Contact: Marco@marcovillard.com
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Born in New York City, raised in France with Spanish and French heritage, Marco’s practice spans several mediums such as painting, filmmaking, performance and poetry. After graduating from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, Marco has had an extensive experience in classic theater. Marco has exhibited his work internationally with Alkinois and Ninetto Gallery in Athens, Lobster Club in Los Angeles, John Marchand in England, and recently with Etesian Gallery in Spain.
Marco Villard's work is deeply nourished by personal stories illustrated with universal symbols. His paintings recount the stages of his life, rational experiences infused with mysticism and spirituality (his origins, childhood, grief, and self-fulfillment), accompanied by a rich palette of contrasting colors, a key characteristic of Villard's work influenced by his color blindness. In his early series (Angels, 2021, and Apollo's Birds, 2021-2022), Marco Villard explored themes of escapism and otherworldliness, as well as his deeply intimate confrontation with the loss of his mother. The works sprawled across vast, unstretched canvases, inviting a sense of infinity. While these themes remain present in the background, Villard has recently developed new perspectives in his work. In Stories About a Whispering Prince, Villard reinterprets a story he wrote as a child (Luc and the Black Tooth). The poem tells, in childlike words, the story of a small prince, Luc, who makes the neighboring mountain his best friend and whispers all his secrets to it. Thinking these are divine voices, the villagers sanctify the sounds that spread and resonate in the valley, unaware that they are merely the whispers of little Luc. Breaking away from his previous works, the universe created in Stories About a Whispering Prince relies heavily on framing and storytelling. By opening windows into his personal mythology, the artist removes the viewer from the composition of the work and makes them a witness to a narrative fresco. The works then constitute chapters of a story with a non-linear structure, allowing freedom of interpretation and identification for the viewer. Villard's work alternates between innovative compositions and classical structures. It evolves far from contemporary technological frameworks, employing narrative tools from mythology, mysticism, and the sacred, as well as motifs borrowed from Renaissance painting, Impressionism, and Fauvism. Like hieroglyphs, ancient frescoes, or comics, the story unfolds graphically and sequentially (Concept of Sequential Art, Will Eisner, 1985).
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Exhibitions:
A Room To Dream, group show, Etesian Gallery, Spain, July 2025
107 Thompson, Hot Dog Party, NYC, June 2025
Ninetto Gallery: House Party, group show, Athens Greece, March 2025
Visionary Projects :The collective group show, New York City, USA
October 2024
Visionary Projects group show, New York City, USA
June 2024
Angels, John Marchant Gallery, solo exhibition, Brighton England
March 2024
Ancestor’s chatter , The house from the story I, group exhibition, Lobster Club, Los Angeles, USA, curated by Maja Dlugolecki
November 2023
Ancestor’s chatter, Alkinois Gallery, Art Athina 2023, Athens, Greece, Exhibition curated by Alix Janta and Romain Bitton
September 2023
Stories About A Whispering Prince, Alkinois Gallery, Athens, Greece
Solo exhibition Curated by Alix Janta and Romain Bitton
March 2023
PAINTINGS, 379 Broome Street, New York City, USA
Solo exhibition
November 2022
THE PATRIOT, group exhibition, OfLaherty’s Gallery, New Yok City, USA
July 2022
Apollo’s Birds, Solo exhibition, 379 Broome Street, New York City, USA
December 2021
I Always Thought I Could Remember That Day, 171 Elizabeth Street, New York City, USA
Solo exhibition in partnership with Terasse Bleue colllective
September 2019
Selected other works:
Marco will appear as Donalbain and the second murderer in a new production of Macbeth, directed by Alec Baldwin and Geoffrey Horne, Shakespeare Downtown, New York City. June 2024
Marco is currently in the production of his feature film “ Fever”, to be released in 2025.
Recently finished filming on Michael Cong’s feature film Midnight Sun, produced by Manran studio, playing supporting character “ Jean” (2024).
Why Does This Still Hurt, music video directed and produced with Dodgedidjit (2023).
I Always Thought I could Remembered That Day, Poetry book, printed by Ki Smith Gallery and sold at The Face Magazine Apartment (2019)
RED, performance co- written and performed with artist Ramiro Batista in Paris (2019) and N.Y.C (2019)
Yesterday Was Better (2019), short film previewed at the 2020 New Filmmaker Festival NYC
Remembering Pollock (2020), short documentary following the making of an homage painting created within the actual’s former west village loft
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Born in New York City, raised in France with Spanish and French heritage, Marco’s practice spans several mediums such as painting, filmmaking, performance and poetry. After graduating from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, Marco has had an extensive experience in classic theater. Marco has exhibited his work internationally with Alkinois and Ninetto Gallery in Athens, Lobster Club in Los Angeles, John Marchand in England, and recently with Etesian Gallery in Spain.
