Léo Caillard

Léo Caillard is a French artist born in 1985 in Paris, where he lives and works. He trained at the École des Gobelins in the late 2000s.

He has developed a practice combining photography, sculpture and digital art. He became known for his series "Hipsters in Stone", begun in 2012, in which he digitally dresses ancient sculptures from the Louvre in modern clothes, creating a gap between heritage and today's culture. Léo Caillard then went on to make his own classical busts in marble and bronze, adorned with modern accessories.

Léo Caillard was exhibited at MOCAK in Kraków in 2017, at MACM in Mougins in 2018 and at the Musée Saint-Raymond in Toulouse in 2019, in the exhibition "Age of Classics". In March 2018, for King's College London's exhibition "The Classical Now", he dressed the two statues above the entrance to Bush House in contemporary clothing. In 2024, his "Hercules in the Wind", a resin bust more than three metres high, was installed at the foot of the Latitude building in Paris La Défense. The following winter, Galeries Bartoux presented his series "Liquid" in Courchevel, whose ancient figures evoke the melting of Alpine glaciers.

His work sets the past against the present, and questions the place of the classical image in contemporary society as well as the codes of representation. Léo Caillard exhibits regularly in France and abroad, and also works on projects combining art, design and digital technologies.