Born in Paris in 1987, Ugo Schildge is a painter and sculptor who graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris in 2014. He produces his work between China, France and the United States.
A protégé of Giuseppe Penone during his time at the Beaux Arts, he developed a taste for natural and vegetal things inspired by his master. Ugo Schildge is an ecologist but not a claimant, whose vocation is expressed through a phantasmagorical view of flora and fauna. Man intervenes discreetly in his compositions, often camouflaged by vegetation. After five years in NYC, where he joined the Invisible Dog Art Center residency and worked as Korakrit's assistant, Ugo Schildge returned to France in 2018. In May 2020, he entered a residency at Poush Manifesto in Clichy, taking the opposite tack from solitary confinement to integrate this incubator of over 140 artists. In October 2020, the Essence solo show marks the artist's return to the Paris scene. The exhibition completes the triptych begun in 2018 with Pollen in Shanghai and Nectar in NYC in 2019. An evolving world tour that echoes Man's "essential" imprint on the earth, its benefits and its excesses.
The success of Essence means that the artist will be back in the news in 2021 and 2022, with a new solo show in Shanghai at Galerie Dumonteil, another in Paris in May 2022, and numerous international projects in London, Switzerland, NYC...
2020 Résidence du Buis, Superzoom - Ardèche, France
2018 Galerie DUMONTEIL - Shanghai, China
2015-2017 Invisible Dog Art Center - New York, USA
2022 Dumonteil Contemporary - Paris, France
2021 Columbia Hotel, Olympe Pamart - London, UK
2021 Galerie Patricia Low Contemporary - Gstaad, Switzerland
2021 Galerie DUMONTEIL - Shanghai, China
2020 Superzoom - Paris, France
2019 Gallery Nonfinito - New York city, USA
2018 Galerie DUMONTEIL - Shanghai, China
2016 Gallery Perpitch et Bringand - Paris, France
