Julien Moulin is a French-American multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, digital collage, and drawing. Influenced by the surrealists’ exquisite corpse, John Baldessari’s conceptual wit, and Basquiat’s symbolic language, Moulin explores, through visual sampling, the interplay of memory and perceptions of reality, creating works that oscillate between the familiar and the uncanny.
Moulin’s practice weaves together diverse media, where a bold sense of color and composition transforms spatial and temporal experiences into striking visual narratives. His series “Terra Incognita” (2018), which mixes fragments of maps and geological data, won the jury prize and critical acclaim at the annual Rencontres art festival in Saint-Céneri, France. In “Ripped” (2019), Moulin documents a day of meanderings through Budapest with photographs of torn posters and graffiti that visually maps a journey through space and time. With “Heads” (2021), Moulin reimagines Mathew Brady’s daguerreotype portraits, delving into identity and history.
Born in 1970 in Nanterre, France, and trained at École Estienne in Paris, Moulin has lived in Asia, Europe, and North America and currently resides in Washington, DC.
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Education
1990-1992: Higher studies in graphic design, Ecole Estienne, Paris, France
Group exhibitions
2018, Top 40 International Juried Competition, LACDA, Los Angeles, USA
2018, Kaos Festival of Contemporary Collage, Kranj, Slovenia
2019, ‘Terra Incognita’, Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei, France
2023, ‘The strange reality of my surroundings’, Ugine, France
2024, L’Art à la Perrière, La Perrière, France
Solo exhibitions
2018, ‘Terra Incognita’, Ulična galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019, ‘Terra Incognita’, Galerie L'Artmature, Fresnay-sur-Sarthe, France
2021, ‘Terra Incognita’, Eglise baroque Sainte Agathe, Queige, France
2022, ‘The strange reality of my surroundings’, Salle des rosières, Bisanne, France
2023, ‘The strange reality of my surroundings’, Médiathèque, Albertville, France
2023, ‘Flâneries’, Les rencontres, Saint-Céneri-le Gérei, France
Grants & Awards
2019, Jury prize, Les rencontres, Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei, France
2021, Recipient of ‘Traversées’ grant from CIPAC and FRAAP, Paris, France
