[2] Fromanger studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his first solo exhibition was held in 1966.

Souffles, his large translucent "half-balloon" street sculptures, attracted attention in 1968.

Fromanger has been described as a social critic who takes a political position without neglecting the poetic dimension.

[3] Michel Foucault, a friend of Fromanger's, wrote about his work in Photogenic Painting.

In 2005, a retrospective exhibition, Gérard Fromanger: rétrospective 1962–2005, was shown at various galleries in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.