Fabrice HYBER

Fabrice Hyber is a visual artist born in Luçon in the Vendée (France) in 1961. After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Nantes between 1979 and 1985, he works mainly in Paris. It is in 1981 that he realized his first painting, the square meter of lipstick at the biennial of the drawing of Saint Etienne.

Fabrice HYBER is a very prolific artist who mainly uses painting, charcoal drawing, collage and video. He became known mainly by making partnerships with companies and this since the beginning of his career. He will even create the company UR to finance these collaborations. The work of Fabrice Hyber includes committed works, such as the sculpture l’artère located in the park of La Villette. It is an alley of the park in question, paved with tiles illustrated by Fabrice Hyber. He realized this work in collaboration with the association Sidaction.

The works of Fabrice Hyber are in dialogue with each other. They are connected, like the branches of a plant.

Fabrice Hyber’s artistic issues are astronomy, biology, mathematics, physics and ecology: recurring issues in his work, hence his need to associate himself with scientific works. He has, for example, worked with the biotechnologist Robert S Langer. His homeopathic paintings deal with the body and the landscape. Otherwise, he made illustrations for a scientific book with the Pasteur Institute. This book dealt with single-cell microbes.

Hyber has received the following honors:

He was elected a knight of arts and letters in 2012.

In 2017, he was awarded a Golden Lyon at the Venice Biennale.

He is a member of the Academy of Fine Arts since 2018.

In 1995 the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris dedicates an exhibition with the Hybertmarché.

Finally, he was named ambassador of the ONF fund: Acting for the forest in 2021.

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Collections

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan / Abu Dhabi Tourism authority (TDIC), Abu Dahbi, United Arab Emirates / Artothèque, Saint-Denis de La Réunion, France / CAPC Musée d ́Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France / Cultural and Historical Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia / FRAC – Collection Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France / FRAC – Collection Franche-Comté, Besançon, France / FRAC – Collection Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès- Rouen, France / FRAC – Collection Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France / FRAC – Collection Limousin, Limoges, France / FRAC – Collection Midi Pyrénées, Toulouse, France / FRAC – Collection Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France / FRAC – Collection Pays-de-la-Loire, Carquefou, France / FRAC – Collection Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France / FRAC – Collection Provence-Alpes-Côte d ́Azur, Marseille, France / Kunsthalle Lophem – Center for Contemporary Art, Loppem-Zedelgem, Belgium / Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland / Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway / MUDAM – Musée d ́Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg / MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium / Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia / Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany / Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France / Musée de l ́Abbaye Sainte-Croix, les Sables d ́Olonne, France / Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada / Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, France / Musée d ́Art Contemporain de Lyon, France / Musée d ́Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France / Musée d ́Art et d ́Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France / Musée départemental d ́art contemporain de Rochechouart, France / Musée national d ́Art Moderne – Centre de création industrielle, Centre Pompidou, Paris / Musée-Château d ́Annecy, Annecy, France / S.M.A.K. The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Gand, Belgium / The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan / Watari-Um – The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan/ Farjam Collection, Dubaï, United Arab Emirates / Fondation Carmignac Gestion, Paris, France / Fondation d ́Art Contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Les Mesnuls, France / Jumex Foundation, Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico / The Astrup Fearnley Foundation, Oslo, Norway / The Daewoo Foundation, Seoul, South Korea