Fabien Giraud was born in 1980. He presently lives and works in Paris, France. Since 2007 he has collaborated extensively with the artist and filmmaker Raphael Siboni with whom he has exhibited internationally(Palais de Tokyo – 2008, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris – 2009, Santa Fe Biennial -2008, Moscow Biennial 2009, Sharjah Art Foundation – 2013, Biennale de Lyon 2015 ). Since 2014, their new and ongoing body of works entitled The Unmanned has been presented in a series of monographic shows in Luxembourg(Casino Luxembourg), Canada(Vox in Montreal) and France(Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de l’Ile de Vassiviere).

In 2011 he co-founded the series of seminars and workshops entilted The Matter of Contradiction adressing questions regarding the geological concept of the Anthropocene and its consequences for the theory of art.
In 2012, he co-initiated Glass Bead – a research platform and a journal – launched in 2014 through a series of events in New York and Paris.