Victor Boullet’s paintings are not flashy and certainly aren't trendy in their subject or color. But part of what makes Boullet’s work so exciting is that, like the work of his forebears, it displays that same modernist belief in painting’s form, brushwork, color, and vision. His work relates to Boullet himself, (autobiographical in that what they depict is Boullet in various moods) reacting to a particular context or psychological state and transforming it—not into a concrete image of a place or thing but of himself metamorphosed into the object of his scrutiny. Boullet is the latest incarnation of Baudelaire’s “painter of modern life,” a flâneur with the jaundiced eye of someone wandering around while recovering from physical or mental trauma. As such, even these supremely banal objects become fraught with significance, transformed into fetishes, or inhabited by ghosts of Boullet’s mind.

Victor Boullet was born in 1960 in Oslo, Norway. He lives and works between London, UK, and Oslo, Norway.

Boullet has mounted solo exhibitions at Lubov in New York City, NY (2023); Gallery Castle in Los Angeles, CA (2022); Anna Bohman Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden (2019); La Collection Moderne in Oslo, Norway (2015); and Galerie Joseph Tang in Paris, France (2014) among others.

He has also participated in various group exhibitions such as IN THESE GREAT TIMES at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Norway (2014); You Only Live Thrice at Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, Sweden (2013); Shaynaynay at Galerie Kamm in Berlin, Germany (2013); and Baby, I Lost My Handshoes… at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Austria (2012).

His work has been discussed in the publications Omkonst (2019), Frieze (2014), ArtForum (2012), Art Review (2011), and others.

Boullet has also been the recipient of multiple grants, including the Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Stiftelse (2022), the Statens Arbeidsstipend one-year work grant (2021), the Billedkunstneres Vederlagsfonds one-year work grant (2020), and the Prosjekt Støtte Philip Glass Book Publishing support (2018).