Stephane Dillies

Stéphane Dillies (b. 1975, France) is a painter based in Belgium. A graduate of the Fine Arts School of Tourcoing (DNSEP, Master's degree in Fine Arts), he has been developing a figurative practice for more than 25 years.

His work follows two lines. In his hyperrealist oil paintings, he turns the debris of consumer culture (crushed soda cans, plastic bottles, street litter) into large, meticulously rendered still lifes: contemporary vanitas echoing the old "memento mori", asking what our society leaves behind.

In parallel, his acrylic pop series borrows the language of vintage comic books and magazine covers and confronts it with today's codes (likes, screens, masks) to question how images shape our desires and emotions.

Both bodies of work share one method: slow, precise painting applied to images we usually consume in a second.

His work is part of the Mercedes-Benz Contemporary Art Collection (Lille, France).

DNSEP – Master's degree in Fine Arts, Fine Arts School of Tourcoing, France

2023 – Group show, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
2017 – Ten Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2012 – JPB Art Gallery, Saint-Tropez, France
2012 – Lille Art Fair, Lille, France
2012 – Xavier Ronse Gallery, Mouscron, Belgium
2011 – JPB Art Gallery, Saint-Tropez, France
2011 – Xavier Ronse Gallery, Mouscron, Belgium
2011 – Fardel Fine Art Gallery, Le Touquet, France
2010 – Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Touquet, France
2010 – School of Fine Arts, Saint-Omer, France