François Sarhan (*1972) studied composition in Paris. The French composer, author, visual artist, and filmmaker is also the director of his own music theatre works as well as multimedia pieces, in which he often performs himself. He worked with South African artist William Kentridge on Telegrams from the Nose, which has been shown over 30 times at major festivals and events across Europe.

Sarhan has taught at IRCAM Paris and Marc-Bloch University in Strasbourg. Exhibitions of his visual works (videos, collages, and art books) have been presented in Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, and Ghent, among others. He is interested in the interpretation and dissemination of knowledge, for example, in his book series Encyclopaedia, in which he parodies the knowledge of universities.

He works with found objects (public documents, spoken voice, collages) in an approach that combines collage, improvisation, automatic writing, and criticism in a theoretical or communicative manner.

Since 2024, he has been teaching at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. François Sarhan lives in Berlin.