Arthur Marie
Arthur Marie was born in 1996 in Cherbourg, France, and lives and works in Paris. The artist draws his iconography from archives of historical photographs, fashion editorials, medical imagery, and ephemeral images from the internet. These references are dissected and deliberately stripped of any cultural or temporal markers, situating his work within a liminal space, as if suspended outside of time.
Arthur Marie is participating in the fifth edition of the Reiffers Art Prize, Tinkering with the unknown.
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Arthur Marie, 2026Biography
The dialogue between varnished surfaces, reminiscent of the tradition of historical portraiture, and these emaciated silhouettes— who wouldn’t seem out of place in a video game’s apocalyptic landscape, create an atmosphere that is at once reverent and foreboding.
While the compositions or tonalities of the works may at times evoke certain techniques of the Old Masters, Marie’s process remains intuitive: it is more a personal interpretation than a faithful replication. Rather than assign meaning, Marie encourages the figures autonomy, inviting the viewer to their own projected interpretation. Recent solo exhibitions include “Silhouettes” at Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris (2025); “Convivial Activity” at Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris (2024); “Serenity” at Queer Thoughts, New York (2023); and “Struggle for Pleasure” at Plymouth Rock, Zurich (2022).
His work has also been presented in group exhibitions at Blue Velvet, Zurich (2026); N/A, Seoul (2025); Francis Irv, New York (2025); Sentiment, Zurich (2025); Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles (2024); Council+, Berlin (2023); Profil, Paris (2023); The Residence Gallery, London (2022); Queer Thoughts, New York (2021); and Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (2020).