Born in 1992 in Compiègne (France). Lives and works in Paris (France).

Hugo Ruyant painted his first picture in a chapel in Haute-Corse in 2020 during a summer residency and has since devoted himself fully to painting. His first series "Survie et délices" was presented for the first time in his solo show at Galerie Variation in April 2023, then for the Emerige Révélations Grant exhibitions in Paris, Toulon and Madrid. "Survie et délices" features paintings of grotesque monsters licking bunches of grapes. A sort of contemporary Bacchus, the " Lickers " speak of both addictive and ephemeral pleasure. Repeated from one painting to the next, these allegorical figures find the generic form of a troubled feeling, between survival and excess