My work starts from a misunderstanding. On the lava fields of Hawaii, I kept finding stone fragments that looked like tools — blades, hooks, sockets — shaped only by weather, not by hands. That confusion between found and made, natural and mechanical, runs through everything I do.
I work across painting, cast relief, sculpture, and video, but keep returning to one figure: a cloaked, mountain-shaped form, part volcano and part robed witness, set against night skies full of eyes and stars. The figure started in paint and later moved into other materials. For the cast reliefs, I press found seeds, stones, and casts of my own hands and ears into kinetic sand to make a mold, then pour concrete into it, tinted with black Hawaiian sand, sumi ink, or bengara pigment. Once cured, each piece is sealed in wax. Other works are made differently: tar paper left outdoors for months on Mauna Loa, marked by weather and rust; dried fern roots; paper marked by wild chickens feeding on it with their beaks. Some pieces I construct by hand; others I mostly leave to a process I don't fully control.
Out of the found-stone-as-artifact idea, I invented a fictional civilization, EELMS, whose only surviving traces are mechanical — as if the people were eventually replaced by machines. Robotic, animal-like forms recur through the work as a result, standing for both extinction and a kind of continuity.
I've also put my own body into the work directly — hands and ears cast in concrete, and, in one performance, my own hair (grown for six years) attached to a lava stone I found and brought back to the studio. That piece, SHAIR, is scored to Also Sprach Zarathustra, the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Where that scene shows a step toward being human, I wanted to reverse it — giving something of myself back to the stone instead.
The work sits between old and new, made and found, human and not. I'm interested in what's left once a body is gone, and what a landscape holds on to after we stop shaping it.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Solo Shows
2025 “Origines,” Le 24b, rue St Roch, Paris, France
2024 “Wandering the Borderland,” EHCC, Hilo, Hawaii
2024 “Moi, Mauna Loa,” id space, Kurtistown, Hawaii
2022 “When We Live in the Garden of Rock,” id space, Kurtistown, Hawaii
2012 Pierre Fichefeux, Louise Alexander Gallery, Paris, France
2010 Pierre Fichefeux, Point Éphémère, Paris, France
2007 Pierre Fichefeux, Bodhi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2007 “Ugly Beautiful People,” La Sette Chiese Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2006 “Noir,” Fabrica Features, Lisbon, Portugal
2006 “Noir,” Fabrica Features, Corso Como, Milan, Italy
Group Shows
2026 “Niu System,” Ryan Lee Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
2026 “Liminal Space of Belonging,” KYOCERA Annex, Kyoto, Japan
2026 “36 Views of Mauna Loa,” EHCC, Hilo, Hawaii
2024 NADA Art Fair, Ontopo, Miami, Florida, USA
2024 “Forage, Ocean,” Dorado 806, Santa Monica, California, USA
2024 TRYST Art Fair, Torrance, California, USA
2023 “Aterritorial,” Joshua Tree Biennial, BOXO Project, Joshua Tree, California, USA
2023 “Anima,” CLOR Collective, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Schaefer International Gallery, Hawaii
2021 “Art and Anarchy,” Volcano Art Center, Hawaii
2021 “Tiger in a Tropical Storm,” Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy
2020 “Remains,” EHCC, Big Island, Hawaii
2019 “Revelation,” Venice Faktory, Venice, Italy
2012 “Past and Present,” Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy
2012 Art Paris, Grand Palais, Louise Alexander Gallery, Paris, France
2012 “The Rabbit Hole,” New York, USA
2008 Colonie de Lukomira, Lukomira, Bosnia
2007 Colonie de Jajce, Ambassade Neretva, Jajce, Bosnia
2007 “Fabrica, Les Yeux Ouverts,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Awards
2026 Excellence Award, KYOCERA Annex, Kyoto, Japan (for “Liminal Space of Belonging”)
2026 Special Prize of the Jury, 2nd Exhibition of Foreign Artists Living in Japan, KYOCERA Annex, Kyoto, Japan (for “Liminal Space of Belonging”)
Other Activities
2003–2005 Consulting, Fabrica (Benetton), Treviso, Italy
2009–2011 United Bamboo, print collection based on his paintings
Louis Vuitton, 150th anniversary, “Les Saisons” animation film
“Fabrica Virtuale,” video game, Centre Georges Pompidou, “Les Yeux Ouverts,” Paris, France
Hôtel Particulier, Paris, France — interactive installation for a hotel in which each suite was conceived and taken over by a different artist