Professional Career

Manon Aubry is a painter born in 1993 in Haute-Saône; she comes from a working-class background.

It was on 11 March 2011, the day after her 18th birthday, that her artistic career took a dramatic turn: passionate about environmental issues, she watched the Fukushima Daiichi disaster unfold on television. This explosion was an internal turning point for her: it was at that moment that she decided to break away from any pre-established path in order to make creation and thought the main sculptors of her existence, devoting herself to them.

Artistic approach

Manon Aubry is self-taught and works exclusively in oil paint. Her art combines precise figuration with a rich and open symbolic style, where the image never imposes itself as a single message. She composes portrait-landscapes, often in large format, where the face becomes a territory traversed by opposing forces, between interiority and the sensory world. Ribbons, water, clouds, animals and flowers circulate like visible thoughts, weaving connections.

For her, humans never access reality in its entirety; the canvas thus becomes a space for perception, doubt, philosophical questioning and projection; in short, for self-discovery: each viewer is invited to bring their own interpretation, their own resonance, their own experience, their own “truth”: the gaze lingers on the detail, wanders, then recomposes its intimate narrative.

The artist explores the human condition – its vulnerability and power – caught up in the infinite metamorphoses of reality: wounds and catastrophes become passage, germination, transformation. A permanent and fertile tension plays out at the heart of her canvases: oscillating between beauty and vertigo, gentleness and violence, lucidity and the possibility of becoming, thought and movement.

For Manon Aubry, creating is a primitive vital impulse, an absolute existential necessity; for her, it is an act of poetic resistance, making inner movements visible and opening up, at a time when the world is noisily changing, the possibility that beauty, justice and harmony may remain. In short, the possibility that life on Earth may remain.

Recent exhibitions

• 2017 : 25ème exposition de peinture et de sculpture du Grand Kursaal de Besançon - (Prix spécial du jury, prix du public).
• 2024 : Art et Patrimoine, Luxeuil-les-Bains - (1er prix de peinture).
• 2025 : « La Vie sur Terre » - exposition personnelle à La Galerie des Martyrs, Besançon.