Ceysson & Bénétière

Born in 1947, in Saint Etienne, France.

Lives and works in Paris, France.

   Presentation

Emblematic of the interest that contemporary artists have taken in performance art and in the possibilities of using one’s body as a creative medium, ORLAN stands out thanks to her use of multiple practices and medias. Questioning representations of art, genres, sexuality and the self, this international artist has constantly brought her appearance and her identity into play, reinventing herself in a continuous work of “self-sculpture”.

   Awards & Grants

2021    Chevalier de la légion d'honneur

2017    Grand Prix International de l'Excellence Féminine, 

             Ministry of International Affairs of Genova, Italy

2013    Grand Prix de l'E-REPUTATION 1ère artiste plasticienne, awarded by 

             Alexia Guggémos at Christie's Paris, France

2004    Premier prix du Festival de la Photographie de Moscou, Russia

1999    Prix Arcimboldo for her work in digital photography 

             by Hewlett Packard, France

             Prix Griffel-Kunst d'Hambourg, Germany

1993    Prix Lavoisier, France

1989    Bourse du FIACRE for her research in residence in Madras, India

1992    Bourse du FIACRE for her research in residence in Madras, India

   Residencies

2007    SymbioticA, The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, 

             Université d'Australie de l'ouest, Perth, Australia

2006    Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, United-States

2005    Studio International et programme sponsorisée par l'AFAA,

             New York, United-States

   Public Collections

Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

Musée de la Photo de Bièvre, France

Musée d’Epinal, France

le Musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle, France

le Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France

le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France

National Fund of Contemporary Art, Paris, France

FRAC (Fonds régional d’art contemporain), Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France

FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France

FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbane, France

FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France

Arthotèque la Réunion, France

Musée d’Art contemporain d’Anvers, Belgium

Los Angels County Museum of Art, United-States

The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, United-States

The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United-States

Museum of contemporary art, Los Angeles, United-States

Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Malibu, United-States

Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, United-States 

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Sungkok Museum, Seoul, South Korea

Mali National Museum, Bamako, Mali

The Bandjoun Station, Cameroun

Emblematic of the interest that contemporary artists have taken in performance art and in the possibilities of using one’s body as a creative medium, ORLAN stands out thanks to her use of multiple practices and medias. Questioning representations of art, genres, sexuality and the self, this international artist has constantly brought her appearance and her identity into play, reinventing herself in a continuous work of “self-sculpture”.

Trained at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and at the School of Fine Arts of Saint-Étienne (ESADSE), she shows, from the age of 17, performance pieces in which she quotes classical masterpieces by replaying them in Tableaux Vivants (1967-1975). In Étude documentaire : le drapé, le baroque (1974-1984), an ensemble mixing performance, photography and sculpture and revisiting Judeo-Christian iconography and baroque aesthetic, her bridal trousseau’s linen, diverted from their matrimonial vocation, become the medium for provocative pieces.

In 1977 she brings Le Baiser de l’artiste (The Artist’s Kiss, Frac des Pays de la Loire) to the FIAC (International Fair of Contemporary Art) in Paris. Sitting behind a photography of her own naked torso, she sells French kisses to the fair’s visitors or invites them to light a votive candle to her image dressed as a Madonna. The installation superposed the sacred woman – Sainte-ORLAN – and the objectified woman – ORLAN-corps – and created a scandal that costed the artist her teaching position. Since this first period, her creation has moved forward by revisiting her older pieces; most of her performances and derived pieces enter long-term series.

Other occasional works keep their individual status such as her parody of Courbet’s L’Origine du monde turned L’Origine de la guerre (1989) and showing a close-up of the lower abdomen of a man in erection. ORLAN also played a pioneering role in the artistic use of telematics, via the Minitel (a network developed prior to the Internet in France). In the 1990s, assisted by medical doctors, she began a series of “surgical-operation-performances”. She transforms the operating room into an atelier, where her body is surgically operated and modified under her direction. Some of these surgical interventions were filmed and transmitted live through satellite to high-art spaces (Omniprésence, 1993). If the whole process, from project to result, constitutes a work of art in itself, interventions also bring about videos, photographs, drawings and other pieces recycling body matter derived from the surgeries. The artist associates these performances to readings of essays by philosophers like Michel Serres, and writes her own "Carnal Art Manifesto" (1992) that explains the issues at stake in her work. As a critical diversion of cosmetic surgery, a demonstration of the new plasticity of the flesh that allows the contemporary subject to claim authorship of her/his own body, a questioning of beauty codes and their violence, her project distinguishes itself from body art by rejecting pain and making her body “a space of public debate”. In Reconfigurations-Self-Hybridations (starting from 1998), she uses digital image processing technologies to blend her face and pieces representing physical and artistic canons from pre-Columbian art, African sculpture, paintings of North-american natives by George Catlin (1796-1872) and Chinese art. These hybrid portraits blur distinctions in individuality, sexuality, temporality, ethnicity, religion or artistry in order to create as many mutant figures. In parallel, ORLAN pursues her exploration of the impact of biotechnology.

