums. After graduation he collaborated as a designer with various companies and architects and also set up his own artistic studio in Paris.
Hybrid, Vincent Leroy’s work oscillates between the real and the virtual, the natural and the artificial, drawing its inspiration from both nature, which often sites his work, and from the digital world.
Whether its kinetic sculptures, immersive installations or monumental works, movement is almost always Vincent Leroy's raw material. The kind of movement that inspires life, amazement, and a permanently shifting viewpoint. A movement that the artist likes to slow down, revealing fluidity, and flexibility, uncovering and magnifying the hidden gaps that often remain unnoticed in today’s frenetic race for speed and performance. Through his choice of rhythm, the artist proposes a shift in the way of seeing and observing.
Through a subtle mix of poetry and technology, the artist plays with perceptions and proposes a detachment from reality. Ripples, reflections, superimpositions, the play of light and transparencies plunge the visitor into another dimension, light and airy, dreamlike and contemplative. His installations propose not only visual experiences, but more importantly ones that touch the body and the emotions.
Vincent Leroy’s works have been exhibited all over the world and the artist has collaborated with many prestigious brands (Rémy Martin, Hermès, Iris Van Herpen, Nike, Saint Laurent, Cartier etc…).
Projects
2024
Sunrise I permanent installation, Jeddah Edition Hotel, Saudi Arabia
Floating Lenses I mobile, Eglise Saint-Georges, Festival Interstice, Caen, France
Blue Point Cloud I mobile, Santorini, Greece
Ellipses I kinetic installation for Cartier, Shanghai
Point cloud I mobile, Miyakojima, Japan
2023
Time unlimited I kinetic sculptures for Cartier, Watches & Wonders 2023, Geneva
Molecular cloud I monumental kinetic installation, Coachella Festival, USA
Floating lenses I temporary installation, Joshua Tree, USA
Echo lens I temporary installation, Emerald Lake, Canada
Floating lenses I mobile, Cloître de l’Abbaye aux Hommes, Caen, France
Molecular cloud I kinetic installation, Beijing Sanlitum, Beijing, China
Bloom I permanent installation, Sanya Duty Free, Hainan, China
2022
Slow lens I temporary installation, Shanghai Suhewan Mixc World / UCCA, Shanghai
Ferroconcrete 51 I sound mobile in collaboration with Jérôme Echenoz, group show, Genius Loci, l’Appartement d’Auguste Perret, Paris
Lens cloud I temporary installation, Ritz Paris, Paris
Lens cloud I installation, Villa Vendicari, Sicily / Italy
Solar lens I solo exhibition, Latham & Watkins, Paris
Kaleidolens I kinetic sculptures for Saint Laurent flagship stores, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macau, Chengdu, Guangzhou
2021
Kaleidolens I kinetic sculptures for Saint Laurent flagship stores, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, Tokyo, Seoul
Flow in nebula I solo exhibition, Chi K11 Art Space Guangzhou, China
Metamorphs I permanent installation, Shanghai Astronomy Museum
Light motions I solo exhibition, Chi K11 Art Space Shenyang, China
Lenscape I itinerant installation, Iceland
Light, black hole, white noise I solo exhibition, Chi K11 Art Space, Wuhan, China
Black nebula I Chi K11 Art Space, Wuhan, China
Blue floating lines I permanent monumental kinetic installation, H66, Wuhan, China
Slow lens I kinetic sculpture, Realites, Nantes, France
2020
Bubbles canyon / research, Bryce Canyon, USA
Boreal halo / monumental installation, On-Festival, Arles, France
Molinoptere / research, Lanzarote, Spain
Illusion lens / research, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Boreal halo / monumental installation, Beaux-Arts Museum, Rennes, France
Mécanique élémentaire I solo exhibition, Scopitone, Nantes, France
Slow lens I installation for Iris Van Herpen photoshoot, Paris, France
The sun always rises in the east I permanent monumental kinetic installation, Kunming, China
Rêve de mécanique élémentaire I scarf design for Hermès, France
2018
Desert I installation, Arizona, USA
Floating particule I monumental temporary installation, Première Vision, Paris, France
Sunrise I temporary installation for Nike, Grande Arche de la Défense, France
Red ripples I kinetic sculpture for Remy Martin, Cognac, France
2017
La Maison Rémy Martin I solo exhibition, Remy Martin, Xiamen, China
Only sculpture I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Paris, France
Maison Rémy Martin I solo exhibition, Rémy Martin, Shanghai, China
Le temps en mouvement I solo exhibition, NeC Gallery, Paris, France
White sunset I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Paris, France
Stone age ten elements I group exhibition, NeC Gallery, Art Paris Fair - Grand Palais, Paris, France
2016
Red Ripples I kinetic sculpture for Rémy Martin, New-York, Chicago, Guangzhou, London...
