LORIS GRÉAUD: WOODWARD LECTURE SERIES
Loris Gréaud: Woodward Lecture Series
Monday, April 27, 5:30PM to 7PM
College for Creative Studies — Knight Gallery, A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education (11th Floor Auditorium)
460 W Baltimore St, Detroit, MI 48202
Loris Gréaud, Portrait, 2024. Photo/Video Credits: Grégoire Léon-Dufour. © Loris Gréaud, Gréaudstudio, ADAGP 2026.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit presents a talk by Paris-based artist Loris Gréaud, in partnership with the College for Creative Studies, as part of the CCS Woodward Lecture Series—a landmark program that has brought hundreds of local and international speakers to Detroit since 1998.
The talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Loris Gréaud: Cortical: Smoke + Mirrors, on view from April 4 through June 14, 2026, at Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead at MOCAD.
Bio
Since the early 2000s, Loris Gréaud has been following an atypical trajectory on the international contemporary art scene. He produces unique environments whose narrative is fraught with paradoxes and its linearity often troubled by disruptive elements. Rumours, poetry, viruses, architecture and demolition, academism and self-negation are all regularly invoked in his work, which strives to bring together physical and mental spaces on a single surface.
Gréaud has held numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Palais de Tokyo, Musée du Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the ICA London, Kunsthalle Wien, Tel Aviv Museum of Art… and his works are part of prestigious international collections such as, le Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Collection François Pinault (Venise); Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris); Nam June Paik Art Center (Korea); and Hirshhorn Museum (Washington).
For over 20 years, the artist systematically requests that no biography or chronological order be published.