In 2007, her installation Harlequin’s Coat mixed video-projections, Petri dishes and a bioreactor allowing the in vitro culture of her own cells combined with those of other human and animal stems. Patchwork, collaboration and reprise equally govern the creation of clothing-artworks, when she collaborates with fashion designers to exhibit garments recycled from her own closet. This logic of recombination continues when she invests Maubuisson Abbey with her exhibition Unions mixtes, mariages libres et noces barbares (2009). The thoughtful and complex path of this norm-challenging artist, which mixes intensely art, life and sociopolitical questions, has always taken place in close dialog with her audience, gleefully mocking consensus.

Hugues Marchal

Translated from French by Emily Freeman.

From the Dictionnaire universel des créatrices

© 2013 Des femmes – Antoinette Fouque

© Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions

Solo shows at Ceysson Gallery
ORLAN, Wandhaff
April 01 - May 13, 2023

ORLAN, Lyon
November 25, 2021 - January 15, 2022

ORLAN, Paris
February 18 - March 19, 2021

ORLAN, New York
September 12 - November 02, 2019

ORLAN BEFORE ORLAN, Paris
October 18 - December 08, 2018


Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
Clairvoyant, New York
September 12 - October 19, 2024

Jabberwocky, Paris
June 29 - July 28, 2023

The gaze of Barbara Rose, Paris
December 14, 2022 - January 28, 2023

At Jean Prouvé, Offsite
July 15 - July 18, 2021

Spring Saint-Étienne, Saint-Etienne
June 12 - July 25, 2020

Spring Paris, Paris
May 18 - July 23, 2020

Guerre(s), Paris
December 18, 2019 - February 01, 2020

Le grand détournement , Paris
June 27 - August 03, 2019

Tribute to Vicky Rémy, Offsite
July 13 - July 14, 2019

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Solo shows (selection) 

2024

Centro Cultural de Belém, curator : Alexandra Silviano, Lisbonne, Portugal

Hibridaciones, Terreno Baldio Arte, curator : Leila Voight, Eduardo Mier y Terran, Mexico City, Mexique

2023

Solo show São Paulo, curator : Alain Quemin, SESC Museum, São Paulo, Brésil

2022

Les Femmes qui pleurent sont en colère, Musée national Picasso-Paris, commissaire d’exposition : François Dareau, Paris, France

Manifeste ORLAN, CORPS et SCULPTURES, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Les Abattoirs, commissaires d’exposition : Julie Crenn et Annabelle Ténèze, Toulouse, France

2021

ORLAN in The Sammlung Verbund Collection, Vertical Gallery, Vienna, Austria

ORLANoïde 2.0, curated by: Cian Walsh, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2020

ORLAN, Institute Gallery, Beyrouth, Libanon

2019

ORLAN SAINTE-ORLAN, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, United-States

Pétition contre la mort, curated by: Richard Martel, Le Lieu, Québec, Canada

Femme avec tête(s), curated by: Yann Toma Paris, Sorbonne Art Gallery, Paris, France

Projection Apparition et Gloide de Sainte ORLAN, L’hybride Lille, Lille, France

2018

ORLAN AVANT ORLAN, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France

Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Andrea Valencia, Mexico, Mexico

