Maroussia Chanut

Located in the south of France, Maroussia Chanut is a visual artist and sculptor mostly known for her sculptures of characters from popular culture, animals and human beings with animal heads, presented in human relationships situations.

Her work tells stories, while questionning our Humanity through the moments of existence that we share from our collective unconscious.

Her figurative style is an emanation of pop art with a lot of humour, sometimes tragic but over all revigorating.
Her sculptures can be miniature or giant in size.

She works with a mineral based resin, with a stone-like aspect, texture and weight, that is considered the most natural one. She is constantly looking for ways to reduce her carbon print, by using algae for moulding for example, she and uses gold leaf, pigments and bronze and copper powder as well.

She's been represented in contemporary art galleries in Paris and Lyon, and showed in fairs like Drawing Now! at the Carrousel du Louvre.
Her sculptures, watercolors and drawings are available on various platforms like Saatchi Art, or her website.

She graduated in 2005 from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon, in France.
She also studied in 2004 in the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany in the classes of Wim Wenders (cinéma), Marie-José Burki (video) and Stefan Kern (sculpture)

SOLO SHOWS
2019 Solo show, Espace Matthieu Côte, Rompon
2014 « Rendez-vous à l’atelier », Lyon, with public founding from MAPRAA and Région Rhône-Alpes
2013 « La nuit sera calme » ( the night will be still), Groupe d’Art Contemporain, Annonay (invited as a resonnance with the Biennale of Contemporary Art of Lyon and as a honor guest of MAPRAA for their 30 years)
« Intimités I », Galerie Artaé, in resonnance with the Biennale of Contemporary Art of Lyon
2012 « Rendez-vous à l’atelier », Lyon, with public founding from MAPRAA and Région Rhône-Alpes
2011« L’Affaire Homme », Galerie Artaé, Lyon
2009 Solo show, MAPRAA, Lyon

COLLECTIVE SHOWS
2016 "L'Enfance revisitée", Pollionnay
"L'art au carré", Lyon
2015 "Alpha Bravo", Lyon City Hall
2013 « Cabinet de dessins contemporains», Galerie Artaé, Lyon
retrospective collective show of 3 artistes, 20 years of the association Geneviève Dumont, Pollionnay,
2010 « Contes et passion épisode III », Galerie Placido, Paris
« Art au carré », parcours d’art contemporain, Lyon
« Adele » parcours d’art contemporain, Lyon
« Drawing Now!», salon du dessin contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Galerie Placido, Paris
« Latences », Galerie Artaé, Lyon
2009 « Que du Papier », Galerie Placid...