Arthur

Dujols-Luquet

Arthur Dujols-Luquet entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2017, from which he graduated in 2023 with the congratulations of the jury.

In 2019, he was awarded the Hélène Diamond Drawing Scholarship. His drawings for 'Natures suspendues' were awarded an honourable mention in the Pierre-David Weill prize in 2023. That same year, he defended his dissertation entitled "Poetics of Emergence", which looked at the processes involved in creating a work, from the idea to the material, via the body.

Somewhere between sculpture, performance and drawing, Arthur is developing a fresh approach to space and time, an approach that is both formal and conceptual, and one that redefines the way we look at our surroundings.
 

Marine

Bikard

A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020, nominated for the Prix Contemporain du Dessin the same year and winner of the Diamond Drawing Prize in 2017, Marine Bikard teaches live model drawing at the Nouvelles Académie des Amateurs. 

At the intersection of performance and drawing, her work shifts the focus on drawing, considering it through the sensitive experience it provides. She imagines a kind of 'score' for drawing, often inspired by dance. In these, she tries to shake up the invisible hierarchies of drawing, by allowing a priori discreet agents (the interplay of relationships, the unconscious life of the body, the effect of time, etc.) to emerge in the experience and in the lines. So drawing, as an activity of movement, becomes a way of increasing our porosity to the world and going out to meet it. 

Photo credits: Jocelyn Cottencin.

Paul

Curti

A young painter who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022 after joining François Boisrond's studio, Paul Curti then followed the curriculum of the first class of the Fresco and Situated Art program in 2023.

Paul lives and works in Paris: he is passionate about painting techniques and enjoys experimenting, metamorphosing paint and playing with pure, even flashy colors in a luminous universe where the landscape is linked to references from the history of painting, but also to pop culture. Her work is focused on childhood. Indeed, after reinterpreting photographs from family archives, he now uses old figurines, scale models and other toys to compose the space of his paintings.

His pictorial universe has opened up to the medium of the wall, particularly to the fresco technique, which has revolutionized his way of painting. This has strengthened his relationship with raw materials such as pigments and supports. Paul currently works in a shared studio with other artists. His current art tends towards painting in which nature, light and characters set the scene for joyful and sometimes surprising scenes of life.

Paul gives fresco workshops with technical instruction in plastering, cardboard preparation, smoothing, sgraffito, etc.
 

Photo credit: Ayka Lux

Chelsea

Mortenson

Chelsea Mortenson is an American artist who lives and works in Paris. She was born in Oregon in 1986 and grew up in Eugene. She received a Bachelors of Arts in Film Studies from Barnard College in 2008 and a Masters of Fine Art from Beaux Arts of Paris in 2016. She has participated in several group exhibits: at the Griffin Gallery in London, the Dukan Gallery in Leipzig, with the Florence Association in Paris, she participated in the BBKL Hochedruck Grafik Symposium at Carpe Plumbum in Leipzig. In 2017 she was named laureate of the Rose Taupin-Dora Bianka painting prize, and in 2018 was awarded the Albert Maignan painting prize. Her work has joined the Collection Société General.

In her painting and printmaking, Chelsea Mortenson examines contemporary relationships between people and landscape. She is interested in places that are devastated, seen as empty or wasted, especially in the West, where the view of the natural world as a resource to be consumed or benefited from is linked to colonial and capitalist ideologies.

 

Elina

Huneman

A graduate of the Beaux-arts de Paris in 2023, Elina Huneman-Kulich offers classes in morphology, and courses for 13-16 year-olds as part of the Nouvelle Académie des Amateurs (NABA).

In her visual work, she depicts unreal worlds in order to convey emotions, particularly anxiety, through drawing, video and animation.

Winner of the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2023, nominated for the Prix du Dessin Contemporain in 2022 and 2023, and winner of the Hélène Diamond drawing scholarship in 2020, she has already taught drawing at the Art-graphe studio.

