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Hunt
Slonem
The OA Fine Art galleries present in Paris the original artworks of Hunt Slonem, a leading figure of American Neo-Expressionism. Bunnies, butterflies, tropical birds: repetition as a form of prayer, carried by sumptuous colour and unhesitating paint. His artworks are held in more than two hundred and fifty public collections — the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan, the Whitney. Unique pieces, available in the galleries.
Born 1951 · United States
250 museums · Guggenheim, Met, Whitney
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Slonem hangs his panels by the wallful, from gallery white to the deep blue of his studio: one face alone is a portrait, an assembly becomes a prayer. The wall below is yours, at true scale — as many artworks as you please, wherever you place them.
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- Rive Gauche
- 19 rue Mazarine, Paris 6
- Rive Droite
- 15 rue de Miromesnil, Paris 8
- Opening hours
- Monday to Saturday, 10 am – 6.30 pm
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Biography
The career,
the collections,
the recognition
Hunt Slonem, born in Kittery, Maine, in 1951, is one of the most widely collected American painters of his generation. The son of a naval officer, he spent his childhood between Hawaii, California and Connecticut, studied in Nicaragua and Mexico, and graduated in painting and art history from Tulane University in New Orleans. He has lived and worked in New York since 1973.
Repetition as prayer
Warhol repeated soup cans; Slonem repeats the bunny, the butterfly, the bird — but he makes of it a spiritual exercise. "It is really a form of worship," he says. The grids are drawn in one swift gesture, the paint stays thick, scored lines rake the surface. Each panel is unique, and yet together they form a litany. It is this tension between the series and the singular piece that grounds his work.
A bestiary drawn from sixty birds
Slonem lives with some sixty exotic birds in his New York studio and devotes the first two hours of every day to them. His macaws, lories and butterflies are not decorative motifs: they have been observed, daily, for forty years. Where Audubon killed a hundred birds for each plate, Slonem serves his.
Museum recognition
His artworks are held in the permanent collections of more than two hundred and fifty museums — the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Miró Foundation, the New Orleans Museum of Art. Since his first solo exhibition at the Fischbach Gallery in 1977, his work has been shown hundreds of times, from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art to the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg, and at the Venice Biennale.
The houses saved, the books
Slonem devotes part of his life to rescuing forgotten American houses: Cordt's Mansion in Kingston, the Lakeside and Albania plantations in Louisiana, the Scranton Armory. His work has been chronicled in Bunnies (2014), Birds (2017), Butterflies (2023), An Art Rich and Strange (Abrams) and The Spirited Homes of Hunt Slonem (2023).
Why Slonem belongs in a collection
Slonem is a museum artist whose small panels remain within reach: that is what makes him one of the surest entry points into a collection of American contemporary art. A ten-inch bunny and a large square canvas come from the same hand, the same gesture, the same market — and live as well above a console as in a full enfilade.
"Repetition and divinity go hand in hand. I have repeated everything I have done in life a million times."PMC, 2014
"My work is wonderful to live with. Unlike so much contemporary art, political or jarring, mine does not judge: it is an eternal witness, watching without judgement."Objekt International, 2016
Public collections
More than two hundred and fifty museums
From New York to Tel Aviv, Hunt Slonem's artworks have entered the permanent collections of the foremost institutions.
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Miró Foundation, Barcelona
- New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
- New Orleans Museum of Art
- Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway
- Museum Würth, Künzelsau
- Musée d'Art Haïtien, Port-au-Prince
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila
- The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
- Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk
- Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
- Currier Museum of Art, Manchester
- Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
- Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
- Mint Museum, Charlotte
- Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
- Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey
- Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
- Portland Museum of Art, Maine
- Queens Museum, New York
- Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
- Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga
- Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
- Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
- Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick
- Grey Art Gallery, New York University
- Port Authority, One World Trade Center (mural), New York
Museum exhibitions
A museum career
Since his first solo exhibition in 1977, his work has been shown hundreds of times — more than forty of them in museums.
- 2024Albany Institute of History & Art · Telfair Museum, Savannah · Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans
- 2023Venice Biennale · Kunstforum, Vienna · Morris Museum, Augusta · Louisiana State Museum
- 2022Art Museum Riga Bourse, Latvia · Osthaus-Museum Hagen, Germany · National Arts Club, New York
- 2020Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils · G. Elias Art and History Museum, Jelgava
- 2019Eden Never Ends, Nassau County Museum of Art · Huntopia, Taubman Museum of Art · National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
- 2018Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty · National Museum of Kazakhstan, Astana · Everhart Museum, Scranton
- 2017State Russian Museum, St Petersburg · Museum of Contemporary Art, Krasnoyarsk
- 2016Antebellum Pop!, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge
- 2015Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russian Academy of Arts
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