Thomas Lévy-Lasne
Born in 1980 in Paris
Lives and works in Saint-Ouen
Thomas Lévy-Lasne graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2004
Thomas Lévy-Lasne is a painter, art critic, actor, director, and exhibition curator. As a painter, he uses oil, watercolor, and charcoal drawings in a classical, realistic, and highly personal style to address a wide range of contemporary subjects, such as societal and ecological issues, urban loneliness, and the invasion of privacy by technology. He depicts everyday life, painting people, animals, landscapes, scenes from parties, demonstrations, and shows. As an exhibition curator, he created a major event in 2024 with Le Jour des peintres (Painters' Day) at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. He invited 80 painters from the French scene to present one of their paintings in dialogue with a work from the museum and to engage with visitors. The day attracted more than 16,000 visitors. His monograph La fin du banal (The End of the Mundane) was published by Éditions des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the same year. In 2025, he won the BNP Paribas Private Banking Prize. A committed defender of artists and the practice of painting, he runs the YouTube channel Les apparences, dedicated to filmed interviews with painters from the French art scene.
Thomas Lévy-Lasne said: “It is the job of painting to transform pictorial mud into an embodied image. It is in this tension that lies the great difference between painting and other images. Whereas imagery serves as a reference, a sign, a symbol deeply connected to language, painting plays on presence.”
making of La Villa à l'aube, 2025 - Thomas LÉVY-LASNE
Thomas LÉVY-LASNE La Villa à l'aube, 2025
Lithographie en couleurs sur papier BFK Rives 300 grammesEdition numérotée à 150 exemplaires
26.38 x 22.05 in (67 x 56 cm)
Imprimée sur les presses de l'atelier Idem, Paris