Born in 1997 in Besançon, Rémi Barbie lives and works in Sydney. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure d’art et de design Duperré Paris and from ESAAT Roubaix.
He has taken part in solo and group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, the agnès b. Foundation, the Cartier Foundation, the Cathedral of Saint Denis, the Abbey of Baume-les-Dames, Galerie Sauvage in Saint-Tropez, La Case Paulette in Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, and the Serpentine Gallery in London. In 2025, he won the Public Prize at the “Queer Art for Mardi Gras” exhibition at TAP Gallery Sydney for his sculpture The Photobooth.
His works are part of numerous collections, including public collections of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), and the Regional Collections of Contemporary Art (FRAC) of Occitanie, Limousin, and Paris.
Rémi Barbie was a resident at the Gobelins Manufactory in Paris in 2019. He participated in Australian Idol 2025. Two of his books have been published by Atelier 1773: L’Usine in 2020 and Lost & Found in 2025.