Arthur Fouray: Biography

Arthur Fouray (b. 1990, Paris) is an artist and curator whose practice concerns the systems of narration, production and distribution of art. His research runs from drawing to music, from painting to exhibition formats, and from video to the digital realm. He studied fine arts at ECAL in Renens, Switzerland, taking a bachelor’s degree (2011–2013) and a master’s (2013–2015). In 2015 he co-founded the artist-run space Silicon Malley in Prilly, Switzerland, then joined the curatorial team of DOC! in Paris, from 2016 to 2018. Since 2019 he has been Archivist & Curator at LUMA Arles, in charge of the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives.

His painting is an investigation into the monochrome, treating the canvas as a physical ‘interface’ between the viewer and an idea. In 2026 he began a new series of canvases combining monochrome paintings and chiaroscuro studies.

His work has been shown at the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (2015), the Swiss Art Awards, Salts and the MCBA Lausanne (2016), and at the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the Villa Medici (2017). He is the author of two artist’s books, M (Julien Gremaud, 2015) and SCREEN (Tombolo Presses, 2017), and has released music as rt4a since 2022. As a curator he has organised exhibitions by Lauren Coullard and Matthieu Laurette at Silicon Malley, and by Francesco Cagnin and Pierre Joseph at DOC!. With Hans Ulrich Obrist he has co-organised, at LUMA Arles and LUMA Westbau in Zurich, a series of exhibitions structured around the archives: Édouard Glissant (2021), Etel Adnan (2022), Agnès Varda (2023), Gustav Metzger (2024), Maria Lassnig (2025) and Zaha Hadid (2026). With Bernard Comment he co-edited Édouard Glissant, Dans un monde imprévisible, l’utopie est nécessaire (Éditions du Seuil / LUMA, 2024).

See also the Chronology, the Curriculum Vitae and the Bibliography & Press.