Boreal Halo I monumental installation, Stara Trznica - Biela Noc, Bratislava, Slovakia
Boreal Halo I monumental installation, Kunsthalle - Biela Noc / Kosice, Slovakia
Stone Age I group exhibition, NeC Gallery, Paris, France
2015
Elastic limit / group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Paris, France
Heart ripples I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Cinétique-Numérique I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Paris, France
White sunset I group exhibition, NeC Gallery, Paris, France
Momentum I group exhibition, Pablo Goebel Fine Arts, Mexico, Mexico
Boreal halo I monumental installation, National Museum of Contemporary Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
Orange sunset I group exhibition, NeC Gallery, Art Paris - Grand Palais, Paris, France
Black and white I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Paris, France
Red unicycle I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Paris, France
2014
Offline Orange I group exhibition Tribute to Denise René, Miami, USA
Ripples I kinetic sculpture, Kleine Museum, Weissenstadt, Germany
Offline Orange I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Paris, France
Ripples I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Auréole Boréale I monumental installation, Nuits Sonores, Lyon, France
Auréole Boréale I monumental installation, Designer's Days, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
Variations cinétiques I solo exhibition, NeC Gallery, Paris, France
Ripples I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Paris, France
Particule élémentaire I group exhibition, NeC Gallery, Art Paris - Grand Palais, Paris, France
2013
Ripples I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, Paris, France
Monocycles migrateurs I group exhibition Tribute to Denise René, Miami, USA
Ripples I group exhibition, Denise René Gallery, FIAC - Grand Palais, Paris, France
Champ mécanique I monumental temporary installation, Centre Georges Pompidou, Metz, France
Amibe à Miroirs I kinetic sculpture, Accenture, Paris, France
Champ mécanique I temporary installation for l’Année Le Nôtre, Versailles Castle, France
Motion sculptures I personal exhibition, NeC Gallery, Hong-Kong
2012
Traméléon I permanent installation for the tramway T5, Lyon, France
Particule élémentaire I group exhibition, NeC Gallery, Paris, France
2011
Sculptures en mouvement I group exhibition, NeC Gallery, Paris, France
Kinetica Art Fair 2011 I group exhibition, Kinetica Museum, London, England
Sculptures en mouvement I group exhibition, NeC Gallery, Paris, France
Champ mécanique I monumental installation for l’Art en la Matière, Lille, France
Electric flowers I installation for the Environment Ministry, Paris, France
2010
Respiration I temporary installation, Nuit Blanche, Amiens, France
Lune brouillée noire I kinetic sculpture for the Red Bull Show, London, England
Mécanique élémentaire I personal exhibition, Calvairiennes Chapel Art Center, Mayenne, France
2009
Electric Flowers I temporary installation, Nuit Blanche, Mayenne, France
Cloud I permanent installation, Docks Vauban, Le Havre, France
Particule élémentaire noire I kinetic sculpture, Pierre Berger Art Space, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Supernature I permanent installation, Rivetoile Center, Strasbourg, France
Moucharabiehs I permanent installation, Rivetoile Center, Strasbourg, France
Fragile I group exhibition, Bastille Art Center, Grenoble, France
Champ mécanique I permanent installation, Renault Design Center, Bucharest, Romania
2007
Respiration I solo exhibition, Sultana Gallery, Paris, France
Respiration I temporary installation, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
Lune brouillée I kinetic scultpure, Show Off Fair - Sultana Gallery, Paris, France
The invaders I kinetic scultpure, Gallery 52 13, Paris, France
Electric flowers I personal exhibition, Sultana Gallery, Paris, France
Docks Art Fair I group exhibition, Dock Art Fair - Galerie 52 13, Lyon, France
