Tristan Soler was born in Paris in 1967, where he still lives. He is married to the photographer Sarah May, with whom he has two children, Lou and Roman. As a visual artist, he works with painting, sculpture, drawing, and performance art. His work is regularly exhibited in France and abroad. He collaborates on various publications as a critic, illustrator and graphic designer. He also writes novels, short stories and poems. He has worked in the theater as set designer and actor. He teaches visual arts to children and teenagers. He is a graduate from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. He has a passion for travel, having visited more than thirty countries around the world, especially in Asia, in order to discover people and their arts as well as nature, with a particular interest in bird watching.

Group exhibitions

1990
Moulin du Roy, with Act-Up, against AIDS, Sens.
1994
International Workshop, Brande, Denmark.
Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Prix Fénéon, Paris.
1995
Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris.
1996
Salon de Montrouge.
Voeux d'Artistes, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt.
1997
Galerie Jean Attali, Paris.
1998
Galerie Maeght, Barcelona, Espana.
2001
Galerie Guigon, Paris.
2002
International Workshop, Brande, Denmark.
2004
Katharsis Gallery, Fusion-art and GPK gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Solo exhibitions

2000
Galerie Caractères, Paris.
2001
Librairie Marelle, Paris.
Amorphophallus, Galerie La Hune, Paris.
2002-2003
Private exhibition, Paris

Private collections

France, Espagne, Danemark, USA, Russie.

Works for the living arts

1993
L’enfer du bibliophile, short cuts of Eddie Benalia, Paris.
1994
Désir, desire, desejo, scenery for the musician of jazz Steve Lacy, Gubelkian Fondation, Lisbon, and Porto, Portugal.
Épreuves, exorcismes, scenery for an adaptation of Henri Michaux by Catherine Zittoun, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
1997
Casse-pipe, after Céline, adaptation of Olivier Maltinti, actor on the play, at Le Hublot, Colombes.
Les taches sombres, by Minush Jero, adaptated by Dominique Dolmieu, actor on the play, at L'Échangeur, Bagnolet, and in Albania, in Tirana, Durres, Skodra.

Critics

Jean-Louis Gerbaud, une sculpture du symbolique, in Barca ! / Poésie Politique Psychanalyse N° 15 : L’Utopie du Virtuel.
Jean-Paul Longavesne, Machines à peindre, interview by Louis and Tristan Soler, in l’Âne, le magazine freudien, N° 56.

Publications

Amorphophallus, a book by Louis Soler, Tristan Soler and Sarah May, Maeght editions, 2001.

Illustrations

Horizon fixe, by Jean Couvreur, éditions Caractères, 1999.
Kenneth Rexroth, L’Âne, le magazine freudien, N° 60.
Jazz en suite, by Franck Médioni, éditions du Guarde-Temps, 2000.
Ce que Lacan disait des femmes, by Colette Soler, éditions du Champ Lacanien, 2003.
Fièvre, by Anton Pashku, Les taches sombres, by Minush Jero, 2002, and Le trou du péché, by Yorgos Maniotis, 2004, éditions L’espace d’un Instant.