Hugo Ruyant (b. 1992, Compiègne, France) lives and works in Paris.
With a background in graphic storytelling—ranging from self-published books to experimental comics and digital projects—his practice gradually evolved from the scale of the printed page to the immersive space of painting. While studying printmaking at La Cambre in Brussels (BE), he began to explore rhythm, sequence, and direct color as narrative tools. He did his first painting in 2020 during a residency at the Sainte-Marguerite Chapel in Haute-Corse (FR), marking the beginning of a fully dedicated painting practice.

Hugo Ruyant’s large-scale oil paintings combine the sharpness of caricature with the emotional weight of personal mythologies. Playful yet tense, his canvases unfold as social fictions—mixing private rituals, collective absurdities, and suspended gestures. In his series “Survival and Delights”, “Alka“ fizzing glasses of aspirin, become emblems of excess and fragility. Each painting offers a stage where archetypes figures unfold and intensify through graphic lines and color.

Since 2024, he has been represented by Galerie Michel Rein, with whom he has presented two solo shows: “Air Conditioner Fantasies” in Brussels (2025) and “The Handshake” in Paris (2024). That same year, his work was shown in South Korea (KOR)—first in Seoul, in a major exhibition curated by Julia Gai and Minjin Park alongside painter Junho Park, and then in Gapyeong as part of the Maqom residency, in collaboration with the artist Lilia Medjeber. His work has also been exhibited at Espace Citroën in Paris, at Hôtel des Arts in Toulon (FR), and the Institut Français in Madrid (ES), as part of the Révélations Emerige program cur. by Gaël Charbau (2023) ; as well earlier at the Moonens Foundation in Brussels (BE) and in Geneva (CH).