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Francis-Olivier BRUNET was born in Haute-Savoie in 1962, but he spent the first years of his childhood in black Africa. Back in France, his family settled near the Geneva border where he lived until his adolescence. After a short career as a high-level athlete (volleyball), he studied at the Beaux-Arts in Grenoble, Valence and Geneva, where he learned painting and the restoration of old paintings. Sport gave him a taste for surpassing himself; painting gave him mental and intellectual discipline.
In 1983, he returned to live in his region, then with his wife and two sons settled on the heights of Salève, devoted himself entirely to his art which he practiced until his death in August 2018. .
Well anchored in contemporary creation, Francis-Olivier Brunet has collaborated on numerous artistic creations: literature and poetry (Jean-Pierre Gandebeuf, Pierre Jourde, Sylvie Lainé, etc.), gastronomy (Pierre Carrier), architecture (Bernard Ferrari), performances ( Olivier Ferrieux), contemporary dance (Khalid Benghrib), video (Jean Lafontaine) and cinema (“Someil Blanc” by Jean-Paul Guyon). Three short films have been made about his work.
Winner of the Claire Combes Prize from the Taylor Foundation 2014. He was previously distinguished by receiving the Paris-Pékin Prize in 1985 and the Prize of the Institut National Genevoix in 1996. His work has been exhibited by numerous galleries in France, Switzerland , Belgium, Lithuania, his works are in private collections in Europe, China Peru, USA, New Zealand and in public collections City of Montélimar, Institut National Genevois, Cantonal Fund of the City of Geneva.
We would like to thank his wife Muriel Bain and his children Yanis and Dimitri Brunet for their trust and their desire to transmit which allowed this project to take shape.
