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).