Supakitch
ARTIST BIO:
Born in 1978 in Paris. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Raised up with mangas and hip-hop culture, passionated by art and music since his childhood, SupaKitch
found in the Street a large choice of mediums and sources of inspiration that flourish in his work. His first
graffiti dates back to 1990. Around 1994, graffiti took a major place in his life: under the moniker "Ride", he
founded the HV crew with his friends. A year later, he meets Hazy (photographer and graffiti artist) and Eone
(music producer and graffiti writer), which leads him to his first works combining various techniques (painting,
photography and graphics) exploring the theme of music.
Not really aware that he could earn a living with his art, he became artistic director at the age of 21 and
works for several advertising agencies from 1999. During this period he met his future wife Koralie, a student in
architecture at that time, and an active street artist. She encouraged him to present his first exhibitions in the
early 2000s : this is the time when his name SupaKitch was born.
Thru the website ekosystem.org he discovered he is not alone in having a more open approach to graffiti,
where one dares to mix various techniques in the street (spray, brushes and acrylic paint, collage, silkscreen, ...).
He's the witness of the birth of a movement that is beginning to be called Street Art. SupaKitch starts to
collaborate with brands such as Sixpack. The most interesting collaboration he did is probably the one with
Carhartt and its "Tour D'Amour" in 2006. Brendan Monroe, Wayne Horse, Koralie and SupaKitch painted
murals in some of the brand's stores across Europe, in Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Paris, San Sebastian and
Lisbon.
A lover of fashion, SupaKitch has founded with Koralie, who shares his life and his passions, their
clothing collection, Metroplastique, and won the prize of "Young Entrepreneur of Fashion" with it in 2005. At
this time he also start collaborating with art galleries in Paris and Miami, and Galerie Elegance in Taipei,
Taiwan. The latter has been collecting SupaKitch's works since the last few years in order to gather the most
important collections of paintings by the artist worldwide. SupaKitch had his first major solo show in 2007,
which was based on an original concept he called "Ubiquity", as the exhibition set up at the same time in two
different places, the two branches of the same gallery in Paris and in Miami. For this show he explored a wide
range of mediums : large canvases, sculptures, installations, screen prints, laser cut, vinyl discs and music.
SupaKitch is a complete artist brimming with ideas; he has created a universe with Asian influences,
pop-romantic and musical, where anthropomorphic creatures such as the Supanimal, who looks like a red
panda, a fox and a bird, are used as metaphors. SupaKitch composes graphic melodies and continues to explore
the concept he's named "Listen To My Picture", by renewing the technique of circuit-board. Quite similar to
etching, circuit-board symbolizes the beginning of progress in the field of electronics. This contrast of age,
nostalgia and advanced technology is omnipresent in his work. Thus vinyl disc confronts printed circuit,
painting a scenery of the current music industry like a real "DJ of images". Another technique has been added to
his skills when in 2009 SupaKitch met Caro, a renowned tattoo artist, who introduced him to this technique. In
2010, he has been invited by DCSHOES and the Parisian tattoo salon BleuNoir to participate to the exhibition
"Burning Ink" and to tattoo his own drawings himself on the people.
