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It is with great sadness and emotion that we learned of the passing of Jean-François Debord.

Born in Évreux in 1938, Jean-François Debord taught at Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1969, as assistant to Professor Pol Le Cœur, before being appointed Professor in charge of the morphology department in 1978, a position he held for 25 years until 2003. An emblematic figure at the school, his teaching has had a lasting impact on generations of students.

Morphology at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, by Jean-François Debord

The Nouvelle Académie des Amateurs (NABA) offers you an original and range of activities to develop your artistic skills in an emblematic school and venue, for ages 16 and up!

Whether for beginners or advanced students, the courses on offer, both theoretical and practical, enable you to acquire an artistic technique, complete or perfect your training and refine your personal culture. Accompanied by qualified artists, come and learn or perfect your skills in life drawing, painting, morphology... and much more!

 

Éric de Chassey, the new Director of Beaux-Arts de Paris, takes up his post on July 1. We wish him a warm welcome!  

Professor of art history at the École normale supérieure de Lyon since 2012, Éric de Chassey was director of the Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis from 2009 to 2015, before becoming director of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) in 2016. He is the author of numerous books, essays and articles on contemporary art and artists, and has curated over fifty exhibitions in France and abroad.

Les Beaux-Arts de Paris extends its warmest and most sincere congratulations to Nina Childress, who joins the Académie des Beaux-Arts. She has been head of studio at Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2019.

 

Nina Childress was officially installed as a member of the painting section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on June 25, 2025 by her colleague Catherine Meurisse, member of the engraving and drawing section.
 

For 2 days, the Ateliers Ouverts are a unique opportunity for the general public and professionals to discover the young creativity and artistic diversity produced by students at Beaux-Arts de Paris.

The studios are transformed into exhibition spaces, offering a panorama of work produced from the Via Ferrata preparatory class to the fifth year: paintings, photos, sculptures, drawings, videos, etc. Studio training is the hallmark of Beaux-Arts de Paris, and is named after the renowned artist in charge.

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On June 26, 2025, the association Les Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris, founded and chaired by agnès b., awarded seven prizes to  Beaux-Arts de Paris students selected by a jury of professionals from the contemporary art world.


Salomé BOTELLA, 5th year student, winner of Prix agnès b.
Léonard BERTHOU, 3rd year student, winner of the Prix THADDAEUS ROPAC
Charlotte MENUT, 4th year student, winner of the Prix du PORTRAIT Bertrand de DEMANDOLX- DEDONS

The contemporary drawing prize, awarded on June 26, 2025, goes to Marguerite Hollemaert, a 4th-year student at the Bernini and Blanc/Nielsen studios. She receives an endowment from the association Les Amateurs de dessins des Beaux-Arts de Paris, which acquires one of her works for the Beaux-Arts de Paris, to enrich the collection of contemporary drawings.

Graduating with honors in 2023, Amandine Massé will take up a month-long research and creative residency at Villa Ndar in Saint-Louis, Senegal, in November. This residency, organized with the support of Les Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris, is now in its third year.

A sculptor working with salvaged / created objects that she arranges in layers evoking individual and collective memory, she proposes Les Veilleurs Mbook, a research installation between memory, transmission and shared tales. In Wolof, mbook means parent, what we share, our link.

À première vue returns this summer, giving the galleries of Saint-Germain des Prés carte blanche to showcase the work of young artists who have graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris.

This 5th edition will take place from July 3 to August 31, 2025, on the initiative of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the jeudi des Beaux-Arts association and the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art (CPGA). The aim of the event is to create a first link between young artists from the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the art galleries that coexist in the same district.

Clémence Gbonon, who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors in 2024, will benefit from the prize of Catherine and Mamadou-Abu Sarr, French entrepreneurs and collectors based in Chicago, for a one-month research residency at the Villa Albertine in Chicago in 2026.


A figurative painter with a strong emphasis on color, the artist will explore the political radicalism of art in Chicago's black communities, questioning black figuration in France and enriching her practice with these two approaches.

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