PIERRE ET GILLES

Pierre was born in 1950 in La Roche-Sur-Yon, Gilles in Le Havre in 1953. Live and work in Paris, France.

Pierre and Gilles are internationally renowned artists who have been producing works together since 1976, creating a world where painting and photography meet. Their art is peopled by their friends and family, anonymous and famous, who appear in sophisticated life-size sets the artists build in their studio. They meticulously apply paint to the photographs once printed on canvas. Accomplished image creators, Pierre and Gilles have built up an extraordinary contemporary iconography on the frontier between art history and popular culture.