Champ Mécanique I temporary monumental installation, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
Champ de Bulles I temporary installation, Versailles Castle, France
Rodin Museum I solo exhibition for Airbus, Rodin Museum, Paris, France
Disco ball I solo exhibition, Gallery 52 13, Berlin, Germany
Turning pages I group exhibition, Gallery 52 13, Berlin, Germany
2006
Traméléon I permanent installation for the tramway T3, Lyon, France
Somewher over the rainbow I permanent installation for DRKW, London, England
Variations de taille I group exhibition, Gallery Yoshiki Hishinuma Tokyo & Gallery 52 13, Berlin, Japan & Germany
Champ Bleu I temporary installation, Grenoble, France
2005
Big bubble I temporary installation, For Love - Georges Verney-Carron, Lyon, France
Champ mécanique I monumental temporary installation, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Chiromancie lunaire I temporay installation, Art Forum, Berlin, Germany
Bubbles I temporary installation, Museum of Sciences & Industry, Paris, France
Bubbles I temporary installation for Tokyu Hands, Bunkamura Center, Tokyo, Japan
Voyages Mécaniques I temporary installation, Jules Verne Exhibition, Amiens, France
2004
Bubbles I temporary installation for Canal+, place Vendôme, Paris, France
Winterschlussverkauf I group exhibition, Gallery 52 13, Berlin, Germany
Monocycles migrateurs I temporary installation, Paris, France
Particule élémentaire I kinetic sculpture, Renault, Guyancourt, France
Bubbles I solo exhibition, Gallery 52 13, Berlin, Germany
Leading lights I group exhibition, Gallery Gransden, London, England
2003
Soft machines 2 I solo exhibition, Le Dépôt, Tokyo, Japan
Monocycles migrateurs I group exhibition Tour de France for the the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Cologne, Germany
Machines I solo exhibition, Vertu Showroom, Paris, France
Champs de canes I monumental permanent installation for Georges Verney-Carron, Lyon, France
Chiromancie lunaire I temporary installation, Artelab Show, Paris, France
Eoliennes I permanent installation, Nomad Garden, Paris, France
Bubbles I temporary installation, Art Entreprise, Villeurbanne, France
Bubbles I research award from Culture and Communication Ministry, Paris, France
2002
The Patience of ostriches I kinetic installation with support of the Culture & Communication Ministry, Paris, France
On the other side of the mirror I permanent installation, restaurant Sketch, London, England
Dichroic circles I permanent installation, restaurant Sketch, London, England
Eau pour tous I temporary installation, Museum of Sciences and Industry, Paris, France
Régiment des camouflets I kinetic sculpture for Yoshiko Yamada, Tokyo, Japan
Le tournoi I temporary installation, Première Vision, Paris, France
Soft machines I solo exhibition, Courant d’Art Gallery, Paris, France
2001
En plein vol I temporary installation, Museum of Sciences and Industry, Paris, France
Loft machines I solo exhibition, Brief Encounters, Paris, France
Kinetic sculptures I solo exhibition, Percy Miller Gallery, London, England
Particule élémentaire I kinetic sculpture for Laurent Garnier, Paris, France
2000
ANAT I kinetic scenography, National Textile Arts Workshop, Paris, France
The patience of ostriches I temporary installation for Nissan motorshow stand, Paris, London, Genève
Particule élémentaire I kinetic sculpture, Inventi, Antwerp, Belgium
Au plaisir I group exhibition, Paris, France
Drawings I group exhibition, Percy Miller Gallery, London, England
10e anniversaire de la galerie Claude André I group exhibition, Claude André Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Les machines qui dansent I solo exhibition, Claude André Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1999
Organes mécaniques I solo exhibition for Renault, Morte Fontaine, France
Espace Pierre Cardin I group exhibition, Pierre Cardin Space, Paris, France
O,V,N,I I group exhibition, Area Gallery, Paris, France