Marco Villard

Born in New York City and raised in France, with French and Spanish heritage, Marco Villard is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, filmmaking, performance, and poetry. After training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, he developed a background in classical theatre that continues to inform the narrative and performative qualities of his visual work. Villard has exhibited internationally with Alkinois and Ninetto Gallery (Athens), Lobster Club (Los Angeles), John Marchant Gallery (UK), and, most recently, Etesian Gallery (Spain).

Rooted in autobiography yet resonating through universal symbols, Villard's work explores themes of identity, memory, grief, spirituality, and transformation. His paintings and charcoal drawings weave together lived experience and mysticism, creating emotionally charged compositions that move between the intimate and the archetypal. While his vibrant paintings are distinguished by a striking use of contrasting colour shaped in part by the artist's colour blindness, his recent charcoal drawings offer a more immediate and contemplative register. Rendered with expressive, gestural marks, these works distill landscapes, figures, and symbolic forms into poetic fragments that expand the personal narratives at the heart of his practice.