Paul-Auguste Richard was born in 2000 in Paris, he studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (2019-2024) and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2022). He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London. His work has been presented in several group exhibitions, including Phase at The Latente Space in Chicago (2022), Niveau 1 at the Collège Jean-Baptiste Corot in Le Raincy (2024), Un château de sable sous la paupière at AFTER Project Room in Paris (2024) and Chiasmata at Greatorex in London (2025).
—For we never look at just one thing at a time, but rather at the relationships between things, and between them and others.— His work aims to shape these relationships, embracing a peripheral view that sweeps horizontally across its environment.— It stops on an object, absorbing its color and completing its movement.—
—When a red double decker bus takes a sharp 90-degree turn, and I am standing on the sidewalk, its movement covers my view with its bright red and the reflections on its metallic body. It reveals the landscape behind me, window by window; it unfolds itself around me. The bus appears, and in a singular gesture—the transition from one street to another—it reinvents itself with its surroundings.—
This continuous gaze, tied to a cinematic approach, where movement and environment meet in a singular rhythm—a deeply urban rhythm—uses the visual signs that shape our landscape. These signs—neither figurative nor abstract— are deconstructed and recomposed, forming an alternative mimetic language that shifts the focus from transmitting a clear message to making the eye move rhythmically, from one line to the next.
Installation views archive
2025
A Yawn 2, group show with Jackson Owen and Hongil Yoon curated by Ji Yun Kim/ Norito gallery, London, 07.2025
Paradisio verde, duo show with Alessandra Risi curated by Francesca Fantoni and Pietro Cattai/ MO.CA, Sale Neoclassiche, Brescia, 07.25
LCAW x Volans, group show/ Somerset House, 06.25
Degree Show, group show/ RCA, Battersea, London, 06.25
Chiasmata, group show curated by John Reno and Douceline Van Caloen/ Greatorex, 10 Greatorex Street, London, 04.25
A Yawn, group show with Jackson Owen and Hongil Yoon curated by Ji Yun Kim/ RCA, Battersea, London, 03.25
In solidarity with, group show curated by Zina Kamaran/ Hockney gallery, London, 02.25
2024
Entre les seuils, group show curated Anna & Kemis/ Tour Orion, Montreuil, 12.24
Un château de sable sous la paupière, group show/ AFTER project room, Paris, 11.24
Niveau 1, group show curated by Christophe Herreros/ collège Jean-Baptiste Corot, Le Raincy, 11.24
Impressions parisiennes, solo show: degree show/ ENSAD, Paris, 06.2024
2023
Postal paysage, solo show/ ENSAD, Paris, 12.23
Summer Fun, group show/ Espace Nonono, Tour Orion, Montreuil, 12.23
2022
Phase, group show curated by Henry Galano/ The Latente Space, Chicago, 11.22
Les événements spectaculaires, group show/ Théâtre de l’Aquarium, Vincennes, 05.22
On the other side, group show/ Linda 2, Narva, 03.22
Cyclope en parties dévoilées/ ENSAD, Paris, 01.22
2019
La nuit, group show/ Galerie de l’ENS, Paris, 12.19
Education
Royal College of Art MA Painting 2024-2025
École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris major in scenography 2019-2024
School of the Art Intstitute of Chicago 2022
Foundation year at L’atelier de Sèvres 2018-2019