Patrick Poirier (b. 1942, Nantes, France) is a French contemporary artist best known for his lifelong collaboration with his wife, Anne Poirier. Working together since 1968, the duo, known as Anne and Patrick Poirier, create installations, sculptures, and multimedia works exploring memory, architecture, archaeology, and the fragility of civilizations.

Educated at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, they were awarded the Prix de Rome and completed a residency at the Villa Medici (1968–1972), where ancient ruins profoundly shaped their practice. Blurring the roles of artist, archaeologist, and architect, their work reconstructs real or imagined ruins, reflecting on loss, cultural vulnerability, and the passage of time. Through diverse materials and poetic visual language, the Poiriers capture the tension between creation and destruction that defines human history.