Manon Gignoux, a 2019 graduate, is the winner of the 2020 edition of Prix du dessin contemporain. This prize, created in 2013 and awarded by the association Le Cabinet des amateurs de dessins des Beaux-Arts de Paris, rewards one of the students or young graduates of the school for their drawings. The prize-winning artist receives €4,500 and one or more of his/her works are acquired by the Cabinet Bonna to enrich its collections.

 

Maja
Wisniewska

Maja Wisniewska was born in 1973 in Lodz, Poland. She lives and draws in Paris.

 

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland, she graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2002 with unanimous congratulations from the jury. In 2011, she presented a solo exhibition at the Laurence Esnol Gallery, Paris and has since participated in two numerous group exhibitions.

 

She teaches anatomy for beginners and morphology for students who already have good knowedge in drawing at the New Academy of Amateurs of Beaux-Arts de Paris.

 

Laurent
Okroglic

Drawing with a live model

Artist for whom drawing has been at the heart of his approach since his studies, Laurent Okroglic develops a project that combines research, design and formalization. The versatility of his favorite medium, drawing, allows him to approach different registers of forms and thus inscribe the artistic practice at different levels: video animation, large format work, graphic painting, comic book and artist's book.

 

François
Mendras

François Mendras was born in 1962, he lives in Paris. He is a graduate of Beaux-Arts de Paris.

 

His works have been presented at the Fondation Cartier, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Toulouse, the Palais des Congrès in Paris, the Centre d'Art Contemporain du Creux de l'Enfer in Thiers, the Museum of Boulogne, and the Fiac. They are present in several public collections such as the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain or the Frac d'Ile-de-France and Auvergne.

 

Gilles
Marrey

A painter, draftsman and engraver, Gilles Marrey has been teaching painting at the public courses of Beaux-Arts de Paris since 1996. He is also a lecturer at the Ecole Nationale d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville in the fields of representation and artistic disciplines.

 

Cécile
Granier de Cassagnac

Painting with a live model

The practice of Cécile Granier de Cassagnac revolves essentially around watercolor. The inspiration of her work is based on the living (animals, plants, minerals) to better detach itself from it. She develops her plastic language through numerous trips and residencies: residency workshop in partnership with Culture France at the Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, winner of the Yishu 8 prize and residence in Beijing, or residence in Lomé, Togo.

 

Maryline
Genest

Drawing with a live model, Capturing the fugitive

Maryline Genest, a French painter and graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, explores in her drawings and paintings the notion of the home as a space in perpetual movement, a surge of unpredictable novelties. Her approach is part of a nomadic process, in which she moves around, listens, crosses, looks and adapts, reflecting the fluidity and movement of perceptions and lives.

Sylvie
Fajfrowska

Sylvie Fajfrowska is a graduate of Beaux-Arts de Paris.

 

Michel
Gouéry

A resident of the Villa Medici in Rome in 1986, Michel Gouéry has been a living model drawing teacher at the public Beaux-Arts de Paris classes since 1994.

 

Antoine
Bénard-Niore

Painting with a live model

Born in 1963, Antoine Bénard graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1989.

He lectured at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume from 1991 to 1993 and at J. Dubuffet's "Tour aux Figures" from 1992 to 1998. He published a Manuel de l'anthropoïdo-centrisme in 1998 as well as a collection of prints, Les neuf vies du grand hibou in 2012. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in France.