Harold Paul (b. 1996, Annecy) is a self-taught and emerging artist from France. He holds a Master of Science in Art and Creative Industries from Kedge Business School. He also studied Art History and Archaeology at Université de Lille and Université Bordeaux Montaigne. His earlier education was at the Institution Les Chartreux in Literature and Social Sciences. Before taking the course of an artist, Harold worked at several prestigious cultural institutions such as Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac and Centre Pompidou contributing to its cultural mediation and museum studies. 

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His artistic practice explores figurative works around the themes of displacement, reverse angles, and emptiness using oil pastels and acrylic pens on cardboard. These portraits convey a form of parallel and separate presence, confined to a rigid rectangular shape. It aims to delve into the impression of strangeness, gap, and distancing between the inert and living.  

 

Harold’s works have been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions, such as Open Art 2019 at Aux Vivres de l’Art, Bordeaux, and a collective exhibition at La Minoterie in Ivry-sur-Seine (2024). He has also participated in several artist residencies, including Atelier Claude Grand (2016) and Atelier Fabienne Comte (2017), with an ongoing at 59 Rivoli in Paris, which commenced in March 2024. 

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He currently lives and works in Paris, France.