Claude Closky sees himself as an organiser and classifier of the world around us. He uses language as his preferred element in a multidisciplinary body of work that brings together image, text, drawing, video, and audio. To capture everyday experiences of the world, he plays with assemblages of words, objects, and situations. With a minimal and playful aesthetic, he uses computer coding, alphabetic, metric, and mathematical systems to simplify the grammar of the world and of objects. Drawing on the conventions of advertising, the media, and communication, he rearranges systems of information and representation in order to make the individual and collective constructions associated with them intelligible.

Born in Paris (France) in 1963, Claude Closky studied for a year at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris before forming the Frères Ripoulin collective in 1984. In 2005, he was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize and joined the École des Beaux-arts de Paris as head of studio. He lives and works in Paris.