About

Julien Boudet (1985, Sète, FR) lives and works in between Paris & Brussels. 

Julien Boudet’s works vascilliate in the field of photography, sculptures, and installations. He is creating a new vernacular that bridges the gap between Mediterranean visual cultures, referencing art history, hip hop, and sport, amongst other subjects, in his work. Creating images with medium format film cameras, Boudet’s practice investigates overcrossing of consumerism, technology, culture, and media.

By highlighting and recontextualizing luxury brands, his pictures put the ballast of these labels as a sign of desire – not just by celebrating the liturgy of consuming—but assuming these elements naturally as part of our lives. The duality between real and fake, counterfeit and authentic, are recurring themes for the artist who began to create and incorporate materials in his work to highlight the paradox of bootleg as a result of hyper-consumerism. The works approach the strain and displacements of our relations and coexistence with objects, ornaments, and collective cultural imagination. 

Julien Boudet attended Parson School of Design in New York City (2013). He has exhibited his work at multiple Burberry flagship stores (NYC - LA - Chicago, USA, 2018) and la Chapelle du Quartier Haut (Sete, FR, 2018). His work has been included in group shows at MoMa (2017), Fashion Space Gallery (London, UK, 2020), Blum and Poe (NY, USA, 2020), Stems Gallery (Brussels, Paris, 2020-2022), WOAW Gallery (Hong Kong, 2021), Volery Gallery (Dubai, UAE 2021).

A solo exhibition of his work took place in September 2022 at Plan X (Milan, IT), followed by a group show at Arsenal Contemporary (New York, USA, 2022). Recent solo exhibitions include 23 : 46 at Stems Gallery (Paris, FR, 2023), Acte II at La Vitrine, Stems Gallery (Paris, FR, 2023), Bleu at Crac Occitanie (Sete, FR, 2024), and Bleu Mode par Julien Boudet at Pavillon Southway (Marseille, FR, 2024). Recent group shows include NADA Miami at Stems Gallery (Miami, FL, 2023), MIART at Stems Gallery (Milan, IT, 2024) and Beyond Ecstasy at Stems Gallery (Paris, FR, 2024)

Boudet is regularly published in avant-garde magazines, commissioned by prominent fashion houses, he brings the high concept to commercial photography highlighting cultural and creative leaders for publications such as Vogue, i-D, Playboy, Numero, Hypebeast, Highsnobiety and GQ Italia among others.