CURRICULUM VITAE
Alain Jean
Born in 1960 | Based in Lasne, Belgium
Self-Taught Contemporary Digital Artist
🏛️ INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS & DISTINCTIONS
2027 (Upcoming): Selected Artist – Florence Biennale / International Biennial of Contemporary Art (Florence, Italy).
Artwork: "The Cost of a Breath"2027 (In progress): Participant – National Contest « Votre Œuvre au Musée » organized by @museumpassmusees at Le Botanique Museum (Brussels, Belgium).
Artwork: "The Whole Weight of a Feather"2026 - Present: Permanent Exhibition (Two Artworks) – Crystal Gallery / BTC - AAMI Corporation (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
2026 (October): Group Exhibition – Hôtel d’Arenberg / Former Town Hall (Braine-le-Comte, Belgium).
2026 (March): International Exhibition – Art Expo Graz (Graz, Austria).
2025: Laureate – Hainaut Artists Collective, Valenciennes Town Hall (Valenciennes, France).
✨ Winner of the Public Choice Award (Prix du Public).2025: International Exhibition – Art Expo Ljubljana (Brdo Kranj, Slovenia).
2025: National Group Exhibitions (Belgium):
MAD (Soignies) · Art et Saveurs (Saint-Denis Abbey, Obourg) · Balade d’Art Lasne (Lasne) · Parcours d’Artistes (Woluwe-Saint-Pierre).2024: Group Exhibition – Visual Gallery (Etterbeek, Belgium).
2024: Private Pop-up Exhibition – (Tervuren, Belgium).
2023: National Group Exhibitions (Belgium):
Let’s Art (Uccle Cultural Center) · Art Is Big (Waterloo) · Balade d’Art Lasne (Lasne).2021: Group Exhibition – Balade d’Art Lasne (Lasne, Belgium).
2019: Inaugural Private Exhibition (Brussels, Belgium).
First presentation of the greebles corpus and launch of the artist's signature.
🗣️ CONFERENCES & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
October 2026: Guest Speaker at Hôtel d'Arenberg (Braine-le-Comte) — « The latent dangers of Artificial Intelligence for visual creators and image professions. »
March 2026: Guest Panelist at the International Round Table — Art Expo Graz (Austria): « The Mind Behind the Image ».
2025: Guest Speaker at MAD (Soignies, Belgium) — « Can AI creations produced solely through text prompts be considered true art? »
2024: Guest Speaker at Visual Gallery (Etterbeek) — « Invisible Borders: The dialogue between traditional photography and the rise of AI. »
🎨 ARTISTIC PATHWAY & RESEARCH
2017 - Present: Artistic signature and mature development of a personal abstract corpus based on the poetic transition from picture to art through intuitive digital manipulation. Guaranteed 100% Human-Made & AI-Free.
2015 - 2017: Digital exploration and emancipation phase intensive studio research following a severe accident. Choice of digital tools and photography as languages to express life's dualities.
Before 2015: Continuous practice of photography as an amateur.
Circa 1975: Initial youth training in technical drawing (India ink and graph paper), laying the mathematical and rigorous foundations for the artist's current geometric structures.