Sabine Mirlesse

Sabine Mirlesse is a contemporary Franco-American artist living and working in Paris. Her work focuses on the visibility of thresholds and the interiority of landscape, with a particular interest in how geological sites are divined, interpreted and narrated. Weaving its way through mineral narratives and cosmologies, Mirlesse’s multidisciplinary approach manifests itself in an accumulation of layers, complementing sculpture with photography, installation, video and writing.

Mirlesse received her Bachelor of Arts degree (double majoring in Philosophy of Religion and English Literature) from McGill University in Montréal, Canada, in 2008. A couple of years later she graduated from Parsons the New School for Design in New York City, U.S.A., with a Master of Fine Arts degree (Photography) in 2010.

Mirlesse teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and has been invited to participate in workshops and conferences at the Pompidou Centre, the Sorbonne and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. She is also a studio resident at Poush in Paris as well as being Artist Laureate for the French Ministry of Culture’s Mondes Nouveaux prize.

Additionally, she has contributed writing to The Paris Review, BOMB Magazine, Aperture, Art in America, The Happy Reader, FOAM, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, and the Pompidou Centre’s Les Cahiers du MNAM quarterly journal, collecting more than thirty interviews (including one of the last interviews Christo did before passing away in 2020) over the last decade, as part of an ongoing long-term conversation series with various artists and curators.

Mirlesse has participated in several international residency programmes, like Galerie de Visu, Marseille, France (2010); 4 Akos, Art Center of Social Studies, Erevan, Armenia (2012); Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany, Italy (2017); Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, U.S.A. (2018); Mission 0, curated by Jean de Loisy & Laurent de Robert, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy (2021); Oasis, AlUla Artist Residency, AlUla, Saudi Arabia (2022); Les Ateliers des Arques, curated by Emmanuel Tibloux, Le Lot, France (2023); and Poush, Aubervilliers & Clichy, France (2020-2024).

Mirlesse’s solo exhibitions include As If It Should Have Been a Quarry, La Galerie Particulière, Paris (2015); As If It Should Have Been a Quarry, La Galerie Particulière, Brussels (2016); Pietra di Luce, Galerie Au Roi, Paris (2019); Pietra di Luce, Galerie Bigaignon, Paris (2020); Nelle Viscere: Ardent Terrane, Poush, Clichy, France (2022); Crystalline Thresholds | Les Portes de Givre, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France (2022); Ofrenda, Le Marais des Arques, ENS, Les Arques, France (2023); Voyant, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris (2024); and Instruments, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2025).

To this could be added the following group exhibitions: Parsons Graduate Photography Thesis Exhibition, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, New York, New York, U.S.A. (2010); Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, SÍM House, Reykjavik (2011); What matters now? Proposals for a New Front Page, Aperture Gallery, New York, New York, U.S.A. (2011); Marseille vu, Bibliothèque Départementale, Marseille, France (2013); Against Nature, Gallery Ho, New York, New York, U.S.A. (2014); Fragments, La Frontiera, curated by Beatrice Carraciolo, Paris (2017); Cette Histoire qu’on découvre en creusant la terre, curated by Yvannoé Kruger, L’Orfevrerie, St Denis, France (2019); United, Galerie Bigaignon, Paris (2020); Still Light, Cité de L’Image Clervaux, Luxembourg (2020); Les Métamorphoses, Vidéodrome, Porto Vecchio, Corsica (2020); Cara B’ Weil Art Foundation, Port Andratx, Mallorca, Spain (2021); Les Revelateurs, Galerie Christian Berst, curated by Anael Pigeat & Yvannoé Kruger, Paris (2021); Borderlines, Pavillon Vendôme, Clichy, France (2022); Palimpsest of Time, Mabiti Palm Grove, AlUla, Saudi Arabia (2022); Mondes Nouveaux, curated by Caroline Naphegyi & Bernard Blistène, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris (2023); To Walk in the Image, curated by Susan Bright, St Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland (2023); Quelque Chose Ici Va Venir, curated by Emmanuel Tibloux, Les Ateliers, Les Arques, France (2023); Histoire de Pierres, curated by Jean de Loisy & Sam Stourdzé, Villa Medici, Rome, (2023); Pratiques Cosmomorphes, curated by Nathalie Ergino, Institut d’art Contemporain Villeurbanne, Lyon, France (2024); Rire sur un Volcan, Poush, Aubervilliers & Clichy, France (2025); Apocalypse - Hier et demain, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (2025); Par quarte chemins, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France (2025); Symbiosium 2, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris (2025); and In Vivo, Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France (2025).