‘A lesson in painting’ by Jamian Juliano-Villani

The Beaux-Arts de Paris are inviting American painter Jamian Juliano-Villani to give a lecture as part of the Pourquoi Paris? 2024 curatorial project by exhibition curator Julie Boukobza. Through the classic exercise of the painting lesson since the seventeenth century, and to the rhythm of a stroll from one amphitheatre to another, the artist Jamian Juliano-Villani unveils his highly singular approach, reveals his multiple influences, as well as his recognised curatorial practice since the opening of his New York gallery O'Flaherty's in 2021.

Jamian Juliano-Villani was born in 1987 in Newark, New Jersey. She lives and works in New York. Her work can be found in international public collections (Brooklyn Museum, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Groeninghe Art Collection, Bruges, Belgium). In 2021, the artist opened the O'Flaherty gallery in the East Village. She took part in the 59th Venice Biennale (The Milk of Dreams, 2022) and produced the solo exhibition It, Gagosian, New York (2024).

Photo credit: The artist in her Brooklyn studio, 2024 © Maris Hutchinson, Courtesy Gagosian