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Jules de Balincourt

Jules de Balincourt

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    View works. Jules de Balincourt, Sarah in the Studio, 2021
    Sarah in the Studio, 2021
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    Jules de Balincourt's paintings are states of mind rather than descriptions of the world around us. The Brooklyn-based artist explores  painting as an intuitive process, resulting in fantasy-like worlds in which landscapes and seascapes interplay with more abstract works. 

    In de Balincourt's paintings land and sea become sites of possibility and escape, while also containing elements of mysterious unease. Rather than rely on sketch, photography, or direct reference, the artist's process initially involves him building up many translucent layers of paint, working from abstraction into a figurative depiction. In these ambiguous, evocative spaces, where figures seem to be in perpetual motion, one senses the movement of an ever-changing, volatile world. At times, landscapes and figures start to break down into more abstract imagery, retaining figurative elements that allude to meditation or escape from our reality. Often, large and small paintings co-exist, sometimes arranged in a salon-style installation, leaving the viewer to free-associate between the images on view.

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  • Selected Works

    Jules de Balincourt, Figures in a Landscape, 2024 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt, Too Many Ships, 2024 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt, Us, Them and the Moon, 2018 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt, Midnight Cowboy, 2017 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt, Cave Country, 2017 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt, Valley Pool Party, 2016 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt, Sanctuary, 2016 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt, High and Low, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt, Itinerant Ones, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt, Exodus, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt  Think Globally Act Locally, 2007 Oil on panel 157.5 x 193 cm  96 x 132 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt  Blind Faith and Tunnel Vision, 2005 Oil and enamel on board 198 x 147 cm 78 × 58 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt  The People Who Play and the People Who Pay, 2004 Oil and enamel on board 127 x 121.9 cm 50 x 48 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt  Media Information Transmission Center, 2003 Oil on panel 96.5 x 121.9 cm 38 x 48 in (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Jules de Balincourt, Figures in a Landscape, 2024
  • Biography
    View works. Jules de Balincourt, Sarah in the Studio, 2021
    Sarah in the Studio, 2021
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    Jules de Balincourt, born in Paris, France in 1972, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. De Balincourt’s work has been the subject of a number of international solo exhibitions at institutions including Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga, Spain (2021); Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany (2015); The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA (2014–15); Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art, Rochechouart, France (2014); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, USA (2013); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2010) and Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, USA (2008).

    De Balincourt’s work has also been included in a number of significant group exhibitions, including Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes, Acquavella Galleries, Florida, USA (2022); Rehang, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019); Les Enfants du Paradis, MUba Eugene Leroy Tourcoing, France (2019) and Eldorama, Le Tripostal, Lille, France (2019) both as part of Eldorado: Lille 3000 (2019); The Biennial of Painting, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (MDD), Deurle, Belgium (2018); The New Frontiers of Painting, Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy (2017); The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2016); L’Ange de l’Histoire, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud at le Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (2013); New York Minute, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia (2011) and the 10th Havana Biennial, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba (2009).

    Works by the artist are included in the collections of Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA; MaRT, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME, USA, among others.

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  • News
    • Jules de Balincourt – After the Gold Rush at CAC Málaga

      Jules de Balincourt – After the Gold Rush at CAC Málaga

      March 12, 2021
      The exhibition (12 March–30 May 2021) features more than forty paintings created over the past decade. Recent paintings by the artist continue an intuitive approach...
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    • Collezione Maramotti opens its rehung galleries, featuring displays by Jules de Balincourt and Chantal Joffe

      Collezione Maramotti opens its rehung galleries, featuring displays by Jules de Balincourt and Chantal Joffe

      March 3, 2019
      For the first time since the opening of Collezione Maramotti in October 2007, ten rooms on the second floor of the permanent display have been...
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    • Jules de Balincourt talks to Floorr Magazine about his exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair

      Jules de Balincourt talks to Floorr Magazine about his exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair

      February 15, 2018
      Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your background. Where did you study? I was born in Paris France in 1972 and between...
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    • Elephant Magazine interviews Jules de Balincourt about his Victoria Miro Mayfair exhibition

      Elephant Magazine interviews Jules de Balincourt about his Victoria Miro Mayfair exhibition

      February 7, 2018
      By Emily Spicer “I rarely make paintings with a set, initial plan. They start as abstract forms and it becomes this intuitive, primitive, dance—a dance...
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    • Jules de Balincourt discusses his current exhibition, They Cast Long Shadows, in the Guardian

      Jules de Balincourt discusses his current exhibition, They Cast Long Shadows, in the Guardian

      February 6, 2018
      Denounced monuments, moonlit peace-seekers, how Brexit looks to Americans … Jules de Balincourt’s vivid, dreamlike works capture his country’s divisive times 'In America, the women’s...
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    • Jules de Balincourt talks to Port Magazine about his exhibition, They Cast Long Shadows, at Victoria Miro Mayfair

      Jules de Balincourt talks to Port Magazine about his exhibition, They Cast Long Shadows, at Victoria Miro Mayfair

      January 31, 2018
      Franco-American painter Jules de Balincourt ruminates on abstraction, utopia and the accessibility of art, at the opening of his latest exhibition By Jo Lawson-Tancred If...
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    • Candid Magazine reviews Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows

      Candid Magazine reviews Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows

      January 25, 2018
      By Claire Philips “You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming?” (- J.M. Barrie Peter Pan) That’s the...
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    • Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows featured in The Telegraph’s The Critical List

      Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows featured in The Telegraph’s The Critical List

      January 13, 2018
      'The New York-based French artist's multi-layered paintings blur the boundaries of fantasy and reality with sumptuous colour.' Read more Image: Jules de Balincourt, They Were...
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    • Jackie Wullschlager selects Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows in FT Critics’ Choice

