Christophe Ronel was born in Rouen in 1964, and was introduced to painting at an early age by his painter father. He lives and works in Normandy and Paris. Ronel holds a degree in plastic arts and has taught at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et Métiers d'Arts Olivier de Serres in Paris since 1990.Over the past thirty years, he has held more than eighty solo exhibitions in France and abroad, in galleries, cultural centers and museums in Paris, Lille, Amiens, Le Touquet, La Baule, Rouen, Barbizon, Brest, Chartres, Grenoble, Lyon, Montpellier, Nice, Saint Jean De Luz, Saint Malo, Brussels, Casablanca, Marrakech, Sousse, Hanover, Palm Beach, Singapore and Tokyo.His paintings have been exhibited at the Château de Vascoeuil, the Abbaye de Cercanceaux, the Palais Bénédictine de Fécamp, the Hôtel de Région de Rouen, the Archives de Chartres, the Conseil Général de Seine Maritime, the Brittany Ferries collection and the Musée Bourdelle in Nice, Paris - musée de la Poste, Paris - musée des Beaux Arts, Le Havre - de Louviers, de Châteauroux, de Chartres, de Brive, d'Aix en Provence, de Gérone, de Sarajevo, de Shanghai, au center d'art et de culture - Taegu, Corée - de Sarria - Espagne, in Japanese museums : Matsumoto, Fukuoka, Nagano, the Tokyo International Forum, the Aoyama Spiral Hall in Tokyo, the National Museum of China in Beijing and the National Chinese Museum in Tianjin, the National Museum of Taiwan.Ronel has taken part in many art fairs and biennials: Salon de Mai Grand Palais Paris, Grands et Jeunes Grand Palais Paris, Comparaisons Grand Palais Paris, Art en Capital Grand Palais Paris, Salon d'Automne, Groupe 109 Grand Palais Paris, Art Paris, Saga, Linéart Gand, SIMAA Foire de Beyrouth, Biennale Internationale de Pékin, Artelys Bourg en Bresse, Start Foire de Strasbourg, Symposium international d'art sur papier de Taiwan etc. His work can be found in various collections.His work can be found in public and private collections in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Morocco, Lebanon, USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Japan and the Arab Emirates.