2018 A Room With You, Berthold Pott, Köln (De)
2017 A.TE.W.GB.T.TS, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris (Fr)
2015 A Room With Views, Berthold Pott, Köln (De)
2014 ASAP, Jeanroch Dard, Paris (Fr)
2013 The Joy of Man, Rod Barton, London (UK)
2012 10, Moulins des Thermes, Octave Cowbell, Metz (Fr)
2012 Open For Business, Alice, Brussels (B)
2012 Recent Works, Jeanroch Dard, Paris (Fr)
2011 No I’m WaitinG for…, Nuit Blanche Paris, Institut Suédois, Paris (Fr)
2011 Here & There, Nuit Blanche Metz, Metz (Fr)
2010 Collection, Jeanroch Dard, Paris (Fr)
2010 Wait&See, Cripta747, Torino (It)
2009 Zuper !, Milieu Galerie, Bern (Ch)
2009 Neu !, Centre Jacques Brel, Thionville (Fr)
2008 Let’s Get Cool, Jeanroch Dard, Paris (Fr)
2008 Il était une fois une fois, Alice, Brussels (B)
2007 It’s ok ?, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Sarrebrücken (De)
2005 Color iT, Le Trait d’Union, Neufchateau (Fr)
2005 Patterns, Galerie Octave Cowbell, Metz (Fr)
2004 Inkunstruction, CAC Niort, Niort (Fr)
2023 Léonard, Espace 54, Brussels (B)
2023 Neighbours, Rubens Castle, Zemst (B)
2022 La Pyramide de Ponzi, Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris (Fr)
2021 Jardin Public, Jardin de la Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin, Strasbourg (Fr)
2021 Ehrenfeld, Berthold Pott, Köln (De)
2020 HomeLand 2, Berthold Pott, Köln (De)
2019 Une île, Melissa Ansel, Brussels (B)
2019 Cherry Pickers, Podium, Luxembourg (L)
2019 Neighbours Vol.8, Riot, Gent (B)
2018 HomeLand 2, Berthold Pott, Köln (De)
2018 Une Ile, Echo des Vagues, Ile D’Yeu (F)
2018 RectoVerso, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (F)
2018 A Bureaucratic Desire For revenge, HEC Paris, (F)
2018 The Browsing Chamber, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam (H)
2017 Playlist, Erratum galerie, Berlin (De)
2017 Attitudes in Painting, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf (De)
2017 Les Horizons Alternatifs curated by Vincent Verlé, Maison de la Région, Strasbourg (F)
2017 Quis Evadet, Le Pilori, Niort (F)
2016 A Stitch in Time Saves Nine at Wschod, Wschod Gallery (P)
2016 Warsaw Gallery Week-end curated by Wschod Gallery (P)
2016 Aujourd’hui je dis oui, curated by aujourdhui.pt, Galeria Boavista, Lisbon (P)
2016 Entre Les Lignes, Zone d’Art, Strasbourg (F)
2015 Friendly Faces curated by Middlemarch, Johannes Vogt, New-York (usa)
2015 Idéal(e) Géographie, CAC, Niort (Fr)
2015 Full House, curated by BunkClub, Shanaynay, Paris (Fr)
2015 New ideas old friends – Old friends new ideas, Milieu, Bern (Ch)
2015 EnRoute, Marfa Book Company, Marfa, Texas (usa) 2015 Bernadet, Decet, François, Platéus, The Cabin, Los-Angeles (usa)
2015 Volumes, Berthold Pott, Cologne (D)
2015 Politics oF surface, Berthold Pott, Cologne (D)
2014 Le Geste des Matériaux, CAB, Grenoble (Fr)
2014 Extra Curriculum curated by Bunk Club, Komplot, Brussels (B)
2014 Just Before Brazil, Alice, Brussels (B)
2014 Le Triangle Des Bermudes, Atelier FG, Diedendorf (Fr)
2014 An Der Schanz, Berthold Pott, Cologne (D)
2014 << < > >>, super Dakota, Brussels (B)
2014 Ce qui arrêtait ces dames, Jeanroch Dard, Paris (Fr)
2013 For Your Loving, Jeanroch Dard, Paris (Fr)
2013 Le Milieu Du Monde curated by David de Tscharner, Tourinnes-la-Grosse (B)
2013 One From None curated by Nils Emmerichs, Autocenter, Berlin (D)
2012 EpisoDe 4, Middlemarch, Brussels (B)
2012 Domesticated Souls, A.L.I.C.E., Brussels (B)
2012 Close encounters, Jeanroch Dard, Paris (Fr)
2012 Text Library, Trans 6, Arnhem (Nl)
2012 To France, Diplomat, Philadelphia (USA)
2012 Bartholomew, JSBJ, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm (S)