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SupaKitch / Selected exhibitions and others
SOLO SHOWS
November 2010
December 07
February 07
June 05
July to September 05
Galerie Elegance, Taiwan
Ubiquity - Double solo Galerie Bertin-Toublanc Paris , FRANCE & Miami, USA Art Basel
In front of the wall - Galerie WALL Orlans, FRANCE
Peinture Fresh - Galerie Le Baloard Montpellier, FRANCE
Exposition - Galerie Le Baloard Montpellier, FRANCE
GROUP SHOWS
May 10
May 09
May 09
March 09
March 09
September 09
September 08
July to September 08
July 08
January 08
May 06
January to November 06
April 06
2005 to 06
Oct.2005 to March 06
June to September 05
May 05
September 05
March 04
Burning Ink - Bleu Noir Tattoo Paris, FRANCE
Performance Graffiti - The Village Beijing, CHINA
French Ink - Babu Gallery Shenzen, CHINA
Bridge Art Fair NYC - Hosted by Galerie LJ Beaubourg - New York, NY, USA
Forward 2 & 3 - Galerie Agns B. - Paris, FRANCE & New York, NY, EUA / Curator : Redux & DC
Avant Got - Choque Cultural Sao Polo, BRAZIL / Curator: Edouardo Sarretta
Group Show - HeadQuarter Studio NYC, USA
Paralleled - Muse RMCA (Rocky Mountain College of Art) - Denver, CO, USA
Forward 2 - Galerie LaBank - Paris, France / Curator : Redux & DC
City Slang - Dorothy Circus Gallery - Roma, ITALY
Adicolor Custom - Addicted Lyon, FRANCE / Custom of Adidas Sneakers
Le lapin Electric Tour - Artoyz (Paris) - La mdiathque associative (Toulouse) - La Centrale
(Bordeaux) - Le Baloard (Montpellier) - Le Jardin Moderne (Rennes), FRANCE
Listen to my picture co-exhibition with Haijun Park Galerie Bertin-Toublanc - Paris, FRANCE
Art Deco station - Paris, France / Curator : Graldine Zberro
Group Show - Saba Gallery - Miami, USA / Curator : Graldine Zberro
Graffiti en sous-sol - Galerie Dojo - Nice, FRANCE
SupaKitch & Koralie - Galerie L'Abstrait - Toulouse, FRANCE
Group show (SupaKitch & Koralie) Place Dull Monkey - Nancy, FRANCE
GraffArtitude - Corum - Montpellier, FRANCE
AUCTIONS / FESTIVALS / PRICES / TOUR
June 10 MA - Modern Atlanta Atlanta, USA/ Performance & show SupaKitch & koralie
January 07 Palmbeach 3 - Contemporary Art Fair Palmbeach, USA
October 06 Le tour d'Amour - Magasin Carhartt - Dsseldorf, GERMANY / Copenhagen, DANEMARK / Paris, FRANCE
/ San Sebastian, SPAIN/ Lisbonne, PORTUGAL, Europe
April 06 B-Boy BBQ Philadelphia, PA, USA / Collective wall painting
August 05 Prix du jeune entrepeneur de mode - Who's next - Paris, FRANCE / with Koralie for their own clothing line PlastiqueApril 05
February 05
August 04
December 03
September 02
Graffiktee / Rewarded by the Department of Youngness and Sports
Breakin' Stylez - Kln, ALLEMAGNE / Live painting with SupaKitch with Koralie
Volvo Sport Design - Ispo Fair - Munich, ALLEMAGNE / Live painting collective on canvases then sold in auction
FISE (Festival International des Sports Extrmes) - Montpellier, France/ Collective Live painting
Acce's - Contemporary Art Festival, Pau, FRANCE / Graphic Performance
Artnim Nmes, FRANCE / Live painting during the galleries art fair.
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COLLABORATIONS ( Design and/or illustration for )
Season 09 EMILIE SIMON (with Koralie) Graphic chart of the popular singer (illustration, graphics,
photo in press publication) France Barclay Ed. and Universal Music
Season 09-10 ARTOYZ Toy Element Alpha 3P
Season 07-08 CARHARTT Hoodies + DVD
Seasons 09-08-07 BILLABONG Snowboard outerwear
Season 07-08 CONVERSE - HUND(RED) 1 pair of Chuck Taylor
Season 08-09 KIDROBOT Streetwear Collection (t-shirts, hoodies, luggage)
Season 08 KIDROBOT Toy Dunny 3P for the French Dunny collection & Dunny 8P with SupaKitch
for the event Le billet cach
Season 07-08 ARTCOTIC T-shirt
September 2008 TOSHIBA Illustration forr Satellite P300
2003-2004 SIXPACK T-shirt
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