Pol Taburet
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Pol Taburet (born 1997, Paris) is a French contemporary artist known for figurative paintings that incorporate airbrushing techniques with traditional brush painting and incorporating Afro-Caribbean tropes into his practice.[1][2] He graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy.[3]
Pol Taburet attained degrees in fine arts at the bachelor's and graduate level at École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy. His father is a psychoanalyst, and his mother worked as a museum guard at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.[4][5] His grandmother immigrated to France from Guadeloupe.[5] Taburet remembers his parents reading literature, including Sufi poetry and Grimm's fairy tales, and a visit to the Musée du Luxembourg at age ten as inspirations to his profesisional engagement as a painter, recalling how "a [Giuseppe] Arcimboldo portrait was installed with a mirror below it, the effect was like a magic trick."[5] Taburet's mother introduced him to Quimbois, the Guadeloupean form of Vodu, accents of which feature prominently in his practice.[2]
Curator Ali Hassanzadeh met Taburet while he was bartending at nightclub NF-34 in Paris during his studies, helping to launch his career. Taburet subsequently exhibited work at Art Basel through galleries Balice Hertling and Mendes Wood DM. His first solo exhibition opened in September 2020 at Balice Hertling's Belleville space.[5]
In 2022, Taburet won the Reiffers Art Initiatives Prize and was selected, among five other artists, for the 24th Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard.[6][7] His work gained attention from curator Caroline Bourgeois and entered the collection of François Pinault.[8][9] A 2025 profile in El País (ICON) described him as “the most precocious talent of the new French art scene.”[10]