Jean-Luc Moulène, a self-declared technicien libertaire, studied Aesthetics and Sciences of Art at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he currently lives and works. He participated in the Taipei Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, the First International Biennial of the Image, the Venice Biennial, the Sao Paulo Biennial, and Documenta X. Among the institutions that have dedicated solo exhibitions to his work are the Secession, Centre Pompidou, Villa Medici, Rome, Kunstverein Hannover, Dia: Beacon, Carré d'art-Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, Culturgest, Lisbon, Musée du Louvre, Paris, and Centre d'Art Contemporain de Genève.
