Yann Bagot

A French artist born in 1983, he graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (EnsAD) in 2008. He lives in the Fontainebleau area and works in Montreuil.

Yann Bagot develops a drawing practice in and with the landscape. During immersive residencies at sea, on the coast, in the forest, and in the mountains, he seeks to become one with the place and to experience the intensity of the moment.

Exploring the possibilities of India ink mixed with salt on paper, he traces the forms of the world outdoors, in unstable and fragile spaces where everything is in constant motion: shorelines, coastal areas, mountains... Each environment prompts him to devise a process that he can only partially control—an encounter between pictorial materials and those of nature. Moments when everything can change, whether due to rain or wind, interest him as opportunities to try out his experiments.

He has regularly been invited to artist residencies: Villa Saint-Louis N’Dar – Institut français du Sénégal in 2024; aboard the schooner Tara, invited by the Tara Océan Foundation in 2023; at the Abbaye de La Cambre with the South African Foundation for Contemporary Art in 2022; at the Sémaphore de la Pointe du Grouin in Cancale in 2021 and 2023; at Abri Mémoire d’Uffholtz in 2020; and at the Fondation François Schneider in 2018, in partnership with FEW Wattwiller.

In 2023, he received a special mention for the Pierre David Weill Drawing Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 2025, he was awarded the Jacques Rougerie Foundation - Académie des Beaux-Arts Art Prize for the Sea.

He is also dedicated to printmaking and the creation of artist books, and regularly collaborates with contemporary musicians and authors. 

He is represented by Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris.