Gregory Forstner was born in Douala, Cameroon, in 1975, to a French mother and an Austrian father.

He has studied in Vienna (Austria) in the Masterclass of Christian Ludwig Attersee at the Academy Of Applied Arts (Hochschule Für Angewandte Kunst) in 1993.

The following year, he attended the Villa Arson, École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nice, and met Noël Dolla there. After graduating, he finished his studies with a short stay at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he met Erik Dietman and Jean-Michel Alberola. He then worked in Nice for several years.

In 2006, within the framework of an acquisition commission for the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, under the direction of Suzanne Pagé, Hans-Ulrich Obrist noted his work and recommanded it to Zink Gallery in Germany. The following year, the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain in Nice organised a solo show of his work.

In 2009, Guy Tosatto invited him for a solo exhibition (« The Ship of Fools » ) at the Musée de Grenoble.

In 2014, Gregory Forstner was invited to present his work at the Collège de France during the conference The Making of Painting, with, among others, Hernan Bas, Jules de Balincourt, Glenn Brown, Jeff Koons, and Chéri Samba.

From 2013, he started to publish his writing with the publishing houses Derrière la salle de bains and Littérature mineure. « L’Odeur De La Viande » (a collection of autobiographical texts) was published with Éditions Esperluète in 2015.

In 2018, a retrospective of 10 years of work is presented at Fondation Fernet-Branca (St Louis, near Basle).

His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (ARC), Musée de Grenoble, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de Nice (MAMAC), FNAC (Fonds National d’Art Contemporain), FRAC (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain) Haute-Normandie, FRAC Basse-Normandie, FRAC Alsace, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Collection SACEM, Fondation Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon in Annecy, Fondation Bernard Massini in Nice, Artothèque Espace vallès in Saint-Martin d’Hères, Fondation Colas in Paris, Richard J. Massey Foundation in New York, TIA Collection in Santa Fe ( USA), Sammlung Goetz in Munich, Fondation Maeght in Saint Paul de Vence.

In 2008, Gregory Forstner won a scholarship from the French Ministry of culture for a one-year residency in New York with Triangle Arts association and lived in NYC for over 10 years. In 2018 he relocated south of France, in Montpellier.

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Musée de Grenoble, MAMAC (Nice) Bill Orcutt, Fredéric Nakache, Simone Simon, Pierre Douaire Evariste, Galerie Zink, Galerie Eva Vautier, Etienne Frossart, Magdalena Abele, Pierre Schwartz, L.Vilarem, Francine Kreiss, Gregory Forstner