He went to college at the Armangaud House in Aigues-Vives, where he met Claude Viallat, a member of the Supports/Surfaces group.

His last exhibition in France was 1994 at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.

He preferred a deconstructionist approach and attempted to explore the pre-existing qualities of his materials.

[2] In Artforum Simone Menegoi writes about "Grand's career-long interest in the dialectic between nature and culture, between the human gesture that appropriates and transforms and the materials to which it is applied.

During the late 1970s he began to experiment with synthetic resins applied to wrap stones, wood, bones and even fish.