Pol Taburet

Pol Taburet (born 1997 in Paris) is a French contemporary artist known for figurative paintings that incorporate airbrushing techniques with traditional brush painting and incorporating Afro-Caribbean tropes into his practice. He graduated from École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy.

Biography Pol Taburet attained degrees in fine arts at the bachelor's and graduate level at École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy. His father is a psychoanalyst, and his mother worked as a museum guard at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. His grandmother immigrated to France from Guadeloupe. His work gained attention from curator Caroline Bourgeois and entered the collection of François Pinault. A 2025 profile in El País (ICON) described him as “the most precocious talent of the new French art scene.”

Collections and Exhibitions Taburet's work is held in the Pinault Collection, Lafayette Anticipations Collection, Homestead Collection, and KADIST Foundation. The Art Newspaper noted that "his works have already integrated the most prestigious private collections, from the Pinault Collection to the Kadist Foundation, from the Boros Collection to the Samdani Art Foundation," and in 2025 Taburet gained attention for displaying large bronze and cement sculptures at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo. His exhibition "OPERA III: ZOO 'The Day of Heaven and Hell'" at Lafayette Anticipations was his first institutional solo exhibition. The Fondación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presented a solo exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Pabellón de los Hexágonos in Madrid (2025). Beaux Arts Magazine described the Lafayette Anticipations exhibition noting that Taburet "transformed the Rem Koolhaas architecture into a domestic house, with windows, curtains and dining room. Except that, under the table, clawed paws protrude, and nightmarish visions are hung on the walls, adorned with storms and disturbing flashes." He applies "bright colors with acrylic paint on the inert and the living is characterized by airbrush painting."

Taburet has previously stated, "The pointy-headed figures are at the core of my research. I construct a myth, a narrative around these characters." His subjects draw from "Caribbean mythology and beliefs, to the rich art history, or the ever-evolving landscape of contemporary culture such as animated cartoons, TV series, or music videos." Télérama noted his painting "plunging its roots in his Guadeloupean origins, evokes quimbois and voodoo cult as much as Francis Bacon, video games and avatars of social networks." The Art Newspaper described his approach as creating "the visible reliefs of an imaginary landscape" through "a contemporary rereading of Ovid's Metamorphoses and their series of intrigues, banishments, punishments and various transformations."

Taburet is represented by Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris) and Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York).