Artist Wabyanko

Wabyanko is a contemporary visual artist born in Brittany, France, and based in Nantes. He works across acrylic painting, stop motion animation and AI, creating hybrid works that explore collective memory, social fragility and the things societies choose to forget.

His signature style merges abstract figurative painting, street art and digital media. Bold colour contrasts, expressive lines and symbolic imagery create a visual tension between chaos and harmony — inviting collectors and viewers to look again, and longer.

In 2020, his work on the Covid crisis was selected to illustrate a Fortune Global Conference. His paintings are held in private collections across the United States, Europe, and Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore). His market value is officially rated by AKOUN, the French art market reference for collectors.

Wabyanko exhibits regularly at international art fairs in Paris and Brussels. He is represented by The Art Cycle Gallery, Paris, and featured on OuestArtShop, Brittany. His work has been selected for group exhibitions including "Penser le Processuel" (Centre Culturel P.J. Vallès, Paris, 2024).

In 2026, he completes three hybrid short films — Unchained Ship (Nantes), Silent Red Threads, and Crimson Ephemeral Sand — ex...

Self-taught artist. I learned by looking, practising and experimenting: spending time in Paris museums and art exhibitions, and in particular the Louvre, studying how masters handle light, gesture and storytelling. I keep learning across different media: acrylic painting, stop motion, digital creation.

My background in IT technology gives me a taste for tools and process, and I bring it into my art.

In 2024, I presented an exhibition in Paris built around an installation I designed: a stop motion film made from my own paintings, shown with a homemade zoetrope built by hand. In 2025, I began creating video art with AI, always from my own artistic direction, while keeping my canvases fully hand-painted, with no AI on the canvas.

In 2026, my film Silent Red Threads – Skyward was shortlisted among five films in the Best AI Film category at the Inspiring Asia festival and screened in the semi-final at the National Gallery Singapore.

Influences: Monet, Basquiat, Banksy and the cinema of Takeshi Kitano, Eric Khoo.

2026
FilmUnchained Ship (Le Bateau Déchaîné) - Hybrid short film, Nantes, France
Acrylic painting · Stop Motion · AI · Memory of the Nantes slave trade · Educational guide distributed to French schools
2026
FilmSilent Red Threads — Hybrid short film
Acrylic painting · Stop Motion · AI · Symbolism · Memory
2026
FilmCrimson Ephemeral Sand — Hybrid short film
Acrylic painting · Stop Motion · AI · Temporality · Fragility
2025–26
Group City Skylines — Singapore & Landerneau — The Art Cycle, Rennes & Marseille, France
Urban impressionism series · acrylic on canvas
2024
GroupPenser le Processuel — Centre Culturel P.J. Vallès, Paris, France
Zoetrope installation · processual art · painting and animation
2023–24
GroupSalon International d'Art — Paris, France
2023
FeaturedThe Art Cycle Gallery — Paris, France, November 2023
Solo feature · ongoing representation
2023
GroupÉclats d'Art — Cultural Art Exhibition, Nantes, France, March 2023
2023
GroupART3F International Art Fair — Paris, France, January 2023
2022–24
GroupART3F International Art Fair — Brussels, Belgium
2022
VirtualUkraine — Bloody Shark Attack — International Virtual Exhibition
War · political painting · online platform
2021
VirtualFlower Butterfly Poetical Animation — V...