Philippe Halaburda

I’m a French-born visual artist based in New York. My work explores the emotional and psychological impact of our environments (urban, digital, and internal) through abstract compositions that blend painting, drawing, and installation. Using materials such as acrylics, tape, thread, and found objects like Lego bricks, I create layered, map-like structures that reflect subconscious patterns and the complexity of human desire.

At the core of my practice is psychogeography: a way of mapping invisible forces—memories, emotions, social connections—onto real or imagined spaces. Each piece becomes a mental landscape, revealing the tensions between order and chaos, self and influence, movement and constraint.

Through this visual language, I invite viewers to reflect on their inner topographies. My work has been shown internationally and is included in both private and public collections. I view art as a means to translate internal experiences into external form, raw, intuitive, and open to interpretation.

1993
Bachelor's Degree (Literature), Coulommiers, France

1995
M.F.A., Academy of Graphic design and visual Arts, EDTA SORNAS, Paris, France

Collective show:
'Through the eye of the needle'
January 21 - March 18, 2023
Hudson Valley MOCA
Peekskill, NY, USA

Solo show:
'Records'
May 21 - July 31, 2022
Garner Art Center Garnerville, NY, USA

Collective show:
'Radius 50'
July 11-Sept. 12, 2022
WAM
Woodstock, NY, USA

Outdoor in situ Installation:
'Suun Rayy'
September 25 - November 15, 2021
Terrain Biennal
Newburgh, NY, USA

Outdoor Sculpture Installation:
Fadded Cuub'
September 7 - October 31, 2021
Tilly Farm
Brewster, NY, USA

Solo show:
'Spatial representation of emotions'
January 1 - April 1, 2021
AGC gallery
Newburgh, NY, USA

Collective show:
‘We want the united states of the world’
May 17 - July 31, 2020
Magreen Gallery
Rapallo (GE), Italy

Onsite installation:
'Ntrl Tbbs'
August 1 - September 7, 2019
Heart for Art Institute
New York, NY, USA

Collective show:
'Geographic abstraction'
June 1 - August 14, 2019
Goudenberg Gallery
Basel, Switzerland

Collective show:
"FLOW”
February 1 - March 31, 2019
The Vanderbilt Republic
New York, NY, USA

Solo show:
'Underground NYC'
December 28, 2018 - February 3, 2019
Chashama
New York, NY, USA

Collective show:
'Open mapping'
July 12 - August 10, 2018
Trager Contemporary
Charleston, NC, USA

Collective show:
'Interconnec...