Marco Villard's work is deeply nourished by personal stories illustrated with universal symbols. His paintings recount the stages of his life, rational experiences infused with mysticism and spirituality (his origins, childhood, grief, and self-fulfillment), accompanied by a rich palette of contrasting colors, a key characteristic of Villard's work influenced by his color blindness. In his early series (Angels, 2021, and Apollo's Birds, 2021-2022), Marco Villard explored themes of escapism and otherworldliness, as well as his deeply intimate confrontation with the loss of his mother. The works sprawled across vast, unstretched canvases, inviting a sense of infinity. While these themes remain present in the background, Villard has recently developed new perspectives in his work. In Stories About a Whispering Prince, Villard reinterprets a story he wrote as a child (Luc and the Black Tooth). The poem tells, in childlike words, the story of a small prince, Luc, who makes the neighboring mountain his best friend and whispers all his secrets to it. Thinking these are divine voices, the villagers sanctify the sounds that spread and resonate in the valley, unaware that they are merely the whispers of little Luc. Breaking away from his previous works, the universe created in Stories About a Whispering Prince relies heavily on framing and storytelling. By opening windows into his personal mythology, the artist removes the viewer from the composition of the work and makes them a witness to a narrative fresco. The works then constitute chapters of a story with a non-linear structure, allowing freedom of interpretation and identification for the viewer. Villard's work alternates between innovative compositions and classical structures. It evolves far from contemporary technological frameworks, employing narrative tools from mythology, mysticism, and the sacred, as well as motifs borrowed from Renaissance painting, Impressionism, and Fauvism. Like hieroglyphs, ancient frescoes, or comics, the story unfolds graphically and sequentially (Concept of Sequential Art, Will Eisner, 1985).
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Exhibitions:
A Room To Dream, group show, Etesian Gallery, Spain, July 2025
107 Thompson, Hot Dog Party, NYC, June 2025
Ninetto Gallery: House Party, group show, Athens Greece, March 2025
Visionary Projects :The collective group show, New York City, USA
October 2024
Visionary Projects group show, New York City, USA
June 2024
Angels, John Marchant Gallery, solo exhibition, Brighton England
March 2024
Ancestor’s chatter , The house from the story I, group exhibition, Lobster Club, Los Angeles, USA, curated by Maja Dlugolecki
November 2023
Ancestor’s chatter, Alkinois Gallery, Art Athina 2023, Athens, Greece, Exhibition curated by Alix Janta and Romain Bitton
September 2023
Stories About A Whispering Prince, Alkinois Gallery, Athens, Greece
Solo exhibition Curated by Alix Janta and Romain Bitton
March 2023
PAINTINGS, 379 Broome Street, New York City, USA
Solo exhibition
November 2022
THE PATRIOT, group exhibition, OfLaherty’s Gallery, New Yok City, USA
July 2022
Apollo’s Birds, Solo exhibition, 379 Broome Street, New York City, USA
December 2021
I Always Thought I Could Remember That Day, 171 Elizabeth Street, New York City, USA
Solo exhibition in partnership with Terasse Bleue colllective
September 2019
Selected other works:
Marco will appear as Donalbain and the second murderer in a new production of Macbeth, directed by Alec Baldwin and Geoffrey Horne, Shakespeare Downtown, New York City. June 2024
Marco is currently in the production of his feature film “ Fever”, to be released in 2025.
Recently finished filming on Michael Cong’s feature film Midnight Sun, produced by Manran studio, playing supporting character “ Jean” (2024).
Why Does This Still Hurt, music video directed and produced with Dodgedidjit (2023).
I Always Thought I could Remembered That Day, Poetry book, printed by Ki Smith Gallery and sold at The Face Magazine Apartment (2019)
RED, performance co- written and performed with artist Ramiro Batista in Paris (2019) and N.Y.C (2019)
Yesterday Was Better (2019), short film previewed at the 2020 New Filmmaker Festival NYC
Remembering Pollock (2020), short documentary following the making of an homage painting created within the actual’s former west village loft
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CONTACT : MARCO@MARCOVILLARD.COM
@marco.villard
@marco.villard