      Jackie Wullschlager selects Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows in FT Critics’ Choice

      January 13, 2018
      ''They Cast Long Shadows' is the title the French-American painter gives to his latest dystopian imaginings: a group of acid-bright, glowing, shifting forms, pushed to...
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    • Jules de Balincourt in conversation with Marcel Dzama in the December issue of Juxtapoz Magazine

      Jules de Balincourt in conversation with Marcel Dzama in the December issue of Juxtapoz Magazine

      November 8, 2017
      Jules de Balincourt Searching the Wave of Possibility There’s the depth and scope, the sensational fields of vision in the paintings of Jules de Balincourt....
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    • Conrad Shawcross and Jules de Balincourt in The Universe and Art at ArtScience Museum Singapore

      Conrad Shawcross and Jules de Balincourt in The Universe and Art at ArtScience Museum Singapore

      April 15, 2017
      The Universe and Art is an artistic voyage through the cosmos, exploring where we came from and where we are going. It weaves a rich...
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    • Channel News Asia previews The Universe and Art, featuring Jules de Balincourt and Conrad Shawcross

      Channel News Asia previews The Universe and Art, featuring Jules de Balincourt and Conrad Shawcross

      April 2, 2017
      Outer space, aliens, art: 3 reasons why ArtScience Museum’s new show is out of this world . By Mayo Martin SINGAPORE: In 1999, Slovenian director...
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    • Jules de Balincourt creates the scenic design for New York City Ballet's production of Scherzo Fantastique

      Jules de Balincourt creates the scenic design for New York City Ballet's production of Scherzo Fantastique

      January 22, 2017
      Premieres January 22 as part of New York City Ballet's program Stravinsky x 5 Performances January 22, 24, 27, and February 3 2017 Set to...
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    • Jules de Balincourt creates two new lithographs for Edition Copenhagen

      Jules de Balincourt creates two new lithographs for Edition Copenhagen

      October 23, 2016
      Just launched, the artist's first lithographs are available via the Edition Copenhagen website . Each work is in an edition of 60, numbered and signed...
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    • Just out: Protest publication

      Just out: Protest publication

      September 23, 2016
      This publication accompanies Protest at Victoria Miro, 23 September - 5 November 2016, an exhibition of historical and contemporary works by artists concerned with the...
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    • Power to... the art of protest, as featured in The Observer

      Power to... the art of protest, as featured in The Observer

      September 23, 2016
      Politically engaged art is thriving again, finding new ways to challenge in a complex digital world. We look at the rich history of protest art...
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    • Conrad Shawcross and Jules de Balincourt at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

      Conrad Shawcross and Jules de Balincourt at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

      July 30, 2016
      The Universe and Art (until 9 Jan 2017) comprises around 200 objects, bringing meteorites and fossils, historic astronomical material by Da Vinci and Galileo, and...
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    • Jules de Balincourt interviewed in Studio International

      Jules de Balincourt interviewed in Studio International

      May 3, 2016
      The painter’s uncanny worlds reflect the post-9/11 zeitgeist with a beguiling charm. The world is a fragile, unsettling place, he says, and it’s difficult not...
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    • Jules de Balincourt interviewed in The Telegraph

      Jules de Balincourt interviewed in The Telegraph

      April 16, 2016
      The man who paints the good, the bad and the ugly of modern California. By Jonathan Griffin. In Jules de Balincourt's paintings, the romance of...
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    • Jules de Balincourt: Itinerant Ones is reviewed in The Guardian

      Jules de Balincourt: Itinerant Ones is reviewed in The Guardian

      November 19, 2013
      Jules de Balincourt: the Hitchcock of the painting world. By Adrian Searle. The French artist's absorbing canvases create whole worlds, embrace the miracle of being...
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  • Gallery Exhibitions
    • Jules de Balincourt: Moving Landscapes

      Jules de Balincourt: Moving Landscapes

      4 Oct – 2 Nov 2024 London Gallery II
      In this new body of work, the Brooklyn-based artist continues his exploration of painting as an intuitive process, resulting in fantasy-like worlds in which landscapes and seascapes become sites of possibility and escape.
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    • Unmasked

      Unmasked

      12 Feb – 27 Mar 2022 Venice
      An exhibition in Venice of works by Milton Avery, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Chantal Joffe, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel and Celia Paul.
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    • Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows

      Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows

      19 Jan – 24 Mar 2018 Victoria Miro Mayfair
      Quiet, reflective and mysterious, new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Jules de Balincourt continue an intuitive approach to image-making, where the world we inhabit is filtered through the artist’s own psychological...
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    • House Work

      House Work

      25 Jan – 18 Mar 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair
      Including Mamma Andersson, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, Marc Chagall, Peter Doig, Adrian Ghenie, David Harrison, Karen Kilimnik, John Kørner, LS Lowry, Alice Neel, Celia Paul, Grayson Perry, Tal R,...
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    • Protest

      Protest

      23 Sep – 5 Nov 2016 London Gallery I
      Doug Aitken, Jules de Balincourt, Vlassis Caniaris, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Christian Holstad, Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Richard Prince, Sarah Sze, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Kara Walker.
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    • Jules de Balincourt: Stumbling Pioneers

      Jules de Balincourt: Stumbling Pioneers

      14 Apr – 14 May 2016 London Gallery I
      Perched on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, Los Angeles has, since the pioneering age, been the limitless repository of America’s dreams of the frontier, of desires that saturate the...
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    • Jules de Balincourt: Itinerant Ones

      Jules de Balincourt: Itinerant Ones

      16 Nov – 20 Dec 2013 London Gallery I
      The first solo exhibition in the UK for the Paris-born, New York-based painter. Known for his carefully constructed paintings that move effortlessly between abstraction and figuration, the imagined and the...
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