Born in Paris in 1965. He lives in Paris. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Le Havre and the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, before moving to New York, where he lived from 1988 to 2004.

In 1992, he exhibited his work in Paris at Galerie Météo (Le Triomphe de la peinture) and the following year in Munich at Daniel Blau Gallery (Köpfe); then in Paris at the Grand Palais (Saga), Zürcher Gallery (Vraiment peintres), Galerie Barbier-Beltz and Galerie Météo (SMGP2A); in the South of France at the museum of Toulon (L’Éloge de la peinture); and in New York, at the French Consulate (An American Collection of Contemporary French Art), Galerie Achim Kubinski (What to Say, What Not to Say) and the White Columns (Libidinal paintings).

In 1996, he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in New York, USA.
His most recent exhibitions include: Art library, Vitré (2013); 21st. Projects New York; Galerie Scrawitch, Paris; School of Fine Arts, Tours; The Artboretum, Argenton-sur-Creuse (2012) and Château of Saint-Ouen (2011).

Édouard Prulhière has participated in many shows in Europe and the United States: “Real Estate,” Ventana244 Art Space, New York (USA, 2014); “Blau,” Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt (Germany, 2013); “Autre pareil,” Dunkerque art museum; “La Fureur de l’éternuement,” Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot art center (France, 2012); “Choses incorporelles,” Libourne art museum (France, 2011); “Four artists,” from the collection of Jim Cottrell and Joseph Lovett, Orlando Museum of Arts (USA, 2008); “Derivados da Pintura,” Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid (Spain, 2008); “In the realm of the senses,” Clay Center Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston (USA, 2007); “Selected paintings and works on paper,” Chelsea Museum, New York (USA, 2005); “Knowing when to stop,” Bellwether Gallery; “Prescient Then and Now: The resonance of Support/Surface,” Dorsky Gallery, New York (USA, 2002); “Pintura,” Frac Auvergne (France 2000); “Unprivileged Spaces,” Edsvik Konst och Kultur, Stockholm, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås (Sweden, 1999-1998); “Stuttgart Klima,” Der Stadt Gallery, Stuttgart Museum (Germany, 1997); “Painting All Over Again,” Centro de artes, Saragossa (Spain, 1996); “Painting in an Expanded Field,” Bennington College, Bennington (USA, 1996).

In 2012 he was co-founder with David Goodman and Saul Ostrow of Critical Practices Inc., a New York-based nonprofit association created to facilitate critical, theoretical and artistic contemporary practices.