Vertical Gallery, Daniela Hahn, Vienna, Austria

2017

VideORLAN - Technobody, curated by: Alessandra Mammì,

Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy

ORLAN EN CAPITALES, curated by: Jérôme Neutres,

Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris, France

2016

ORLAN TODAY, curated by: Sylvia Froux, FRAC Basse-Normandie,

Caen, France

ORLAN-Techno-Body Retrospective, curated by: Soukyoun Lee,

Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2015

Temps variable et baiser de méduses, curated by: Carme Sais,

Bòlit Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain

Terapia dell'Ibrido, curated by: Sabrina Zannier, Castello di Susans,

Majano, Italy

Octobre rose, Projection on Tour Horizon de Jean Nouvel,

curated by: Gilles Drouault, Paris, France

ORLAN, Strip-tease des cellules jusqu'à l'os, curated by: Emmanuel

Cuisinier, Centre des arts, Enghien-les-bains, France

Temps variable et baiser de méduses, curated by: Jackie-Ruth Meyer,

Centre d'art LE LAIT, Albi, France

2014

Pekin Opera facing design and augmented reality, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France

Self-hybridations artworks with Mask of the Pekin's Opera,

curated by: Jooyoung Sung, Galerie Sejul, Seoul, South Korea

L'origine de la guerre, curated by: Syvie Zavatta,

FRAC de Franche-comté, Besançon, France

Hysteria (Salon Hystérique), curated by: Gabriella Daris, Blacks, London, United Kingdom

ORLAN: The icon of the French contemporary art, Guest artist of "Riga, European City of Culture",

curated by: Inese Baranovska, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia

2013

Men sana in corporel..., curated by: Pierre-Olivier Rollin,

B.P.S.22, Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose, Lessines, Belgium

2012

Hybridization and Refiguration, curated by: Ricardo Arcos-Palma,

Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Bogota, Colombia

Carnal Art and Obsolet Body, curated by: Ricardo Arcos-Palma,

Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

Pictures and objects from the MesuRages, curated by: Bart de Baere,

M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Anvers, Belgium

The Factory Direct, curated by: Eric Shiner,

The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, United-States

2011

Un boeuf sur la langue, curated by: Blandine Chavanne,

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France

2010

Bodies, Technology, Fashion, curated by: Daniel J. Veneciano,

Lincoln, United-States

ORLAN Remix, Est-ce que vous êtes Belges ? Ou les draps-peaux hybrids,

curated by: Johan Muyle, Project Room | La Cambre | Ecole Supérieure des

Arts Visuels, Brussels, Belgium

2009

Unions Mixtes, Mariages Libres et Noces Barbares, curated by: 

Caroline Coll Seror, Abbaye de Maubuisson, France

Self-Hybridations, curated by: Annick Notter,

Musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France

2008

Self hybridation, American-Indians, galerie Michel Rein, France

2007

Le récit, Musée d'art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France

2005

Eléments favoris n°4, Artothèque de la Réunion, La Réunion, France

Pièce lumineuse (in collaboration with Philippe Chiambaretta),

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2004

Méthodes de l'artiste, 1964-2004, retrospective, Centre National de la Photographie,

Paris, France

ORLAN 04/04/04, Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, France

2003

Tricéphale, galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France

2002

Eléments favoris, retrospective, FRAC des Pays-de-la-Loire, Carquefou, Nantes, France

2001

ORLAN 1964-2001, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

2000

Ceci est mon corps...ceci est mon logiciel, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Magazin 4, Austria

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Group shows (selection)

2024

The Infinite Woman, Carmignac Foundation, curator : Alona Pardo, Hyères, France

Surrealism – Worlds in dialogue, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany

Omniprésence II, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France

The Verbund collection, Vienna celebrates it’s twentieth anniversary, Albertina Museum, curator : Gabriele Schor, Vienna, Austria 

2023

Picasso 50 ans déjà, curator : Jacques Simonin, Village des peintres, Barbizon, France

L’argent dans l’art, curator : Jean-Michel Bouhours, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France 

Les femmes guerrières, curator : Isabelle De Maison Rouge, La Banque, Bethune, France

2022

Métamorphose, La photographie en France 1968-1989, curator : Michel Poivert, Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, France 

Territories of performance: Path and Practices in Italy (1967-1982), curator : Lara Conte et Francesca Gallo, Maxxi Museum, Roma, Italy

Une Avant-Garde Féministe, commissaire d’exposition : Gabriele Schor, Les rencontres d’Arles, Mécanique Générale, LUMA Foundation, Arles, France 

Feministe Avant-Garde, curator : Gabriele Schor, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Cultural capital, Novi Sad, Serbia