2012 All Over, Carré Rotonde, Luxembourg (l)
2012 NothinG, Galerie Namima, Ensa, Nancy (Fr)
2011 Sleep Disorders, Centre d’art Dominique Lang, Dudelange (l)
2011 Bartholomew curated by JSBJ, 12mail, Paris (Fr)
2011 A New Idea of Landscape, Galerie Namima, Ensa, Nancy (Fr)
2011 Vertigo, Jeanroch Dard, Paris (Fr)
2010 Inkunstruction was …, Winterlong Galerie, le Pilori, Niort (Fr)
2010 When i grow up, Jeanroch Dard, Paris (Fr)
2010 Nuit Blanche, Mayenne (Fr)
2010 Scales of The UniVerse, Curated by Justin Morin, Jeanroch Dard, Paris (Fr)
2010 Playground, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (Fr)
2010 Zeichnen, Milieu Galerie, Bern (Ch)
2010 Renato Leotta – Olivier Kosta-Théfaine – Samuel François, Room Gallery, Milano (It)
2010 Dust Snow curated by Piort Lakomy, Winter Sculpture Park, Poznan (Pl) 2009 i Could Do That, Milieu Galerie, Bern (Ch) 2009 Paris-Praha, Czech Center, Paris (Fr)
2009 Observatori 2009, Atarazanas Del Grao, Valencia (E)
2009 Prix Rrobert ScHuman, Stadtmuseum simeonstift, Trier (De)
2009 Dress Code, Iselp, Brussels (B)
2009 Kilo, OctaveCowbell, Metz (Fr)
2008 Nuit Blanche, Octave Cowbell, Metz (Fr)
2008 Out oF Sth, Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw (Pl)
2008 Zero Gravity, Galerie des Beaux-arts, Metz (Fr) 2
008 Dysfashional, muDaC, Lausanne (Ch)
2008 Manual, Kronika Galerie, Bytom (Pl)
2007 Value, Duplex, Genève (Ch)
2007 Dysfashional, Para-site, Rotonde1, Luxembourg (L)
2007 Alone in The Dark, Galerie Justin Morin, Slash 07, Brussels (B)
2007 DeDans, Espace inVitro, Thionville (Fr)
2006 Rendez-Vous Lavapies, Cruce Galerie, Madrid (E)
2006 Berlin, Château de Courcelles, Metz (Fr)
2005 Biennale De la Jeune Création, Galerie des Terreaux, Lyon (Fr)
2005 P.S. , Galerie Neurotitan, Berlin (D)
2005 Le Vent Des Forêts, Fresnes au mont (Fr)
2005 Ateliers ouverts, Castel Coucou, Forbach (Fr)
2005 Now underground, Station Centrale, Milan (It)
2004 Secret Weapon, Galerie Laura Pecci, Milan (It)
2003 CiPaC, Galerie des Beaux-a-Arts, Metz (Fr)
2003 Pim Pam Pom, Castel Coucou, Forbach (Fr)
2002 One Construction, Galerie Octave Cowbell, Metz (Fr)
2002 Fragments, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Metz (Fr)
2002 Dehors, Faux Mouvement, Metz (Fr)
2018 A Room With You, Berthold Pott, Köln (De)
2012 +4, Bibliothèque de Thionville (Fr)
2011 A new idea of landscape, Galerie Namima, ENSAD, Nancy (Fr)
2018 SummerCamp Lanton (Fr)
2017 SummerCamp Lanton-Samoens (Fr)
2016 SummerCamp Metz-Samoens (Fr)
2016 Tintange Céramique, Tintange (B)
2015 L.A Brea, Los-Angeles (usa)
2013 La Pratique, Vatan (Fr)
2011 La Pratique, Vatan. (Fr)
2010 Crypta, Turin (It).
2008-2009 Berlin, Bourse du Conseil Général de la Moselle
2005 Le Vent Des Forêts, Meuse (Fr)
"Samuel François focuses on objects that " produce history " - jeans, survival blankets, fishing oilskins - and delegates to them their own transformation, marked by time and circumstance. Like paintings, it is the objects themselves, in their imprints, that proceed by strokes, almost becoming their sole visual and physical referent. These paintings, freed from their role as surfaces, can be turned in all directions, revealing their flipside. This subjective displacement and the historical charge contained in each of them raises the question of the archaeology of the object, of its origin, and of the temporal and cultural distortion that tends to shift the meaning of the object from functionality to decoration. What role would we attribute to this yellow, plastic, smooth, waterproof material if we were suddenly freed from what we know?"
Extract from "Because the sun is yellow » by Elisa Rigoulet