About The Artist

Gwendoline Finaz de Villaine is a French painter whose large-scale installations and frescoes explore collective memory and the relationship between art and public space. Trained at the Maîtrise de Radio France, Sciences Po Paris, and HEC Paris, she developed a multidisciplinary artistic practice before devoting herself entirely to the visual arts.

Her work has been exhibited in major cultural institutions and emblematic locations in France and internationally. Highlights include a 30-meter-long fresco created for Sorbonne Universités in Paris in 2021; the painting of Vat No. 8 at Les Carmes Haut-Brion, designed by Philippe Starck, also in 2021; and the creation of the official fresco celebrating the 140th anniversary of HEC Paris. In 2022, she exhibited at the Grand Palais as part of Art Capital, and her work Les Ailes d’HEC was auctioned by Christie’s Paris at the Palais Brongniart.

In 2022, she created a monumental fresco at the Place du Panthéon in Paris in homage to Joséphine Baker, followed by a public art intervention in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice. In 2023, her major installation, comprising a 1,000-square-meter fresco and two five-meter-high dragon sculptures, was presented at the Place du Panthéon after its initial creation at the Grand Palais Éphémère during NFT Paris. The same year, she exhibited at the Sichuan Art Museum in Chongqing, China.

Recent projects include The Hanging Garden, a collaborative fresco created with students from the Lycée Français de New York in 2024; an exhibition at The Untitled Space in New York; and a monumental fresco in Central Park celebrating the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

In 2025, she inaugurated her new studio-gallery, Alphabet Studio, in New York’s East Village, where she presented her solo exhibition Dreamcatchers. A reproduction of her Joséphine Baker artwork was also auctioned at the Alliance New York Gala at The Plaza in November 2025.

Her latest monumental work, The Monumental Game of the Goose, was unveiled on Madison Avenue in New York on July 12, 2026, on the occasion of Bastille Day, and subsequently presented on the Trocadéro Esplanade in Paris on September 19, 2026, as part of the European Heritage Days. Inspired by the iconic French board game Le Jeu de l’Oie, this immersive public artwork celebrates 250 years of Franco-American friendship, bringing together art, play, poetry, and cultural dialogue across two emblematic cities.