Biography


Arthur Fouray

Biography

Arthur Fouray (b. 1990, Paris, France) is an artist and curator working with painting, objects, exhibitions, video, music, books and websites. His work tests how a title, a support or a setting changes what we see. In 2015 he co-founded the artist-run space Silicon Malley in Prilly, Switzerland; from 2016 to 2018 he was part of the curatorial team at DOC! in Paris. Since 2019 he has been Archivist & Curator at LUMA Arles, in charge of the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives.

In his paintings, a pillow can set the dimensions of a canvas; a title identifies an object concealed behind a monochrome. A sentence reappears as a song, an unrealised project as a playing card. These shifts connect his activities without requiring a common style. His website is part of the work: it opens the archive to different routes and makes the sources and decisions behind a work available alongside its results. In 2026 he began a series combining monochrome paintings and chiaroscuro studies.

As an artist, his work has been presented at the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (2015), the Swiss Art Awards, Salts and the MCBA Lausanne (2016), as well as 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). His musical productions have been available on streaming platforms since 2022. As a curator, he has organised exhibitions by Lauren Coullard and Matthieu Laurette at Silicon Malley, as well as Francesco Cagnin and Pierre Joseph at DOC!. He has co-organised, with Hans Ulrich Obrist at LUMA Arles and LUMA Westbau (Zurich), a series of exhibitions structured around the archives, dedicated to Édouard Glissant (2021), Etel Adnan (2022), Agnès Varda (2023), Gustav Metzger (2024), Maria Lassnig (2025) and Zaha Hadid (2026). He is also the co-editor of the publication Édouard Glissant: Dans un monde imprévisible, l’utopie est nécessaire, published in collaboration with Éditions du Seuil in 2024.

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