Arthur Fouray

Biography

Born in 1990 in Paris, Arthur Fouray is a French artist and curator who explores painting, installation, systems, and exhibition formats. Since 2019, he has been working as an Archivist and Curator at LUMA Arles, where he is in charge of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s archives.

After completing a Bachelor’s degree and then a Master’s in Visual Arts at ECAL under the supervision of Stéphanie Moisdon, he developed a multidisciplinary career exploring the many facets of the art world. Alongside his artistic practice, he co-founded Silicon Malley in 2015, an intimate and experimental artist-run space, and was part of the exhibition team at DOC in Paris from 2016 to 2018.

His work has been presented at the Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard in 2015, the Swiss Art Awards, Salts (Basel), and the MCBA (Lausanne) in 2016, at the Aargauer Kunsthaus (Aarau) and the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Medici in 2017, as well as at Art Genève in 2018. He has organized exhibitions by Lauren Coullard (2017) and Matthieu Laurette (2020) at Silicon Malley, and at DOC by Francesco Cagnin and Christophe Lemaitre (2017) as well as Pierre Joseph (2018). Together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, he coorganized exhibitions of Obrist’s archives at LUMA Arles and LUMA Westbau (Zurich), dedicated to Édouard Glissant (2021), Etel Adnan (2022), Agnès Varda (2023), and Gustav Metzger (2024). He is also coeditor of the book Édouard Glissant, Dans un monde imprévisible, l’utopie est nécessaire, published by LUMA in collaboration with Éditions du Seuil in 2024. Arthur Fouray is the author of two artist’s books: M (Micronauts, 2015) and SCREEN (Tombolo Press, 2017).