Born in Algeria, Philippe Parreno studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble and at the Institute des hautes études en arts plastiques at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and now he lives and works in Paris. His pieces have been collected and exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tate Modern, and Serpentine Gallery in London.