Thomas Tronel-Gauthier has developed a multi-faceted approach to sculpture, in which objects, installations, paintings and images all play a part.

His work questions the origins of things and forms, interrogates materials and their becoming, the links between man and nature, and the experience of a journey, all the while continually turning his attention to the landscape. He offers a sensitive, empirical approach to what science calls “morphogenesis”, and challenges the temporality of our world's most ephemeral moments.

Exhibited at the Salon de Montrouge in 2010, in 2011 he was awarded the “ Support for the development of artistic research ” by the French National Center for Visual Arts, which led him to take up a residency the following year on the Marquesan island of Hiva Oa (French Polynesia). This unique experience continues to fuel his reflections and his imagination around the question of insularity.
In 2016, recipient of the Salomon Foundation Residency Award, he left for New York, where he joined the ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program - residency program for 6 months.
In 2019, his work will be exhibited at the MUCEM (Marseille) for the “Le temps de l'île” exhibition, while his double solo show at the Abbaye Saint Jean d'Orbestier and the MASC - Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix (Les Sables d'Olonne) will enable him to develop his work on a larger scale in relation to the architecture of these patrimonial sites.
In autumn 2020, he left for a residency in the Vercors region organized by La Halle - Contemporary Art Center in Pont-en-Royans, developing a new body of work based on mineral imagery and the cartography of mountain landscapes, which was be presented as part of the “A perte de vue” exhibition over the summer.
Winner of the application call launched by the Aurillac museums, he then took up a residency there in spring 2022, working in particular with the collections of rocks and fossils at the Volcano, with a particular focus on paleobotany, comparing plant life fossilized 300 million years ago with that still growing today.
In 2022, he presented a double six-month monographic exhibition at the Volcano Museum and the Museum of Art and Archaeology in Aurillac, entitled “ A Sea of Mountains on the Ruins of a Volcano ', before ending the year at the André Malraux Contemporary Art Center in Colmar (France) with another solo show entitled ‘ Dissolvere ’.

His recent solo exhibitions include: Pour dernier terrain vague (For Last Waste Land) - MASC Les Sables d'Olonne (2019), The World is an Island - Galerie 22,48 m², Paris (2017) / Surrounded by Water - Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, L'Abbaye, Annecy (2017) / Le Temps d'un sillage (The Time of a Wake) - Fondation Bullukian, Lyon / Prix de Sculpture 2016 de la Fondation de l'Olivier; Solo show at FIAC OFFICIELLE - Cité de la Mode et du Design (2015); Ce que j'ai vu n'existe plus - galerie 22,48m², Paris (2015).