 

Photo credit: Estelle Kulich

Hugo

Guérin

Hugo Guérin graduated from the Beaux Arts de Paris in 2022, where he deepened his artistic knowledge of the worlds of video games and comics, and developed a deep love for the aesthetics of the strange and the imaginary. Following on from this, he started at the Sfar studio, where he focused on comics and illustration.

and illustration before discovering a more pronounced penchant for sculpture in the ceramics and modelling workshops at the Beaux Arts, seduced by the work of matter and volume.

Fascinated by the figure of the monster, his work takes the form of a bestiary of deformed and hybrid bodies, as vulnerable as they are disturbing. They betray a maladjusted nature, incapable of acting on the world, often torn between impulse and apathy.

Chloé

Vanderstraeten

A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021 and of the Arts Décoratifs in Printed Image, Chloé Vanderstraeten seeks to create poetic time-spaces through drawing, in dialogue with iconographic sources stemming from architectural sketches, choreographic notation, and a prehistory of handwritten gesture.

Her practice raises the question of the use of the body: what happens when we use our body to sleep, to breathe, to walk? She has participated in several group exhibitions, notably at CAC Bretigny and Mains d'Œuvres in Saint-Ouen with the curatorial collective Champs Magnétiques, and in Souffler de son souffle at the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles in 2022.

Mélissa

Boucher Morales

Digital photography

Mélissa Boucher Morales Franco-Bolivian, born in 1986.

Mélissa studied in Patrick Tosani's studio at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, graduating in 2013. She is a member of the Le Houloc collective workshop in Aubervilliers, collaborates with various organizations as an artist-in-residence and has been represented by Galerie Jocelyn Wolff since June 2024.

She has exhibited in photographic festivals such as Circulation(s), les Boutographies and ManifestO, in group shows at art galleries such as Triple V, Chez Valentin and Les Bains Douches in Alençon, and in art centers such as the MMA Museum in Moscow, the Maison des Arts in Malakoff and Credac.

Mélissa experiments with the possibilities and limits of the image. What she loves about photography is its ambiguity, its multiple possibilities for evocation and projection. Her images are a way of questioning the transitory. They often explore forms and notions linked to the representation of the intimate, with a recurring focus on gesture. She is interested in sideways and turning angles, in the presence of seemingly secondary objects or forms that open up a playground between documentary and fiction. Ultimately, her images often exist in dialogue, but also in confrontation or even confusion with other genres and media, such as cinema or literature.
"The compositions the artist creates in her exhibitions reveal that space is one of her areas of experimentation. Her photographs, with their diverse formats, are like snippets of a score to be recomposed. The intervals between works are just as important as those in which they are superimposed. They suggest a para-cinematographic approach in which the viewer activates his or her own sequences, collecting and arranging scenes as the body and gaze circulate. "(...) Extract from a text by Thomas Fort

Lenny

Rébéré

Lenny Rébéré graduated from the ESAIG Estienne in 2013 and from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018.

Lenny Rébéré is a member of the Le Houloc workshop in Aubervilliers and has been represented since 2015 by the Isabelle Gounod Gallery in Paris, with whom he has had several solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad. Winner of the Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Prize for Contemporary Art (2017) and of the Prix du Dessin Contemporain des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2018), he was recently nominated for the Drawing Now 2022 Prize.

Lenny Rébéré's works constitute openings onto a translucent and volatile contemporary world. Combining video, installation and drawing, he experiments with various media such as glass or PVC strap: he probes the surrounding images and spaces to reread and replace the snapshot that carries enough visual ambiguity. The works are like scenes of a daily and ritual life where the notion of time is relative, sometimes absent and sometimes accelerated.

Valentin

Duhamel

Valentin Duhamel is interested in the social, economic and historical functions of print and develops a plastic research around the different printing processes. He tinkers with and stages rudimentary, unreliable, fragile, slow and random printing tools to take on industrial productivity: an ode to inefficiency.

Graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in December 2019, he was an instructor at Aurélie Pagès' printmaking workshop for three years.

Today, he is the printer for the Musée des Estampes de la ville de Gravelines, where he teaches printing courses (intaglio) and accompanies artists in residence at the museum.

He is also a free-lance printer, with a particular taste for editions that are off the beaten track.