Miroir du Monde, curator : Patricia Laigneau, Château Du Rivau, Léméré, France

Femmes Guerrières, femmes en combat, La Topographie de l’Art, curacrot : Isabelle de Maison Rouge, Paris, France

The Spirit of Europe, Pavillon de l’union Européenne, 9ème Biennale Internationale d’Art de Beijing, curator : Lucia Sollinger Muñiz, Beijing, China

2021

Revolutions, Records & Rebels (1966-1970),La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France

Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s, Works from the Sammlung Verbund Collection,

International Center of Photography, New York, United-States

Ex Africa, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, curated by: Philippe Dagen, Paris, France

100 HEROINES, London Photo, London, United Kingdom

Self-portrait of the artist as a clown, curated by: Joanna de Vos,

Rony Van de Velde Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

Spatiu Intact Project, Centrul de interes, Cluj, Romania

Real utopias, curated by: Bianca Cerrina Feroni, Manifesta 13,

Maison RC, Marseille, France

Frida Kahlo, Afterlife, The Drents Museum, Assen, The Netherlands

Exposition aux frontiers de l’humain, Musée de l’homme, Paris, France

2020

Printemps, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France

Printemps, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Étienne, France

Bodyscapes, Le Musée d'Israël, Jerusalem, Israel

Real Utopias, Manifesta 13, Maison RC, Marseille, France

ID.ART:TECH Cyland Media Art Lab & The Kolodzei Art Foundation, National Art Club,

15 Gramerci Park South, New York, United-States

Tout le monde m'adore, Crypte d'Orsay, Orsay, France

Drapé, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France

2019

This is not a selfie, Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, United-States

Australia Tour, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill, Australia

Show Me Your Wound, curated by: Johanna Schwanberg & Klaus Speidel,

Dom Museum, Vienna, Austria

Bodyfiction(s) 3, curated by: Paul di Felice & Pierre Stiwer,

Cercle-Cité, Luxembourg

Wunderkammer, curated by: Axel Vervoordt,

Diane Venet Collection, Antwerp, Belgium

2018

Middle Gate II – L'histoire de Dimpna, Gasthuismuseum, Geel, Belgium

Perfection, Science Gallery Melbourne, Melbourne School of Design,

Université de Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

In The Cut - The Male Body in Feminist Art, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany

Artistes & Robots, Grand Palais, Paris, France

L'art vous va si bien! Bijoux d'artistes de Picasso à Jeff Koons, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, France

La photographie française existe... Je l'ai rencontré, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, France

Hybrids, Palacio de bellas artes, Mexico, Mexico

2016

Ouverture pour Inventaire, FRAC des pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France

2014

Roll Up ! Roll Up ! An anatomical wax cabinet meets art, Deutsches Hygiene-museum,

Dresde, Germany

MASCULIN / MASCULIN, Musée d'Orsay, curated by: Guy Cogeval, Tobias G. Natter,

Dr. Ulrich Pohlmann, Paris, France

Skin : Totem and Tatoo, curated by: Osvaldo Romberg,

Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, United-States

Les esthétiques d'un monde désenchanté, CAC Meymac, Meymac, France

Feminine Futures, curated by: Adrien Sina, Consortium, Dijon, France

Metropolitain pavillion 3D Printshow, curated by: Lucy Cottrell, New-York city, United-States

Metamorphoses of the virtual, curated by: David Rosenberg, K11 exhibition, Shanghai, China

2013

Ici, Ailleurs, curated by: Juliette Laffon, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

Talkie walkiy, curated by: Michel Rein, galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France

Re. act. feminism #2. a performing archive, curated by: Bettina Knaup 

& Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelone, Spain

Elles, women artists from the Pompidou Center, curated by:

Cécile Debray & Emma Lavigne, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

CODE NOIR. 30 ans de Shopping, curated by: 

Lidewij Edelkoort et Trend Union, F.R.A.C Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France

International Woman Day, curated by: Marina Loshak, Olesya Turkina

& Natalia Kamenetskaya, Moscow Museum and Exhibition Centre the Manege, Moscow, Russia

La Photographie en France ; 1950 - 2000, curated by: Alain Sayag et Gilles Mora,

La Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris, France

The Metamorphoses of the Virtual - 100 years of Art and Freedom,

producer Pia MyrvoLD, Officina Delle Zattere, Biennale de Venise, Venice, Italy

The Artist as Jeweler, curated by: Diane Venet, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, United-States

