Aurélien Couput French, b. 1979
Aurélien Couput is a French visual artist born in 1979. He lives and works in New York City.
He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Haute École d'Art et de Design in Geneva, and completed an MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts in 2013. His practice moves across photography, printmaking, drawing, and painting.
He is the recipient of the Prix de la Foire Internationale de Dessin (FID) in Paris, the Raymond Weil International Photography Prize, and the 8th LVMH Young Artists' Award, and was featured in New American Paintings MFA Annual #99. He serves as an adjunct professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. His work has been exhibited in New York, Paris, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, and China. He is presented by The Wall Art Gallery, Miami.
Training
Columbia University School of the Arts, MFA Visual Arts, 2013; Haute École d'Art et de Design (HEAD), Geneva, Workmaster in Fine Art, 2010; École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris — DNSAP 2006, Post-diplôme 2007.
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Untitled (Collage 1), 2023$ 1,400.00 -
Untitled (Collage 2), 2023$ 1,400.00
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Untitled (Collage 3), 2023$ 1,400.00
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Unicorn, 2022$ 1,500.00
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Prehistoric Cabin, 2025$ 1,500.00
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Untitled (Miniature), 2023$ 1,800.00
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Untitled (Magazines), 2023$ 2,400.00
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Untitled (Newspaper), 2023$ 2,800.00
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Untitled (Archive), 2023$ 2,800.00
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Untitled (Encyclopedia), 2023$ 2,800.00
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Untitled (Airplane Toy Packaging), 2023$ 3,000.00
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Sighting, 2023$ 4,000.00
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Woods (wandering), 2025$ 4,000.00
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Xerces Blue, 2025$ 4,000.00
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Flowers of Rocky Places, 2024$ 6,000.00
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Woods (close up), 2025$ 6,000.00
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Unnamed Birthday Cake, 2023$ 12,000.00
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Sunny Side, 2024$ 12,000.00
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Hovering, 2025$ 13,000.00
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The Naufrage, 2023$ 14,000.00
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Atlantic City, 2022$ 14,000.00
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Drift, 2024$ 14,000.00
Aurélien Couput (b. 1979) is a French visual artist based in New York whose practice spans photography, printmaking, drawing, and painting.
2019 Paper 2019, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
Everything You've Ever Wanted, Agency Project Space, Brooklyn
Et Tu, Art Brute?, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
DRAW/BOSTON, MassArt, Boston
Text & Image, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn
2017 Art Olympia, Toshima Center Square, Tokyo
Cent Papiers, Musée Géo Charles d'Échirolles, Échirolles
Commedia, International Print Center New York, New York
Cover Up (solo), Galerie Nicolas Hugo, Paris
Draw: Mapping Madness, Dali Contemporary Art Museum, Yunnan; Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing
2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
First-Year MFA Exhibition, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York
Aurélien Couput / Aurélie Gravelat, Galerie Charlot, Paris
Art Protect, Gallery Yvon Lambert, Paris
HONORS & AWARDS
2015 Art Olympia — Finalist Award
2014 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop — Residency, New York
2013 Prix de Dessin de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts (Pierre David-Weill) — 3rd Prize
2012 New American Paintings MFA Annual #99, Editor's Selection
2011 Prix de la Foire Internationale de Dessin (FID)
2007 Raymond Weil International Photography Prize
2002 8th LVMH Young Artists' Award