[1] Godin graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon in 1990 and subsequently worked for several years alongside gallerist Roger Pailhas, first in Marseille and then in Paris.
[2] From 2000 to 2005, Godin served as the Director of the Contemporary Art Center of the City of Lyon, Le Rectangle,[3] where he organized notable exhibitions by artists such as Wang Du, the Atelier Van Lieshout, Stephan Balkenhol, Anselm Kiefer, and others.
In 2005, he curated and organized a large sculpture exhibition in Jinan, China, featuring artists like Daniel Buren, Pierre Huyghe, and Anne Veronica Janssen.
[23][24] Galerie Laurent Godin also represents its artists at some of the most important contemporary art fairs[25] in New York,[26] Miami,[27] Mexico, Brussels, Cologne, Paris,[28] and Geneva.
[29] In addition to his exhibition programs, Laurent Godin has developed a significant publishing activity to accompany them, producing monographs, catalogs, and artists' books.