François Bard is a French painter born in Lille (France). He lives and works in Paris. He has studied painting at the Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris, and graduated in 1980. He has been selected to be a resident at the Casa de Velazquez (Spain) from 1988-1990. He won the first Belmondo Prize in 1990. From 1990-2000 he has been an oil painting professor at the Beaux-Arts Ateliers of the city of Paris. Since September 2011, François Bard has been represented by a new gallery, the Olivier Waltman Gallery in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris (France).