Théo Mercier is a visual artist and stage director whose work lies at the crossroads of anthropology, ethnography, geopolitics, and tourism. Resident at the Villa Medici in Rome, he wrote his first show Du futur faisons table rase, presented at Nanterre-Amandiers in December 2014. That same year, Théo Mercier was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize. His work has been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, the Moscow Biennial, the Centre Pompidou, the Hamburger Bahnhof, the MACVAL, among others.

His show La Fille du collectionneur was presented at Nanterre-Amandiers in autumn 2017, as well as Affordable Solution for Better Living, created with Steven Michel in 2018, for which they received the Silver Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. He lives and works between Paris and Mexico City.