Stéphane Blanquet

Born in 1973, near Paris, France, multimedia artist Stéphane Blanquet is a prolific figure in the contemporary art scene since the end of the 1980s.

Born in 1973, near Paris, France, multimedia artist Stéphane Blanquet is a prolific figure in the contemporary art scene since the end of the 1980s.

In 1996, he received the prestigious Alph Art du fanzine prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for his work as a publisher.

Exhibition in San Diego (USA) and at the Luzerne Museum (Switzerland), the Cult Fiction exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London and 6 others venues in the UK, a solo show in Fumetto (Luzerne, Switzerland), another one in Aix-en-Provence (France)… In 2008, he created an outdoor mural for the Kabinett Passage in the "Vienna Museumsquartier" in Austria.

In 2010, he spent 3 weeks in Japan, where he had a solo show at the Span Art Gallery in Tokyo and participated in various events.

In 1997, he went into animation movies and made "Le mélange des couleurs" for the French broadcasting company Canal +.

It was chosen as one of the 10 most aesthetically outstanding books published in France that year (Concours des plus beaux livres français).

At the "Comédie de Caen", a French national theater, he worked on stage and costume design, play writing and direction.

In 2008, the play he co-authored and co-designed "Comment ai-je pu tenir là-dedans" was very successful at the Festival d'Avignon and has been shown 200 times including in Japan and Korea.