2012

Andy Warhol Museum, Factory Direct: Pittsburgh exhibition, United-States

Art Public Liège, curated by: Joahn Muyle, Musée de Bogota and Musée de Medellin, Colombia

Biennale 2012, Shanghai, China

Speaking Artist, promenade project, curated by: Lorand Hegyi,

Busan Museum of Modern Art, South Korea

Mois de la photographie, la Photographie en France de 1950 2000,

curated by: Gilles Mora et Alain Sayag, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

FIAC, galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France

« XXth Century Masters: The Human Figure », curated by: Sylvie Ramond,

Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, Sous Africa

Elles : Women Artists from the Pompidou Center, Seattle Art Museum, Paris, Seattle, United-States

Re. act. feminism # 2. A performing archive, curated by: Bettina Knaup &

Beatrice Ellen Stammer, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark

Collective Performance, curated by: Lauren Rosati, Exit Art , New York, United-States

Liquids in Contemporary Art, curated by: Marie Shek, Litvac Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

L'amour du risque; The tast for risk, curated by: Leila Topic,

assisted by Emannuel Latreille & Pascal Neveux, Museum of Modern Art of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Re. act. feminism # 2. a performing archive, curated by: Knaup & Beatrice Ellen Stammer,

Wyspa Art Institute, Gdansk, Poland

Man as Object : Reversing the Gaze, curated by: Tanya Augsburg, Priscilla Otani,

Karen Gutfreund & Brenda Oelbaum, Kinsey Institute, Indiana, United-States

2011

Dry baroque, curated by: Carmelo Strano, ACAOS Gallery et Villa Fortuna, Aci Trezza, Italy

Isole mai trovate, Island never found, exhibition tour, curated by:

Lorand Hegyi, Busan Museum of Art, South Korea

Le temps de l'action / acte 1, Villa Arson, Nice, France

From the cartography of power into the itineraries of knowledge, curated by: Catarina Pires,

Paulo Amarea, Sebastio Formoshino, Theresa Baumann, University de Coimbra, Portugal

Man as object - reversing the gaz, curated by: Brenda Oelbaum,

SOMARTS, San Francisco, United-States

Tour de France / Florida Contemporary Artists from France in Florida's Private Collections,

Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Art Basel Miami, Miami, United-States

Colères et pudeurs de femme, curated by: Diane Hennebert,

Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium

Iles jamais trouvées, curated by: Adriano Berengo,

Musée de Saint Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne, France

Sculpture Elles, curated by: Anne Rivière,

Musée des années trente, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Beauty (cult)ure, curated by: Kohle Yohannan,

The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, United-States

2010

Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, What Is Beautiful ?, Dresde, Germany

Palazzo Ducale, Isole Mai Trovate - Island Never Found, Geneva, Italy

P.S.1, 100 Years - Version #2, New-York, United-States

Laboratoria, (Hypotheses/Verification), Moscow, Russia

Unimediamodern, Bad Girls, Geneva, Italy

EN MAI FAIT CE QU'IL TE PLAIT, curated by: Juliette Laffon,

Musée Bourdelle, Paris, France

2009

elles@centrepompidou, curated by: Camille Morineau,

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

La Force de l'art, Grand Palais, curated by: Jean-Louis Froment, 

Jean-Yves Jouannais, Didi Ottinger, Paris, France

SK-interfaces, Exploring Borders in Art, Technology and Society, 

curated by: Jens Hauser, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2008

Le plateau, L'argent, curated by: Caroline Bourgeois,

Elisabeth Lebovici, Paris, France

2007

J'embrasse Pas, curated by: Eric de Mézil,

Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

2006

La Force de l'Art, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Into Me/ Out of Me, PS1, New York, United-States

Autopoesis, National Slovakian Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2005

Superstars - Das Prinzip Prominenz. Von Warhol bis Madonna,

Kunsthalle & Kunstforum Wien, Austria

Inside Out Loud, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, United States

Mirror Mirror: reflections on beauty, National gallery of

Victoria, Melbourne National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia

2004

Body extensions, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland

Moi ! Autoportraits du XXè siècle, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

Making Faces: the death of the portrait, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Je t'envisage, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

Les Dix Commandements, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresde, Germany

2002

Tableaux Vivants, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Art contemporain international, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, Mexico

