Born in 1965 in Strasbourg, France.
Lives and works in Paris.

An experimental artist based in Paris, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has, since 1990, been exploring the different modalities of sensory and cognitive relationships between bodies and spaces, real or fictitious, up to the point of questioning the distance between organic life and the work. Metabolizing  references from literature and film, architecture and music, science and pop, she creates "rooms" and "interiors", "gardens", "attractions" and "planets", in the multiple meanings these terms take on in the texts of Virginia Woolf or Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Brontë sisters or Thomas Pynchon, Joanna Russ and Philip K. Dick. For DGF, this interrogation of spaces extends to a questioning of the implicit neutrality of exhibition practices and venues. His "mises en espace", "anticipations" and "apparitions" invade the realm of the viewer's senses to operate intentional modifications in his memory and imagination. Haunted by history and the future, these spaces become containers where DGF incubates a form of subjectivity that does not yet exist. 

Through multiple international exhibitions, short films, productions and concerts, Gonzalez-Foerster’s mutant work contributes to the invention of new technologies of consciousness. — Paul B. Preciado

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has had solo exhibitions at the Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2023); Serpentine, London (2022); Vienna Secession, Vienna, (2021) ; the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Köln (2019); Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (2016); Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2015); Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro (2015); Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Palacio De Cristal, Madrid (2014); Stedelijk Museum, le Consortium, Dijon (2001); MAMCO, Geneva (2000); Malmö (1996), among
others.

She was also featured in several international group shows: Centre Pompidou Metz, Paris (2023); Bourse de Commerce, Fondation Pinault, Paris (2022); MAXXI, Rome (2021); Museum of Art and Design, Miami (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2019); La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2019); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2018); Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2017); Nouveau Musée National de Monaco – Villa Sauber, Monaco (2017); Whitney Museum, New York (2016); Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (2016); Barbican Centre, London (2016); Kyoto International Festival of contemporary Culture, Kyoto (2015); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2014); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014); Swiss Pavilion, Venice Architectural Biennale, Venice (2014); MAM, Museu De Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo (2013); LUMA Foundation, Arles (2012); Performa 09, New York (2009).

Her works have joined the collections of the 21st Museum of Contemporary Art,  Normandie, France; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; The Israel Museum, 
Art, Rio de Janeiro; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid;
Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate
Modern, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Eindhoven.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is represented by Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.