Stéphane Ducret

A graduate of l’Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva and a recipient of The Leenaards Foundation Grant Award and the FCDAV Award, Ducret had studio residences in New York, Porto, and Buenos Aires.

Ducret’s work has been exhibited at many international venues, including the Forum d’Art Contemporain, Sierre; the Fundación OSDE and the Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires; the Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne; Centre PasquArt, Bienne; the Artists Space and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; the Musée de Pully, Pully and is included in many public and private collections.

Stéphane Ducret’s work engages the audience in a dialogue about their perception of life and uses painting to explore the process of achieving eudaimonia (Greek for “happiness”). Humor, celebration of the senses, surprise, and the quest for beauty stand at the center of his work. The most recent works by Ducret in spray paint are first and foremost the visual trace of concentrated action, of a conceptually prepared process. Ducret is fascinated by the language of pure form, lines, and colors and, above all, their potential to transport worldliness