Magazin 4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Germany

2000

Fondation Deste, Athens, Greece

Partage d'exotisme, Biennale d'Art contemporain de Lyon, France

The wounded Diva: Hysteria, the body and Technologie in the art,

Kunsthaus Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunsteverein, Munich, Germany

The self is something else, Kunstsammlung NRW 235, Düsseldorf, Germany

Full biography and bibliography on www.orlan.net

2019
Sarah Cascone, "Provocateur Orlan Reflects on How She Went From Being Reviled for Her Body Art to Claiming Her Place in the Art World", Artnet

2018
Laurence Devillers, Ariel Kyrou et Virginie Martin, « ORLANoïde robot hybride avec intelligence artificielle et collective », Editions Lienart, Paris.
Bernard Ceysson, Léa Chauvel-Lévy, Eli Hill, ORLAN BEFORE ORLAN, Ceysson éditions, Saint-Etienne

2017
Jérôme Neutres, Shelley Rice, Tatyana Franck, Jean-Luc Monterosso, « ORLAN ARTISTE EN CAPITALE », Éditions SKIRA, Paris.
Frédéric Acquaviva, « ORLAN Exogène », AcquAvivA.

2016
Domenica Quaranta, « ORLAN TechnoBody Retrospective 1966-2016 », Éditions Scala.
Moon Soon Park, Soukyoun Lee, Jinsang Yoo, Donatien Grau, Philippe Piguet, Imma Prieto.

2015
Donatien Grau, Jackie-Ruth Meyer, Philippe Piguet, Imma Prieto, Domenico Quaranta, " ORLAN, Striptease des cellules jusqu'à l'os ", Editions Scala, Paris.

2014
Inese Baranovska, Catherine Grenier, Dominique Païni, Jean-Pierre Rehm; "ORLAN, The Icon of the French Contemporary Art", Editions Neputns, Riga, Latvia.

2013
Jose Ignacio Benito Climent, "El Arte-Carnal en ORLAN, hacia una estetica del sacrificio", Editions Devenir, Madrid, Spain.

2012
Hubert Besacier, Alain Charre, Bart De Baere, Sophie Gregoir et Win Van Mulders, "ORLAN mesuRages (1968-2012) actions: ORLAN-body", M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium.
Ricardo Arcos-Palma, Nicolas Bourriaud et Michael La Chance, "Art Charnel et Corps Obsolète / Hybridations et Refigurations", Editions Musée Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
Anne Morelli, Johan Muyle et Pierre-Olivier Rollin, "Est-ce que vous êtes Belge ? ORLAN", Yellow Now/ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium.

2011
Blandine Chavanne, Christine Buci-Glucksmann et Camille Morineau, "Un Boeuf Sur la Langue", Éditions Fage, France.

2010
Rhonda K. Garelick and Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Homi K. Bhabha, Michel Serres, Isabel Tejeda, Paul Virilio, Lan Vu et Faboulous Harlequin, "ORLAN and the patchwork self", The University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, United States.
Simon Donger, Simon Sheperd, Gianna Bouchard, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Howard Caygill, Simon Donger, Sander L. Gilman, Markus Hallensleben, Jens Hauser, Dominic Johnson, Stéphane Malysse, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Catherine Petitgas, Simon Shepherd, Paul Virilio et Sarah Wilson, "ORLAN, a Hybrid Body of Artworks", Routledge Editions, London, United Kingdom.
Raphael Enthoven, Raoul Vaneigem et ORLAN, "Unions Mixtes, Mariages Libres et Noces Barbares", Editions Dilecta, Paris, France.

2009
Paul Virilio and ORLAN, "Transgression, transfiguration [conversation]", Editions L'Une et L'Autre, Paris, France.

2007
Joerg Bader, Lorand Hegyi, Marcela Iacub, Donald Kuspit, Peggy Phelan, Eugenio Viola, ORLAN, The Narrative/Le Récit, Éditions Charta, Milan, Italy.

2004
Bernard Blistène, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Caroline Cros, Régis Durand, Eleanor Heartney, Laurent Le Bon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Vivian Rehberg, Julian Zugazagoitia and ORLAN, "ORLAN, Carnal Art", Éditions Flammarion, Paris, France.

2000
Marc Partouche, Monographie CD-Rom et Papier, Se placer au centre du monde, ORLAN, Editions Jériko.