Stephane Villafane

Artist & Architect born in France, 1969

ARTISTIC PROCESS

Create an elsewhere with what is in front of your eyes.
Everything starts from there, from a real landscape made of lights, vibrations, colors, multiple spaces in which I immerse myself to create on the white canvas an "other" landscape which does not reproduce anything, does not interpret anything of what is in front of me, but reveals little by little what enters me in an unspeakable way...

Like attempts to escape to a meditative perspective, I want one to feel in my work a desire for continuous transformation, for detachment, for floating, for emptiness with all the imperfections and risks that painting requires.

​CURRENTLY REPRESENTED BY THE GALLERIES

Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, United States
Esther Montoriol Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

EDUCATION

2000 Graduate Architect
1994/2000 Internships in different architecture and design agencies
1992/1994 National School of Architecture of Lyon, France (with specialization in visual arts: painting, photography)
1991/1992 Technical College of Architecture of Barcelona, Spain
1988/1991 National School of Architecture of Lyon, France

TEACHING

2007 Graduation juror at the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero, Italy
2008 Graduation juror at the University School of Design and Architecture of Barcelona, Spain
2010/18 Temporary professor at the National School of Architecture of Montpellier, France

AWARDS

2000 Finalist of the Grand Prize of Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts of Paris, France
2001 Finalist of the Grand Prize of Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts of Paris, France

RECENT EXHIBITIONS - SOLO SHOW

2024 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2023 Esther Montoriol Gallery, Barcelona, Spain