Born in 1977 in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Joël Andrianomearisoa lives and works across multiple territories: Paris, Antananarivo, and Magnat-l’Étrange. He graduated from the École Spéciale d’Architecture (Paris) as an architect in 2003. Read More He has presented his work in several prestigious institutions worldwide and in the context of major contemporary art events at Kunsthalle Praha in Prague, Dallas Contemporary, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington DC, the Macaal in Marrakech, the Dakar Biennale, the Sydney Biennale, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Hamburger Bahnhof, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In 2019, he represented Madagascar for the first time at the 58th Venice Biennale with a monumental installation for its national pavilion. His works are part of the collections of the Zeitz Mocaa (Cape Town), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Smithsonian (Washington DC), the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York), the Sztuki Museum (Łódź), and the Yavarhoussen Collection (Antananarivo). He received the Arco Madrid Audemars Piguet Prize in 2016. In 2019, the Republic of Madagascar named him a Chevalier of Arts and Letters, and in 2024, France conferred upon him the title of Chevalier of Arts and Letters. In 2025, he was named Commandeur of Arts and Letters in Madagascar.